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Reaching Citizens Through Science
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Thinking With Gestures
Can gestures speak louder than words? APS President-Elect Susan Goldin-Meadow certainly thinks so. During her William James Fellow Award Address, Goldin-Meadow shared highlights from her seminal research on the power of gesture, beginning with the
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Paving the Way to Loan Repayment
Student-loan balances are ballooning, and many borrowers struggle to keep pace with their loan payments. Loan repayment plans that are tied to borrowers’ current incomes can make repayment more manageable, but borrowers have to know
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Redesigning and Enhancing the ‘Jigsaw Classroom’ Website
In April 2014, APS Fellow Scott Plous (Wesleyan University) received a grant from the APS Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science to make the Jigsaw Classroom website more accessible and operable with mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers.
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Carol Dweck Revisits the ‘Growth Mindset’
Education Week: For many years, I secretly worked on my research. I say “secretly” because, once upon a time, researchers simply published their research in professional journals—and there it stayed. However, my colleagues and I
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Frühchen sind später häufig arbeitslos (Preterm babies linked with less wealth)
The world: Are children born prematurely, they are later in life less economically successful. At least that is the result of a long-term study of the British University of Warwick near Coventry with more than