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How Liars Create the Illusion of Truth
BBC: “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”, is a law of propaganda often attributed to the Nazi Joseph Goebbels. Among psychologists something like this known as the "illusion of truth" effect. Here's how a typical experiment on the effect works: participants rate how true trivia items are, things like "A prune is a dried plum". Sometimes these items are true (like that one), but sometimes participants see a parallel version which isn't true (something like "A date is a dried plum"). ... Recently, a team led by Lisa Fazio of Vanderbilt University set out to test how the illusion of truth effect interacts with our prior knowledge. Would it affect our existing knowledge?
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Nudges That Help Struggling Students Succeed
The New York Times: When I was in high school, I earned A’s in all my math classes — until I took calculus. In algebra and geometry, I could coast on memorizing formulas, but now I had to think for myself. It was disastrous, culminating in my getting a charity “C,” and I barely passed my college calculus class. The reason, I was convinced, was that I didn’t have a math mind. I have avoided the subject ever since. It turns out that I got it wrong. While it’s unlikely that I could have become a math whiz, it wasn’t my aptitude for math that was an impediment; it was my belief that I had the impediment to begin with. Read the whole story: The New York Times
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Here’s why the election has everybody stressing out
Philly Voice: Depending on your political bent, Donald Trump is either a tell-it-like-it-is political savior or hate-spewing threat to American democracy. Likewise, Hillary Clinton is either the most qualified presidential candidate in recent memory or a deceitful political scion ducking criminal charges. There seems to be no middle ground in the presidential election. And it's stressing people out. ... Frank Farley, a former APA president and professor of educational psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia, was not surprised by the percentage of Americans stressed by the election.
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Prague Summer Schools Call for Applications
SCHOLA EMPIRICA invites applications for the 2017 Prague Summer Schools on the topics below. Prague Summer Schools are seven-day academic programs designed to bring together undergraduate and graduate students of various nationalities and academic backgrounds in a unique academic and cultural environment. Summer School on Crime, Law and Psychology Summer School on European Politics: Interests versus Culture Summer School on China: A World Superpower - Myth or Reality?
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How Cracking the Right Joke Benefits Salary Negotiations
Making a joke about an implausibly high salary at the beginning of a negotiation actually led to higher average salary offers.
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Geneticist to Share Groundbreaking Autism Research at International Convention
One of the most significant examples of integrative science will be spotlighted on the final day of the 2017 International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), to be held March 23–25 in Vienna, Austria. Thomas Bourgeron
