A Multilevel Perspective on Child Maltreatment
For children, the effects of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, and of physical neglect, continue long after the maltreatment ends. Over the past 35 years, Dante Cicchetti, McKnight Presidential...
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Earning Their Wings in Science
As “winged” scientists in the Navy, Aerospace Experimental Psychologists must obtain 4 hours of flight time per month. Lieutenant Commander Tatana Olson gets some flight time with the NAS Pensacola...
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Experiments in the Dilemma Zone
Yellow traffic lights pose one of the more dangerous obstacles that people encounter on the road. When a signal changes from green to yellow, drivers have to make quick decisions without much...
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Stepping Into the Mix
Elissa Epel I was introduced to interdisciplinary research during my very first lab meeting in graduate school in 1991. Judith Rodin, my first advisor, was leading a MacArthur Foundation network on...
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Academic Leadership
Nancy Eisenberg Over the years, I have been surprised by the number of my friends or acquaintances in psychology who have become deans, provosts, and even university presidents. One of those...
View ArticleTen Tips for Developing a Programmatic Line of Research
“My research is about…” Many graduate students finish this sentence with a long, awkward pause and a deep sigh, followed by the admission that they have done a number of unrelated studies in order to...
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The Long and the Short of It
Think of your body like an automobile. Both require regular maintenance, periodic repairs, and safe handling. Both inevitably wear down — and much earlier when they’re subject to excessive strain and...
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Neural Evidence for an Internal ‘Calorie Counter’
As you peruse the shelves in a supermarket, you may be thinking about each food’s taste and nutritional value, or you may be trying to decide what you’re in the mood for. A new neuroimaging study...
View ArticleBooks to Check Out: November 2014
To submit a new book, email apsobserver@psychologicalscience.org. A Cognitive Psychology of Mass Communication by Richard Jackson Harris and Fred W. Sanborn; Taylor & Francis, 2014. Age of...
View ArticlePeriodic Recertification: Vanquishing the Zombie Theory
The scientific record has been exploding for some time, and there is nothing that will stop that explosion. And why should there be? It is a great thing for smart people to expand the boundaries of...
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