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Make it Stick: How Intentional Usage of Encoding Strategies by Students and Instructors Can Improve Learning and Memory
Are you interested in ways to enhance learning and memory for yourself or interested in improving your students’ learning? See this article for top tips to help students boost memory and learning as well as tips for better teaching skills.
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How do underage youth access vaping products?
Despite legal actions to curb underage use of e-cigarettes, youth continue to access vapes through a myriad of methods. A recent qualitative study explores the topic of underage access with young adults who vape regularly.
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Rallying for Environmental Justice
Communities of color are more likely to be disproportionately subjected to more pollution and toxic materials, as well as more likely to live near hazardous waste sites, which have lead to protests and demonstrations. Social psychology has highlighted which psychological mechanisms give rise to collective action, among which are a sense of anger and group…
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What’s All the Buzz About Bayes?
For a practical example, imagine that one day while strolling around your house, you notice that your fine china display has been smashed into pieces. You suspect that a burglar broke into your home and destroyed your precious dishware. You figure doing a Bayesian hypothesis test could help you get to the bottom of what…
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What’s in an Eponym? The Ethics and Efficacy of Eponym Use in Education
Do you know what a Magnolia tree and the Pythagorean Theorem have in common? They are both eponyms, which are terms derived from people’s names (Strous & Edelman, 2007). Eponyms are often used to honor someone’s achievements, however, sometimes the person rewarded with a finding named after them was not actually the one to discover…
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Cognitive Casualties: How Drugs Can Lead to Long-Term Deficiencies in Cognition
There can be severe long-term effects of alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, and ecstasy on various cognitive abilities.
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Navigating the World with Little Explorers: How to Support Children’s Learning in Everyday Experiences
Children are curious explorers. They love to ask questions and learn more about their world. And children can learn anywhere – at home, at the beach, in the car, at the grocery store. Even though children can independently explore their world, their learning is enriched when they explore with others. So how can we best…
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Do girls really experience conduct problems?
What do we know about girls who experience conduct problems? Despite being historically ignored by researchers and the general public, girls have unique risk factors for conduct problems and end up exhibiting different outcomes associated with their conduct problems as compared to boys.
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Parental Distress and Children’s Well-being: Implication from COVID-19
The pandemic underlines the interplay between parental distress and children’s emotional and behavioral well-being & provides us with an opportunity to think about parental resources, perceptions, and coping strategies to enhance parenting effectiveness and parenting behavior.
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Postdoctoral Research: The Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How
Have you ever wondered what a postdoctoral researcher (a.k.a postdoc) is and what they do? See this article for answers to some basic questions about being a postdoc.