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Finding Common Ground Between Classic Learning Theories
In an APS-Psychonomic Society W.K. & K.W. Estes Lecture, APS Past President and US National Medal of Science Laureate Gordon H. Bower delivers a 60-year retrospective on his attempts to integrate the
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Changing Habits for the Long Haul
Psychology researchers present cutting-edge science that may help us adopt newer, healthier, or safer behaviors.
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Scenes From Convention
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Defining Dysfunction: Clinical Psychology’s New Frontier
Diagnosing physical ailments used to depend exclusively on symptoms and observations, but a prodigious surge in new technology has provided 21st century medicine with an array of precision diagnostic tools — from biomarkers to genetic
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Psychology Greener Than Thou
The Wall Street Journal: Organic-food advocates, often seen as insufferably smug and even depicted that way in TV comedies like “Portlandia,” won’t find a new study reassuring. Sixty-two participants either looked at pictures of fruits
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Frans de Waal: Moral behavior in animals
TedTalk: Empathy, cooperation, fairness and reciprocity — caring about the well-being of others seems like a very human trait. But Frans de Waal shares some surprising videos of behavioral tests, on primates and other mammals
