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Psychology’s Woes and a Partial Cure: The Value of Replication
Psychology has come in for some bruising in the news media recently. The huge fraud case involving Diederik Stapel of Tilburg University in the Netherlands reaped a large amount of (well-deserved) negative publicity. Coming on
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Why I Became An Administrator… And Why You Might Become One Too
Perhaps no field lends itself to application in and to a university setting the way psychological science does. Becoming an administrator is a wonderful way for psychological science to positively touch the lives of many
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Clinical Scientist Training Initiative
The Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP) wishes to announce the second annual “Clinical Scientist Training Initiative” grant program. Applications are invited for small (up to $1500), non-renewable grants for training programs at
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A Gender-Biased Metric Guides Funding Decisions in Psychology Research
How do psychologists gauge scientific impact? One way is the so-called “journal impact factor,” or JIF, a ranking of a journal derived from the number of citations by other authors to all of the articles
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America Needs More Geeks: How to Make Science Cool
TIME: A white lab coat. An unsmiling expression. Thick glasses and unkempt hair. In one hand, a device replete with dials and gauges; in the other, a beaker bubbling over with a toxic-looking liquid. This
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A Beginner’s Guide to Graduate Advising
Although this guide is primarily intended for students beginning advisor/advisee relationships, I hope that faculty may also find it useful. Your relationship with your advisor may be the most important collaboration of your graduate career.
