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.
