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What could make eyewitness testimony more accurate and helpful?

Margaret Bull Kovera, presidential scholar and professor of psychology at John Jay College at City University of New York, answers the question on this edition of “Ask a Scientist.”This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)

DDM Seminar – The Impact of Civility and Incivility on Worker Productivity

Deputy Director for Management (DDM) Seminar Series
The fourth and final seminar of the FY18 DDM Seminar Series. To receive credit for watching the LIVE Videocast, you need to register for the event in LMS on the morning of the event. Archived Videocas…

Just remembering the gist of a situation could be a root cause of memory confusion in older adults

Psychological research suggests that memory confusion in older adults is partly caused by their reliance on schematic memory, which helps people remember the gist of an event, but not necessarily the details. The absence of detail-related memory could …

Findings shed light on long-term memory and could advance machine learning technology

Johns Hopkins University cognitive psychologists are the first to link human’s long-term visual memory with how things move. The key, they found, lies in whether we can visually track an object.This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multi…

DDM Seminar Series: The Psychology of Great Meetings

DDM Seminar Series
The third installment of the FY2017 DDM Seminar Series. To receive credit for watching the LIVE Videocast, you need to register for the event in LMS on the morning of the event. Archived Videocast registration is also available in LM…

DDM Seminar Series with Shawn Achor: Positive Psychology, Productivity and the Science of Happiness

DDM Seminar Series
The fourth and final installment of the FY2017 DDM Seminar Series. To receive credit for watching the LIVE Videocast, you need to register for the event in LMS on the morning of the event. Archived Videocast registration is also avai…

Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resources You Can Use

Get an update on Alzheimer’s and dementia issues and resources, including:• What’s new with consumer, caregiver, and professional resources on dementia, including the 24/7 National Alzheimer ’ s Call Center, the NIH Alzheimer ’ s Disease Educatio…

‘MEteor’ teaches students about astrophysics (Image 1)

Shuai Wang (left), a doctoral student in education psychology, and Robb Lindgren, a professor of curriculum and instruction and of educational psychology, are part of a team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign who develope…

DDM Seminar Series – Resilient and Ready: How to Thrive Through Challenge and Change

DDM Seminar Series
The second installment of the FY2017 DDM Seminar Series. To receive credit for watching the LIVE Videocast, you need to register for the event in LMS on the morning of the event. Archived Videocast registration is also available in L…

Fibromyalgia Integrative Training for Tens (FIT Teens): Developmenet of a Novel Non-Pharmacologic Treatment for Juvenile Fibromyalgia

The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) presents the Integrative Medicine Research Lecture Series. The series provides overviews of the current state of research and practice involving complementary health approaches and ex…