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Think Your Credentials Are Ignored Because You’re A Woman? It Could Be
NPR: When I first became a professor, I was 26. And female. (I'm no longer 26 but still female.) The combination made me anxious about whether students would take me seriously as an authority on the material I was trying to teach. I made a point of introducing myself as "Professor Lombrozo," and I signed emails to students the same way — especially those addressed to Miss/Ms./Mrs. Lombrozo or those that simply used my first name. I bought some collared shirts from Brooks Brothers; I made a point to never wear jeans when meeting with undergraduates. If I looked more like people's mental image of a professor, I thought, maybe I'd be treated like one, too.
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Is the U.S. Education System Producing a Society of “Smart Fools”?
Scientific American: At last weekend’s annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in Boston, Cornell University psychologist Robert Sternberg sounded an alarm about the influence of standardized tests on American society. Sternberg, who has studied intelligence and intelligence testing for decades, is well known for his “triarchic theory of intelligence,” which identifies three kinds of smarts: the analytic type reflected in IQ scores; practical intelligence, which is more relevant for real-life problem solving; and creativity.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring idiopathic environmental intolerance, cognitive reappraisal as an intervention strategy with traumatized refugees, and suicide risk within the Research Domain Criteria framework.
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Emotions Expressed by the Dying Are Unexpectedly Positive
Although thinking about dying can cause considerable angst, research suggests that the actual emotional experiences of the dying are both more positive and less negative than people expect
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Big Returns from Thinking Small
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The White House Gets Into the Nudge Business
