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Accreditation Summiteers in Agreement on Change
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Defending Rigorous Science Down Under
In 1988, the same year that APS was founded in the United States, psychological scientists in Australia faced a major education reform that greatly expanded the number of universities in our country: The Australian government
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Protecting a Few Students from Negative Stereotypes Benefits Entire Classroom
Interventions targeted at individual students can improve the classroom environment and trigger a second wave of benefits for all classmates, new research shows. The findings, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for
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Jeb Bush Was Wrong: There Are Many Careers for Psychological Scientists
By now, most of us have heard what Jeb Bush said in October about a psychology degree only preparing students to work in the fast-food industry. While behavioral scientists know that a psychology degree is
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The Many Varieties of Mentors
It is hard to express the importance of the mentor–mentee relationship in a brief article. In my experience, this relationship is one of the most valuable in a graduate student’s life. Students should forge this
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Eyeing college stress, sleep patterns
The Boston Globe: MIT professor Rosalind Picard is worried about campus stress. After a handful of suicides in recent years, Picard started thinking about how her own work might be able to help change MIT’s
