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Robert Provine, 1943 – 2019
APS Fellow Robert R. Provine, who studied the development and evolutionary basis of laughter, hiccupping, yawning, and other social behaviors, died October 17. Provine was a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County, where he studied and taught for over 40 years after earning his Ph D in psychology at Washington University in St. Louis in 1971. In his social neuroscience research, Provine explored how behavior builds bonds in pursuit of universal underlying processes not only through work with humans, but through comparative studies of dozens of species ranging from chimpanzees to penguins, insects, and snakes.
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Goswami Receives Yidan Prize for Dyslexia Research
APS Fellow Usha Goswami has been named a recipient of the Yidan Prize for Education in recognition of her world-leading research on the importance of linguistic pattern recognition in reading acquisition.
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Elliot Tucker-Drob Receives Prestigious Honor for Lifespan Development Research
APS Fellow Elliot Tucker-Drob of the University of Texas at Austin has been named a recipient of the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for his achievements in the fields of personality and developmental psychology.
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APS Fellow Among Psychological Scientists Named CASBS Fellows
Four psychological scientists, including APS Fellow Su-Ling Yeh of National Taiwan University, are among 37 scholars named to the 2019-2020 class of fellows at The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. The CASBS fellowship brings together scholars for a year of reflection and academic interaction. The Center strives to bring diverse thinkers together to produce collective knowledge and transformative outcomes that could not be achieved independently.
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Newest iPhones Draw Attention to Research on Fear of Holes
The camera features on the newly unveiled iPhone models have drawn attention to a phobia that two psychological scientists have studied in depth.
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New from APS: Psychological Science and Entrepreneurship Poster Award at APS 2020
Thanks to a sponsorship from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, APS is pleased to announce a new annual award to recognize and encourage research by students and emerging scholars studying psychological science and entrepreneurship.
