Current Issue
May/June, 2013
Observer Article
Non-Human Nature
By Duane M. Rumbaugh and David A. Washburn Yale University Press, 2003 Intelligence of Apes and Other Rational Beings By Duane M. Rumbaugh and David A. Washburn Yale University Press, ... More>
Student Notebook
The Importance of Introductory Psychology Courses
When I started researching colleges during my last months of high school, I thought psychology was simply something that involved a notepad and a couch. But by March of my ... More>
Observation
News
Benbow Receives Mensa Lifetime Award Benbow APS Fellow Camilla Benbow, Vanderbilt University, is the recipient of the Mensa Education and Research Foundation’s 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award. MERF president Greg Timmers ... More>
Academic Observer
Great Dissertations: Mark I
A year ago in the Observer, I wrote a column on “Dissertation Dilemmas” which focused on varying perspectives on the dissertation. In some scholars’ views, the dissertation should represent a ... More>
Presidential Column
Patients and Impatience: A Call to the Best and the Brightest
The recent proposal by the National Institute of Mental Health, or NIMH, to redirect a portion of its extramural research investment away from basic behavioral and social science research into ... More>
