23andMe’s senior director of research, Joanna Mountain, says she’s long wondered how recreational DNA testing affects our thinking about genetic differences. This is more than a mere academic concern. More than than 30 million people have spit into vials or swabbed their cheeks in an ongoing search for family, history More
When it comes to helping students understand basic psychological concepts, Nickles Chittester is keeping the curriculum all in the family. More
Professional recruiters drew up more questions about culture and group compatibility when they prepared to interview applicants with Arabic-sounding names More
Enrique W. Neblett, Jr., issues a call to embrace a manifesto for diverse psychological science. Inspired by APS Fellow Richard McFall’s “Manifesto for a Science of Clinical Psychology” published in 1991, Neblett, an associate professor of clinical psychology and neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, suggested More
Despite increasing attention to issues of diversity in scientific research, participant populations in behavioral science tend to be relatively homogeneous. Understanding how people differ across various dimensions, and how those differences are driven by underlying psychological, biological, and social processes, is critical to building a rigorous and comprehensive clinical science. More
Recorded in May 2016 at the 28th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago. Thomas M. Olino – introduction Lisa M. Diamond – begins 01:15 Joseph P. Gone – begins 19:32 Michelle R. Hebl – begins 33:04 Enrique W. Neblett, Jr. – begins 52:18 More
