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Bilingualism and the Aging Brain
Bilingualism appears to have a positive influence cognitive reserve — the way the brain responds to neuropathological damage.
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Inside the Psychologist’s Studio with Alan G. Kraut
APS Executive Director Emeritus Alan Kraut reflects on his career and the evolution of the association in this interview with APS Past President Robert Levenson as part of the series “Inside the Psychologist’s Studio.” The interview was recorded live before a group of Kraut's colleagues and friends at the 2015 APS Annual Convention in New York City.
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Feeling Like a Fraud on the Job
Ferdinand Demara is one of history’s most infamous impostors. After serving in the US Army during World War II, Demara masqueraded as a monk, a surgeon, a prison warden, a cancer researcher, a teacher, a civil engineer, a hospital orderly, a sheriff’s deputy, a psychologist, and a minister—faking his credentials at every turn.
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Cuando los Aprendices Más Jóvenes Pueden Ser Mejores (o al Menos de Mente Más Abierta) Que los Mayores
Alison Gopnik1, Thomas L. Griffiths1, y Christopher G. Lucas2 1Departamento de Psicología, Universidad de California en Berkeley 2Universidad de Edinburgo, Reino Unido. Originalmente publicado en: Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol.24 (2), 87-92, 2015. Traducción de: Alejandro Franco (Portal de formación iPsicologia.com) Correo: [email protected] Resumen Describimos un sorprendente patrón evolutivo que encontramos en investigaciones que estudiaron tres diferentes tipos de problemas en diversos rangos de edad. Las evidencias demostraron que los aprendices más jóvenes son mejores que los mayores para aprender principios causales inusuales abstractos.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Clinical Psychological Science: The Unhappy Triad: Pain, Sleep Complaints, and Internalizing Symptoms Erin Koffel, Erin E. Krebs, Paul A. Arbisi, Christopher R. Erbes, and Melissa A. Polusny Chronic pain, sleep complaints, and anxiety/depression are three significant sources of distress that incur great personal and societal costs. Two competing theories describing the relationships among these factors suggest that internalizing symptoms mediate the relationship between sleep complaints and pain or that pain mediates the relationship between sleep complaints and internalizing symptoms.
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HHS to Hold Town Hall Meeting on Proposed ‘Common Rule’ Revisions
The US government’s Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) will hold a public Town Hall Meeting on October 20, 2015 in Washington, DC to answer questions about proposed updates to the so-called Common Rule governing human subject research. The meeting will be conducted by a panel of officials from the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the OHRP. The meeting is part of a public comment period on a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on the Common Rule revisions. HHS will take those comments into consideration as it drafts a final set of standards.