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Funding Opportunity for Science Communication Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is offering two awards for $37,500 each to build capacity for science communication and facilitate efforts of science communication researchers and practitioners to collaborate on projects related to a
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American Academy of Arts & Sciences Elects 9 Psychological Scientists Fellows
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has elected APS Treasurer Roberta L. Klatzky, APS James McKeen Cattell Fellow J. Frank Yates, APS Fellow Mary C. “Molly” Potter, and several other psychological scientists as fellows
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Who Am I, Facebook?
Researchers in Germany examined how people’s connectedness to social media platforms such as Facebook influence users’ self-concept.
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APS a Partner for March for Science
Thousands of people, many wearing knitted “brain” caps, braved persistent rain April 22 to participate in the flagship March for Science, held on the National Mall in Washington, DC. APS was among the partners for the event.
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The Factors That Foster Wise Reasoning
Empirical research on wisdom suggests that it’s not so much that some people simply possess wisdom and others lack it, but that our ability to reason wisely depends on a variety of external factors.
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Radboud University Researchers Win First Memrise Prize
The online learning community Memrise, in collaboration with researchers at the University College London, announced a $10,000 prize to be awarded to the research team that developed the best system for quickly learning, and retaining, foreign language vocabulary words.