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Breakthroughs and Discoveries in Psychological Science: 2020 Year in Review
A selection of some of APS’s most newsworthy research and highly cited publications from 2020.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on contact tracing as a memory task, challenges of military veterans in their transition to the workplace, the dehumanization hypothesis, and statistical learning and language impairments.
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How Do Children Make Sense of the Differences They See Among Students at School?
Today, during circle time in preschool, the teacher is reading a new book called The Three Robbers. The teacher begins reading the book: "Once upon a time there were three robbers, with big black coats and high black hats.” When the teacher shows the picture to the children, Jeanne says to the classroom: "They are scary! But actually, they are nice!" The other children wonder how Jeanne knows this! This example illustrates the fact that classroom settings bring to light many differences among children. These differences might pertain to academic achievement, to the speed and ease with which children perform various tasks, to how they speak, or to other behaviors and characteristics.
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Why Asking People To Change Their Behavior During The Pandemic Is So Hard
To control the virus, some officials are forgoing rules or mandates and instead are relying on individuals to do the right thing. So what motivates behavior change, and what falls short? ...
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on collective narcissism, narcissism and intelligence, memory coherence and PTSD, responses to others’ scents, attention control, and motivations to ignore feedback.
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What can Different Cultures Teach Us About Boredom?
... In her book How Emotions Are Made, professor of psychology at Northeastern University Lisa Feldman Barrett explains that emotions are not universal – there is no one experience of fear or happiness or anger that everyone shares. Instead, emotions are shaped by our cultural and social background, and sometimes the words we use to describe them. Because of the subtle differences that our language makes in how we perceive emotions, it’s not trivial that the French word for boredom – ennui – evokes creative listlessness, while the German – langeweile, a compound of “long” and “time” – is more literal.
