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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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Forced Social Isolation Causes Neural Craving Similar to Hunger
The need for connection– to form and maintain at least a minimal number of positive, stable, intimate relationships– is a fundamental need that affects our whole being, permeating our entire suite of emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. While
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Learning to Live With Fear
… Fear is often a lonely experience. Its intensity can isolate us and make us question ourselves—make us feel flawed, weak and foolish. But because of the pandemic, millions of people around the world are
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Coronavirus: Will We Ever Shake Hands Again?
Around the world, humans are struggling to ignore thousands of years of bio-social convention and avoid touching another. Shaking hands might be one of the hardest customs to lose in the post-pandemic world but there
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Where Psychologists Should Fear to Tread on Covid-19, They Don’t
ONSIDER THE FOLLOWING brain teaser: A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? A researcher devised the question 15 years ago as a
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Covid-19 Crisis: Gretchen Chapman, PhD on the Psychology of Vaccinations
Podcast interview with APS Member Gretchen Chapman. Gretchen Chapman, PhD researches how we make decisions about vaccines. She is a Professor in the Social & Decision Sciences department at Carnegie Mellon University and works across
