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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on repressed memories, the Implicit Association Test (IAT), creativity, self-perception, experimentation and validity, how speaking Spanish might protect against stress, science communication, and moral reasoning.
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APS 2021 Virtual Convention News Highlights: Annual ‘Meeting of the Minds’ in Psychological Science
The latest news and discoveries from the field of psychological science will be featured at the 2021 Virtual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), held May 26-27. Researchers from around the globe will
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Cats Take ‘If I Fits I Sits’ Seriously, Even If The Space Is Just An Illusion
If you've spent any time around cats, you've probably noticed that they love to curl up in small, cozy boxes. What you may not know is that they'll also go sit inside the two-dimensional outline of a square box on the floor. What's more, a new study has found that pet cats will also spontaneously sit inside an optical illusion that merely looks like a square. Believed to be the first of its kind, the study enlisted volunteers to observe cats in their homes, a strategy to avoid what has historically been the main impediment to studying feline cognition in the lab — cats' notoriously uncooperative nature. "Cats are funny, cats are weird and quirky, and we love them for it.
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on COVID-19 prevention, state of mind, learning about images, judged emotions, the fetal origins of psychological development, emotional memories, privacy in a digital world, parent education, and shared reality.
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May/June Observer
From our homes and neighborhoods to the world beyond, the environment and human behavior are mutually and inextricably dependent on each other. These five articles investigate.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on saliency effects in visual working memory, collective action and radicalization, retrospective assessment of quality of parenting, body ownership and motor functioning in stroke patients, age-related changes in spatial navigation, jealousy in dogs, trust and academic cheating, and aging and prosocial motivation.
