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Hypnotic Suggestions Can Make a Complex Task Easy by Helping Vision Fill in the Blanks
New research demonstrates that hypnosis can turn a normally difficult visual task into a far easier one.
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Our Sense of Fairness Is Beyond Politics
APS Member/Author: Alison Gopnik What do the haves owe to the have-nots? Should a society redistribute resources from some people to others? These questions are central to the economic policy differences between left and right. The opposing views might seem completely irreconcilable. But a new paper in the journal Cognition suggests that people of all political stripes have surprisingly similar views about redistribution, at least in the abstract. Daniel Nettle at Newcastle University and Rebecca Saxe at MIT presented 2,400 people in the U.K. with stories about how an imaginary village could divvy up the food people grew in their gardens.
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APS Members Named to NASEM Committee Examining Behavioral Ontologies
APS members and other psychological scientists have been named to oversee a new National Academy of Sciences project taking shape. This month, NASEM has named a slate of 16 individuals who will serve on the committee overseeing the study; eminent psychological scientists will be featured on the panel.
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Falling short on your 2021 resolutions? Remember: Pandemic.
The new calendar year historically signals a fresh start, as illustrated by the custom of setting resolutions to become better versions of ourselves. But as 2020 has given way to 2021, bringing with it the uncertainty, anxiety and fear many Americans had been desperate to leave behind, experts say it’s fine if you jettisoned traditional resolutions this year.
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A Quarter of Canadians Don’t Want The COVID-19 Vaccine. We Asked The Experts Why
After the COVID-19 pandemic tossed the world into chaos, the light at the end of the tunnel was the announcement that major pharmaceutical companies had vaccines in development. Two vaccines, made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, have now been approved for use. As Canada rolls out its vaccination campaign, beginning with frontline workers and later the general population, life may soon return to normality. ...
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Personalities Change. Why Shouldn’t Career Expectations?
Patterns of personality growth from adolescence to young adulthood have a greater bearing on career outcomes than adolescent personality traits and crystallized ability.
