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Rising Stars
Joan Chiao Jaap Denissen Andrew Livingstone Lauri Nummenmaa Nickola Overall Gaia Scerif Lars Schwabe Nicole Tausch Peter Titzmann Yana Weinstein Joan Chiao Northwestern University, USA http://culturalneuro.psych.northwestern.edu/Lab_Website/Welcome.html What does your research focus on? I conduct research
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Turn That Frown Upside Down
How can you make your day better? Turn that frown upside down. As corny as that phrase is, science can back it up. As part of the Wall Street Journal’s “Is It True” video series
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Is Violence Declining? APS Fellow Steven Pinker Says “Yes”
Violence is as an inherent part of human society. So if you looked at the number of violent deaths from prehistory to the present day, you would expect to see a pretty steady trend, right?
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<em>Better Angels</em>, Believe It or Not
Two World Wars, the Cold War, and the rise of terrorism must make the past century one of the most violent in the history of our species, right? Not according to Harvard psychologist and APS
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Remembrance: G. Alan Marlatt
APS Fellow and Charter Member G. Alan Marlatt died on March 14, 2011 at the age of 69. Marlatt was a professor of psychology at the University of Washington where he founded and directed the
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Nock Receives McArthur ‘Genius Award’ Fellowship
Matthew Nock of Harvard University was awarded the 2011 MacArthur Fellowship for his research on suicide and self-injury among adolescents and adults. Suicide is the 11th leading cause of death and the third leading cause
