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…
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…
At a recent conference, I had the pleasure to sit next to Kelly McGonigal of Stanford at lunch. Among other things, we talked about her role as the NYT psychology consultant for their inEDUCATION program. Kelly was about to start work on a new book, and thought she should pass Read more…
Psychology professors are often expected to be like the guru on the mountaintop–sources of all types of advice on how to be happy. We actually do know quite a lot about happiness, based on the work of scholars like Ed Diener and Martin Seligman, but I’m not sure we’re in Read more…
I always cringe a bit when my Google alerts point to a newly published study that has a title something like “what textbooks get wrong about subject X.” Accuracy is obviously a top goal in the text writing business. But usually, upon reading the article, our books come out well Read more…