Psychological Science Agenda

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Math + culture = gender gap?
Researchers have all but debunked the idea that girls are innately worse at math than boys. But psychologists have identified other factors that might set girls back.

Life-changing interventions
Psychologists’ research is preventing and reducing the burden of cancer.

Cancer families
Psychologists’ new interventions are helping families cope with what can be a devastating diagnosis.

Treating children traumatized
Five years after Katrina, new data are illuminating the best ways to help children after natural disasters.

Psychology's voice is heard
Decisions in the Supreme Court and elsewhere show the growing influence of psychological science.

Sins against science
Data fabrication and other forms of scientific misconduct may be more prevalent than you think.

The first modern psychology study
Or how Benjamin Franklin unmasked a fraud and demonstrated the power of the mind.

NIMH is reinventing the way scientists approach mental health research
New diagnostic categories could guide treatment development.

Face-to-face communication captured by fMRI
More brain regions may be involved in social interactions than previously thought.

In Brief
A sample of recently published findings.

Full July/August issue