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First Latin American Congress for the Advancement of Psychological Science
At a first-of-its-kind meeting, scientists based in Latin America and beyond shared research and training as well as media and public policy strategies. The APS Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science provided partial support for this First Latin American Congress for the Advancement of Psychological Science (CLACIP).
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The Citizen Preschooler
The Atlantic: One morning this past April, scores of preschoolers and kindergarteners dragged their grownups into the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The children had created an exhibit demonstrating their perceptions of the
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The Curse of Knowledge: Pinker Describes a Key Cause of Bad Writing
The more you know, the less clearly you write. That’s a simple way of summing up one of APS Fellow Steven A. Pinker’s key insights on the cognitive and psycholinguistic factors that fuel arcane, awkward
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Teaching Lessons that Last
Regan A.R. Gurung thinks of students’ learning using the metaphor of a pearl in an oyster. During the Opening Plenary of the 2015 APS–Society for the Teaching of Psychology Teaching Institute, the University of Wisconsin–Green
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Overcoming the Classroom Environment
The modern classroom is a recent development in the evolution of education and an obstacle for teachers: Evidence from cross-species, cross-cultural, and developmental domains demonstrates that the typical lecture hall is an inhospitable environment for
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The Sense of Style
Let’s face it: Most academics are terrible communicators. Why do the world’s most cerebral people find it so hard to convey their ideas? And how can we learn to do better? I suggest that the
