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Crossing Disciplines and the Lifespan
Cornell University’s Department of Human Development incorporates not only various aspects of psychological science, but also law, sociology, history, and more. APS Fellow and Department Chair Qi Wang details the department’s successes.
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What Research Psychologists Do
Research psychologists use scientific methods to examine questions and test hypotheses with the aim of understanding human thought and behavior.
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Scientists Turn to Machine Learning to Save Lives
Clinical researchers and other scientists investigate computer algorithms that could lead to reliable measures of suicide risk.
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Researchers Investigate Problems with MTurk Data
Some psychological researchers and other social scientists are warning about a possible problem with survey data being collected through the widely-used online tool Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). The researchers recently detected a noticeable number of
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Highlights from Symposium Sunday
The 30th APS Annual Convention’s Symposium Sunday programming put a spotlight on research in applied neuroscience, big data, and the neuropsychology of socioeconomic disadvantage. How Neuroscience Can Save the World Presenters took neuroscience beyond the
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Upcoming Funding for Institutional Research Programs in Data Analytics for Behavioral Sciences Research
NIH has released a notice of an intent to solicit applications for institutions interested in leading behavioral sciences predoctoral training programs focusing on computational and/or data science approaches.
