APS Member/Author: Adam Grant The Japanese Olympic Committee was discussing steps for bringing more women onto boards in sports. The male leader of the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee voiced a grave concern: “When you increase the number of female executive members, if their speaking time isn’t restricted to a certain extent More
A sample of research on attention to emotional stimuli, representations of time and number, choice and control, gender stereotypes in language, impressions of other people, gender gaps in negotiation, perceptual features in visual memory, the benefit of talent in team performance, and how children process what adults say. More
WHEN A GROUP of researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi published a paper in Nature Communications last fall suggesting that young women scientists should seek out men as mentors, the backlash was swift and vociferous. Countless scientists, many of them women, registered their indignation on Twitter—some even penning open letters and More
Psychological scientists have long studied bias, from explicit and implicit attitudes to stereotypes and structural inequality. Now they’re working to apply those findings within the field itself. More
Preschoolers are still learning to consider information accuracy when making judgements of trustworthiness. More
Previews of emerging research on inclusivity by early-career psychological scientists. More
