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Psychological Scientist Elected to Royal Irish Academy
APS Fellow J.A. Scott Kelso has been elected to the Royal Irish Academy, Ireland’s leading body of experts in sciences and humanities.
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: What's Worth Talking About? Information Theory Reveals How Children Balance Informativeness and Ease of Production Colin Bannard, Marla Rosner, and Danielle Matthews Greenfield's principle of informativeness suggests that children comment on things they find uncommon or uncertain rather than on things that are constant or can be assumed. The researchers quantified this tendency by performing a series of experiments in which 3-year-old children heard an experimenter describe images using noun-adjective combinations (e.g., bumpy road, old woman). The adjectives differed in their informativeness and unexpectedness.
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Believing the Future Will Be Favorable May Prevent Action
Findings from a series of studies show that people tend to believe others will come around to their point of view over time, a trend that holds across various contexts and cultures.
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Women Show Cognitive Advantage in Gender-Equal Countries
Women’s cognitive functioning past middle age may be affected by the degree of gender equality in the country they live in, according to new findings from Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological
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New Research in Clinical Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Clinical Psychological Science: Unpacking Rumination and Executive Control: A Network Perspective Emily E. Bernstein, Alexandre Heeren, and Richard J. McNally Rumination is defined as perseverative passive self-focused thinking about aspects of one's affective state. Rumination has been identified as a potential transdiagnostic vulnerability factor for affective disorders and is hypothesized to arise from impairments in executive control. The researchers examined the interactions of three executive-control processes (set shifting, updating working memory, and inhibition) and their influence on rumination.
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District of Columbia Turns to Science to Improve City Operations
Psychological scientist David Yokum is leading an integrative team of scientists that is helping the District of Columbia conduct controlled trials designed to address affordable housing, policing, and other issues facing the city.