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For Mentor or Worse: The Importance of Mentoring Relationships at the Undergraduate Level
Hyde Research experience is one of the most important factors for graduate school applicants. The research skills you learn as an undergraduate will guide and direct you throughout your career. Research experience shouldn’t be limited
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Psychology All-Stars: Susan Mineka
Susan Mineka In an ongoing series in which the APS Student Caucus talks with highly recognized professors, Susan Mineka recently shared her views on tips for success and challenges facing graduate students. Mineka is a
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Three APS Members Inducted Into the National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences, a private organization dedicated to the furtherance of science, recently announced the election of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 13 countries in recognition of their distinguished and
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A Glimpse of Psychology’s Greatest Experiments
OPENING SKINNER’S BOX: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century By Lauren Slater W. W. Norton 2004 In the Roaring Twenties, in the midst of what Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock called an “outbreak of psychology
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Advanced Pace: As AP Psychology Gains Interest, It Gains Colleges’ Respect
The first Advanced Placement psychology examination was taken by approximately 4,200 high school students in 1992, and that number has since increased dramatically. More than 62,000 students took the test in 2003, and about 73,000
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Why Did You Study Psychology?
Why did psychology’s leading researchers take that first course? Was it the compelling advice of a master? Perhaps a sudden epiphany? There’s a story behind every good psychologist. A cross-section of psychologists were asked to
