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Baby – I’m Taking you Around the World!
“Write a child-care manual for your society. Give Dr. Spock type advice about child care.” You might be rather confused as to what the above title might suggest. Well, it is an actual term paper
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Do Graduate Students Really Think Straight About Weird Things?
I’m Sean Hughes from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. Students come to the study of psychology equipped with a range
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Self-Explanation of an Answer Choice Is Beneficial to Student Performance
My name isDarcey N. Powell from West Virginia Universityand I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington DC. Requiring students to explain their answers to multiple-choice homework questions improved their performance
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True Love May Wait—But Waiting Won’t Make You a Safer Lover Later On
Whether sex education focuses only on abstinence or teaches students about contraception and other topics as well, it all shares one main message: Wait. In abstinence-only, students are exhorted to wait for sex until they’re
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New Local Network Connects High School, Community College, and University Instructors of Psychological Science
With the help of the APS Teaching Fund small grant, Kiesa Kelly, Peter Giordano, and Holly Yates held the first annual Psychology Educators of Tennessee (PET) Teaching of Psychology Workshop to facilitate cross-pollination among educators in central Tennessee.
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I.Q. scores don’t predict success as much as motivation
USA Today: I.Q. scores mostly reveal the test-taker’s motivation to do well on the exam, particularly for low-scorers, suggests a series of experiments. “One of the most robust social science findings of the 20th century
