Hello and sorry I've been away from blogging for so long! I ended up switching departments and jobs--now I work at Yale University at th...

Hello again, PYM readers. It is now June and I just finished my first full academic year as a faculty member at the University of Illinois...

Two years ago today, this blog was born. Thanks to you, PYM readers, this once tiny blog venture has been an overwhelming success--both in...

“There is no other job that allows you to pursue questions that interests you, and then pay you to do it. But, there are tradeoffs.” –Ch...

Hello again PYM readers! The end of 2012 marks the end of our second year as a psychology research blog (the first full year). I feel like...

In a recent trend, the field of social-personality psychology has become sensitive to the data reporting and analytic strategies that go i...

A couple of years ago, this article ran in the Economist . In the article, the author takes the point of view that the pursuit of a PhD d...

source Like most teenagers in suburbia I took a driver’s education class shortly after I earned my learner’s permit. Though I picked up ...

Source Like many people who study psychology, I can't help but see it everywhere - including songs that were clearly not intended to ...