I was delighted to receive my author copies of the fourth edition of Discovering Psychology: The Science of Mind yesterday. As some of you know, we lost my dear friend and co-author John Cacioppo three years ago. I asked Steph Cacioppo to step in and help me with the fourth 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…
As one of the three NYT articles I chose to review this week, I selected a piece by Spencer Greenberg and Seth Stephens-Davidowitz entitled “You Are Not as Good at Kissing as You Think. But You Are Better at Dancing.” Within the article is a link to Greenberg’s “Clearer Thinking” Read more…
You’ve all probably seen and read about “the dress,” or the color constancy phenomenon than not only launched a viral reaction but promoted a special edition of The Journal of Vision. Of course, we are going to include this in our new editions of Discovering Behavioral Neuroscience and Discovering Psychology: The Science of Mind, right? Well, Read more…
One of the amazing and fun things about having textbooks out there in this digital age is that you hear really interesting things from the professors and students using your books. In my email inbox today was a really nice note from a professor using Discovering Behavioral Neuroscience. His son had noticed Read more…