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Psych Majors Hash(tag) It Out on Twitter
Republican Presidential candidate Jeb Bush recently criticized psychology majors with an offhand remark during a South Carolina town hall series: “Hey, that psych major deal, that philosophy major thing, that's great, it's important to have liberal arts … but realize, you're going to be working at Chick-fil-A." Bush has been trying to capture the interest of college voters during his campaign, and while this may not have been the exact response he anticipated, college students are definitely paying attention. Here is just a glimpse of the meaningful work being completed by psychology majors: View more #ThisPsychMajor tweets.
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Brains of Congenitally Deaf Reveal Plasticity of Auditory Cortex
Neuroimaging involving people born deaf shows the pliability in the brain area that processes auditory information.
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Lessons From the Second Biennial Atlantic Coast Teaching of Psychology Conference
This project was supported by the APS Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science, which invites applications for nonrenewable grants of up to $5,000 to launch new, educational projects in psychological science. Proposals are due March 1 and October 1. In September 2013, the second biennial Atlantic Coast Teaching of Psychology Conference (ACToP) was held in Red Bank, New Jersey. Coordinated by Natalie J. Ciarocco and Lisa M.
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Confidence Spills Over Across Unrelated Decisions
Research on metacognition, or “thinking about thinking,” has explored important puzzles about how humans monitor and control their thoughts. One of these puzzles is why people’s beliefs don’t match with reality -- such as why, for example, people are often overconfident in their performance on perceptual or memory tasks. New research by Dobromir Rahnev (Georgia Institute of Technology) and his colleagues has identified one possible reason for poor metacognition.
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23rd Biennial Congress on Human Ethology
The 23rd Biennial Congress on Human Ethology, sponsored by the International Society for Human Ethology (ISHE) and the University of Stirling, will be held at the University of Stirling, Scotland, from August 1–5, 2016. The 2016 academic program will include several invited speakers, other oral presentations, and a poster session. Confirmed plenary speakers include Malinda Carpenter, Robin Dunbar, David Perrett and Benoist Schaal. The cultural program will include a banquet dinner and extracurricular activities. ISHE provides financial support for students who are first author presenters of accepted conference proposals.
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Current Directions in Psychological Science
Current Directions in Psychological Science: Volume 24, Number 5 Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, publishes reviews by leading experts covering all of scientific psychology and its applications. (Baby)Talk to Me: The Social Context of Infant-Directed Speech and Its Effects on Early Language Acquisition Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Dilara Deniz Can, Melanie Soderstrom, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Physiological Arousal and Its Dysregulation in Child Maladjustment Angela Scarpa Chimpanzee Cognitive Control Michael J. Beran Personality Traits in Childhood and Adolescence: Structure, Development, and Outcomes Christopher J.
