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Clinical Scientist Training Initiative
The Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP) wishes to announce the second annual “Clinical Scientist Training Initiative” grant program. Applications are invited for small (up to $1500), non-renewable grants for training programs at
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A Gender-Biased Metric Guides Funding Decisions in Psychology Research
How do psychologists gauge scientific impact? One way is the so-called “journal impact factor,” or JIF, a ranking of a journal derived from the number of citations by other authors to all of the articles
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America Needs More Geeks: How to Make Science Cool
TIME: A white lab coat. An unsmiling expression. Thick glasses and unkempt hair. In one hand, a device replete with dials and gauges; in the other, a beaker bubbling over with a toxic-looking liquid. This
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A Beginner’s Guide to Graduate Advising
Although this guide is primarily intended for students beginning advisor/advisee relationships, I hope that faculty may also find it useful. Your relationship with your advisor may be the most important collaboration of your graduate career.
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Strategies and Tactics for Training Graduate Students to Become Competent Teachers
I received my PhD in social psychology from Saint Louis University in 2003 and am in the midst of my second semester as assistant professor of psychology at Georgia Southern University. In graduate school I
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Same Subject, Different Setting: Teaching Psychology from the Two-year Perspective
As a graduate student in social psychology at the University of Oklahoma, I was groomed to go out into the world and work at a college or university as a psychology professor; this became my