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Jonathan Haidt Decodes the Tribal Psychology of Politics
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Jonathan Haidt is occupying Wall Street. Sort of. It’s a damp and bone-chilling January night in lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park. The 48-year-old psychologist, tall and youthful-looking despite his silvered hair
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Romantic Jealousy and Self-Esteem
In case you missed it, the cameras were rolling at the 23rd APS Annual Convention in Washington, DC. Watch Jessica L. Bowler from Pitzer College present her poster session research on “Self-Esteem and Components of
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The Science of Online Romance
Psychological scientist Eli Finkel believes “we are witnessing the early stages of an explosion of research on romantic attraction.” Why the explosion? The Internet, that’s why. Finkel is the lead author of “Online Dating: A
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How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Testifying Before the US Congress
This adventure began with an email I nearly deleted as spam. In 2007, Heather Kelly from APA asked to help gather evidence to fight an amendment to the National Science Foundation (NSF) authorization act that
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APS Journals February Reading List
Current Directions Those who play nice as kids have better-quality romances. http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/20/6/355.full Current Directions People may believe men are from Mars and women are from Venus, but research says they’re more similar than we think.
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Connecting Student Researchers Via Distance Research Talks
Imagine a room full of college students and police officers anxiously awaiting to hear your presentation on how to better identify missing or abducted children, but wait! The audience is not only in front of