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Back Page: Playing PAC-Man and Helping to Shape the Field
Michael Hout shapes the field of perception, action, and cognition at the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences.
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‘I’m Extremely Controversial’: the Psychologist Rethinking Human Emotion
In early March, as the world began to realise that coronavirus wasn’t going to go quietly, psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett was thousands of miles away from home. “I went to New Zealand because I was getting
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The Science Behind WFH Dressing for Zoom
Mina Khan, an information-technology consultant who’s been working from home in Houston since March, tried wearing sweatpants and hoodies instead of the blouses and dress pants she typically wore to the office. It didn’t work.
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Much More Online
Featuring articles on communicating psychological science, the cognitive benefits of education, and alcohol abuse.
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There Won’t Be a Clear End to the Pandemic
The pandemic has rendered many activities unsafe, but thankfully it can’t stop us from fantasizing about them. A common balm that people reach for is the sentence construction “When this is over, I’m going to
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Burning Out
As a frequent commentator on all things higher ed, Kevin McClure likes his predictions to be right. But in the case of a recent article he wrote about the growing threat of faculty burnout, he