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APS Convention Video Blog: Choices Both Reflect and Affect Preferences (French Too)
I’m Géraldine Coppin from the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences and the University of Geneva, and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. In French
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A more peaceful world if women in charge?
CNN: Would the world be more peaceful if women were in charge? A challenging new book by the Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker says that the answer is “yes.” In The Better Angels of Our Nature
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Crossing Borders to Build a Better Robot
Roberta Klatzky has spent much of her career getting to know robots. Thanks to the Humboldt Research Award, Klatzky, who serves as APS Treasurer, got to experience a new aspect of robotics during her stay
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Religious people feel better than non-believers, but only in devout societies: study
National Post: Religious people tend to feel better about themselves and their lives, but a new study finds that this benefit may only hold in places where everyone else is religious, too. According to the
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The Value(s) of IRBs
Let me say at the onset that institutional review boards (IRBs) serve an important role and generally do a pretty good job at it. To be sure, everyone engaged in research has their IRB stories
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Sexism and Gender Inequality
Data from 57 countries indicates that an individual’s sexism leads to gender inequality in the society as a whole.
