I met with Stephen Lea to interview him about the Special Issue in his honor in the Psychonomic Society journal Learning & Behavior. The interview episode has two parts and could have had so many more. He has a fascinating career and is very interesting. The beginning of the episode features a brief interview with Lisa […]
Dawn Weatherford (pictured on the right) recently published a paper about detecting fake IDs with co-authors William Blake Erickson, Jasmine Thomas, Mary Walker, and Barret Schein. The paper is called “You shall not pass: how facial variability and feedback affect the detection of low prevalence fake IDs” and appears in the Psychonomic Society journal Cognitive Research: Principles and […]
I’m delighted to welcome Jonathan Caballero and Travis Seale-Carlisle to the digital team as our newest Digital Associate Editors. Jonathan is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at McGill University. His main research interest involves the influences of perception on social interactions. He is currently investigating how communication impairments associated with Parkinson’s disease impacts social interactions. The […]
Can we predict the future? In 2011, Bem published a paper describing results from 9 experiments suggesting that we can. The research was quickly debunked and became part of what kicked off the movement to correct replicability issues in psychological science. Alas, there is no evidence that we have the powers of prediction. We do, however, […]
We bid Steve Lewandowsky a fond farewell as the very first Psychonomic Society Digital Content Editor. But fear not, friends, he is now on the Governing Board and has an open invitation to contribute to the digital content. I had the pleasure of interviewing Steve about his tenure as the Digital Content Editor. In the […]
We have much to look forward to in the New Year, including reading and hearing about new cognitive science from Psychonomic Society members and published in the Society’s journals. We thought we’d take this opportunity to wish you a happy new year and to remind you of the Society’s digital content features that are available […]
Bonjour-hi fellow Psychonomic Society Fellows and Members! Over 2,400 cognitive psychologists from around the world will descend on the city of Montréal for the Psychonomic Society 60thAnnual Meeting the week commencing November 11th, 2019. Keynote Around 60% of the citizens of Montreal and surrounding areas are bilingual in English and French. What a fitting venue for […]
I don’t know about you, but I remember feeling pretty smug when the large Open Science Collaboration report showing that experiments in cognitive psychology were more replicable than experiments in social psychology was published. Apologies to my social psychologist friends. Rest assured, I get my just desserts. The number of participants you need to recruit […]
What are little boys made of Snips & snails & puppy dogs tails And such are little boys made of. What are little girls made of Sugar & spice & all things nice This very popular rhyme, probably written by English author Robert Southey, has persisted in western culture for nearly two centuries. It embodies […]
In the late 1970s, a chimpanzee named Sarah watched a human named Keith struggle to complete simple tasks. When given various solutions, Sarah picked the solutions that would help Keith succeed in his tasks. In one task Keith attempted to grab for an unreachable object (see the left figure below). Sarah chose the option to […]