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To Climb the Charts, Write Lyrics That Stand Out
The Beatles revolutionized rock and roll by combining music styles in ways never heard before. Notorious B.I.G. changed the rap game with rhythms and rhymes that strayed from what was normal in the mid 90s.
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Santos’ Science of the Good Life is Now Just a Click Away
Over the span of one week in January 2018, Psyc 157: Psychology and the Good Life, became the most popular course in Yale University’s 300-year history–now, anyone can learn how to apply the psychological science
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Genes May Outweigh Upbringing in Family Patterns of Divorce
Although some people may be genetically predisposed to divorce, that doesn’t mean it’s written in the stars. An adoption study of nearly 20,000 Swedish participants in Psychological Science suggests, however, that when it comes to
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APS Fellow Fei Xu Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
APS Fellow Fei Xu, who studies cognitive and language development in infants and children, was recently selected as a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. Awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the prestigious fellowships are appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise. A psychology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Xu uses behavioral experiments and computational models to understand how young children learn so fast and so well, and what kind of domain-general learning mechanisms explain children’s learning.
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How to Get People to Care About Inequality
Personal contact increases psychological investment in equality by making people more empathetic, increasing personal relevance, and humanizing those in other ethnic groups.
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National Academy of Sciences Welcomes Two APS William James Fellows
APS Past President Mahzarin R. Banaji and Barbara Landau are among 84 new members elected to NAS in recognition of their outstanding contributions to research.
