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Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman is a psychologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Daniel joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the complexity of human nature, studying judgment and
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How COVID-19 is Changing Our Expectations for Other Vaccines
As scientists raced to create new vaccines that would fight the novel coronavirus, Matthew Motta had a question: What did Americans expect from these vaccines? Motta, a political scientist at Oklahoma State University who studies vaccine hesitancy
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Lee Ross, Who Studied the Illusion of Personal Objectivity, Dies
The APS William James Fellow cofounded the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on feelings of culpability, outside assistance and overconfidence, language development, spatial and visual perception, childhood tv exposure and attention problems, responses to the smell of fear, and physical strength and anxiety.
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Careers Up Close: Sonya Sachdeva on the U.S. Forest Service
This social scientist uses research on morality and sociocultural influences to improve natural resource management.
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How the Pandemic May be Affecting Your Ability to Make Simple Decisions
… What researchers can say about our decision making process with some degree of certainty is that it can be negatively impacted by stress, especially when sustained over prolonged periods. “Stress decreases our working memory