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How Random is That?
Compared to the hard rock of empirical methods, 18- to 20-year-old college students are a wet marsh of spontaneous behavior and malleable minds. In 1971, notable personality researcher Rae Carlson called students “unfinished personalities” who
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Psychology Has a New Old Home at Georgia Tech
Most people — and all sports fans — know the Georgia Institute of Technology as Georgia Tech. Historically, our students referred to Tech as the North Avenue Trade School since it resides on North Avenue
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An APS Research Hotline
As evaluators of research, psychologists are really good fault-finders. Our critical skills are nonpareil. It has been my experience that the range of things that can be wrong with a research study is rather small.
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The Compleat Picture
Book Review: From Professing to Publishing, Department Politics to Getting Grants, The Compleat Academic Is There The Compleat Academic: A Career Guide Second Edition Edited by John M. Darley, Mark P. Zanna, and Henry L.
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The Greatest Literature Never Published
Lurking in certain computers (and, in a bygone era, certain filing cabinets) lies a large body of fascinating psychological literature that has never been published and that is inaccessible in literature searches. This body of
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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