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Scientists have figured out what makes Dr. Seuss so silly
The Washington Post: Chris Westbury was trying to get work done, and everyone around him kept laughing. As part of a study on aphasia, a speech and language disorder, the University of Alberta psychology professor was running
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Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science
Edited by C. Nathan DeWall and David G. Myers Aimed at integrating cutting-edge psychological science into the classroom, Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science offers advice and how-to guidance about teaching a particular area of
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Making Sense
“What is it like to be a bat?” asked philosopher Thomas Nagel in his influential 1974 essay. “I assume we all believe that bats have experience,” he continued, but can we ever understand what it
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Remembering Wendell E. Jeffrey
APS Fellow Wendell E. Jeffrey, known as Jeff, took an unusual path to developmental psychology. He finished high school at the age of 16 and enrolled at the University of Iowa, planning to study moral
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: A Thousand Words Are Worth a Picture: Snapshots of Printed-Word Processing in an Event-Related Potential Megastudy Stéphane Dufau, Jonathan Grainger, Katherine J. Midgley, and Phillip J. Holcomb
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THE SECRET TO SOUNDING SMART? USING SIMPLE LANGUAGE
Fast Company: It might sound counterintuitive, but using four-syllable textbook words to demonstrate your smarts will actually make you appear less capable. “So often, our intuitions about what will impress others are wrong,” says Daniel
