In this guest column, Sarah Brookhart, APS’s recently retired executive director, reflects on some of the attributes that underlie APS’s longevity and effectiveness. More
In this guest column, Sarah Brookhart, APS’s recently retired executive director, reflects on some of the attributes that underlie APS’s longevity and effectiveness. More
In a guest column, APS Fellows Mark H. Johnson and Denis Mareschal from Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom, reflect on the progress that APS has made in achieving its longstanding goal of supporting psychological science worldwide. More
From most of the press accounts of the ambitious project on reproducibility in psychological research published in Science this past summer, one would not have learned that, under the leadership of APS, psychological science has taken the lead in addressing an issue that is highly relevant to most, if not More
The Observer concludes a year-long series celebrating a quarter-century of the journal Psychological Science by taking a look back at the last 25 years of the journal, including leadership, special sections, and ongoing updates to publication standards and practices. 1990 In the journal’s first volume, Founding Editor William K. Estes More
Janet Taylor Spence, a transformative scientist, consummate professional leader, and committed member of all the communities to which she belonged, died on Cape Cod at the age of 91. Just 6 weeks before, she had returned from a cruise that began in Santiago, Chile, and ended in Rio de Janeiro More
August 29, 1923: Janet Taylor is born in Toledo, Ohio 1945: Taylor receives an undergraduate degree in psychology and political science at Oberlin College 1949: Taylor graduates from the University of Iowa with a PhD in psychology. Her dissertation investigating the role of anxiety in classical conditioning introduces the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale More