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Lindsay Becomes Interim Editor of Psychological Science
APS Fellow Eric Eich, who began serving as Editor in Chief of Psychological Science in 2013, has passed the reins to Interim Editor D. Stephen Lindsay, who began his term on July 1. Eich, a
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Developing Electrophysiology Training Resources
With support from the APS Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science, Bukach set out to develop and test a sample event-related potential (ERP) course module complete with pedagogical slides, instructional videos, and sample data, with the larger goal of developing a full, hands-on ERP curriculum that would be especially beneficial to students at primarily undergraduate institutions.
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Good Stress, Bad Stress
Over the course of one’s life, hormonal changes alter behavior, mood, and cognition. Bruce McEwen has spent more than 40 years studying how hormones regulate the brain and nervous system, and his lab helped draw
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Worrying About the Future, Ruminating on the Past—How Thoughts Affect Mental Health
The Wall Street Journal: Patrick Molloy has a great fear of offending people. At the end of each day, he replays every one of his conversations and interactions in his head, to figure out if
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The Curse of Knowledge: Pinker Describes a Key Cause of Bad Writing
The more you know, the less clearly you write. That’s a simple way of summing up one of APS Fellow Steven A. Pinker’s key insights on the cognitive and psycholinguistic factors that fuel arcane, awkward
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The Key to Creativity May be in Imagining the Details
Beyond recruiting staff that has the right skills, qualifications, and education for the job, organizations are increasingly looking for ways to boost another key component of success—creativity. In a study recently published in Psychological Science
