John Cacioppo and I are proud to introduce our new textbook: Discovering Psychology: The Science of Mind. This is not your typical ‘modular’ textbook that treats each topic as a separate, stand-alone unit. In the spirit of the great American psychologist William James, our textbook integrates the formerly disparate Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: STAR TREK M&M’s‘ Too cute no to share what babies know at 10 months “New research from the University of Missouri indicates that at 10 months, babies start to understand another person’s thought process, providing new insights on how humans acquire knowledge and Read more…
I always enjoy talking about the teaching of psychology, although I find that even after thirty years in front of the classroom, I continue to agree with William James’s comment: “Psychology is a science, teaching is an art.” A hundred years or so, William James edited a collections of his Read more…
——– John Cacioppo has written many wonderful books primarily aimed at the academic community; however, a few are written for everyone. “Loneliness” is a theme central to incoming freshman students at Cal Poly which is why I assign it along with my Introductory Psychology text. His latest effort is far Read more…
Here are a few stories I have found interesting: severe impulsivity is genetic? “A multinational research team led by scientists at the National Institutes of Health has found that a genetic variant of a brain receptor molecule may contribute to violently impulsive behavior when people who carry it are under Read more…