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Good Conversations Don’t Require Everybody to Agree, Neuroscience Shows
... All of this work hints that our interactions might be more harmonious if we were more in sync with one another. But evidence from a new technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) hyperscanning, which can track brain activity during real conversations, complicates that idea. This method is exciting because it allows researchers to observe two brains in action at the same time. With hyperscanning, we can see how people’s brains respond to one another during real-time conversation.
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Is Overconfidence Avoidable?
New research examines overconfidence among tournament chess players to investigate if it is prevalent in an environment that should discourage it.
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Member Townhall 3: Bylaws and Your Future APS
Friday, October 3, 2025, 1:00 p.m. ET (17:00 UTC) The Association for Psychological Science is engaged in an organization-wide effort to modernize and improve how we serve psychological scientists and continue to advance psychological science around the world in the years ahead. One part of this effort is to review and update our bylaws, which have not fundamentally changed since our founding in 1988. The Board of Directors, with input from past presidents and board members, current and past committee members and journal editors, and staff, are proposing these new bylaws. The Board of Directors invites additional comments and feedback from all APS members.
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Member Townhall 2: Bylaws and Your Future APS
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 8:00 p.m. ET (Friday, October 3, 00:00 UTC) The Association for Psychological Science is engaged in an organization-wide effort to modernize and improve how we serve psychological scientists and continue to advance psychological science around the world in the years ahead. One part of this effort is to review and update our bylaws, which have not fundamentally changed since our founding in 1988. The Board of Directors, with input from past presidents and board members, current and past committee members and journal editors, and staff, are proposing these new bylaws. The Board of Directors invites additional comments and feedback from all APS members.
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Member Townhall 1: Bylaws and Your Future APS
Tuesday, September 30, 2025, 9:00 a.m. ET (13:00 UTC) The Association for Psychological Science is engaged in an organization-wide effort to modernize and improve how we serve psychological scientists and continue to advance psychological science around the world in the years ahead. One part of this effort is to review and update our bylaws, which have not fundamentally changed since our founding in 1988. The Board of Directors, with input from past presidents and board members, current and past committee members and journal editors, and staff, are proposing these new bylaws. The Board of Directors invites additional comments and feedback from all APS members.
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What We Know (And Don’t Know) About Autism, According to Science
... “Autism is not one condition,” said Geraldine Dawson, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University and founding director of the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development. “It is many different conditions with many different causes.” ... Researchers have looked at pesticides, air pollution and water pollution and have found increases in risk that have “a small effect size” and are correlational, but not necessarily causative, said Charles Nelson, a professor of pediatrics and neuroscience at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
