Association for Psychological Science

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Why Disasters Like Hurricanes Milton and Helene Unleash So Much Misinformation

Oct 11, 2024 | psychologicalscience.org | Lisa K. Fazio

Members in the Media From: Scientific American While Florida recovers from Hurricane Milton, the second dangerous storm to hit the U.S. Southeast in just a couple of weeks, a flood of misinformation threatens to compound the disasters. A major target of false claims is the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the government body coordinating recovery efforts from Hurricanes Milton and Helene—the latter of which has killed at least 230 people since the storm made landfall in late September.
Instagram to Automatically Put Teens Into Private Accounts With Increased Restrictions and Parental Controls

Sep 20, 2024 | psychologicalscience.org | Jonathan Haidt

Members in the Media From: NBC News Teenagers on Instagram will soon be automatically placed in a new type of account with built-in privacy restrictions that give parents more control.
The Biggest Change to Instagram in Years

Sep 19, 2024 | psychologicalscience.org | Jonathan Haidt

Members in the Media From: The Atlantic Teenagers are said to live on their phones, and one of the places where they spend the most time is Instagram. For many years, the perception has been that they are totally unsupervised there, much to their detriment. That may be changing: Meta, which owns Instagram, announced today that teenagers who use the app will be subject to a slew of new restrictions, as well as increased parental oversight.
APS Honors 13 Psychological Scientists With 2025 Lifetime Achievement Awards

Sep 18, 2024 | psychologicalscience.org | Lisa Feldman Barrett

James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award • James S. Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award for Transformative Scholarship • William James Fellow Award • Mentor AwardTrailblazers in the study of resilience, working memory, burnout, and diversity are among the 13 psychological scientists being honored with 2025 APS lifetime achievement awards.
Do Phone Bans Help Students Perform Better in School?

Sep 5, 2024 | psychologicalscience.org | Jonathan Haidt

Members in the Media From: Scientific American Millions of children who head back to school this fall will find their phones are now gadgets non grata. Chancellor of New York City public schools David Banks has said that he is considering a ban on classroom phone access that would affect 1.1 million students, though the ban will not be in place at the start of the school year. …Better academic performance is one factor supporting the bans.
Matching Psychology Training to Job Market Realities

Feb 27, 2024 | psychologicalscience.org | Wendy Wood

Help students plan their future • Promote job success broadly • Coursework • “We want people with a PhD out there writing for the New York Times or other public media, explaining issues around Ozempic or a new health claim.
Student Notebook: Doing Research With Your Community, for Your Community

Feb 21, 2024 | psychologicalscience.org | Gabrielle Lynch

Scientific findings can be difficult to apply to real-life scenarios. But one way of addressing real-world applicability is by conducting research and intervention in a community setting, which can ensure your science has a social impact. Researchers and practitioners can use the findings to employ effective interventions in the targeted community.
How Many Peer-Reviewed Articles Do You Need to Earn Tenure?

Feb 14, 2024 | psychologicalscience.org | James Byrnes

James P. Byrnes, of the Department of Psychological Studies in Education of Temple University, is a developmental psychologist with a primary interest in the factors predictive of academic achievement, as well as in the developmental trajectory of publishing expertise in psychology faculty. He can be contacted at [email protected]. When considering a faculty member for tenure, decision-makers typically have some unofficial numerical standard for the candidate’s publishing history.
How Many Peer-Reviewed Articles Do You Need to Earn Tenure?

Feb 7, 2024 | psychologicalscience.org | James Byrnes

When considering a faculty member for tenure, decision-makers typically have some unofficial numerical standard for the candidate’s publishing history. But this and other assumed benchmarks seem to be passed around mostly by word of mouth. Those decision-makers also assume that each cohort of newly minted faculty members publishes more articles before earning tenure compared with previous cohorts. In the mid-1990s, I was serving as associate dean for faculty.
Teaching: Understanding Our Inner Darkness May Shed Light into Humanity’s Common Good

Oct 30, 2023 | psychologicalscience.org | June Gruber

Aimed at integrating cutting-edge psychological science into the classroom, Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science offers advice and how-to guidance about teaching a particular area of research or topic in psychological science that has been the focus of an article in the APS journal Current Directions in Psychological Science. More teaching resources in this Observer: Ethical Research to Help Romania’s Abandoned ChildrenKarantzas, G., Simpson, J., & Haslam, N. (in press).