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‘It Can Be Hard to Concentrate or Focus on Something Else’
After George Floyd was killed by police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, as three other police officers looked on, images and videos circulated via news and social media. Weeks earlier, video of Ahmaud Arbery’s killing[content warning: the linked post contains descriptions of graphic violence]went public, prompting the long-overdue arrest of the two white men who killed him. On social media, Black people expressed frustration that it took this graphic, viral video — shared widely by white people — to get justice. Both deaths reignited debate over the dissemination of images and videos depicting dead Black people, and the trauma they inflict on Black people who see them.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on fake news, first impressions and romantic interest, prenatal environment and development, the development of social prototypes and stereotypes, and electronic-media use and sleep in childhood.
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Virtual Event: Careers in Data Science
IE University will host a virtual event, "Why Doctoral Students Make Great Data Scientists," at 6:30 pm GMT (12:30 pm EST) on Wednesday, July 15th, 2020. The talk, hosted by Inna Saboshchuk, a data scientist with a background in basic and applied social psychology, will provide an overview of some of the career options that exist for psychological scientists outside of academia, as well as an opportunity for students to ask any questions they may have on the topic. Register for this free event here.
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Jennifer Eberhardt – Armchair Expert
Podcast interview with APS Member Jennifer Eberhardt BONUS EPISODE with Jennifer Eberhardt (social psychologist who is currently a professor in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University) is the first in a monthly series on dissecting the Black experience in America. Jennifer chats with the Armchair Expert about her work in police reform, her personal experiences with racism and the biological impact of cultural biases. Dax asks if there are any model police departments and Jennifer shares a story of when she got arrested. She talks about having “the talk” with her sons and she shares the details of many psychological experiments she did on race and discrimination.
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NIH Encourages the Study of Digital Health Interventions to Improve the Response to COVID-19
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued a funding opportunity for research studying digital health interventions and how they can help solve the secondary effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Masking America’s Fears: How Do We Get People to Take COVID-19 Seriously?
Podcast interview with APS Member Jay Van Bavel The “reopening” of America depends of slowing the spread of coronavirus, which in turns depends on Americans changing their behavior. Why do so many people refuse to take even small steps like wearing masks to stop the spread? NYU associate professor Jay Van Bavel joins CBSN’s Lana Zak to talk about the psychology of public health advice. … Watch full interview at the link below.
