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Psychology’s Theory of Relativity: When Research Is All in the Family
Most families on a long road trip pass the time by singing songs, playing 20 questions, or spotting license plates from distant states. But for the Fiskes, hours on the interstate provided the chance for
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What’s in a Name?
The following letters are in response to Roberta Klatzky’s article, “The Case for Changing Our Name,” in the April 2005 Observer. I WAS DELIGHTED TO READ that APS is reconsidering changing its name to the
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Why Are Textbooks So Expensive?
Newsletters and other missives that I receive seem filled with stories about textbooks and textbook prices, with many wringing their hands over why textbooks are so expensive now relative to the more distant past (usually
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College Admissions and the SAT: A Personal Perspective
This article is adapted from an invited address given at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, held April 2004 in San Diego, California. My intent in this paper is to offer a
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Scientific Psychology: Science Versus Easy Accessibility?
Suppose that a pair of closely related manuscripts is submitted to an experimentally-oriented journal JE-II in field F. The papers report a series of tests of a theory formulated in mathematical terms that appeared in
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Tempus Really Fugits
Trying to plan my remaining columns, I checked with my editor at the Observer to find out how many more were left to write before turning the Presidential Pen over to my successor. To my
