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Re: ‘ABCs of IRBs’
The incident at Virginia Commonwealth University as reported here is sobering: a 450 percent increase in IRB administrative personnel (2 to 9), a 250 percent increase in lRB membership (20 to 50), and a 1,875
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Board Member Lisa Feldman Barrett Receives Highest Canadian Scholarly Award
APS Board Member Lisa Feldman Barrett was recently elected to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC): The Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada. Barrett, who is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern
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55th TeaP
The 55th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (Conference of Experimental Psychologists) will be held March 24-27, 2013 at the University of Vienna, Austria. For the second time the official language of the TeaP will be English
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Essay mills — a coarse lesson on cheating
Los Angeles Times: Sometimes as I decide what kind of papers to assign to my students, I worry about essay mills, companies whose sole purpose is to generate essays for high school and college students
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The Best Swag at Convention
CHICAGO — Who had the best swag at the 24th APS Annual Convention? As APS attendees sought out exhibitor trail markers in their Scavenger Hunt quest to win a collection of APS prizes, their journey
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A Recommended Dose of Psychopharmacology
Despite the prominence of drugs in society, both illicit and prescribed, psychopharmacology — a hybrid discipline of psychological science and pharmacology — remains surprisingly obscure to people outside the discipline. Training in psychopharmacology is typically