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Lizette Peterson Homer Memorial Injury Research Grant
About the American Psychological Foundation (APF) APF provides financial support for innovative research and programs that enhance the power of psychology to elevate the human condition and advance human potential both now and in generations to come. Since 1953, APF has supported a broad range of scholarships and grants for students and early career psychologists as well as research and program grants that use psychology to improve people’s lives. APF encourages applications from individuals who represent diversity in race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, and sexual orientation.
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Think Big To Get Golf Hole in One
Express UK: Amateur players could improve their putting by simply visualising the hole as bigger, claims a new study. Researchers used an optical illusion, placing different sized circles around each hole to change participants’ perception. Read the whole story: Express UK
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La depresión de las mujeres hace que los miembros de la pareja se aíslen
NeoMundo: La tristeza no es buena compañera para el éxito de una relación amorosa. La depresión de las mujeres hace que los miembros de una pareja se aíslen uno del otro, concluyó una nueva investigación. Los autores de la Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalem y la Universidad Bar-Ilan (Israel) explicaron que una persona deprimida se vuelca hacia adentro o se torna hostil, y tiende a dar poco a su pareja. Reuma Gadassi, uno de los investigadores, subrayó que la depresión también impide que un hombre o mujer detecte los pensamientos o sentimientos del otro, una situación que empeora el aislamiento. Read the whole story: NeoMundo
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Is Student Cheating Driven by Big Income Gaps?
The Chronicle of Higher Education: There’s a whole lot of cheating going on. More than 60 percent of college undergraduates, and more than 40 percent of graduate students, admit to cheating in some way on their written work, according to a national survey by Clemson University’s International Center for Academic Integrity. Now one graduate student has come up with a reason for all this: income inequality. Lukas Neville, a doctoral student at Queen’s University in Ontario, reports in the latest issue of Psychological Science that there’s more evidence of academic dishonesty in U.S. states with bigger gaps between the rich and the poor.
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Breaking Through the Silence
“New technology has dramatically improved the quality of hearing aids in the past decade,” said Stephanie Weiss in a recent Washington Post article. “But some say an old technology could have the most profound impact in the decade to come on millions of people with hearing loss.” One possible solution to this problem: The Loop. Weiss interviewed APS Fellow, and loop advocate, David G. Myers. “Just as WiFi connects people to the Web in wired places, hearing loops — simple wires that circle a room or part of a room — can connect many hearing aids and cochlear implants directly to sound systems,” Myers told Weiss. “I visited Scotland shortly after getting new hearing aids back in 1999.
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How hearing loops can help
The Washington Post: New technology has dramatically improved the quality of hearing aids in the past decade, but some say an old technology could have the most profound impact in the decade to come on millions of people with hearing loss. Just as WiFi connects people to the Web in wired places, hearing loops — simple wires that circle a room or part of a room — can connect many hearing aids and cochlear implants directly to sound systems. Bypassing ambient noise, this wireless connection lets users clearly hear actors on stage, the person in the subway information booth, their ministers or rabbis, announcements at an airport, even their own television sets.
