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Maartje C. de Young Dances Her PhD
If you're a PhD student with mad dancing skills, Science and TEDxBrussels have the contest for you. Dance Your PhD is again offering $1,000 for the best video. These three examples may provide just the inspiration you need to create your own masterpiece: Maartje C. de Young dances How Does Your Brain Analyze Incoming Visual Information? De Young’s dance shows what goes on in a brain that is processing visual information. DeYoung explains, “You look with your eyes, but you see with your brain!” What we see is based not only on the world around us but also on “inferences and assumptions.” For more the brain’s interpretation of the outside world, take a look at recent research from Steven L.
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Anne Goldberg Dances Her PhD
If you're a PhD student with mad dancing skills, Science and TEDxBrussels have the contest for you. Dance Your PhD is again offering $1,000 for the best video. This example may provide just the inspiration you need to create your own masterpiece: Anne Goldenberg Dances The Negotiation of Contributions in Public Wikis. According to Goldenberg, her dance and public wikis both utilize textuality, dialogue, and a participatory process. If you find Goldenberg’s wiki dance intriguing, you may consider writing a wiki on your own area of expertise as part of APS’s Wikipedia Initiative.
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The Psychology of Caffeine
In case you missed it, the cameras were rolling at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. Watch Elsa Carodenuto from Butler University present her poster session research on the “Effects of Caffeine on Relationships.” I'm Elsa Carodenuto from Butler University, and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. Elsa Carodenuto, along with Michael Leider and APS Charter Member John N. Bohannon III, asked 72 participants to recall memories of failed relationships including first meetings, first kisses, and break ups. Half of the participants received a caffeinated drink beforehand.
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Why Remember What You Can Find Online?
Where do you store important information? According to psychological scientist Betsy Sparrow, the answer isn’t always “in your brain.” Sparrow says that we allow ourselves to forget information that we are confident the people around us (our spouses and friends, for example) will remember. Increasingly, we rely on technology as well. This phenomenon is called transactive memory. To highlight transactive memory, Sparrow and her colleagues asked participants to type 40 facts — such as “an ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.” Half of the participants were told that the computer would save their lists and half were told it would not.
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Rethinking Giftedness and Gifted Education: A Proposed Direction Forward Based on Psychological Science
Read the Full Text While promising future athletes and musicians tend to be identified and actively supported from an early age in the United States, the same intense support is not always provided to children who display academic promise – thus hurting the ability of our most talented individuals to compete in the global economy. This major new report explores the reasons for this disconnect, and brings psychological science to bear on the question of how to better nurture young talent across all fields of endeavor. Academic giftedness is often excluded from major conversations on educational policy as a result of misconceptions about what academic giftedness is and how it arises.
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Inside the Psychologist’s Studio: Elliot Aronson
The Scientist and the Humanist: A Conversation with Elliot Aronson Hosted by Carol Tavris and Joshua Aronson April 11, 2008 -- Boise, Idaho See more interviews with legends of psychological science here.
