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A Simple App For A Happier Life
Forbes: There are more social apps out there these days drawing inspiration from social science researches – and maybe rightly so. For example, Path personal network is inspired by the Dunbar’s number, which is the
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The Crisis in Social Psychology That Isn’t
The New Yorker: Things aren’t quite as bad as they seem, though. Although Nature’s report was headlined “Disputed results a fresh blow for social psychology,” it scarcely noted that there have been some replications of
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MIND Reviews: Drunk Tank Pink
Scientific American Mind: At the 2004 Summer Olympics, researchers asked six athletes in different sports to wear red uniforms instead of their usual more subdued colors. All of them won gold. Although the color red
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Cooperation after a tragedy: When our hearts know better than our minds.
Scientific American: “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To
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Pop Culture? There’s an Effect for That.
Scientific American: Hello, my name is Melanie, and I’m addicted to horrible television. Well, I’m also addicted to social media. And politics. And The Daily Show. And Jennifer Lawrence interviews… Okay, it’s probably fair to
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Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science
C. Nathan DeWall, University of Kentucky, and renowned textbook author and APS Fellow David G. Myers, Hope College, have teamed up to create a new series of Observer columns aimed at integrating cutting-edge psychological science