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Dating sites – for all ages – focus on keeping it real
USA Today: The latest trend in online dating? Going offline as fast as you can. Most dating websites used to focus on helping singles get acquainted with extended online communication before meeting face-to-face. But now
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Year in Review 2012
2012 was a great year for psychological science. In May, more than 4,000 researchers from around the globe gathered in Chicago to make the 24th APS Annual Convention the biggest ever. In September, Clinical Psychological
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Where Are the Gifted Minorities?
Scientific American: For more than a quarter century, critics have faulted gifted education programs for catering to kids from advantaged backgrounds. These programs do, after all, typically enroll outsized numbers of European American and Asian
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To Nurture Genius, Improve Gifted Education
Scientific American Mind: In 1957, when Sputnik took the world by storm, the Ford Foundation was several years into a project for talented students based on early college entrance. An evaluation of that program from
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Diss Information: Is There a Way to Stop Popular Falsehoods from Morphing into “Facts”?
Scientific American: A recurring red herring in the current presidential campaign is the verity of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate. Although the president has made this document public, and records of his 1961 birth in
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How Misinformation Spreads
The Huffington Post: In a recent review paper in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, we follow the trails of misinformation: where it originates, how it is spread, how it is processed, how it affects
