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Gazzaniga Book Signing at APS Convention
Few scientists know the brain as well as APS Past President Michael Gazzaniga does. A pioneer in cognitive neuroscience, Gazzaniga was the first researcher to study patients in whom the right and left hemispheres of
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Scientists Will Discuss Paul Meehl’s Legacy at the 25th APS Annual Convention
Paul Meehl is known for bringing the power of statistics to bear on the field of clinical psychology. In his 1954 book, Clinical Statistical Prediction: A Theoretical Analysis and Review of Evidence, he showed that
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Closing the Science-Practice Gap
This article is part of a series commemorating APS’s 25th anniversary in 2013. The Association for Psychological Science is an organization of which I am proud to be a member, in no small measure because
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Twenty Years Later, Gibson’s Advice Is Still Good
This article is part of a series commemorating APS’s 25th anniversary in 2013. This year will mark the 20th anniversary of a talk by Eleanor J. “Jackie” Gibson that served as the Keynote Address at
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Different Strokes for Different Folks
When Jo Ann Gardner and Charles Thomas sat down with Psychology Today editor T. George Harris in 1970, the historical backdrop was the rapid social and political transformations rocking American culture. Academic psychology was not
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Social Psychology Then and Now
Gordon Willard Allport (GWA) was a giant as a scholar. As he progressed from one major topic to another — the self, attitudes, and prejudice in social psychology; traits, values, and functional autonomy of motives
