Bringing Contexts In, Taking Racism Out: How to Improve Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive psychology studies universal processes such as memory, decision making, or emotions, for example. However, the theoretical, epistemological, and methodological assumptions that support the f...
15 Juni 202321min
Endless Love: You’ve Got Ideas About Consensual Nonmonogamy. They’re Probably Wrong
Consensually nonmonogamous relationships are defined by explicit mutual agreements to have multiple emotional, romantic, and/or sexual relationships. But is there really a type of person who engages i...
1 Juni 202319min
Psychology’s Role in the Criminalization of Blackness
The mass incarceration of Black people in the United States is gaining attention as a public health crisis with extreme mental-health implications. Despite Black Americans making up just 13% of the ge...
18 Maj 202323min
Silver Linings in the Demographic Revolution
While we are fussing about the artificial-intelligence revolution, a demographic revolution may have much more radical consequences: There are more older people than ever in the world. In her last pre...
4 Maj 202314min
Industrialized Cheating in Academic Publishing: How to Fight “Paper Mills”
A growing problem in research and publishing involves “paper mills”: organizations that produce and sell fraudulent manuscripts that resemble legitimate research articles. This form of fraud affects t...
20 Apr 202333min
Exploration vs. Exploitation: Adults Are Learning (Once Again) From Children
How do you balance innovation and implementation, possibility and practicality? How do you resolve the tension between the lure of the crazy new thing and the safe haven of the tried and true? In her ...
6 Apr 202313min
Lived Experiences Can Be a Strength. So Why the Bias Against “Me-Search”?
Questions often emerge when researchers tend to engage in research on topics that are personally relevant for them. For example, when someone with depression also studies it, should they disclose thei...
23 Mars 202319min
Special Episode II: APS 2023 Spence Awardees on Sharing Minds, the Development of Learning, and Implicit Bias
The APS Janet Taylor Spence Award recognizes APS members who have made transformative early career contributions to psychological science. Award recipients reflect the best of the many new and cuttin...
9 Mars 202333min
