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Learning about certain disciplines can change students’ way of thinking (e.g., economy students become less cooperative, philosophy students become mo…

Although technical language can make something harder to understand, it can have a convenient advantage.

Cruz and Lombrozo examine how laypeople make sense of scientific explanations and find that although jargon reduces understanding, for short explanations, jargon makes the explanation more satisfying.

Though people readily claim that others fall prey to several biases, they are less likely to recognize those same biases in themselves – a tendency termed bias blind spot (Pronin et al. in Personality...

People do not think that all psychological phenomena are equally explainable through science: Psychological phenomena associated with a high first-person subjective experience (henceforth, FPSE; i....

Request PDF | On Apr 23, 2025, Francisco Cruz and others published The spirit is noble, but the flesh is corrupt: lay beliefs about the bases of (im)moral behavior | Find, read and cite all the resear...

The Anne Anastasi awards, named for APA past-president and funded by the Anne Anastasi Foundation, are given to two outstanding psychology graduate students, one in the first two years of graduate stu...