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Sharpen Your Skills in Chicago
You’ve been meaning to brush up on OpenMX but just haven’t gotten around to it; that free tutorial on the R programming environment hasn’t budged from the bottom of your to-do list since the beginning of last semester. Sound familiar? At the 24th APS Annual Convention, you can stop procrastinating and start practicing data analysis. Several workshops at the May 24-27 Convention in Chicago will help you become comfortable with the latest software and methods. Register today!
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Bandura and Bobo
In 1961, children in APS Fellow Albert Bandura’s laboratory witnessed an adult beating up an inflatable clown. The doll, called Bobo, was the opposite of menacing with its wide, ecstatic grin and goofy clown outfit. But when it was their own turn to play with Bobo, children who witnessed an adult pummeling the doll were likely to show aggression too. Similar to their adult models, the children kicked the doll, hit it with a mallet, and threw it in the air. They even came up with new ways to hurt Bobo, such as throwing darts or aiming a toy gun at him. Children who were exposed to a non-aggressive adult or no model at all had far less aggression toward Bobo.
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Science Is International at the APS Annual Convention
Disaster, Response, and Recovery featuring Silvia H. Koller (Rio Grande do Sul Federal University, Brazil) and Dirk Helbing (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) Biological Beings in Social Context featuring Annette Karmiloff-Smith (Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom) Music, Mind, and Brain featuring Daniel J. Levitin (McGill University, Canada) and a special concert with five-time Grammy Award Winner Victor Wooten The Psychology of Misinformation Chairs: Ullrich K.H.
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I’m an Awful Source
That’s the conclusion of Joel Stein in this recent Time article. “I've always been proud that my columns are 100% accurate, which isn't all that hard since I write only about me. But,” says Stein, "it turns out that I'm an awful source.” Keeping facts straight in our memory is a difficult task for humans, but the Internet has made it easier for us to record our lives, and just as easy for others to fact check. Stein writes “that night we fell in love instantly with our spouse?
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This Swag Says Psychological Science
You’ll talk the talk when you present your research at the 24th APS Annual Convention in Chicago, Illinois, May 24-27, 2012. So walk the walk too, in the latest APS swag!
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Donate to Help? Only if Nature Caused the Disaster
A series of experiments suggests that people are more likely to donate money to help victims of natural disasters as opposed to human-made catastrophes.
