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Just a Numbers Game? Making Sense of Health Statistics
Presidential candidates use them to persuade voters, drug companies use them to sell their products, and the media spin them in all kinds of ways, but nobody – candidates, reporters, let alone health consumers –
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Sex Differences, Aging: The Psychological Science in the Public Interest Symposium
Reports published in the APS journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest (PSPI) are produced by teams of scholars from different perspectives — and sometimes different disciplines — whose mission is to produce a consensus
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The History of APS: A Timeline
In honor of the 20th Anniversary of APS, we have created a special area of the website devoted to celebrating the last 20 years of APS history. This section features an interactive timeline of APS
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PSPI Symposium
Valerie F. Reyna (Cornell; left) and Stephen D. Penrod (John Jay College; middle), this year’s presenters at the Psychological Science in the Public Interest (PSPI) symposium, sit with symposium chair, APS President, and PSPI co-editor
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An Unhealthy Start in Life — What Matters Most?
The following editorial originally appeared in the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Vol. 6, No. 3), in conjunction with the report ‘Neurotoxicants, Micronutrients, and Social Environments: Individual and Combined Effects on Children’s Development’
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Diversity in Teams: A Two-Edged Sword Requires Careful Handling
The world of work is changing. Increased globalization, greater workforce diversity (at least in North America), and the need to apply a wide variety of skills to increasingly complex jobs has resulted in flatter organizational
