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How Scientists Are Blocking Bias in the World at Large
Psychological researchers like APS Fellow Naomi Ellemers are applying the scientific understanding of implicit bias to address discrimination in law enforcement, medical, and workplace settings.
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The Bias Beneath: Two Decades of Measuring Implicit Associations
Since its debut in 1998, an online test has allowed people to discover prejudices that lurk beneath their awareness — attitudes that researchers wouldn’t be able to identify through participant self-reports. The Observer examines the findings generated by the Implicit Association Test over the past 20 years.
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Why Self-Compassion Beats Self-Confidence
Be more confident,” a friend once told me as we made the rounds at a swanky networking event where I felt terribly out of place. Faking confidence is easy: I pulled my shoulders back and
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Psychological Scientists Celebrate Thaler at Nobel Ceremony
University of Chicago economist Richard H. Thaler, whose work has roots in the groundbreaking research of APS William James Fellows Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences on December 10
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring continuous traumatic stress, biases in clinical paranoia, and the role of clinicians’ own theories in reasoning about interventions.
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People Favor Highly-Reviewed Products, Even When They Shouldn’t
We often rely on the ratings and reviews of others to help us choose a product or service, but we sometimes use this information in ways that can actually work to our disadvantage.
