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Cattell Fund Projects Include Explorations of Sensory Processes, Memory
With support from the James McKeen Cattell Fund, four researchers are devoting sabbaticals to advancing research on active sensing, spatial and episodic memory, and children’s emotional development.
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These Aren’t the Bots You’re Looking For
This summer, researchers in psychological science and other fields noticed a sudden increase in low-quality responses to surveys and other experimental measures posted to Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Many of the responses originated from a
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NIH Funding for Institutional Research Programs in Data Analytics for Behavioral Sciences Research
The National Institutes of Health is funding new training opportunities in advanced data analytics for behavioral and social sciences research.
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How Researchers Can Find Different Results Using the Same Data
How much variation is there when different researchers analyze the same data? Quite a bit, according to a study published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.
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Crossing Disciplines and the Lifespan
Cornell University’s Department of Human Development incorporates not only various aspects of psychological science, but also law, sociology, history, and more. APS Fellow and Department Chair Qi Wang details the department’s successes.
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What Research Psychologists Do
Research psychologists use scientific methods to examine questions and test hypotheses with the aim of understanding human thought and behavior.