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Humans Are Animals, Too: A Whirlwind Tour of Cognitive Biology
Citing the bridge between evolutionary psychology and cognitive science, University of Vienna scientist W. Tecumseh Fitch shows how studying our animal relatives fosters our understanding of human cognition.
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Perception and Play: How Children View the World
The interactions among children’s brains, bodies, and surrounding environments have tremendous effects on how they learn to speak and identify specific items in their field of view. APS Fellow Linda B. Smith shares her groundbreaking methods for examining these processes.
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Cognitive Skills Differ Across Cultures and Generations
An innovative study of children and parents in both Hong Kong and the United Kingdom, led by University of Cambridge researchers Michelle R. Ellefson and Claire Hughes, reveals cultural differences in important cognitive skills among
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring physical position as an impression-management strategy, the origins of ordered line representations, links between agency and intentional binding, and p-curve analyses of findings related to the ‘power pose.’
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring trauma narrative fragmentation in posttraumatic stress disorder, positivity offset in schizophrenia, stress and emotionally neutral memories, and interpersonal dysfunction in borderline personality disorder.
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Eyewitness Confidence Can Predict Accuracy of Identifications, Researchers Find
A new report challenges the perception that eyewitness memory is inherently fallible, finding that eyewitness confidence can indicate the accuracy of identifications made under “pristine” conditions.
