Blog - Communicating Psychological Science

By Madeline Smith

In a world where appearance often feels like currency, where younger and younger girls are being shown a certain standard of beauty, the pressure to look a certain way doesn’t just stay skin-deep. It see...

By Abigail Schwartz

How can you provide care to an individual who does not remember who you are or where they are? How can you provide quality care when an individual shows frustration with their lack of understanding of th...

By Rachel Hintze

All of a sudden, it’s the year 2011 and I’m sitting in third grade again, except I’m twenty-one years old now. I’m in a little red chair where my knees sit higher than my hips because the chair can’t be more than a foot off the ground. The classroom is quiet, and I feel a little awkward as we are sitting in silence while waiting for mor...

By Emily Stark and Karla Lassonde

In this episode, psychologists Emily Stark and Karla Lassonde discuss the reliability of polygraph tests. We describe the portrayal of lie detection in the media, the procedures used with polygraphs, and re...