Sadie Dingfelder

My journey from psychology major to science writer and author.

Joe DeGutis, PhD, joins Sadie Dingfelder to discuss how people with face blindness see the world, why it’s such an interesting disorder to study, and promising treatments that his lab is exploring.

APA’s Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal aims to enlist more psychologists in the movement toward helping people with serious mental illnesses live full and meaningful lives.

Psychologist and anti-Apartheid activist Saths Cooper has dedicated his life to ensuring that psychology serves all of humanity, not just a powerful few.

Just 25 years ago, a student psychology organization was a radical idea. APAGS has grown to 33,000 members, gained a voting seat on APA's Board of Directors and now brings student voices to every area of APA's advocacy and policy work.

APA’s new Journal of Threat Assessment and Management will help police, social workers, human resource managers, and others separate real threats from the cries for help.

Curbing tobacco use — especially among vulnerable populations — requires targeting anti-smoking messages just as effectively as tobacco companies hawk cigarettes, said attendees at APA’s Tobacco Health Disparities meeting.

A tribe of hunter-gatherers in the Bolivian lowlands show evidence of just two personality factors, rather than the usual five.

Friends and colleagues reflect on the life of the school psychologist who died while defending her students.

A pioneer of digital publishing and a world-renowned expert on meta-analysis team up to edit psychology’s first open-methods, open-data and open-access journal.

The new editors of The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts will publish research from a broad array of scientists and reach out to new audiences.

The obesity epidemic disproportionally affects black women. The trend is decreasing black women's life expectancy and increasing their chances of developing a host of ailments, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and arthritis.

Researchers show no solid evidence that pretend play leads to creativity, problem-solving, intelligence, emotional regulation, storytelling and other abilities.

APA's Council of Representatives has approved a $3 million internship stimulus package to help psychology internship sites earn APA accreditation.

Psychology graduate students can join the APA Practice Organization beginning in 2013 and receive a variety of benefits.

APA's newest journal, Archives of Scientific Psychology, features free online access and requires authors to post their full data.

Solitary confinement puts inmates at serious risk for psychological harm.

Tips on how an advisor can best foster a relationship with their advisees.

Tips on how an advisee can best foster a relationship with an advisor.

Media consultants rarely pay attention to whether the images and emotions evoked by campaign ads actually sway voters.

Cognitive psychologist Gary Marcus spent his sabbatical learning to play guitar and putting to rest the fallacy that new skills are just for kids.

Russell B. Carr, MD, has developed a new treatment rooted in intersubjective systems theory to assist PTSD patients who are both victims and perpetrators of violence.

Even people with no religious affiliation distrust atheists, according to a paper published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Uneducated Egyptian parents often don't know about the importance of iron for growing brains and how it can produce lifelong problems with cognitive development, as well as lead to problems with motor skills, attention and behavior.

Suzanne Bennett Johnson has built a career out of demonstrating psychology’s value to medical and scientific communities. As APA’s 2012 president, she is taking that message to the masses.