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Student Notebook: Mastering the Classroom
Fifth-year graduate student Serena Zadoorian provides a list of essential information and advice for new associate instructors.
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Biennial International Seminar on the Teaching of Psychological Science to Commence July 2024
The 3rd Biennial International Seminar on the Teaching of Psychological Science (BISTOPS) will take place July 1 – 5, 2024 in Paris at Maison Suger, at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme—Maison Suger’s residential and working facility.
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Teaching: Why the Bias Blind Spot Matters and How to Reduce It
We often recognize bias in others but rarely in ourselves. Teaching students about the bias blind spot can help them increase their self-knowledge and reduce interpersonal conflicts.
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Teaching: The Perils of Post-Event Identification
Eyewitness memory is susceptible to distortions that can lead a witness to mistakenly identify an innocent suspect as a perpetrator. Teach students about the challenges inherent in identifying a face from a video image.
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Useful Feedback, More Than Praise, Helps Students Flourish
“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” This proverb has become a cliché, but it remains a useful
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Teaching: Applying a Growth Mindset to Mental Disorders
Although genetic profiling can provide useful information that can enhance personalized treatment plans for individuals, Ahn and Perricone (2023) argue that learning more about one’s genetic risk for mental disorders can have unintended and potentially negative consequences.
