Federal Research, Funding, and Policy

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]
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
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
NSF Funding Available for Research on Augmenting Human Cognition and Intelligent Cognitive Assistants

NSF invites researchers to apply for funding for projects addressing two main themes related to the human-technology frontier: (1) Foundations for Augmenting Human Cognition and (2) Embodied Intelligent Cognitive Assistants. [More]
NSF Invites Grant Applications Related to Reproducibility in Neuroimaging

NSF has released a new announcement encouraging submission of research projects relating to reproducibility and replicability. The announcement especially solicits research proposals in “data-intensive domains that specifically rely on analysis of neuroimaging or neuroelectric data.” [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]
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]
NIH Releases Adolescent Brain Development Data to Scientists

NIH has released an enormous dataset of high-quality baseline data on a large sample of 9-and-10-year-old children, including basic participant demographics, assessments of physical and mental health, substance use, culture and environment, neurocognition, tabulated structural and functional neuroimaging data, and minimally processed brain images, as well as biological data such as pubertal hormones. [More]
“Common Rule” Changes Delayed Until July 19, 2018

A new federal announcement has delayed the implementation of changes to the "Common Rule" to July 19, 2018. [More]