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Entwining Teaching and Research: Creating a Collaborative Review Paper
Two of the many shared goals professors and graduate students have are (a) taking and teaching courses that are integrated with our research and (b) contributing to the field through publications. At the University of
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Cheatin’ Hearts
Free market principles that serve as the cornerstone of many western economies may serve as a sturdy foundation for fraud and deception, a psychological study show.
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Journal Impact Factors
Every summer my e-mail is enlivened by people and organizations writing about the latest journal impact factors (IF). Because I chair the APS Publications Committee, I have always done my best to feign deep interest
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Citation-Based Indices of Scholarly Impact: Databases and Norms
Scholarly impact has long been an intriguing research topic (Nosek et al., 2010; Sternberg, 2003) as well as a crucial factor in making consequential decisions (e.g., hiring, tenure, promotion, research support, professional honors). As decision
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Stepping Into the Mentor Role
The mentorship relationship that graduate students are usually most concerned with is the relationship with their own advisor. However, there is another mentorship relationship available in graduate school that many may not have thought about
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Department-ism: More Than Just Space Wars
The university is a great place to learn about prejudice — firsthand. The prejudice that I’m talking about is so deeply ingrained in the nature of universities and other large organizations that it is not
