In a public statement of its intentions for its Claude chatbot, the artificial intelligence company Anthropic has said that it wants Claude to be “a genuinely good, wise and virtuous agent.” The ...

Faculty members at Harvard University voted in recent days to cap the number of top grades they are permitted to award to undergraduate students, in an attempt to reduce grade inflation at one of ...

In this interview, Brian Nosek touches on big takeaways from the SCORE program, how evidence from the program contradicts the ...

The FINN Lab surviving the New Hampshire winter. Assistant Professor Emily Finn’s research focuses on individual variability ...

NYU began holding commencement ceremonies here in Yankee Stadium in 2009. Since then, graduates have heard from prime ministers, presidents, Supreme Court justices, movie stars, civil-rights crusaders ...

The findings may have implications for the classroom, as well as for broader efforts to reduce socioeconomic disparities in ...

The year 2004 marks the centenary of B. F. Skinner’s birth. I doubt that most members of the American Psychological Society (and even a smaller proportion of all psychologists) will pay much attention ...

The APS Student Caucus (APSSC) is a representative body of the student members of the Association for Psychological Science. All APS student members are members of the APSSC by default, and have ...

The APS William James Fellow Award honors APS members for their lifetime of significant intellectual contributions to the basic science of psychology. Recipients must be APS members recognized ...

The criminal justice system was designed to find and punish actual perpetrators guilty of the crimes of which they are accused. Questions and claims of innocence were rarely examined and, until ...

In early 2023, Mahzarin Banaji was meeting with her student Tessa Charlesworth (who is now at Northwestern University) when the topic of ChatGPT arose. Banaji had heard of the tool but hadn’t yet ...

The APS Rising Star designation is presented to outstanding APS Members in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD. Drawing its name from an Observer editorial series that featured ...