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Best Way to Stop Cheating in Online Courses? ‘Teach Better’
Students cheat more in online courses — right? Most professors certainly think so. Sixty percent of the nearly 2,000 respondents to Inside Higher Ed‘s 2019 Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology last fall said they believed academic
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Gordon Bower, Inventive Memory Researcher, Is Dead at 87
APS Past President Gordon H. Bower (1932-2020) Gordon H. Bower, a research psychologist who spent more than half a century studying how the brain learns and remembers, as well as a host of related subjects
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The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in the Pandemic
APS Members/Authors: Elliot Aronson and Carol Tavris Members of Heaven’s Gate, a religious cult, believed that as the Hale-Bopp comet passed by Earth in 1997, a spaceship would be traveling in its wake—ready to take
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We Still Think Brilliance Is A Male Trait And It’s Hurting Women
Men are more likely to be seen as “brilliant” than women, according to a new study published today in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Researchers found that this gendered stereotype that men are intellectually superior
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Barbara Tversky Receives Kampé de Fériet Award
APS Past President Barbara Tversky has received the Kampé de Fériet Award for her research on memory, thought, spatial models, and event perception.
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Why Do People Avoid Facts That Could Help Them?
In our information age, an unprecedented amount of data are right at our fingertips. We run genetic tests on our unborn children to prepare for the worst. We get regular cancer screenings and monitor our
