Latest Issue: Volume 25 Number 5: May/June 2012


Cover Story

Speaking Your Mind

Being bilingual affects not only the way you speak, but the way you think, feel, and respond to the world.


Presidential Column

Diversity Makes Better Science

When diverse perspectives shape research, everyone wins, say Douglas L. Medin and Carol D. Lee.


Observer Article

Funding for Basic Psychological Science at the National Cancer Institute

Program directors Rebecca A. Ferrer, Paige Green-McDonald, and Mary O’Connell at the National Cancer Institute are eager to fund innovative basic psychological science.


Member Article

Hard Hat One Day, Suit the Next

David Cades applies psychological science to the boardroom and the courtroom.


Psych Today

Puzzles, Grand Ideas, and Science

Joel Weinberger reveals the implicit processes that drove David McClelland’s research.


Member Article

Improving Students’ Writing With Wikipedia

Enhance students’ writing with this step-by-step
process from Margaret P. Munger.


Obituary

Remembering the Father of Cognitive Psychology

Ira Hyman and colleagues recollect Ulric Neisser, a pioneer in relating thought and behavior.


Observer Article

Lexicon in the Laboratory

APS Fellow and word guru Steven Pinker recommends six articles for researchers who want to read up on the latest in language science.


Member Article

The Science of Swearing

Like all language, swearing has meaning. Timothy Jay and Kristin Janschewitz wants psychological scientists to study it closely.


Observer Article

Basic Clinical Psychological Science? NSF Says “Yes!”

Graduate research fellowships now acknowledge this new research direction.


Observer Article

Reversal of Fortune

University of California, Los Angeles clinical science student Lily Brown received NSF funding in spite of obstacles.


Member Article

New Policy Eliminates Funding Hurdle for Promising Graduate Student

Edmarie Guzman-Velez's persistence paid off. Now, the University of Iowa clinical psychology student has been awarded a coveted NSF Fellowship.