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What Pigeons Can Teach Us About Multitasking
Evidence has long shown that humans are terrible at multitasking. People are prone to make more mistakes when they’re switching between different tasks, say answering emails and listening to a conference call, than when they
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Faced With Ambivalence, Powerful People Are Less Decisive Than Others
Although powerful people often tend to decide and act quickly, they become more indecisive than others when the decisions are toughest to make, a new study suggests.
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Psychological Science Explores the Minds of Dogs
A special issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science explores all that psychological scientists have learned about dog behavior and cognition in recent years.
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Emotions in "Black and White" or Shades of Gray? How We Think About Emotion Shapes Our Perception and Neural Representation of Emotion Ajay B. Satpute, Erik C. Nook, Sandhya Narayanan, Jocelyn Shu, Jochen Weber, and Kevin N. Ochsner Emotions are often thought about in a categorical manner (e.g., feeling "good" or bad"). In reality, emotional expression is constantly changing, creating a variety of gradations. It is unclear whether thinking about emotions in a categorical manner affects emotion perception.
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APS to Launch New Research Methods and Practices Journal
APS is seeking nominations for Founding Editor of a new journal that will serve as a home for new developments in research methodology and practices.
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Early Attachment and Culture Affect Responses to Ostracism
Whether it’s on the playground as a child or in the office as an adult, we may find it difficult to be excluded from a group. Humans have an innate desire to belong to a social community, and because of this, ostracism is hurtful. In a recent study published in the European Journal of Personality, researchers Erez Yaakobi (Ono Academic College, Israel) and APS Fellow Kipling D. Williams (Purdue University) examined potential factors that influence emotional responses to ostracism. Attachment theory is one model that explains how people react to separation and stress in social situations.
