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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on attention to emotional stimuli, representations of time and number, choice and control, gender stereotypes in language, impressions of other people, gender gaps in negotiation, perceptual features in visual memory, the benefit of talent in team performance, and how children process what adults say.
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When We Can Hug Again, Will We Remember How It Works?
… As the weeks of coronavirus quarantine stretched into months, hugs are among the many things isolated people found themselves aching for. Hugs are good for humans — perhaps more valuable than many of us realized, until
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The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in the Pandemic
APS Members/Authors: Elliot Aronson and Carol Tavris Members of Heaven’s Gate, a religious cult, believed that as the Hale-Bopp comet passed by Earth in 1997, a spaceship would be traveling in its wake—ready to take
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on the distinction between remembering and knowing, gender and social cognition, racial inequality in research, responses to bodily postures, goal-driven behavior, and the menstrual cycle and evolution.
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The Mind Of The Village: Understanding Our Implicit Biases
Podcast interview with APS Member Mahzarin Banaji Where do our minds live? A simple, scientific response would be to say our minds live in our brains. But Harvard psychologist Mahzarin Banaji says we should not think of
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Mahzarin R. Banaji Elected to American Philosophical Society
APS Past President Mahzarin R. Banaji has been elected to the American Philosophical Society for her revolutionary work on implicit social cognition.
