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IQ Isn’t Set In Stone, Suggests Study That Finds Big Jumps, Dips In Teens
NPR: For as long as there’s been an IQ test, there’s been controversy over what it measures. Do IQ scores capture a person’s intellectual capacity, which supposedly remains stable over time? Or is the Intelligent
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Four Year Olds Know That Being Right is Not Enough
As they grow, children learn a lot about the world from what other people tell them. Along the way, they have to figure out who is a reliable source of information. A new study, which
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Internet search engines cause poor memory, scientists claim
The Telegraph: Researchers found increasing number of users relied on their computers as a form of “external memory” as frequent use of online information libraries “wired” human brains. The study, examining the so-called “Google effect”
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Experts adding to psychology articles on Wikipedia
NewsWorks: Wikipedia is the encyclopedia anybody can edit–but have you? That’s the challenge the Association for Psychological Science is posing to its members. Wikipedia is home to more than 6000 articles related to psychology, but
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Want a Better Relationship?
Gary W. Lewandowski, Monmouth University, told CNN that putting your partner first is relationship advice of the past. Lewandowski, who is speaking at the APS-STP Teaching Institute this May in Washington, DC, and his colleague, APS
