The task force is finalizing its recommendations to APA and will issue a final report in the coming months. In a draft report issued in June, the task force recommended that the association:
- Expand the use of podcasts.
- Create special topical issues of APA journals.
- Optimize APA Web content for search.
- Continue and possibly expand APA's amicus briefs program.
- Require APA journal authors to submit a translational abstract or significance statement.
- Produce Magination Press books on psychological science.
- Produce a briefing paper for journalists on how to report on quality psychological science.
- Increase the number of press releases issued from APA journals.
- Produce a Web-based seminar on improving skills for communicating psychological science to the public.
- Create an advisory group to advise teachers on intro to psychology courses.
- Create an APA award for best student journalism in psychological science.
- Produce a special issue of Policy Insights on Behavioral and Brain Science.
- Conduct an annual survey on behavioral science literacy.
- Purchase advertising on social media platforms based on keyword searches.
- Redesign the APA.org homepage to increase its utility as a public education tool.
The members of the task force are: Roxane Cohen Silver, PhD (co-chair), Dawn Foster, PhD (co-chair), Susan Fiske, PhD, Sue Frantz, Fred Leong, PhD, Kathryn McHugh, PhD, Michael K. Scullin, PhD, and Megan A. Smith, PhD.