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#psynom18: The digital frontier

The Psychonomic Society has been actively upgrading its digital presence—not just here, on the Featured Content site, but also during our annual meetings. We have been tweeting with our own hashtag for several years, and this year we are taking several extra steps. Live tweeting The hashtag for this year’s meeting is #psynom18. Everybody is […]

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Countdown to #psynom18: Academic highlights

The annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society will commence a week from today. The Society is looking forward to welcoming you to New Orleans. The program has been posted and the mobile app is available for download. The Society is urging everyone who is planning to attend to register online rather than onsite. (My best guess is that you have […]

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12,000 words and no plot but still useful: Introducing our new Resources for Research section

The main purpose of this blog is to showcase current research that has appeared in the journals of the Psychonomic Society. Anyone who publishes in a Psychonomic Society journal is invited, in the acceptance letter, to contact the Digital Content Editor to nominate their article for a blogpost. This is the principal process by which […]

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From Featured Content to featured teaching: The sequel

How can the Psychonomic Society’s publications and digital content help with teaching cognitive psychology?  With the “learning groups” feature! In Spring 2018 I used the featured content blog posts to make an assignment for my undergraduate cognitive psychology class at Fontbonne University, and it worked really well.  This post expands on an earlier one I […]

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#PSDiversityandInclusion: Providing a permanent home for the discussion

The last two weeks leading up to the international meeting in Amsterdam (more on that soon) were taken up with a series of posts that discussed issues surrounding diversity and inclusion in the Psychonomic Society and in science generally. This #PSDiversityandInclusion digital event was our largest to date with 8 posts spread over two weeks, […]

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CRPI: Read it, Cite it, Submit to it! (and check out our end-of-year offer)

The Psychonomics Society’s open access journal, Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CRPI) is coming to the end of its second year of publication. You can (and should) check out the latest articles here. We started the journal for two main reasons. First, we wanted the Society to have an open access journal and second, we […]

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