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2019 RAND Summer Institute
The 26th Annual RAND Summer Institute (RSI) will take place July 8-11, 2019, in Santa Monica, CA. Application Deadline: March 15, 2019 The RSI will consist of two conferences addressing critical issues facing our aging population: the Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists on July 8-9 and the Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology of Aging conference on July 10-11. Interested researchers can apply for financial support covering travel and accommodations. Visit RAND's website for more information and the application form: http://www.rand.org/labor/aging/rsi.html.
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Cooperation in Chimpanzees Reveals Aspects of Our Evolutionary Past
In a study of helping, donation, and punishment, researchers found that chimpanzees were often faster to cooperate than to behave selfishly.
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Children’s Verbal Memory to Be Investigated in Replication Project
The editors of AMPPS invite researchers to apply to participate in this Registered Replication Report.
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Yoga and Meditation May Enhance, Not Diminish, Our Sense of Self
The physical and emotional benefits of mind-body practices may not arise from modesty, but rather from enhancing practitioners’ pride in their own abilities – as yogis, at least.
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Eleanor Maccoby, 1917-2018
APS William James Fellow Eleanor E. Maccoby, widely considered to be one of the most influential psychological scientists of the 20th century, passed away December 11 at the age of 101. She is recognized worldwide for her research on gender development and differentiation and parent-child relationships. Maccoby was the first woman to serve as chair of Stanford University’s Department of Psychology, holding that position from 1973 to 1976. At Stanford, she was associated with the university’s Center for the Study of Families, Children and Youth, where she became known for research on the social and intellectual development in children.
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Robinson and Berridge Receive Grawemeyer Award for Addiction Research
APS William James Fellow Terry Robinson and APS Fellow Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan have won the 2019 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award For Psychology for their research on the role of neural
