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schewpsych.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology; I study cognition, teaching & learning; See http://samford.edu/how-to-study/ and https://youtube.com/chann;
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Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating. This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens. (Even better: Tesla will hate this)

Two studies published this week bolster current recommendations that children and teens should stay up to date on their COVID-19 vaccines.

Written by one of my brilliant former advisees— her work on talking to kids about race is so important—>

A growing group of content creators are trying to counteract misleading and false wellness claims online from influencers hawking supplements and unproven remedies.

Dogs, like people, may use blinking to bond | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

“The whole point of the brain is future planning.” — Eleanor Maguire, Memory Expert Who Studied London Cabbies, Dies at 54 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/s...

Gil Won-ok, one of the last survivors of sexual slavery in brothels for Japan’s World War II troops, who campaigned to bring international attention to the suffering of thousands of women like her​, died this week at 96.

My new essay for The Teaching Professor: Practice Is Essential for Developing Expertise (but Often Misunderstood). Subscription required. This essay was prompted by listening to @rastokke.bsky.social podcasts. www.teachingprofessor.com/topics/stude...

Just got my copy. Looking forward to reading it. Thx, @blakeharvard.bsky.social

Brain evolution www.earth.com/news/rethink...

Attachment styles in cats: www.psypost.org/cat-attachme...

Baboons lack self-awareness. urls.grow.me/QXRN_oGrJ5

WDYN Wednesday is live, with pieces from @edutopia.org on effective studying, a piece from @schewpsych.bsky.social on Cognitive Biases that undermine teaching, and a consideration of a pedagogy of Post-It Notes. The Last Word is of course very #GoBirds coded.

Wait until they discover salsa. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There's lots I can't control right now but I did create a fun escape room/puzzle box activity as a review for my undergrad social cognition class and watching them race through the puzzles today brought me joy 😍 1/

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Breed differences in olfactory performance of dogs. Nice summary with link to open access study. www.popsci.com/environment/...

My essay, "How Much Do Students Have to Study to Learn a Concept?" for The Teaching Professor is now freely available on ResearchGate. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

My essay, "Cognitive Biases That Undermine Teaching" for The Teaching Professor, now freely available on ResearchGate www.researchgate.net/publication/...

My essay, "Why Do We Need Inclusive Teaching If Everyone Learns in the Same Way?" for The Teaching Professor is now freely available on ResearchGate. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Theory of mind in bonobos.

Opinion | Teaching Well Is Harder Now Reflecting on her first 20 years in the classroom, Rebecca Vidra identifies six key ways students and their needs have changed. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4hwv0Tx

A good example of ordinal data if you’re teaching stats. Can also compare these rankings w class rankings using Spearman r

Norepinephrine-driven oscillations during non-REM sleep power the brain's glymphatic system to clear toxic proteins, but the sleep aid zolpidem disrupts this process, impairing waste clearance and potentially increasing… #SleepScience #Neurodegeneration #Zolpidem #BrainHealth #NonREMSleep

Some birds use snake skins in their nests to deter predators urls.grow.me/l4InskdVop

My latest essay for The Teaching Professor. "Active Learning Is an Educational Buzzword (and Not Particularly Useful)". Subscription required. www.teachingprofessor.com/topics/stude...

The secret to long life is to lie about your age. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/o...

My interview with the indispensable @awaisaftab.bsky.social has been published. Challenging questions, gave me a lot of ideas to chew on. Got me thinking about how different the scientific politics of individual differences (like IQ) are from psychiatric genetics.

Meme for teaching Research Methods.

Feeding squirrels makes them wimps. phys.org/news/2025-01...

It's three bad apples, Michael. What could they cost? $33.75 million dollars? www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Trust in public health agencies has fallen and not recovered. I asked Biden’s top health official what he thinks went wrong. “I can’t go toe to toe with social media,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said.

Ants hold grudges www.popsci.com/science/ants...

A new analysis of private insurance claims data finds less than 0.1% of youth accessed puberty blockers or hormones for gender transition. This small group has garnered a huge amount of attention from Republican lawmakers in recent years.

Shocker turns out that the attendees at a college teaching conference are a bunch of former theater nerds who absolutely kill at karaoke 😂😂😂 #NITOP25

First up at #NITOP25 - Jeremy Wolfe discussing why use-inspired basic research is useful for teaching and research. 1/

Next at #NITOP25 Wind Goodfriend talking about teaching the psychology of cults. Free teaching resources available at collegepublishing.sagepub.com/instructors/... 1/

Good morning 🌞 Starting today's #NITOP25 with Danny Oppenheimer talking about the value of autonomy in college teaching. Self determination theory - we like to do things when we're good at it, when its related to our goals and when we have autonomy/choice. But little pedagogy training on autonomy 1/

Next up at #NITOP25 is Wendy Wood talking about habits. Habits are the behaviors that help us achieve our goals. They are associations between a context and a practiced response. Often outside of conscious awareness. 1/

#NITOP25 has started! @schewpsych.bsky.social has lit the traditional NITOP torch Stay tuned for sporadic live-skeeting about teaching psychology

The Size of Your Pupils While You Sleep Could Reveal The Memories You're Reliving www.sciencealert.com/the-size-of-...

False convictions based on faulty eyewitness testimony, false confessions, and investigator misconduct. www.nbcnews.com/news/nbc-new...

Not belittling the importance of this study, but reminds me that psychological research often gets criticized for findings that seem obvious and common sense. We aren't the only ones urls.grow.me/eDPYn_Pu6j

Still thinking about this recent @adamgrant.bsky.social piece. At the risk of oversimplifying (I’m writing up deeper thoughts over on the blog): What if we design courses/learning in such a way that effort leads to excellence, thus increasing odds of “effort = A”?

Discrimination based on someone's age is so ingrained in society that most of us don't notice it. Yet it affects us all and fighting it not only helps make a better society, it also helps us live longer, healthier lives.