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Attitudes Improve for Sex and Race. Disability and Age? Not So Much
How did attitudes about race, sexuality, age, or disability change in the last decade or so? Researchers examined more than 7 million implicit and explicit tests for an article published in Psychological Science. In this conversation, APS’s Ludmila Nunes speaks with APS member Tessa Charlesworth (Harvard University), the article’s lead author.
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on conceptual clarification, language acquisition, insights from deep neural networks, how to reduce academic procrastination, improve learning, craving, and more.
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Intergenerational Narratives: Providing Models of Resistance and Building Hope
We are in a “narrative crisis” according to Bryan Stevenson, the author of Just Mercy. Mr. Stevenson was a keynote speaker at the Association for Psychological Science annual meetings last week that I attended. He spoke
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on behavior genetics, methods beyond experimentation, women and sex, clinical research, kinds of replication, ideology, COVID-19 as an opportunity to reimagine psychological science, and the measurement of consciousness.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on neural correlates of psychopathology in adolescence, affect-dynamics and psychosis risk, estimation of treatment effects, well-being and psychopathology, health-service-psychology training, social-media use and depression, negative information and anxiety and depression, drinking variables following college graduation, and alcohol and sexual decisions.
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Women and Sex: We’ve Been Measuring the Wrong Things
“What we as a society call ‘sex’ or ‘sexuality’—is different for women and men, rendering comparisons on this dimension faulty,” Conley and Klein wrote. With this premise, they reanalyzed a primary stereotype about gender and sex: women’s relatively lower interest.
