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Dance Your PhD and Win $1,000
If you’re a PhD student with mad dancing skills, Science and TEDxBrussels have the contest for you. Dance Your PhD is again offering $1,000 for the best video. These three examples may provide just the
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Birth of a Science
Psychology just wouldn’t be the same without William James, known as the father of modern American psychology. He initially earned a degree at Harvard Medical School, but rather than practice medicine, James wandered into the
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Identity Shift
In the late 1990s, the Department of Psychology at Dartmouth University became the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Howard Hughes, who served as chair at the time, recalls the change as the result of
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Understanding Others
In order to effectively communicate with another person, we need to know something about his or her mental state: how they are feeling, what they are thinking, and what motivates them. Jason Mitchell is using
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THE 34th ANNUAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON THE TEACHING OF PSYCHOLOGY
NITOP January 2012: There Is Still Time to Register Registration is still open as of Novermber 15, 2011, for the 34th Annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, January 3-6, 2012, at the TradeWinds
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Can We Measure Journal Quality?
Thomson Reuters (formerly the Institute of Scientific Information or ISI, which I will use for short) recently released the 2009 impact data for journals in psychology, and I have found myself reading many messages about
