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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 Visit Page
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Rising Stars
In case there was any doubt, the future of psychological science is in good hands. In its continuing series, the Observer presents more Rising Stars, exemplars of today’s young psychological scientists. Although they may not Visit Page
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To Eat or Not to Eat (Yet)
Check out this humorous rendition of APS Past-President Walter Mischel’s 1972 Stanford Marshmallow Test. Could you be as patient as some of these kids? Mischel will be speaking at the Connected Theme Program at the Visit Page
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‘Memory, Like Liberty, Is a Fragile Thing’
APS Past President Elizabeth Loftus is this year’s recipient of the Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for her pioneering research on human memory, which has Visit Page
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Not Just Limericks
The University of Texas Limerick Committee article reminded me of our graduate student double-dactyl committee in the 1960s at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Here is the one that has never left Visit Page
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In Appreciation: Robyn Dawes
(1936 – 2010) APS Fellow and Charter Member Robyn Dawes died December 14, 2010 from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 74. Dawes was the Charles J. Queenan Jr. University Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Visit Page
