As much as we love our pets, we also view human life as being in a special category. Is this always the case? Or do we gradually learn to think this way? Matti Wilks, a post doc in the Mind and Development Lab at Yale, is lead author on a Read more…
Back in the day when I was in grad school, I worked with Ron Siegel on hallucinations in rhesus monkeys. Ron had a gadget called a parabolic mirror that made an object at the bottom of the mirror look like it was located a few inches higher. He wanted to Read more…
In the midst of copy editing a 53-page, three-column, single-spaced pdf of references for our intro psych textbook, it occurred to me that I honestly didn’t know how much faculty or students actually use the reference list in textbooks, or if they used them, how. I posed the question to Read more…
One of my favorite websites is Our World in Data. This week, they posted a really interesting analysis of the people with whom we interact on a daily basis over our lifespans. In adolescence, our time is split between friends and family. Young adults and adults in midlife spend time Read more…
Over the past few years, I’ve given workshops and presentations at a number of teaching-related conferences on using the Big Problems activity found in the Appendix of the APA report on “Strengthening the Common Core of the Introductory Psychology Course.” I’m very fond of this idea, not just because it’s Read more…