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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring contingent attentional engagement, cooperation in chimpanzees, and the role of eye gaze in decision making.
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A Lost Secret: How To Get Kids To Pay Attention
Fifteen years ago, psychologists Barbara Rogoff and Maricela Correa-Chavez ran a simple experiment. They wanted to see how well kids pay attention — even if they don’t have to. They would bring two kids, between
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Anne Treisman, 1935-2018
APS Past Secretary and William James Fellow Anne Treisman, who developed a classic psychological model of human visual attention, has died.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring: judgment, uncertainty, and optimism; processing of object-scene relations; and orienting biases in visual attention.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring educational achievement, personality, and genetics; how multidimensional objects are stored in memory; and categories and constraints in causal perception.
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Motorcycles Are Missed Because Drivers Aren’t Looking for Them
Drivers were tested on their ability to spot an unanticipated motorcycle. If this were a test in school, they would have failed.
