The Bias Beneath: Two Decades of Measuring Implicit Associations
WEBJan 31, 2018 · Since its debut in 1998, an online test has allowed people to discover prejudices that lurk beneath their awareness — attitudes that researchers wouldn’t be able to identify through participant self-reports. The Observer examines the findings generated by the Implicit Association Test over the past 20 years.
Association for Psychological Science – APS
WEBThe Association for Psychological Science (APS) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology and its representation at the national and international level.
‘I Feel Your Pain’: The Neuroscience of Empathy
WEBDec 29, 2017 · Observing someone else in anguish can evoke a deep sense of distress and sadness — almost as if it's happening to us. APS Fellow Ying-yi Hong and other scientists identify some of the regions of the brain responsible for this sense of interconnectedness.
Conventions & Events – Association for Psychological Science – APS
WEBThe APS Convention hosts more than 4,200 psychological scientists and students annually, and more than 2,500 at its biennial International Convention of Psychological Science.
The Psychological Study of Smiling - Association for Psychological …
WEBIn a more recent study, published this year in Psychological Science, Ernest Abel and Michael Kruger of Wayne State University extended this line of research from emotional outcomes to a biological one: longevity. Abel and Kruger rated the smiles of professional baseball players captured in a 1952 yearbook, then determined each player’s age ...
Psychological Science – Association for Psychological Science – APS
WEBPsychological Science, the flagship journal of the Association for Psychological Science, is the leading peer-reviewed journal publishing empirical research spanning the entire spectrum of the science of psychology.
How Technology Shapes Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions
WEBJul 17, 2018 · In a city famed as a leading hub of computational trailblazing, scientists describe their field research on technology and the human experience.
The Mechanics of Choice - Association for Psychological Science
WEBDec 28, 2011 · Psychological scientists have been interested in how people make decisions for several decades, but philosophers and economists have been studying decision making for centuries. The most famous scholarly consideration of making a decision in cases when all the facts aren’t on hand is that of Blaise Pascal. In 1670, in his Pensées, the French ...
Why Wait? The Science Behind Procrastination
WEBMar 29, 2013 · The idea is that procrastinators calculate the fluctuating utility of certain activities: pleasurable ones have more value early on, and tough tasks become more important as a deadline approaches. Psychologists like Ferrari and Pychyl, on the other hand, see flaws in such a strictly temporal view of procrastination.
The Littlest Linguists: New Research on Language Development
WEBDec 29, 2021 · New research on language acquisition, bilingualism, and speech perception.