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Rajaram, Weber Among APS Fellows Elected to Society of Experimental Psychologists
APS Past Board Members Suparna Rajaram of Stony Brook University and Elke U. Weber of Columbia University are among eight psychological scientists recently elected to the Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP). Others elected in the
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What really drives you crazy about waiting in line (it actually isn’t the wait at all)
The Washington Post: If the people who study the psychology of waiting in line — yes, there is such a thing — have an origin story, it’s this: It was the 1950s, and a high-rise office building in Manhattan had
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Can Authoritarianism Lead to Greater Liking of Out-Groups? The Intriguing Case of Singapore Arne Roets, Evelyn W. M. Au, and Alain Van Hiel Authoritarians are people with
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Relief
Scientists Harness the Power of Perception to Control Chronic Pain
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Measuring Pain With a Flash
Psychological scientists have developed a technique called magnitude matching to measure the intensity of experiences, including pain, more accurately.
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Why Angry Men Are More Influential Than Angry Women
TIME: Righteous anger is one of Hollywood’s favorite devices for delineating an inspirational figure.Atticus Finch has it in To Kill A Mockingbird, Peter Finch’s newscaster has it in Network, Mr. Davis has it in 12
