Psychology

Standing For the Neglected: Marcia Worrell, 1966-2020
News
May 15, 2020

Standing For the Neglected: Marcia Worrell, 1966-2020

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Technological Considerations for Training Human Service Professionals in Light of COVID-19: Opportunity for Appropriation
Innovation
April 13, 2020

Technological Considerations for Training Human Service Professionals in Light of COVID-19: Opportunity for Appropriation

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How to Stay Connected in a Time of Physical Distancing
International Debate
March 23, 2020

How to Stay Connected in a Time of Physical Distancing

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Tips from Behavioral Science to Flatten the Curve on COVID Anxiety
International Debate
March 21, 2020

Tips from Behavioral Science to Flatten the Curve on COVID Anxiety

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Would Popular Science Books Benefit from a Rating System?

Would Popular Science Books Benefit from a Rating System?

Standing in a powerful pose increases your testosterone levels. Ten thousand hours of practice leads to mastery and high achievement. Eating out of large bowls encourages overeating. These are just a few examples of big ideas that have formed the basis of popular science books, only to be overturned by further research or a closer reading of the evidence…

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Eysenck Case Shows Need for Independent Research Integrity Ombudsperson

Eysenck Case Shows Need for Independent Research Integrity Ombudsperson

The Journal of Health Psychology has led the charge into reviewing the published work of the late Hans Eysenck, and the editor of that journal, David F. Marks, and historian of psychology Roderick D. Buchanan, note the detritus of a Kings College London inquiry — 61 retractions for Eysenck’s work so far — and argue the case spotlights the need for a new body to ensure future research integrity.

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A Team Approach to Tackling the Psychology Replication Crisis

A Team Approach to Tackling the Psychology Replication Crisis

The Psychological Science Accelerator is a global network of more than 500 labs in more than 70 countries which aims to re-do older psychology experiments, but on a mass-scale in several different settings. The effort is one of many targeting a problem that has plagued the discipline for years: the inability of psychologists to get consistent results across similar experiments.

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Michele Gelfand on Social Norms

Michele Gelfand on Social Norms

“Social norms are the glue,” cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand tells interviewer David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast, “that keep people together.” How much glue do we need? Gelfand describes the “simple tradeoff” between tight and loose cultures: tight opts for more order while loose aims for openness,

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Britain’s Mental Health Crisis, Mindfulness and the Sociological Imagination

Britain’s Mental Health Crisis, Mindfulness and the Sociological Imagination

The popularization of mindfulness, write Daniel Nehring and Ashley Frawley, cannot just be understood as a recent response to public perceptions of a mental health crisis. Rather, it is the result of developments in academic psychology, in its clinical uses in psychotherapy, and in its growing commercial exploitation from the 1980s onwards.

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Is True-Crime Therapy?

Is True-Crime Therapy?

David Canter considers the possible impact on criminals of accounts of psychologists’ contributions to solving crime. “Typically, criminals do not have the intellectual abilities to study academic or true-crime to learn how to avoid detection.”

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What’s That? The Replication Crisis is Good for Science?

What’s That? The Replication Crisis is Good for Science?

The ‘replication crisis’ certainly is uncomfortable for many scientists whose work gets undercut, and the rate of failures may currently be unacceptably high. But psychologist and statistician Eric Loken argues that confronting the replication crisis is good for science as a whole.

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Carol Dweck Talks Mindset, Recognition and Advice for Young Scholars

Carol Dweck Talks Mindset, Recognition and Advice for Young Scholars

Earlier this month, psychologist Carol Dweck, author of the 2006 bestseller ‘Mindset: The New Psychology of Success,’ received the 2019 SAGE-CASBS Award. Social Science Space asked the award winner a few questions about her work, how growth mindset has been received by various publics, and what advice she might give today’s young scholars.

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