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Less cramming. More Frisbee. At Yale, students learn how to live the good life.
Laurie Santos greeted her Yale University students with slips of paper that explained: No class today. It was mid-semester, with exams and papers looming, everyone exhausted and stressed. There was one rule: They couldn’t use the hour and a quarter of unexpected free time to study. They had to just enjoy it. Nine students hugged her. Two burst into tears. Santos, a professor of psychology, had planned to give a lecture about what researchers have learned about how important time is to happiness. But she had created a singular class, on the psychology of living a joyful, meaningful life. And she wanted the lessons to stick. All semester, she explained why we think the way we do.
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2018 Cognitive and Affective Neurophysiology (CAN) EEG/ERP Summer School
7th Cognitive and Affective Neurophysiology (CAN) EEG/ERP Summer School September 3rd to 7th, 2018 University of Porto, Portugal The Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto will host a summer school focused on the application of Electroencephalography (EEG) and Event Related Potential (ERP) techniques to the study of cognitive and effective processes from September 3rd-7th, 2018. The 2018 course includes a new module on reproducibility and open science practices in EEG/ERP research and will be taught in English. Early registration for the 25 course slots is recommended as previous editions of the course have been fully booked.
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June and July 2018 NSF Grant Submission Deadlines
Psychological scientists looking to apply for funding from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) may be interested in these June and July deadlines.
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People Make Different Moral Choices in Imagined Versus Real-Life Situations
The moral decisions people make in hypothetical scenarios may not always reflect real-life behavior, researchers find.
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The Basic Research Blues
Feel free to replicate, reproduce, and share your voice with friends, colleagues, NIH, and us!
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How Useful Is Fear?
Franklin D. Roosevelt no doubt meant to be soothing when he insisted, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” A quick and terrifying tour through the academic literature on fear, though, reveals just how much heavy lifting that only was doing. Our fears run broad and deep, and are every bit as diverse as we are. The 2017 version of Chapman University’s Survey of American Fears tabbed “corruption of government officials” as the most common fear, afflicting nearly 75 percent of respondents; concerns about the health-care system, the environment, personal finance, and war also figured in the top 10.
