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Student Notebook: Clinical Psychology Graduate Student Adaptation—Living and Learning
Mariana Furtado explores how unhealthy competition among students can shape their graduate-school experience and affect their mental health.
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APS Articles on Juvenile Recidivism, the Gender/Sex Binary Win SPSP Awards
Two APS journal articles—one published in Psychological Science and the other in Perspectives on Psychological Science—have been singled out for awards from The Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP).
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Educators Can Help Make Stem Fields Diverse – Over 25 Years, I’ve Identified Nudges That Can Encourage Students to Stay
Jen, a student I taught early in my career, stood head-and-shoulders above her peers academically. I learned she had started off as an engineering major but switched over to psychology. I was surprised and curious.
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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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A Paradox in the Field: Mental-Health Disorders Among Psychologists
What do we know about the prevalence of mental health difficulties among psychological scientists? APS member Sarah Victor, a clinical psychologist and professor at the Texas Tech University, joined APS’s Ludmila Nunes to discuss mental health among psychologists.
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How Do Students Decide When to Submit SAT Scores to Colleges?
The COVID-19 pandemic may have fundamentally altered many aspects of education. One less appreciated area of focus is on how the college admissions process has been affected. Recent books by Jeffrey Selingo on who gets in and why, Ron