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Making a Career Choice: Follow in Your Own Footsteps
In a guest column, APS Fellow Barbara Wanchisen shares observations and ideas on broadening career opportunities for psychological scientists.
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APS Editorial Fellows to Help Build a Pipeline of Diverse Editors
Meet the six psychological scientists representing different cultures and nationalities who have been named inaugural APS Editorial Fellows.
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From Resistance to Recovery
Stigma about mental health treatment is a major contributor to the world’s mental health crisis, policy experts say. Psychological research is uncovering strategies that persuade people to seek help.
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Tess Neal Examines the Nature—and Limits—of Expertise
Can psychological scientists divorce their own opinions and beliefs from their professional work? This APS Fellow’s research aims to answer that question.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on oppressed groups engendering implicit positivity, compassion fatigue as a self-fulfilling prophecy, gaze-triggered communicative intention, and much more.
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Want to Remember More? Make More Mistakes
Whether we are trying to master a new language or play a musical instrument, the pain of making mistakes is a big obstacle, especially early in the learning curve. But novices become experts only when we push ourselves to the edge of our abilities, and errors are both inevitable and essential for moving forward. ... Curious about the power of tests as a learning tool, cognitive psychologists Henry “Roddy” Roediger and Jeff Karpicke had hundreds of students memorize excerpts from a test-preparation book for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).
