APS Fellow Fei Xu Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
A University of California, Berkeley psychology professor, Xu uses behavioral experiments and computational models to understand how young children learn so fast and so well… More
Observations
How to Get People to Care About Inequality
Personal contact increases psychological investment in equality by making people more empathetic, increasing personal relevance, and humanizing those in other ethnic groups… More
National Academy of Sciences Welcomes Two APS William James Fellows
APS Past President Mahzarin R. Banaji and Barbara Landau are among 84 new members elected to NAS in recognition of their outstanding contributions to research… More
Baruch Fischhoff Awarded Carnegie Fellowship
The APS Fellow will devote his fellowship to the production of a book drawing on his work in decision science. … More
Balancing Speaking and Listening for Language Learning
In foreign language classrooms, students often do more listening than speaking—they hear a native speaker, either the teacher or a… More
How Behavioral Science Can Help World Leaders Reach Vaccination Goals
It’s World Immunization Week. The new issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest details the behavioral strategies that scientists have tested to increase vaccination rates across the globe. … More