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Allowing Your Creativity to Flourish
“Creativity lies at the heart of the scientific process … true progress requires an act of discovery.” -Langley & Jones, 1988 Today’s educational institutions are arguably not providing an atmosphere that fosters creativity. We are
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Enliven Students’ Assignments With Wikipedia
According to Wikipedia.org, the online encyclopedia has over 26 million pages that cover topics from Britney Spears to the Pythagorean theorem. Students, laypersons and academics alike have turned to Wikipedia for quick answers to everyday
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James McKeen Cattell Fund Fellowship 2012-2013 Recipients
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the James McKeen Cattell Fund Fellowships. The Fellowships are awarded yearly to North American university faculty committed to developing scientific research in psychology and its applications to
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A Zoo Where the Animals Come First
On the occasion of my 65th birthday, in the City of Atlanta, where I spent 17 years working at a zoo once denigrated as one of America’s worst zoos, I announced my retirement as president
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Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Convention
The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Convention will be held November 15 – 18, 2012 in National Harbor, MD. For more information visit: http://www.abct.org/Members/?m=mMembers&fa=Convention
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An Unconventional Solution to Social Ills
Social scientists have hard job, and it’s possible they have a harder job than engineers and physicists. At the very least, Dirk Helbing of ETH Zurich in Switzerland thinks that they’re further behind. “Today we
