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Making Sense of Moral Hypocrisy
Everyone wants to believe they have an unshakeable moral compass, but our perception of morality is often guided by thoughts and theories that reinforce existing biases.
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3 Reasons You’re Not Getting Promoted
Missing out on a promotion stings. No one enjoys coming in second (or third, or fourth). As a psychology professor at New York University who’s helped hundreds of people navigate conflicts in the workplace, I’ve seen the frustration people experience when they just can’t seem to land a promotion. They tend to wonder: What have I been doing wrong? The reasons why people fail to land a promotion are often complex and hard to communicate. But there are patterns and commonalities that can help you understand what happened and what you can do next.
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Human Reviewers Can’t Keep Up With Police Bodycam Videos. AI Now Gets the Job
"Who will watch the watchmen?" In the age of police body cameras, the answer may be "artificial intelligence." ... "For us, it's a game changer," says Jennifer Eberhardt, a psychology professor at Stanford whose work on race and crime won her a MacArthur "genius grant." She leads a team of researchers who used AI to help review and analyze videos of nearly 600 traffic stops by Oakland police. "We could look at the first 27 seconds of the stop, the first roughly 45 words that the officer spoke, and we could use this model to predict whether that driver was going to be handcuffed, searched or arrested by the end of the stop," she says.
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Student Notebook: Applying for Research Funding as a Female International Student in Psychology
Fourth-year PhD student Shiza Shahid provides key steps below that will help international students navigate the application process and increase their chances of success.
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Unconventional Data Sources Fuel Research Innovations
Researchers are finding new benefits and reserves of participants by accessing data from unconventional sources. These sources can provide much larger and more diverse information than many traditional data sources, but they also come with caveats and ethical standards to be used effectively.
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Instagram to Automatically Put Teens Into Private Accounts With Increased Restrictions and Parental Controls
Teenagers on Instagram will soon be automatically placed in a new type of account with built-in privacy restrictions that give parents more control. ... Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of the “The Anxious Generation,” wrote in a post on X that he's "cautiously optimistic about Meta’s new teen accounts." "It is the biggest and best step forward I have seen from them," he wrote, later adding that "this is just a first step in reforming an ecosystem that badly needs a simpler, more robust way to identify minors and install real age gating, especially for those under 13."
