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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on interpersonal distance and psychopathy, how suggestive feedback may worsen stress symptoms, emotion changes associated with depressive and borderline features, depression symptoms, and posttraumatic stress after a terrorist attack.
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Psychological Assessment in Legal Contexts: Are Courts Keeping “Junk Science” Out of the Courtroom?
Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Volume 20, Number 3) Read the Full Text (PDF, HTML) Psychological tests, tools, and instruments are widely used in legal contexts to help determine the outcome of legal cases. These tools can aid in assessing parental fit for child custody purposes, can affect the outcomes of disability proceedings, and can even help judges determine whether an offender should go to prison, remain incarcerated, or be exempt from death penalty. In this issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Volume 20, Issue 3), Tess M. S. Neal, Christopher Slobogin, Michael J. Saks, David Faigman, and Kurt F.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on moral obligations and family, how people view God in times of conflict, and sex differences in perceptions of sexual interest.
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NSF Grants to Study the Future of Work, Human-Technology Interaction
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier program has issued a new grant opportunity that supports research seeking to understand the risk, benefits and impact of human-technology interaction on workers and the work environment more broadly.
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Why the Democratic Majority Hasn’t Emerged
The Democrats lost to Donald Trump and may do it again. How did the world’s oldest political party, which has won four of the past seven presidential elections and received popular-vote pluralities in two more, find itself in this pickle? One symptom of the party’s ailment is that its four top-polling presidential candidates in national surveys are in their 70s and No. 5 is a 38-year-old former mayor of a city of 102,000. Why haven’t others risen? Where are the candidates with demonstrated appeal to critical segments of the electorate? One answer is that over the past decade the Democrats have had a tough time electing candidates beyond heavily Democratic constituencies. ...
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What Makes a ‘Good Samaritan’ Good? That Opinion Depends on the Beneficiary
Helping a total stranger is generally viewed as morally better and more trustworthy than someone who helps a family member. But this is true only if the helper did not have to choose between those options. [NEWS Feb. 10, 2020]
