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Science Is International at the APS Annual Convention
Disaster, Response, and Recovery featuring Silvia H. Koller (Rio Grande do Sul Federal University, Brazil) and Dirk Helbing (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) Biological Beings in Social Context featuring Annette Karmiloff-Smith (Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom) Music, Mind, and Brain featuring Daniel J. Levitin (McGill University, Canada) and a special concert with five-time Grammy Award Winner Victor Wooten The Psychology of Misinformation Chairs: Ullrich K.H.
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I’m an Awful Source
That’s the conclusion of Joel Stein in this recent Time article. “I've always been proud that my columns are 100% accurate, which isn't all that hard since I write only about me. But,” says Stein, "it turns out that I'm an awful source.” Keeping facts straight in our memory is a difficult task for humans, but the Internet has made it easier for us to record our lives, and just as easy for others to fact check. Stein writes “that night we fell in love instantly with our spouse?
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This Swag Says Psychological Science
You’ll talk the talk when you present your research at the 24th APS Annual Convention in Chicago, Illinois, May 24-27, 2012. So walk the walk too, in the latest APS swag!
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Donate to Help? Only if Nature Caused the Disaster
A series of experiments suggests that people are more likely to donate money to help victims of natural disasters as opposed to human-made catastrophes.
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Gün Semin Awarded High Dutch Honor
On April 27, APS Secretary and Fellow Gün R. Semin was awarded the position of Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau. The is a military and civil order of the Netherlands that is open to "everyone who has earned special merits for society" for the special way in which they have carried out their activities. It is comparable with the Order of the British Empire in the UK. The award was announced in this statement from Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Semin, who is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (among other honors), studies communication, social cognition, and language as well as language usage in social interaction.
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Give Affect Science, Get Positive Emotion
A report from the 2012 Science & Engineering Festival WASHINGTON -- “Oh, I’m so glad that we found you!” one mother exclaimed as she and her young daughter approached the Affective Science Institute’s booth at last weekend’s U.S. Science and Engineering Festival on the National Mall. I started to tell her that one basic ingredient of emotion is called affect.
