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Textbooks: Not just for your syllabus anymore
While the idea of a “favorite textbook” may be an oxymoron for students, a good one can affect more than just a grade. Spurred by a New York Times writer who claimed that no one
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Disaster Relief
Six months after Hurricane Katrina displaced residents of the Gulf Coast areas of Louisiana and Mississippi, relief efforts are still underway. By now, most of the thousands of faculty and students have returned to their
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William James at Stanford
I was pleased to see a historically oriented piece in the January 2006 issue of the APS Observer [“William James’ Shaky Sojourn in Stanford”]. Many readers probably enjoyed learning about William James’ 1906 visit to
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Divided We Lose
I can remember a lunch I once had with Leon Festinger. We used to lunch once a week in New York at our favorite Italian restaurant, Il Bambino. Back in those days, one could have
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What’s in a Name?
Starting a column about APS changing its name with the famous question Juliet posed to Romeo in their eponymous play may seem a bit of a stretch, but I simply couldn’t find a way to
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Everything Old Is New Again
APS Members have spoken. And they have, overwhelmingly, voted to change our name to the Association for Psychological Science. The new name went into effect January 1, 2006. A record number of members cast their