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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on honesty, the scent of a loved one and sleep efficiency, and contextual effects on shape perception.
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New NIH Grant Opportunity to Study Firearms Injury and Mortality Prevention
NIH has issued a new funding opportunity to support research on injuries and death resulting from firearms. This cross-NIH opportunity is another in a line of new grants that support research on this topic.
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APS Backgrounder Series: Psychological Science and COVID-19: Remaining Resilient During a Pandemic
Expert commentary from APS Fellow George A. Bonanno, on the topic of resilience at a time of loss and trauma. [March 31, 2020]
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MTurk Workers Are More Depressed—But “Bots” and Demographic Differences Inflate the Data
MTurk participants have been found to experience major depression at higher rates than the general population, but these studies may require more stringent data-filtering procedures.
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Meet the Psychologist Exploring Unconscious Bias—and Its Tragic Consequences For Society
When Jennifer Eberhardt appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah in April 2019, she had a hard time keeping a straight face. But some of the laughs were painful. Discussing unconscious racial bias, which she has studied for years, the Stanford University psychologist mentioned the “other-race effect,” in which people have trouble recognizing faces of other racial groups. Criminals have learned to exploit the effect, she told Noah. In Oakland, California, a gang of black teenagers caused a mini–crime wave of purse snatchings among middle-aged women in Chinatown.
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Trump Turns a Crisis Into His New Nightly TV Show
To anybody suddenly tuning into the president’s news conference this Monday evening, it might have seemed like the leader of the free world was channeling an off-hours televangelist, taking advantage of a pandemic to offera hazy tale of a miraculous cure. “… a gentleman,” Donald Trump intoned from inside the White House, invoking anantimalarial remedy calledhydroxychloroquine, “they thought he was not going to make it. He said goodbye to his family. They had given him the drug just a little while before, but he thought it was over. His family thought he was going to die. And a number of hours later, he woke up, felt good. Then he woke up again, and he felt really good.
