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APS Comments on U.S. Government Shutdown and Science
Read APS President-Elect Pam Davis-Kean’s full statement on the potential government shutdown.
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New AMPPS Editor Strives to Build on Legacy of Transparency and Accountability
At the start of the new year, Felix Thoemmes will take over APS’s journal Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS) as the next editor-in-chief. Thoemmes is an associate professor and chair in
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Good Conversations Don’t Require Everybody to Agree, Neuroscience Shows
... All of this work hints that our interactions might be more harmonious if we were more in sync with one another. But evidence from a new technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) hyperscanning, which can track brain activity during real conversations, complicates that idea. This method is exciting because it allows researchers to observe two brains in action at the same time. With hyperscanning, we can see how people’s brains respond to one another during real-time conversation.
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APS in Today’s World
“If APS is to thrive, we must come to terms with each of these issues,” writes APS President James W. Pennebaker in his second presidential column.
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Making Memory Research Mirror Real Life
Researchers are designing studies that better represent how memory works in daily life, leading to discoveries about how to intervene when it falters.
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Is Overconfidence Avoidable?
New research examines overconfidence among tournament chess players to investigate if it is prevalent in an environment that should discourage it.
