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Summer Program Provides Undergraduates With Hands-On Training in Alcohol Research
In the summer of 2016, seven undergraduate students from across the United States participated in the University of Missouri’s first Alcohol Research Training Summer School (MU-ARTSS), an internship geared toward training students from diverse backgrounds
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Opportunities in Basic Research in Developmental Sciences and in the Science of Learning at NSF
Apply for Developmental Sciences funding opportunities by clicking here, and apply for Science of Learning funding opportunities by clicking here. Reflecting promising new directions in research in two main areas in psychological science, research in
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Building Better Science Means Breaking Down Barriers
Many of the world’s most challenging issues – poverty, health behavior change, and globalization – are at their core issues that can be solved with a better understanding of human behavior. Making progress on solving
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Is There a Gender Gap in the Perception, Action, and Cognition Program at NSF?
When academics, legislators, media outlets, and the general public raise concerns about women’s underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, they often describe the issue in generalities. This tendency can be deceptive, as
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ORI Announces Grants to Fund Conferences Promoting Research Integrity
The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) seeks to support conferences to develop multidisciplinary networks to build upon existing evidence-based research and stimulate innovative approaches to preventing research misconduct and promoting research integrity. ORI is especially
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Practical Solutions to Violence
At the 2014 APS Annual Convention, four researchers (as reported in the July/August Observer article “Exploring the Psychological Science of Violence”) missed essential components of US violence and how to address it. During the 1970s