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I’m an Awful Source

May 14, 2012
APS Past-President Elizabeth Loftus

APS Past-President Elizabeth Loftus

That’s the conclusion of Joel Stein in this recent Time article. “I’ve always been proud that my columns are 100% accurate, which isn’t all that hard since I write only about me. But,” says Stein, ‘it turns out that I’m an awful source.”

Keeping facts straight in our memory is a difficult task for humans, but the Internet has made it easier for us to record our lives, and just as easy for others to fact check. Stein writes “that night we fell in love instantly with our spouse? There’s a wall post on our Facebook Timeline and a Gmail to our best friend about how…

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This Swag Says Psychological Science

May 9, 2012

You’ll talk the talk when you present your research at the 24th APS Annual Convention in Chicago, Illinois, May 24-27, 2012. So walk the walk too, in the latest APS swag!

Going for a sunny stroll on Lake Shore Drive? Wear the latest APS Sunglasses. They’re free with the purchase of any APS merchandise.

Going for a sunny stroll on Lake Shore Drive? Wear the latest APS Sunglasses. They’re free with the purchase of any APS merchandise.

It may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: the chance to visit Albert Bandura’s original Bobo doll while…<p><a href=More>

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Donate to Help? Only if Nature Caused the Disaster

May 9, 2012

This is a photo of people putting canned goods in a donation box. Does the type of disaster affect how and if you donate?The world has had a tough couple of years with wars, hurricanes, oil spills, and floods. As you sit down to your morning paper, chances are high that you will come across a story about a devastating disaster. Maybe a tropical storm wiped out dams that protect crops, homes and livestock in a third-world county, and now the people living there are facing starvation. Donations are requested, but how likely are you to donate? What if the dams had failed not because the storm was particularly strong, but because corrupt officials had purposefully built substandard…

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Gün Semin Awarded High Dutch Honor

May 8, 2012
Gün Semin

Gün Semin

On April 27, APS Secretary and Fellow Gün R. Semin was awarded the position of Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau. The Order of Orange-Nassau is a military and civil order of the Netherlands that is open to “everyone who has earned special merits for society” for the special way in which they have carried out their activities. It is comparable with the Order of the British Empire in the UK. The award was announced in this statement from Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Semin, who is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (among other honors), studies communication, social cognition, and language as well as language…

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Give Affect Science, Get Positive Emotion

May 3, 2012

Lauren Sears (left) and Molly Sanders-Cannon (right), research assistants in the ASI lab at Northeastern University.

Lauren Sears (left) and Molly Sanders-Cannon (right), research assistants in the ASI lab at Northeastern University.

A report from the 2012 Science & Engineering Festival

WASHINGTON — “Oh, I’m so glad that we found you!” one mother exclaimed as she and her young daughter approached the Affective Science Institute’s booth at last weekend’s U.S. Science and Engineering Festival on the National Mall.

I started to tell her that one basic ingredient of emotion is called affect. While terms like…

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