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Board Member Lisa Feldman Barrett Receives Highest Canadian Scholarly Award
APS Board Member Lisa Feldman Barrett was recently elected to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC): The Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada. Barrett, who is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern
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Première impression (First Impression)
Le Monde: L’information fait frémir. Cent millisecondes suffisent pour qu’un employeur potentiel, ou un membre de jury de concours ou d’examen, se fasse une opinion sur quelqu’un. En un dixième de seconde, il se fera
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Study: Children Internalize Stereotypes About Abilities
Education Week: Have you ever heard a girl say she hates math because she’s “no good” at it? I’ve heard it plenty of times, even from my own daughter who actually has an aptitude for
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A More Inclusive Look at Singleness
Past research has found that single individuals are perceived more negatively than couples. However, in previous research on this topic, study participants have always rated targets who were presumably heterosexual because the target’s sexual orientation
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Not Obedience But Followership
It is commonly thought that participants in Milgram’s shock experiments obeyed the researcher because of people’s natural tendency to conform to those in authority. In this article, Reicher, Haslam, and Smith review findings from the
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Independence Day Science — Insights From Psychological Science
Patriotic and Happy How you feel about your country may affect how you feel about your life. Data from an international poll (that included responses from over 130,000 individuals from 128 countries) showed that national
