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Making Votes Count: It’s as Much About Psychology (and Ballot Design) as Security
Poorly designed ballots can prevent voters from understanding, seeing, using, and processing information correctly, which can lead to voting failures that alter the outcome of elections. Applied psychologists and human factors engineers can make a real difference in ensuring that ballots accurately capture voter intent.
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Amid Budget Process, U.S. House Underlines Value of Behavioral Science
As the U.S. Congress worked to develop the country’s budget for fiscal year 2021, behavioral science landed critical mentions among lawmakers’ priorities, a reflection of APS’s advocacy work with policymakers.
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Automation Fuels Anti-Immigration Fears. Time to Rethink How We Talk About It?
Automation may be associated with anti-immigrant sentiment by increasing perceptions of both realistic threat arising from competition for economic resources and symbolic threat “arising from changes to group values, identity, and status.”
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APS Stands With International Students Studying in the United States
Proposed changes this summer to US federal immigration policies cast widespread uncertainty among international students in the US planning to take online courses as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Maintaining Lockdown and Preparing an Exit Strategy: A View from Social and Behavioral Sciences
Belgian social psychologists presented this memo to the federally appointed committee that is preparing “the gradual exit strategy” from the COVID-19-related lockdown in Belgium.
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Sparking Change
Integrative research explores storytelling, metacognitive training, and exploring the “vuja de” as strategies for understanding and changing patterns of behavior.
