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Psychological Science and Entrepreneurship: News and Events
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation supports the Psychological Science and Entrepreneurship Award at the APS Convention. The award seeks to recognize the work of psychological scientists doing research at the intersection of psychological science and entrepreneurship. The 2020 APS Virtual Poster Showcase awarded the first Psychological Science and Entrepreneurship poster awards. Descriptions of the 2020 award winners projects can be found in the July/August Observer story titled, Award-Winning Ideas from the APS Virtual Poster Showcase.
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Fear-Related Research for Halloween Week
APS’s Research Topic on Fear explores why we are scared of some things and not others.
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Playing With Fear: Haunted Houses and Recreation
Haunted houses, horror movies, and ghost stories can provoke chilling delights, provided the fear they evoke remains in a “Goldilocks zone” that is neither too terrifying nor too tame. New research connects this sweet spot
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National Science Foundation Funding for Nonacademic Internships
NSF is offering supplemental funding to existing NSF research grants and Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awards to allow graduate students to take on an internship and gain experience and core professional competencies.
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Haunted House Researchers Investigate the Mystery of Playing With Fear
New research connects a sweet spot of recreational fear to a telltale range of heart rate fluctuations, shedding light on the mind-body connection between fear and fun.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on how trust may increase exposure to infection, wisdom of the crowd, aging and memory for distractors, social distancing motivated by empathy, using fake-news to enhance memory for facts, children’s cognitive reflection and understanding of science, and choice-induced preference in infancy.
