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Can Aptitude Tests Really Predict Your Performance?
Colleges, employers, and the military all use aptitude tests to predict how well someone might do. In recent years, some critics of these tests have said there isn’t much difference in performance above a certain
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The Upside of College Rejection: Your Safety School Might Be the Smarter Choice
Time: The headlines last week weren’t pretty. As colleges and universities nationwide revealed their admissions decisions, news broke of a dramatic decline in acceptance rates — and not just at Ivy League schools. The shift
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Some People’s Climate Beliefs Shift With Weather
Results from three studies show that people who thought the current day was warmer than usual were more likely to believe in and feel concern about global warming than those who thought the day was unusually cold.
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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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A Simple Restriction on Crankiness
Crankiness is a widespread phenomenon among academics. Some might even see it as distinctive of the trade, similar to absent-mindedness, obliviousness, and other clichéd mental traits. However, it usually is the crankiness of professors that
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Gaining Teaching Experience in Graduate School
As graduate students, we are indoctrinated to value those three little words: research, teaching, and service. Not the words you had in mind? Welcome to graduate school. Though most of us get plenty of research
