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Your Comment Requested on Development of US Health Objectives
The US government wants to hear from you as it develops and refines a set of national health objectives. Submit a comment by January 17, 2019, if you wish to provide input.
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Gender Bias Sways How We Perceive Competence in Faces
Faces that are seen as competent are also perceived as more masculine, research reveals.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring how trait anxiety relates to attention, how choosing different career paths may shape personality development, and how attentional selection contributes to risky decision making.
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Robinson and Berridge Receive Grawemeyer Award for Addiction Research
APS William James Fellow Terry Robinson and APS Fellow Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan have won the 2019 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award For Psychology for their research on the role of neural
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NSF Invites Grant Proposals for Studying Personalized Learning in the STEM Workforce
The National Science Foundation is interested in receiving new proposals and supplemental funding requests to support flexible personalized learning to prepare the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workforce.
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Spoiler Alert! The Psychology Of Surprise Endings
Writers and filmmakers hoping to hoodwink their fans with plot twists have long known what cognitive scientists know: All of us have blind spots in the way we assess the world. We get distracted. We forget how we know things. We see patterns that aren't there. Because these blind spots are wired into the brain, they act in ways that are predictable — so predictable that storytellers from Sophocles to M. Night Shyamalan have used them to lead us astray. In recent years, some scientists have begun to ask, can stories serve as a kind of brain scan?
