Student Events Inspire, Impress at the 2017 Convention
APS Student Caucus (APSSC) events at the 2017 APS Annual Convention in Boston offered students a wide array of topics, including how to apply to and survive graduate school; how to navigate the job...
View ArticleAn Interview With CRFP’s President
The Observer talked with APS Fellow John C. Cavanaugh about his insights into bridging academic and industry careers in psychological science. The magazine also profiled three alumni of the Consortium...
View ArticleBridging Psychological Science and the Humanities
Being a psychology professor at a small liberal arts college comes with certain perks. One is that I routinely have deep discussions with experts outside of my field. My office at Fontbonne University...
View ArticleMaking the Most of University Museums
As director of Tufts University’s Emotion, Brain, & Behavior Laboratory, Heather Urry offers courses ranging from introduction to psychology to affective neuroscience. But until last year, she...
View ArticleSeven Costs of the Money Chase: How Academia’s Focus on Funding Influences...
This essay is adapted from the article “Psychology’s Replication Crisis and the Grant Culture: Righting the Ship,” published as part of the Special Symposium on the Future of Psychological Science in...
View Article“Puerto Rico Is Strong”: Outreach Campaign to Help Scientific Community in...
Following a series of devastating hurricanes in the region, Washington University in St. Louis (WU) and Ciencia Puerto Rico (CienciaPR), a local nonprofit organization promoting the advancement of...
View ArticleAPS Joins With Other Science Organizations to Oppose Administration’s Travel Ban
The scientific community, including APS, is continuing to voice strong concerns about the effects on research and education of proposed restrictions on travel and immigration to the US. In a joint...
View ArticleFinding Our Fundamentals
Photo credit: Jeanne Neville I want to really understand the fundamentals of programming. -Masako Wakamiya Curious to know who Masako Wakamiya is? After retiring from her job as a bank clerk in Japan,...
View ArticleInfluencing Evidence-Based Policy as a Graduate Student
Few processes impact the lives of everyday people as strongly as the creation of public policy. Public policy may be defined concretely as specific legislation, or it may be thought of more abstractly...
View ArticleAn Unwavering Commitment to Science
Lynn Nadel Meet Lynn Nadel, the Fred Kavli Keynote Speaker at the APS 2018 Convention APS Fellow Lynn Nadel’s scientific exploration of the hippocampus has led to groundbreaking developments in...
View ArticleRedefining ‘Academic Superstardom’
Your work advances our understanding of mental disorders from a network perspective — how did you come to this line of research? (Did you start with an interest in clinical issues? Or did the interest...
View ArticleAnonymity in Scientific Publishing
We are entering a new age of transparency and openness in science. New scientific practices that would have been unthinkable to most of us even a decade ago are now becoming commonplace. One of my...
View ArticleThere’s a Downside to Attending an Academically Selective School, Study Says
When sending their children to school, parents will often aim for schools with high scores and challenging programs, but according to a new analysis of data from Project TALENT, selective schools with...
View ArticleCollaborating With a Crowd
Raphael Silberzahn University of Sussex researcher Raphael Silberzahn describes how an early setback led him to develop an innovative crowd-sourced research project. This “many analysts” project...
View ArticleProfessional Networking as a Graduate Student
Networking means many different things to many different people, especially in graduate school. With many graduate students feeling uneasy about the post-PhD job market, the pressure to network, both...
View ArticleWhat Straight-A Students Get Wrong
A decade ago, at the end of my first semester teaching at Wharton, a student stopped by for office hours. He sat down and burst into tears. My mind started cycling through a list of events that could...
View ArticleWelcome to the Real World: How Work Shapes Personality
We’ve all been there, whether in real life or the The Game of Life. In the popular board game, your first turn of the spinner confronts you with a choice: Do you send your little blue or pink pawn off...
View ArticleAdvice for New Faculty
It’s your first faculty job. Now what do you do? A panel of three psychological scientists who have been there, done that offer some advice. What are the first things you should do as a brand new...
View ArticleAdvice for Future Graduate Students
You’ve finished your bachelor’s degree. What does the remainder of your path hold? For many psychology students who want to become clinicians or go into the academic realm of research and teaching, the...
View ArticleThe Dark Side of Academia: Common Negative Experiences No One Talks About
Academic life is not just about discovery and excitement. In a recent article in Perspectives on Psychological Science, Lisa M. Jaremka (University of Delaware) and other scholars share a collection...
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