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 Ovid Tzeng Receives Golden  

Bell Award    

 

 Michael Tomasello Awarded the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize  

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The Enduring Influence of Piaget
Read a reflection on the 1970 interview between Jean Piaget and Elizabeth Hall. Revisit this and other Psychology Today interviews online.  
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Jaap Denissen

Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany

University of Stirling, UK

Aalto University, Finland

University of Auckland, New Zealand

University of Oxford, UK

Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

University of St. Andrews, UK

Peter F. Titzmann

University of Jena, Germany

 

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Evidence of Science Policing Itself
The public has always been fascinated with the scientific mind, including its corruption. So it is no surprise that the sordid case of the Dutch researcher Diederik Stapel grabbed headlines for a few days. Such cases, through rare, must be rooted out and publicly exposed by vigilance within the field, wrote APS Executive Director Alan G. Kraut in this The Chronicle of Higher Education editorial. 
Psychopathy Misunderstood  
Psychopathic personalities are some of the most memorable characters in popular media, but research in a recent issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest suggests that psychopathy is a personality disorder that is widely misunderstood. Effectively dispelling these myths is important, the authors argue, because accurate policy recommendations hinge on which personality traits--and which groups of people--associated with psychopathy one is examining. Read More>>
The Right Kind of National Pride
Feeling good about your country also makes you feel good about your own life, but Matthew Wright (American University, USA) and Tim Reeskens (Catholic University, Belgium) suspected that the positive findings about nationalism weren't telling the whole story. "It's fine to say pride in your country makes you happy," says Wright. "But what kind of pride are we talking about? That turns out to make a lot of difference." The intriguing--and politically suggestive--differences they found appear in a commentary in Psychological Science. 

 

A Dynamic Approach to Developmental Disorders
Annette Karmiloff-Smith of the Developmental Neurocognition Lab at Birkbeck, University of London, is an expert on developmental disorders.
In the theme program Biological Beings in Social Context at the 24th APS Annual Convention in Chicago, Illinois, USA, she will describe how adult neuropsychological models are inappropriate for neurodevelopmental syndromes. Karmiloff-Smith recently spoke with APS about her research, her time with mentor Jean Piaget, and her talk at the 24th APS Annual Convention. Watch More>>  

A Blog by Wray Herbert  

The vast majority of the world's 7 billion people practice some kind of religion, ranging from massive worldwide churches to obscure spiritual traditions and local sects. Nobody really knows how many religions there are on the planet, but whatever the number, there are at least that many theories about why we have religion at all. Read More>>

Congratulations New APS Fellows 

 Shlomo Bentin - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Him Cheung - The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Gergely Csibra - Central European University, Hungary

Gil Diesendruck - Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Raymond J. Dolan - University College London, United Kingdom

Boris Egloff - Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

Ruth Feldman - Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Jamin Halberstadt - University of Otago, New Zealand

Hartmut Leuthold - Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany

Ottmar V. Lipp - University of Queensland, Australia

Mike Rinck - Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Oliver C. Schultheiss - Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany

Shalom H. Schwartz - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Golan Shahar - Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Marcel A. van den Hout - Utrecht University, Netherlands

Peter Weyers - University of Würzburg, Germany

Wing Sze Wong - Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong

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