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October 2013
Inaugural International Convention of Psychological Science
APS announces a major new initiative, the world's first international conference dedicated to scientific advances in all areas of psychology and related disciplines. The inaugural International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS) will be held in the heart of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on 12-14 March 2015. Three features make ICPS unique: Integrative Science Symposia, Skill-Building Workshops, and International Scope. A forthcoming Call-for-Presentations will announce opportunities for you to take part in ICPS symposia and scientific poster presentations. For now, mark your 2015 calendar with this historic event for psychological science. More>>

APS Replication 

Initiative Under Way

The new Registered Replication Report (RRR) initiative, announced earlier this year, aims to support high-quality replications of important psychological findings. Twenty-nine labs from all over the world are currently participating in our first RRR project, and the Center for Open Science has contributed a $250,000 grant to increase the number and variety of registered replications. More>> 

Psychological research shows that faces generally become more attractive when they are blended with other faces towards the population average. APS Fellow Jamin Halberstadt, University of Otago, New Zealand, and coauthors at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands and University of California, San Diego, USA found this effect to be puzzling, given the nature of morphed faces. More>>
Mental disorders have traditionally been viewed as distinct categorical entities, but the high incidence of comorbid, or co-occurring, disorders challenges this view. A team led by APS Fellows Terrie Moffitt, an ICPS Keynote speaker, and Avshalom Caspi observes that about half of the people who meet diagnostic criteria for one disorder also meet the diagnostic criteria for another disorder at the same time. More>>

Loftus's TED Talk 

a Standout Hit 

A talk by APS Past President Elizabeth Loftus, University of California, Irvine, has become an overnight sensation, garnering over 300,000 views in the first week online. At TEDGlobal 2013, Loftus explored the "fiction of memory," illustrating the malleability of what we often consider to be a veridical record of our experiences. Watch>>
The research of Dieter Wolke, University of Warwick, United Kingdom, focuses on social and emotional development -- specifically bullying by peers and siblings. Read the latest Twitter Q&A with Wolke on his recent study in Psychological Science, "Impact of Bullying in Childhood on Adult Health, Wealth, Crime, and Social Outcomes."

Building a 

Fearless Mind

 

Researchers have successfully erased frightening memories in the lab, but the transition from theory to clinical application is challenging. Read this cover story and the full October issue of the Observer online or as a PDF.

 

Editor's Choice

Cortex

Vol. 49,1636-1647 

Selected by Sergio Della Sala and Jordan Grafman  

Blindsight in Children with Congenital and Acquired Cerebral Lesions

Francesca Tinelli, Guido Marco Cicchini, Roberto Arrighi, Michela Tosetti, Giovanni Cioni, and Maria Concetta Morrone

 

Congenital or acquired damage to the visual processing areas of the brain is often associated with a loss of vision. Despite sustaining damage to these brain areas, some people retain an unconscious ability to respond to visual stimuli -- an ability termed blindsight. Researches suggest that residual vision in people with blindsight may be due to massive reorganization of their visual system. The brains of very young children are highly plastic, allowing those who acquire brain damage early in life a better chance of compensating for the damaged structures and regaining lost functioning. More>>

 

Each Global Observer features an article from a distinguished international journal. See past selections in the Editor's Choice archive. 

       
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