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College Courses Online Are Disappointing. Here’s How to Fix Them.
APS Past-President/ Author: Lisa Feldman Barrett Millions of families with college-age children face a difficult choice. As school after school announces that it will welcome students back to campus this fall, many classes — perhaps
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How Showing Special Kindness To Some Can Have Moral Consequences
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: When we talk about discrimination, we typically think of people denied something because of who they are, some defining trait. What we can overlook is a different kind of discrimination, which comes
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Make Management (and Life!) Easier
In our twenties and thirties, two things happen to many of us as part of adulting: we become parents and we become bosses, or some kind of team leaders or managers. In some ways these
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Psychologists Pinpoint Psychological Factors Of Refugee Integration
Researchers investigate factors and consequences for refugees and host society Due to border closures in the wake of the corona crisis, the arrival of refugees in Europe has temporarily dipped. However, worldwide numbers of refugees
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We Still Think Brilliance Is A Male Trait And It’s Hurting Women
Men are more likely to be seen as “brilliant” than women, according to a new study published today in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Researchers found that this gendered stereotype that men are intellectually superior
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Surviving the Trauma of COVID-19
APS Member/Author: Roxane Cohen Silver As a psychological scientist who investigates how individuals and communities respond to collective traumas, I study human resilience in a range of situations—from earthquakes and hurricanes to mass violence and