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Five APS Fellows Elected to Society of Experimental Psychologists
A Guggenheim Fellow and a co-founder of a widely influential psychological theory are among four APS Fellows newly elected to the Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP), the oldest and one of the most prestigious honorary societies in scientific psychology. APS Fellows Diane Beck, Charles Brainerd, Steve Sloman, Joshua Greene, and Fei Xu, along with three other psychological scientists, have been selected as 2020 SEP Fellows. In addition, Vanderbilt University researcher Jennifer Trueblood, named an APS Rising Star in 2015 and a 2020 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award recipient, is receiving the SEP Early Investigator Award.
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For Narcissists, Social Status Overshadows All
Humans are fundamentally motivated to boost their social status, but narcissistic individuals are driven to climb the social ladder at all costs.
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Interracial Contact During Medical School Predicts Less Racial Bias
Interracial contact with other practitioners during medical school may help reduce physicians’ racial bias, improving treatment outcomes for patients.
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Robert Plomin Receives Grawemeyer Award for Behavioral Genetics Research
Robert Plomin APS Past Board Member and William James Fellow Robert Plomin of King’s College London has received the 2020 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology for his research on how DNA shapes personality. Plomin’s theory on the “nature of nurture” brings together genetic and environmental perspectives on the psychological science of individual behavioral differences, even between siblings raised in the same household. “Genes make us who we are by influencing how we interact with the world around us, driving the way we select, modify, and even create our environment,” Plomin said in a statement for the award announcement.
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Caring for Loved Ones the Top Priority for People Worldwide
Evolutionary psychologists have focused much their research on the human pursuit of love and sex, but a global study shows that people’s strongest motivations lie elsewhere.
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Dozens of APS Leaders, Fellows Make 2019 List of Top-Cited Researchers
More than 50 APS Fellows are listed in the Web of Science Group’s Highly Cited Researchers 2019.
