“Teachable Moments About Policing from Ferguson, Missouri”
Yale Law School professor Tom Tyler, PhD, describes how his research findings on police and community trust apply to recent events in Ferguson.
“The police need to treat people in the community respectfully and with courtesy. When the police do these things they build trust. In other words, we know how the police can build trust in communities, White or minority. If people see the police acting with justice, they respond with trust.”
“I Have a Condition?”
Lisa Murphy, author of the blog “PhD Imposter” and an applied psychology doctoral student at the University College of Cork in Ireland, describes her adviser telling her about the imposter phenomenon—a form of intellectual self-doubt.
“Once she began to explain, I was utterly dumbfounded. I don’t know if any of you have ever had that experience when it feels like somebody is reading your mind and communicating your exact thoughts right back to you—it is both liberating and somewhat bizarre. It was as if she had been the homunculus inside of my head since the beginning of my academic career (i.e., primary school, age 4).
“The more she spoke, the more amazed I became. After all, this was my secret that she was unearthing, this dreaded secret that I didn't really belong in the building at all—everybody just thought I did! I couldn’t believe that there was a name for it! And better yet, I couldn't believe that other people, particularly in academia, felt this way.”
For more on the imposter phenomenon, read the gradPSYCH article “Feel like a fraud?”