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Harvard Faculty Votes to Make It Harder for Undergrads to Earn A’s
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday that it would limit the number of A grades awarded to undergraduates, adopting one of the most ambitious efforts by a major university to curb grade inflation.
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Harvard Caps A’s as Selective Colleges Attack Grade Inflation
Faculty members at Harvard University voted in recent days to cap the number of top grades they are permitted to award to undergraduate students, in an attempt to reduce grade inflation at one of America’s
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Ten Years Applying Psychological Science Inside the U.K. Government
APS President James Pennebaker’s fourth presidential column features Carla Groom, who discusses her training in psychological science to bring about real changes in the British government.
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Do You Really Need Closure?
Getting ghosted. Being fired. Losing a parent. When difficult things happen, our first instinct is often to seek answers. Why did this happen? How could this be? What will it take to feel better again?
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The Risky Choices of Modern Life
A new study compiles an inventory of the 100 most common risky choices of everyday life, creating a framework that scientists can use to study risk and uncertainty in the modern world.
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A Common Cognitive Bias Gets a Name, Definition
Doubling-back aversion—defined as the tendency for an individual to forego taking an easier or faster route when it involves retracing steps they’ve already taken on an alternate route—is defined in a new study.
