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Nudges That Help Struggling Students Succeed
The New York Times: When I was in high school, I earned A’s in all my math classes — until I took calculus. In algebra and geometry, I could coast on memorizing formulas, but now
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APS Encourages Student Researchers for Sixth Year
More than 150 student and faculty researchers from more than 25 institutions converged on Fordham University on October 23 for the 28th Greater New York Conference on Behavioral Research. This year’s conference featured 44 presentations
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How to Get in: Applying to Psychology Grad School
So you think you want to be a psychological scientist? Well, the first step is applying to graduate school — a long, but exciting, process! To be a competitive applicant, you’ll want to have been
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Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science
Featured articles: “When Fiction Becomes Fact” and “Conservatives, Liberals, and the Distrust of Science”
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Five Tips for Improving Online Discussion Boards
Whether a complement to a standard classroom environment or a cornerstone of Web-based classes, online discussion boards are becoming a staple in higher education. APS Past President Morton Ann Gernsbacher discusses how to make those discussion boards as engaging and interactive as possible.
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A Psychology Web Lab for Education: LABPSI
With the help of a grant from the APS Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science, researchers in Argentina have developed an app that helps professors design experiments around the psychological theories they’re teaching to their students.
