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A ‘Failure to Launch’: Why Young People Are Having Less Sex
Vivian Rhodes figured she would eventually have sex. She was raised in a Christian household in Washington state and thought sex before marriage would be the ultimate rebellion. But then college came and went — and no sex. Even flirting “felt unnatural,” she said. In her early 20s, she watched someone she followed on Tumblr come out as asexual and realized that’s how she felt: She had yet to develop romantic feelings for anyone, and the physical act of sex just didn’t sound appealing. “Some people assume this is about shaming other people, and it’s not,” said Rhodes, 28, who works as a certified nursing assistant in Los Angeles. “I’m glad people have fun with it and it works for them.
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Career Crossroads? How to Map Your Journey Beyond Academia
A wide range of companies, organizations, and government agencies need psychological scientists. Tips from insiders on how to navigate the journey.
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Has Academia Become More Gender-Fair for Women? Findings From an Adversarial Analysis of Gender Bias
“Happily, the realities of today no longer support the belief that [STEM] jobs are pervasively biased against women.” But the findings come with caveats. New Psychological Science in the Public Interest.
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Exploring Gender Bias in Six Key Domains of Academic Science: An Adversarial Collaboration
Ceci, Khan, and Williams’s analysis of hundreds of existing studies covering six aspects of academic life relevant to tenure-track professors suggests that the academy has taken significant steps toward gender equality.
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Alison Gopnik Receives 2024 Rumelhart Prize in Cognitive Science
The award is named after David Rumelhart, known for his contributions to the formal analysis of human cognition. Gopnik (shown with her grandchild): “The reason I study children is to try to make very general discoveries about how the mind works.”
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Our Brains May Process Silence and Sounds the Same Way
Can you hear the sound of silence? It’s a question that may seem better suited to a philosophy class (or a Simon & Garfunkel concert) than a science lab, but a new study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests people really can “hear” the absence of noise. If the finding holds up, it could help researchers better understand the way the human auditory system processes sound, as well as the lack thereof. “We can certainly appreciate silences, cognitively,” says Ned Block, a philosopher at New York University who wasn’t involved in the work.
