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Fahrenheit 451: How Hot is Your Research?
To the Editor: In the April 2007 issue of the Observer, Zacks and Maley discuss some interesting citation statistics and alternatives to quantifying how hot research topics are in the article “What’s Hot in Psychology?”
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Psychology is a Hub Science
In an issue of the magazine Scientific American, the editors observed that “whenever we run articles on social topics, some readers protest that we should stick to ‘real’ science” (The Peculiar Institution, 2002, p. 8).
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Subjects vs. Participants
To the Editor: Unlike Drs. Resnik and Bond (“Use of ‘Subjects’ Should Not be Subjective,” Observer, May 2007) I am not familiar with the regulations of NIEHS or NIH, but I do suggest that there
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Some Enchanted Meeting…
One of the two questions we are asked most frequently, especially by those who know that Sam has been at Princeton for most of his academic life and that Kay was at Purdue University when
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Champions of Psychology: Linda Woolf, Webster University
This is an ongoing series in which highly regarded professors share advice on the successes and challenges facing graduate students. Linda Woolf, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and International Human Rights at Webster University. She
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The Search for What Else: Typical Student Life as I Know It
Over the past several months, I seem to have re-lived the true graduate school lifestyle: weeks packed full of mammoth research papers, one lengthy presentation after the next, those beloved reading assignments that never end
