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Myth: Subliminal Messages Can Change Your Behavior
Discussion of this myth provides rich opportunities to integrate topics across research methods, memory, cognition, sensation and perception, and social psychology.
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ICPS 2019 Delivers a Bounty of Integrative Science
More than 2,700 researchers, including keynote speaker BJ Casey of Yale University, descended on Paris on 7-9 March 2019 to share the latest developments in integrative science. Plans are already underway for the next ICPS, to be held in 2021 in Brussels.
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What Research Psychologists Do
Research psychologists use scientific methods to examine questions and test hypotheses with the aim of understanding human thought and behavior.
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Myth: Children Raised in Similar Ways Have Similar Personalities
Exploring this claim provides an opportunity to discuss issues involving nature and nurture in developmental and personality psychology.
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Myth: People With Mental Illness Are More Prone to Violence
Instructors should be prepared to listen for—and challenge—belief perseverance, and can use this myth to highlight how automatic and difficult belief perseverance can be to overcome.
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EAMMi2: The Last Teaching Data Set Any Instructor Will Ever Need
Jon Grahe is a professor of psychology at Pacific Lutheran University. With help from an APS Teaching Fund Small Grant, I worked with a team of 35 colleagues to administer the project Emerging Adulthood Measured at Multiple Institutions 2: The Next Generation (EAMMi2). The EAMMi2 was designed to benefit science through the generation of survey data to answer important research questions related to emerging adulthood — such as identifying psychometric properties common to emerging adulthood; examining the relationship between disability identity and well-being; and probing the relationships between political events, stress, and health.
