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Ariely Packs Address With Jokes, Anecdotes, and Lots of Science
True to form, Dan Ariely packed his Fred Kavli Keynote Address with plenty of jokes and humorous anecdotes in the opening night of the 2016 APS Annual Convention in Chicago. But his 40-minute speech still
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Religion Past and Present
0:13 – How Religions Became Moral and Spiritual – Pascal R. Boyer, Washington University in St. Louis 15:17 – I’m Learning (,) God: Spirituality and Religion in African American Life – Jacqueline S. Mattis, University
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Research Ethics at the Graduate Level
I followed the plight of Michael LaCour, a University of California, Los Angeles, graduate student in the political science department, almost obsessively. I first heard of LaCour’s research on one of my favorite NPR programs
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Anderson, Dweck Share Atkinson Prize
APS William James Fellow John R. Anderson (Carnegie Mellon University) and APS James McKeen Cattell Fellow Carol S. Dweck (Stanford University) have won the 2016 Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences. They both will
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Psychologists Analyzed a Big Collection of Condemned Inmates’ Last Words
New York Magazine: It’s a strange and uncomfortable exercise: Imagine you’re about to be executed, and you’re given the opportunity to make a final statement. What would your last words be? To psychologists who study
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First Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Judgment and Decision Making Studies
Registration is now open for the First Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Judgment and Decision Making Studies (SEJyD), taking place on July 12–13, 2016. The program features plenary lectures by Martin Skov
