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Aaron Kay
Duke University, USA www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty_research/faculty_directory/kay/ What does your research focus on? My research focuses on the relation between motivation, implicit social cognition, and broad societal issues. I have a particular interest in how basic motivations and
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Susanne Scheibe
University of Groningen, The Netherlands www.rug.nl/staff/s.scheibe What does your research focus on? I study how emotional experience and emotion regulation change as people age, and how such changes affect important realms of life, such as
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Researchers Say Drugs Can Boost Cognition, But Only So Much
Cognition-enhancing drugs, once restricted to the world of science fiction, are now widely available and commonly used. The prevailing assumption is that, in terms of cognitive ability, more is better. But a study in the
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APS Award Address
Get smarter fast! This message sounds like the tagline of a late-night infomercial. But when it comes from the mouth of cognitive psychologist John Jonides of the University of Michigan, it carries more weight. In
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Yana Weinstein
Washington University in St. Louis, USA http://yanaweinstein.com What does your research focus on? I have very broad interests, but most of my research converges on the misperceptions we hold with regards to our cognitive
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To children (but not adults) a rose by any other name is still a rose
Two vital parts of mentally organizing the world are classification, or the understanding that similar things belong in the same category; and induction, an educated guess about a thing’s properties if it’s in a certain