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Replication studies: Bad copy
Nature: For many psychologists, the clearest sign that their field was in trouble came, ironically, from a study about premonition. Daryl Bem, a social psychologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, showed student volunteers 48 words and then abruptly asked them to write down as many as they could remember. Next came a practice session: students were given a random subset of the test words and were asked to type them out. Bem found that some students were more likely to remember words in the test if they had later practised them. Effect preceded cause.
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Nostalgia warms the body as well as the soul
MinnPost: Nostalgia received a bad rap for centuries. It was long equated with homesickness, and thus associated with symptoms of grief and depression. In fact, the term nostalgia was coined by a Swiss physician, Johaness Hofer, in the 17th century to describe the constant yearning of soldiers for their homes and homeland when they were fighting in distant wars. Crying jags, a lack of appetite and an irregular heartbeat were considered the key symptoms of nostalgia during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Convention Highlights – Thursday
Selected Sessions from Thursday's Program: 9:00 AM - 12:50 PM: APS-SMEP Methodological Workshop Series Chicago Ballroom IX, Chicago Ballroom X, Sheraton Ballroom I 10:15 AM- 11:15 AM: APS-STP Teaching Institute Colorado, Huron, Ontario Methodological Workshop SPOTLIGHT: Clinical Science Forum 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Meet the Editor of Clinical Psychological Science: Alan E. Kazdin Speakers: Alan E. Kazdin Ballroom Promenade 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM: Organizational Efforts to Disseminate and Implement Empirically Supported Interventions in Health Care Systems Chicago Ballroom VIII Speakers: Lea R. Dougherty, Kellie Crowe, Shirley M. Glynn, Ellen Healy, Bradley E. Karlin, Bradley E.
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Psychological Science Explains Uproar over Prostate-Cancer Screenings
WASHINGTON— The uproar that began last year when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force stated that doctors should no longer offer regular prostate-cancer tests to healthy men continued this week when the task force released their final report. Overall, they stuck to their guns, stating that a blood test commonly used to screen for prostate cancer, the PSA test, causes more harm than good -- it leads men to receive unnecessary, and sometimes even dangerous, treatments. But many people simply don’t believe that the test is ineffective.
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The Mobile App Is Back!
The APS Convention App is ready for download! Attendees can stay tuned with up-to-the-minute information at the convention: For information on sessions you may want to attend, click on the events or poster sessions tab. To add a session to your itinerary, click the desired event and then click the star in the upper right hand corner of your screen. This will add the event to the My Schedule tab. (To remove an event, simply click the star icon again to delete) Want information on a speaker or author?
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Wrongful Convictions Can Be Reduced Through Science, But Tradeoffs Exist
WASHINGTON – Many of the wrongful convictions identified in a report this week hinged on a misidentified culprit -- and a new report in a top journal on psychological science reveals the paradox of reforms in eyewitness identification procedure. In our efforts to make sure that good guys don’t get locked up, we could let more bad guys go. In the May issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, leading scholars in psychology and the law explore and debate various aspects of eyewitness identification procedures, providing a scientific foundation for this important social issue.
