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Inside the Psychologist’s Studio with Alan G. Kraut
APS Executive Director Emeritus Alan Kraut reflects on his career and the evolution of the association in this interview with APS Past President Robert Levenson as part of the series “Inside the Psychologist’s Studio.” The interview was recorded live before a group of Kraut's colleagues and friends at the 2015 APS Annual Convention in New York City.
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Anxious About Math? Count an Elephant’s Toenails
Science Friday: A new study in the journal Science finds that an iPad app that prompts parents and kids to solve nightly number problems together greatly improves student achievement in math. The app, Bedtime Math (featured on Science Friday before), creates a kind of math storytime. One example of the kinds of problems the app can provide is a question about elephants. Read the whole story: Science Friday
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Feeling Like a Fraud on the Job
Ferdinand Demara is one of history’s most infamous impostors. After serving in the US Army during World War II, Demara masqueraded as a monk, a surgeon, a prison warden, a cancer researcher, a teacher, a civil engineer, a hospital orderly, a sheriff’s deputy, a psychologist, and a minister—faking his credentials at every turn.
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Stuff Happens, And The Way We Talk About It Matters
NPR: When discussing the Oregon shooting at Umpqua Community College last week, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush explained that "stuff happens," suggesting that such events can't be prevented and, by implication, that legislators — and gun control laws — are not responsible.
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Telecommuting Isn’t Always a Win-Win Situation
HealthDay: Many people dream of giving up their daily commute and padding to work in their pajamas and slippers. But telecommuting has to be carefully thought out and implemented to be successful, new research says. A growing number of companies offer work-from-home options even though there is conflicting evidence about the effectiveness of this approach, the study authors said. ... "Our intent is to provide a balanced picture of what we know and do not know based on the scientific findings.
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Cuando los Aprendices Más Jóvenes Pueden Ser Mejores (o al Menos de Mente Más Abierta) Que los Mayores
Alison Gopnik1, Thomas L. Griffiths1, y Christopher G. Lucas2 1Departamento de Psicología, Universidad de California en Berkeley 2Universidad de Edinburgo, Reino Unido. Originalmente publicado en: Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol.24 (2), 87-92, 2015. Traducción de: Alejandro Franco (Portal de formación iPsicologia.com) Correo: [email protected] Resumen Describimos un sorprendente patrón evolutivo que encontramos en investigaciones que estudiaron tres diferentes tipos de problemas en diversos rangos de edad. Las evidencias demostraron que los aprendices más jóvenes son mejores que los mayores para aprender principios causales inusuales abstractos.
