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Communicating Psychological Science to a Sometimes-Skeptical Public
Overcoming anti-science beliefs will require proactive public-awareness and issue-management campaigns.
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The Magnitude of Our Mythology
Jennifer L. Eberhardt and Jennifer A. Richeson explore the persistent mythology of racial progress–a prevailing narrative that progress toward racial equality is steadily, linearly, naturally, and automatically getting better across time.
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The COVID Communication Breakdown
On paper, the U.S. federal government was well prepared for COVID-19. Personnel tasked with emergency preparedness held posts at the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the National Security Council. The executive branch
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Psychological Interventions for the Treatment of Chronic Pain in Adults
Driscoll and colleagues address the gap between the evidence of the effectiveness of several psychological interventions and their availability and use in treatment of chronic pain.
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Working Around the Distance
Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, a new set of practices has begun to take shape in how psychological scientists teach and conduct research. A global survey of the field reveals the scope of the impact, along with strategies being used to overcome the considerable challenges associated with moving research and learning from in-person laboratory settings and classrooms to online platforms.
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Human Behavior in the Time of COVID-19: Learning from Psychological Science
Highlights of APS’s recent outreach efforts to broadly share what psychological science says about epidemics and how human behavior might mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
