Federal Research, Funding, and Policy

Evidence for Opportunity

An editorial in Science argues that Congress should increase funding for behavioral science to restore economic and educational opportunity. [More]
Congress Stops NIH From Implementing New Clinical Trials Policy

The US Congress has directed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to delay a new policy that would reclassify basic research involving humans as “clinical trials”, a change that APS actively opposed. … More
APS Fellow Kristina Olson Receives Nation’s Top Honor for Early-Career Scientists

The 2018 Waterman Award recognizes Olson’s innovative research on social cognition and cognitive development in children… More
Implicit Bias, Reproducibility on the Agenda at NSF Advisory Panel

Read an update on NSF's May 2018 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Advisory Committee meeting. [More]
NIH Funds Collaborative Research in Brain and Nervous Systems Disorders

The Global Brain Disorders Research Program funds collaborative projects that allow US-based institutions (and those in other upper-middle income countries) to partner with institutions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICS) to build research capacity, train local scientists, and tackle research questions and interventions to mitigate negative environmental effects on brain health. [More]
Speaking Evidence to Policy

The Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking has issued a report that points to significant new opportunities in research and leadership for psychological scientists with expertise in areas including judgment and decision making, analysis and research design, data privacy and ethics issues, and more. [More]
How Scientists Are Blocking Bias in the World at Large

Psychological researchers like APS Fellow Naomi Ellemers are applying the scientific understanding of implicit bias to address discrimination in law enforcement, medical, and workplace settings… More
RDOC: Bringing Integrative Science to the Classification of Mental Disorders

Learn about the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), the National Institute of Mental Health's initiative aimed at reshaping mental health research. [More]
Becoming a Peer Reviewer for NIH: Four Ways to Engage

There are a few simple ways to bring your research expertise and interest in serving as a peer reviewer to the attention of Scientific Review Officers at NIH. [More]