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Psychologist Adam Grant: This is One of the Most Harmful Questions Parents Can Ask Their Kids—Here’s Why
What do you want to be when you grow up? As a kid, that was my least favorite question. I dreaded conversations with parents and other adults because they always asked it — and no matter how I replied, they never liked my answer. When I said I wanted to be a superhero, they laughed. My next goal was to make it to the NBA, but despite countless hours of shooting hoops, I was cut from basketball tryouts three years in a row. In my first semester of college, I decided to major in psychology, but that didn’t open any doors — it just gave me a few to close. ... Another example: Evidence shows that entrepreneurs persist with failing strategies when they should pivot.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on citation counts and scholars’ career, ecological validity, theory building, reducing bias in policy-related research, affordances, student motivation, and mathematical psychology.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on harsh parenting and antisocial behavior, emotion-based attitudes, political extremity, misogynistic tweets and domestic violence, perception of crowds’ emotions, computation of speech, sign language, and the influence of learning to read on face recognition.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on neonatal imitation, the shared-attention system, social interaction in autism, the correct use of p values, the development of executive function, mindfulness interventions, Duchenne smiles, and neurodiversity and mental functioning.
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Breaking News: NIH Extends Flexibilities for Registration and Reporting of Research Results
A set of policies that would affect NIH-funded basic experimental studies with humans, opposed by APS, has been delayed another two years.
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What Data Can’t Do
Tony Blair was usually relaxed and charismatic in front of a crowd. But an encounter with a woman in the audience of a London television studio in April, 2005, left him visibly flustered. Blair, eight years into his tenure as Britain’s Prime Minister, had been on a mission to improve the National Health Service. The N.H.S. is a much loved, much mocked, and much neglected British institution, with all kinds of quirks and inefficiencies. At the time, it was notoriously difficult to get a doctor’s appointment within a reasonable period; ailing people were often told they’d have to wait weeks for the next available opening.
