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Finding Common Ground Between Classic Learning Theories
In an APS-Psychonomic Society W.K. & K.W. Estes Lecture, APS Past President and US National Medal of Science Laureate Gordon H. Bower delivers a 60-year retrospective on his attempts to integrate the
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Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science
Featured articles: “When Anxiety Doesn’t Add Up: Understanding and Preventing Math Anxiety” and “Should You Trust Your Unconscious When Judging Lying? Probably Not!”
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Women‘s Colleges and the STEM Gender Gap
In a guest column, APS Fellow and Smith College President Kathleen McCartney explains how women’s colleges are uniquely positioned to counter the stubborn gender imbalance in scientific fields.
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Remembering Earl B. ‘Buz’ Hunt
Friends and colleagues of an acclaimed intelligence researcher celebrate his wit, charm, and scientific focus on individual differences in cognitive abilities.
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Babies’ Spatial Reasoning Predicts Later Math Skills
Spatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do at math at four years of age, according to findings from a longitudinal study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
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Computer game improves children’s math performance
The Baltimore Sun: Parents whose children struggle with math may have new reason to be hopeful: A recent study at the Johns Hopkins University suggests that young people can improve their performance by carrying out
