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Trump’s Tweets: Telling Truth From Fiction From the Words He Used
Sometimes the words we choose say more than we intend. New research on a fact-checked collection of tweets from former president Donald Trump uncovered telltale word choices when he was being deliberately misleading. [Video Included]
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Communicating Psychological Science to a Sometimes-Skeptical Public
Overcoming anti-science beliefs will require proactive public-awareness and issue-management campaigns.
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Back Page: It’s a Conspiracy!
Karen Douglas, a professor of social psychology at the University of Kent, studies the psychology of conspiracy theories.
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Research Briefs
Recent highlights from APS journals articles on correcting false beliefs, reproducibility, risk perception, and more.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on optimism prescriptions, mental logout and social media, stress and cognitive effort, perceptual decision-making, the ego-depletion effect, the effect of replications on citations, scientific consensus and false beliefs, and anterograde amnesia.
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How Psychological Science Can Confront the Internet’s Dark Side
Psychological science can help decrease the negative consequences of Internet use.