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News from Psychological Science: A Conversation Between David Brooks and Walter Mischel
David Brooks is a featured New York Times columnist and a regular on the PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer. In his NY Times columns “Social Science Palooza” I and II, he summarized examples of Visit Page
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Your Name Impacts How Others Judge You
LiveScience: Alexandra will get an A in class but Amber won’t. At least, that’s what their peers expect, according to a small new study of the meanings encoded in people’s names. “The name you give Visit Page
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A Time to Kill
Science: A runaway trolley is about to kill five railroad workers. The only way to stop it is to shove a huge man next to you onto the tracks. Would you kill that man to Visit Page
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Kids own up to ownership
ScienceNews: Young children are possessed by possessions. Preschoolers argue about what belongs to whom with annoying regularity, a habit that might suggest limited appreciation of what it means to own something. But it’s actually just Visit Page
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Academics, in New Move, Begin to Work With Wikipedia
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Washington—The call to action was all over the Association for Psychological Science’s annual meeting here this past weekend. “Attention APS Members. Take Charge of Your Science,” fliers shout. Promotional ads Visit Page
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Symposia Sunday: Messy Morality
Morality is not a universal constant. For example, why would the government of Spain give human rights to chimps in 2007, yet other governments continue to hand out licenses for hunting seal pups? In a Visit Page
