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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on gun ownership and coping, eyewitness and suspect identification, disruption of the gender/sex binary, refugee integration, and personality traits and proenvironmental attitudes.
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Collective Action and Black Lives Matter
A 2017 review of recent social science research on Black Lives Matter outlined the movement’s motivations and growth but also cautioned that failure to achieve its goals could undermine support for it.
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Black Americans Support the Floyd Protests. Whites Are Divided. Here’s Why.
APS Member/Author: Fabian G. Neuner After a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets, both across the United States and around the world. Americans’ reactions both to Floyd’s death under officer Derek Chauvin’s knee and to the ensuing protests have followed a familiar script. Some see it as further evidence that U.S. policing is deeply racist; others think protesters are overreacting to officers trying to do their jobs. Opinion largely divides along racial lines, with some variation by party affiliation. Why do black and white Americans have such different perceptions of what happened?
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APS Message about Participation in #ShutDownSTEM
Message to the APS membership on our participation in the #ShutDownSTEM campaign and the need for action moving forward.
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NSF Funding Opportunity on Fairness in Artificial Intelligence
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Amazon are partnering to offer a funding opportunity aimed at supporting research on creating trustworthy and fair artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
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The Following News Release Contains Potentially Disturbing Content: Trigger Warnings Fail to Help and May Even Harm
New research confirms trigger warnings have little or no benefit.
