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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences 2021-22 Fellowships
The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University is now accepting applications for residential fellowships for the 2021–22 academic year. Applications from scholars and thinkers who are minorities broadly defined, women, and those who represent a wide variety of institutions and countries are encouraged. CASBS is particularly eager to receive applications from accomplished scholars and thinkers who engage with the significant societal challenges the Center focuses on, described here, and the research methods that support them.
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First-Ever Review of Gender Parity in Psychological Science: From Idea to Research to Plan of Action
The evolution from idea, to study, to action plan in the first-ever gender parity review in psychological science.
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Richeson Receives SAGE-CASBS Award for Research on Discrimination and Diversity
A social psychologist at Yale University, Richeson uses a broad range of empirical methods to examine the potential cognitive “costs” and mutual misperceptions associated with intergroup interactions.
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Hinshaw Receives Sarnat Prize for Research on ADHD
APS Fellow Stephen P. Hinshaw received the 2020 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health for his work on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children.
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How’s That? It Doesn’t Take a Scientist to See Through Implausible Research Hypotheses
In reviewing key findings from the social-science literature, laypeople were able to accurately predict replication success 59% of the time.
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James S. Jackson (1944-2020)
APS James McKeen Cattell Fellow James S. Jackson, a pioneering social psychologist known for his research on race and ethnicity, racism, and health and aging among African Americans, died on September 1, 2020.