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Why Are There Differing Preferences for Suffixes and Prefixes Across Languages?
Interview with Alexander Martin about the preference of prefixes over suffixes in WEIRD languages.
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Why Are There Differing Preferences for Suffixes and Prefixes Across Languages?
While speakers of English and other Western languages prefer using suffixes more than prefixes, a new study reveals that this preference is not as universal as once thought. [August 27, 2020]
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APS President’s Virtual Roundtable: The Opportunities and Challenges of Open Access
Virtual panel on the challenges and opportunities of the emerging journal publishing model of open access.
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Automation Fuels Anti-Immigration Fears. Time to Rethink How We Talk About It?
Automation may be associated with anti-immigrant sentiment by increasing perceptions of both realistic threat arising from competition for economic resources and symbolic threat “arising from changes to group values, identity, and status.”
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on loneliness and sleep problems, emotional awareness and psychopathology, suicidal behaviors, amygdala functioning, and estrogen and binge eating.
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Can Playing Together Help Us Live Together?
APS Member/Author: Elizabeth Levy Paluck The contact hypothesis in psychology predicts that prejudice can be reduced when rival groups come together under optimal circumstances of cooperation and equal status. To date, the weight of real-world evidence for this hypothesis comes from self-reported attitudes after self-initiated contact, not from preregistered randomized trials that take intergroup contact as seriously as one would take a potential vaccine for conflict (1, 2). Consequently, on page 866 of this issue, the results of Mousa's (3) new field experiment are breaking news.
