Psychology in Action

Category: Education

  • Non-traditional college students: A new tradition

    Non-traditional college students: A new tradition

    Thinking about getting an education, but not sure how to make it work with current life obligations or different hurdles you have had to encounter? Higher education is for everyone, and here’s some resources to help you get what you need.

  • Using Evidence-Based Study Strategies to Optimize Your Learning

    Using Evidence-Based Study Strategies to Optimize Your Learning

    Students are rarely taught how to study and often choose inefficient study strategies as a result. In this article I discuss what leads students to choose these strategies and offer alternatives backed by research in cognitive psychology and education.

  • The benefits of multilingual education

    The benefits of multilingual education

    How would multilingual education benefit English-language learning (ELL) students?

  • The Role of Mind Wandering in Education

    The Role of Mind Wandering in Education

    It was a crisp spring morning in my high school English class as I took my seat near the window. At some point during class, I had noticed a flower blooming outside. My mind gently tracked away from the Grapes of Wrath discussion to the Biology lecture I had heard just hours before. Looking at…

  • 5 Reasons You Should Make Time to Read Fiction (Especially Harry Potter)

    5 Reasons You Should Make Time to Read Fiction (Especially Harry Potter)

    Here are some reasons to reconsider your schedule and think about adding some fiction

  • Parenting in the Digital Age: Q&A with Yalda Uhls

    Parenting in the Digital Age: Q&A with Yalda Uhls

    About this Q&A Interview We are proud to secure an exclusive interview with Yalda T. Uhls, MBA, PhD — a child psychologist researcher and leading expert in how media affects children. She is a former Psychology in Action president and our most prolific blogger. Yalda continues to research with UCLA while serving as as director of Creative Community Partnerships at Common Sense Media, a national non-profit.…

  • The Power of Social Belonging

    The Power of Social Belonging

    In his final novel, Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about…You are not alone.’”

  • Bewonderment: Awe and other stupefying things

    Bewonderment: Awe and other stupefying things

    “The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically…

  • Outreach Event: Thought Suppression vs. Mindfulness!

    Outreach Event: Thought Suppression vs. Mindfulness!

     Irene Tung led the yellow jeep activity based on Wegner’s classic white bear psychology study! Infinity, pizza, spiders, shoes, pizza, iPhones, sleep, pizza, code names, iPads, games, pizza… When we asked elementary students to think about anything these were the responses. However, when we asked elementary students to think about anything but a yellow jeep, the…

  • Signal Detection: Decision Making in Uncertainty

    Signal Detection: Decision Making in Uncertainty

    We all experience uncertainty: How did I do on that test? What do they think of me? Where did I leave my keys? Is my phone ringing? In these and other uncertain situations, we have to take the evidence we have and make our best guess about the answer. Sometimes we’re right, and sometimes we’re…