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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring: social power and self-projection; craving suppression and rebound effects; physical activity, BDNF, and working memory; and learning associations between objects during word learning. ... More>
New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring: perceived aggressiveness and fighting performance; quantifying emotional qualia; the heritability of cognitive ability across development; and children's altruistic giving. ... More>
Presidential Column
Psychology in a Post-Genomics
The draft DNA sequence of the human genome was announced in June 2000, two years ahead of schedule. Some party-poopers grumble that the four nucleotide letters that constitute the DNA alphabet are not GATC, but HYPE. They complain that the DNA sequence by itself does not tell us how we can begin life as a single fertilized cell and end up with trillions of cells containing the same DNA but expressing different genes. It doesn't cure any diseases. ... More>
