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Comment on Proposed Revisions to NSF’s Proposal and Award Policies Guide
NSF has revised its Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide, inviting psychological scientists and others to comment on the policy-related changes and language clarifications proposed.
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Building Growth Mindset in the Classroom: Assignments From Carol Dweck
Growth mindsets aren't just for students. It helps for teachers to have a growth mindset about their students' mindsets, too. A teacher's classroom approach shapes whether their students believe they are born with fixed academic skills or can grow them through practice and experience, according to Carol Dweck, the Stanford University researcher who pioneered the study of academic mindsets. "Mindsets create a psychological world with very different meanings," Dweck said in a keynote at the annual Association of Psychological Science conference this weekend. "Those with a fixed mindset tend to think that if you have to work hard at something, you're not good at it. ...
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Don’t Just Learn From Failure; Learn From Your Successes
For many of us—no matter where we work or what we do—nothing feels as good as success. And for many of us, nothing is more harmful to our growth and development To understand why this is, compare success to failure. Companies tell their employees over and over again to embrace your failures, to ask yourselves what went wrong and to take advantage of all the learning opportunities that failure affords. But when it comes to success, companies rarely feel the urge to stop and see what they can learn from their experience, and what they may want to change. Rather, the instinct is to assume that if they succeeded, all is good with the world. What did we do right? Everything.
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Apply for NIH Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health
NIH is leading a Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health designed to educate scientists about conducting dissemination and implementation research.
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How To See The Future (No Crystal Ball Needed)
After a disaster happens, we want to know, could something have been done to avoid it? Did anyone see this coming? Many times, the answer is yes. There was a person — or many people — who spotted a looming crisis and tried to warn those in power. So why didn't the warnings lead to action? This week on Hidden Brain, we look into the psychology of warnings. Plus, we'll learn why ordinary people can sometimes do a better job of predicting the future than the so-called experts. They're the subject of the book Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, co-authored by psychologist Phil Tetlock and journalist Dan Gardner.
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A Monumental Gathering
Washington, DC was the locale for the 31st APS Annual Convention, where APS President Barbara Tversky (center) and APS Fellow Michael Tomasello (right) chatted with an attendee. See Tomasello’s Fred Kavli Keynote Address on the APS YouTube page.
