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Professional Development Workshop: Sharing Your Work Through Effective Presentations 

Creating effective presentations and promoting your research are both essential new skills in the scientific community—and technology offers new ways to share your findings with colleagues and the public.    On March 6, 2024, APS—as a three-part professional development series—featured developmental psychologist Meltem Yücel of Duke University and Ted Schwaba, a personality researcher at Michigan State […]

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What Comes Next? The Joy of Anticipating Melodies

Are you passionate about music? As we explore new songs, part of the excitement comes from successfully predicting their outcomes, as suggested by scientific research.  In this episode of Under the Cortex, APS’s Özge Gürcanlı Fischer Baum hosts music researchers who delve into the rewarding experience of accurately predicting tunes. Nicholas Kathios and Psyche Loui

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How to Actually Catch a Liar, According to the New Science of Lie Detection

We naturally detect lies all the time. It could be a dip in our partner’s voice alerting us to the fact that they’re concealing their emotions; a child’s eyes drifting back to the drawer containing a present they weren’t supposed to open; or an implausible story told by a colleague trying to explain why the

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Chicken Littles Are Ruining America

Sometime around 1970, the American personality changed. In prior decades, people tended to define themselves according to the social roles they played: I’m a farmer, teacher, housewife, priest. But then a more individualistic culture took over. The University of Michigan psychologist Joseph Veroff and his colleagues compared national surveys conducted in 1957 and 1976 and found a

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Feeling Stuck? Here Are 5 Ways to Jumpstart Your Life.

From the outside, it looked as though Adam Alter was gliding along. At 28, he had earned a doctorate in psychology from Princeton and soon afterward landed a job as a tenure-track professor at the N.Y.U. Stern School of Business. But he felt stuck. Preparing to teach while simultaneously doing research became overwhelming, especially after

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Exciting News from APS Meetings!

APS merges Annual Convention and the biennial International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS) and launches new APS Global Psychological Science Summit. We are thrilled to share exciting news for the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and the field.   Starting in 2025, APS will merge the Annual Convention and the biennial International Convention of Psychological Science

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A Paradigm Shift in How Scientists Study Kids

There is an open secret in the study of child development: Most of what we think we know about how babies develop is actually based on a specific subset of kids—those born to families from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (a.k.a. WEIRD) nations. The acronym was first coined in an influential 2010 paper to describe the

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People Have Very Different Understandings of Even the Simplest Words

In 2017Kris De Meyer, a neuroscientist who directs the Climate Action Unit at University College London, ran the opening session of a conference on decision-making under uncertainty for an audience of scientists, finance professionals and policy makers. He divided them into groups of six and gave them questions and activities centered on their personal and professional experiences

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