Interview with new science communications intern Daniel Pfaff

I’m pleased to introduce you to the Psychonomic Society’s newest Science Communication intern, Daniel Pfaff (pictured below). He’ll be joining Hannah Mechtenberg for the next six months, working with our Digital Content team and writing posts on research conducted by our members and published in the Society’s journals. We are delighted they will be part […]

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Interview with new science communications intern Hannah Mechtenberg

Last year, the Psychonomic Society launched a program, a Science Communication internship, for graduate students to gain experience writing about scientific findings for the general public. Two new interns were selected for the second term over the next six months: Hannah Mechtenberg and Daniel Pfaff. As interns, they will be part of our Digital Content team […]

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Mindfulness enhances creativity according to meta-analytic findings

In this episode of All Things Cognition, I interviewed Zoe Hughes (pictured below) about her meta-analysis published in the Psychonomic Society journal Psychonomic Bulletin & Review on the effects of mindfulness on creativity with co-authors, Linden Ball, Jeannie Judge, and Cassandra Richardson. We talked about different types of creativity and which was more impacted by […]

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Pretesting improves learning but learners need a push to appreciate it

In this episode of All Things Cognition, I interviewed Michelle Rivers and Steven Pan (pictured below) about their recent Psychonomic Society journal Memory & Cognition paper called “Metacognitive Awareness of the Pretesting Effect Improves with Self-Regulation Support.” In addition to talking about the benefits of pretesting (or prequestions) on learning, we also talked about other effective […]

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Interview with new science communications intern Kelly Cotton

As mentioned in the last post, the Psychonomic Society launched a new program, a Science Communication internship for graduate students to gain experience writing about scientific findings for the general public. Two interns, Kelly Cotton and Raunak Pillai (Raunak’s interview is here), were selected for the first term that will last over the next six months. During this time, […]

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Interview with new science communication intern Raunak Pillai

The Psychonomic Society launched a new program, a Science Communication internship. Not all graduate students wish to continue in academia, so this program offers experience writing about science for the general public. Even for those students who do wish to go down the academic path, communicating our research to other people than other scientists is […]

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The cognitive psychologists are coming! #psynom22

November is here. The leaves changed from green into vibrant yellows, oranges, and reds and carpeted the streets. The air chilled, so my winter clothes reappeared, replacing my summer clothes, as I braced myself for the colder months ahead. Root vegetables supplanted fresh salads on my menus. For me, an American in the UK, November […]

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Misses are up when item occurrence is down

In this episode of All Things Cognition, I interviewed Anna Kosovicheva and Ben Wolfe (pictured below) about their research described in an article recently published in the Psychonomic Society journal, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. They co-authored the paper with the first Editor in Chief of another of the Society’s journals, Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, Jeremy Wolfe. […]

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#WeNeedEDI digital event introduction

For the next two weeks, we are running a digital event called “#WeNeedEDI: Striving for equality, diversity, and inclusion throughout academics’ careers.” The event focuses on the experiences of underrepresented academics and potential ways to increase equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) as we go from early-career academics to emeriti.  The Psychonomic Society “recognizes the strategic […]

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