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Goswami Receives Yidan Prize for Dyslexia Research
APS Fellow Usha Goswami has been named a recipient of the Yidan Prize for Education in recognition of her world-leading research on the importance of linguistic pattern recognition in reading acquisition.
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A Neurobehavioral Approach to Addiction: Implications for the Opioid Epidemic and the Psychology of Addiction
Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Volume 20, Number 2) Read the Full Text (PDF, HTML) In recent years, heroin and other opioid fatalities have escalated to crisis proportions, intensifying the need for evidence-based recommendations for educational and policy campaigns to prevent abuse of opioids and other substances. Understanding the neurobiological mechanisms underlying drug-seeking behaviors is vital to creating these prevention campaigns. To fully provide a neurobehavioral view of addiction, it is important to answer two major questions: (a) why do people seek drugs in the first place?
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Elliot Tucker-Drob Receives Prestigious Honor for Lifespan Development Research
APS Fellow Elliot Tucker-Drob of the University of Texas at Austin has been named a recipient of the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for his achievements in the fields of personality and developmental psychology.
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APS Fellow Among Psychological Scientists Named CASBS Fellows
Four psychological scientists, including APS Fellow Su-Ling Yeh of National Taiwan University, are among 37 scholars named to the 2019-2020 class of fellows at The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. The CASBS fellowship brings together scholars for a year of reflection and academic interaction. The Center strives to bring diverse thinkers together to produce collective knowledge and transformative outcomes that could not be achieved independently.
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Biennial International Seminar on the Teaching of Psychological Science
The 2nd Biennial International Seminar on the Teaching of Psychological Science (BISTOPS) will take place on 13 - 17 July, 2020 in Paris at Maison Suger, at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme - Maison Suger’s residential and working facility located at 16-18 rue Suger, in the Latin quarter. The seminar will accommodate about 20 participants who have experience in conducting and publishing research on teaching psychology and in successful grant-writing, as well as those who are developing ideas for such research, or have a strong interest in doing so.
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Newest iPhones Draw Attention to Research on Fear of Holes
The camera features on the newly unveiled iPhone models have drawn attention to a phobia that two psychological scientists have studied in depth.
