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Advancing the Science of Imagination: Toward an “Imagination Quotient”
Award amounts up to $200,000. The Imagination Institute announces an international grants competition for research and intervention projects on the measurement and improvement of imagination. Deadline: September 30, 2014 For more information go to: imagination-institute.org Visit Page
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The Right Methods for the Right Questions
When psychology emerged as a “modern” science near the end of the 19th century, it developed a methodological orientation that was heavily influenced by other natural sciences, such as physics. As the field of psychology Visit Page
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Debunking pseudoscience and studying psychopathy
Scott Lilienfeld is both a researcher of and advocate for psychological science. His clinical work has primarily focused on psychopathy; he developed the Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI-R), a 154-item personality test developed to be taken Visit Page
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Psychology Needs to Take Scientific Method Seriously
In this brief commentary, I propose an important reform: that psychological scientists should take scientific method seriously. By this, I mean that they should be knowledgeable about, and be guided in their research by, theories Visit Page
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Transforming the Future of Education With Research
Scientists across all subfields of psychology have theories and findings on how students learn and on factors within the education system that can improve student outcomes. In addition, psychological scientists have experience with a rich Visit Page
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Eight (No, Nine!) Problems With Big Data
The New York Times: BIG data is suddenly everywhere. Everyone seems to be collecting it, analyzing it, making money from it and celebrating (or fearing) its powers. Whether we’re talking about analyzing zillions of Google Visit Page
