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Monday, July 21, 2014 Love People, Not Pleasure » Love People, Not Pleasure
Monday, July 21, 2014 Sometimes, Early Birds Are Too Early » Sometimes, Early Birds Are Too Early
Saturday, July 19, 2014 How Tests Make Us Smarter » How Tests Make Us Smarter New York Times
Friday, July 18, 2014 Explaining the funny, then not funny, then funny again joke » Explaining the funny, then not funny, then funny again joke Melissa Dahl The science of us (New York Mag...
Monday, July 14, 2014 Repetition Doesn’t Work: Better Ways to Train Your Memory » Repetition Doesn’t Work: Better Ways to Train Your Memory
Monday, July 7, 2014 The Filter Bubble: What The Internet Is Hiding From You » The Filter Bubble: What The Internet Is Hiding From You Stephan Lewandowsky
Monday, July 7, 2014 Privacy Group Complains to F.T.C. About Facebook Emotion Study » Privacy Group Complains to F.T.C. About Facebook Emotion Study
Monday, July 7, 2014 Facebook’s Emotional Manipulation Study Is Just the Latest Effort to Prod Users » Facebook’s Emotional Manipulation Study Is Just the Latest Effort to Prod Users
Monday, July 7, 2014 Facebook: Emotion Study Was Customer Service » Facebook: Emotion Study Was Customer Service
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 Sheryl Sandberg Apologizes For Facebook Emotion Manipulation Study... Kind Of » Sheryl Sandberg Apologizes For Facebook Emotion Manipulation Study... Kind Of
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 Data Science: What the Facebook Controversy is Really About » Data Science: What the Facebook Controversy is Really About
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 No one mad enough to quit Facebook over research study » No one mad enough to quit Facebook over research study
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 Facebook faces UK inquiry over news feed emotion study » Facebook faces UK inquiry over news feed emotion study
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 Facebook responds to criticism of its experiment on users » Facebook responds to criticism of its experiment on users
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 The Bright Side of Facebook’s Social Experiments on Users » The Bright Side of Facebook’s Social Experiments on Users
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 Facebook's Psych Experiment: Consent, Privacy, and Manipulation » Facebook's Psych Experiment: Consent, Privacy, and Manipulation
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 Fellowship Opportunity on U.S. Social and Behavioral Sciences Team! » natalie.vasquez@gsa.gov Fellowship Opportunity on U.S. Social and Behavioral Sciences Team! The U.S. Social and Behav...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 Cornell ethics board did not pre-approve Facebook mood manipulation study » Cornell ethics board did not pre-approve Facebook mood manipulation study
Friday, June 20, 2014 National Science Board Seeks Nominations for 2015 Honorary Awards » Nadine Lymn, NSF, (703) 292-2490, nlymn@nsf.gov Each year, the National Science Board (NSB) honors leaders...
Friday, June 13, 2014 One Battle Down, One to Go on NSF Appropriations » One Battle Down, One to Go on NSF Appropriations FABBS FABBS
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 NSF Clarifies Policy on Award Abstracts and Titles » NSF Clarifies Policy on Award Abstracts and Titles Christine Cameron, PhD, FABBS On May 29, 2014 the Nationa...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 Social and Behavioral Sciences Survive Cut in House Spending Bill, But Cut 42% in NSF Reauthorizatio » Paula Skedsvold, FABBS Social and Behavioral Sciences Survive Cut in House Spending Bill, But Cut 42% in NSF...
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 NIH/CSR Sponsors Two Challenge.gov Competitions » Richard Nakamura NIH/CSR Dear Colleague, As you may be aware, the NIH Center for Scientific Review...
Thursday, May 1, 2014 Marcia K. Johnson elected to National Academy of Sciences » Psychonomic Society Staff Marcia K. Johnson, Yale University, is elected to the 2014 class of the National Academy...
Monday, March 17, 2014 Summer school: “Perceptual organization: Interdisciplinary approaches and research skills” » Prof. Johan Wagemans Summer school: “Perceptual organization: Interdisciplinary approaches and research skills”...
Monday, March 10, 2014 Potential NSF Behavioral and Social Science Funding Cuts » Paula Skedsvold Cuts to Behavioral and Social Science Funding Threatened.
Monday, February 24, 2014 The Invisible Gorilla Strikes Again: Inattentional Blindness in Expert Observers » Trafton Drew, Melissa Võ, and Jeremy Wolfe The Invisible Gorilla Strikes Again: Inattentional Blindness in Expert O...
Sunday, February 23, 2014 McClelland and Spelke Awarded First NAS Prizes in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences » Psychonomic Society Staff National Academy of Sciences Psychonomic Society Fellows McClelland and Spelke rec...
Thursday, February 13, 2014 APA Div. 3 Awards for 2013 Psychonomic Society Poster » Psychonomic Society Staff APA Div. 3 (Experimental) partnered with the Psychonomic Society to honor an early career...
Thursday, February 13, 2014 Call for Papers Memory and Cognition: Special Issue on Working Memory » Editor: Neil W. Mulligan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Guest Editors: Robert H. Logie, Universi...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 News from FABBS and the FABBS Foundation » Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences News from FABBS and the FABBS Foundation This m...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 Ferraro named Editor-in-Chief of Current Psychology » F.R.Ferraro F.R.Ferraro F. Richard Ferraro (Univ. North Dakota) has been named Editor-in-Chief of Current Psy...
Friday, January 17, 2014 MIT neuroscientists find the brain can identify images seen for as little as 13 milliseconds. » Anne Trafton, MIT News Office MIT MIT neuroscientists find the brain can identify images seen for as little...
Thursday, January 16, 2014 Younger people have “high definition” memories » o, P.C. et al. (2013). Understanding age-related reductions in visual working memory capacity: examining the stages of cha...
Thursday, January 9, 2014 The Brain, in Exquisite Detail » James Gorman New York Times The Brain, in Exquisite Detail Deanna Barch and her colleagues are trying...
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