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Productive Failure and the New Frontiers of Psychology Education
During the Teaching Institute at APS’s 2023 international convention in Brussels, teachers of psychology from around the world learned from experts and peers how novel empirical approaches might strengthen their own teaching.
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Myth: The Lightbulb Moment, Innovation’s Most Misleading Meme
Edward Wasserman explores the origin of the famous “lightbulb moment,” how the popular cliché originated, and what can be learned from it.
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Teaching: How Psychological Scientists Understand the Origin of Callous-Unemotional Traits
By using warmth rather than harshness, parents aid their children’s empathy—and lower their children’s risk for callous-unemotional traits.
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She Taught Yale’s Most Popular Class Ever on Happiness. Then She Burned Out
Burnout isn’t just for cubicle warriors and workaholic entrepreneurs. Nobel prize-winning geniuses and beloved celebrities burn out too. And so do experts on happiness, apparently. Yale psychologist Laurie Santos is famous for teaching the university’s most popular class ever —
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APS Expands Career Resources, Professional Development in 2023
A new series of educational workshops and trainings in 2023 is designed to help psychological scientists further their careers inside and outside of academia, while fostering a more transparent and valid science on the global stage.
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Student Notebook: The Seven Sins of Graduate School
Graduate student Edward Pashkov discusses seven paradigmatic sins that many beginner graduate students commit—and suggests how to learn from them.
