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Stories in Action
Stories may complement established policy tools. Walsh and colleagues define the elements of storytelling and discuss stories’ key features and functions, providing design principles for policymakers interested in building stories.
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Invitation to Participate in a Multilab Registered Replication Report
Psychological researchers interested in helping with replication efforts in social psychology are invited to join a multilab replication project at James Cook University Singapore. The project will be published in the APS journal Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.
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What Makes Educational Interventions Stick? Teaching the Right Skills in the Right Environments
The latest PSPI Live explored a review of the factors that contribute to the persistence and fade-out of educational interventions.
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Scaling Up Change: A Critical Review and Practical Guide to Harnessing Social Norms for Climate Action
Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Volume 23, Number 2)Read the Full Text (PDF, HTML) Temperatures are increasing, glaciers are shrinking as sea levels rise, and natural disasters—from wildfires to floods—are becoming more frequent. Moreover, these extreme weather events and associated resource insecurity are likely to exacerbate political instability and global conflicts. A recent example of the climate crisis is the unprecedented floods in Pakistan that in September, 2022, put a third of the country under water, killing nearly 1,500 people and impacting 33 million. One major cause of the climate crisis is increasing greenhouse-gas concentrations, caused by carbon emissions.
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Memory Makes It Hard to Fight Pandemics. But We Can Always Strive to Remember Lessons Learned
A multidisciplinary panel explored how psychological science might contribute to understanding digital contact tracing, maximizing its capabilities in the future and otherwise improving preparedness for future pandemics.
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APS Articles on Juvenile Recidivism, the Gender/Sex Binary Win SPSP Awards
Two APS journal articles—one published in Psychological Science and the other in Perspectives on Psychological Science—have been singled out for awards from The Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP).
