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KEY FEATURES: A student-friendly writing style makes the content more approachable for readers to retain. Personal stories from fellows of the Association of Psychological Science (APS) convey to readers that even the most distinguished experts make mistakes that can be avoided through examination. Critical thinking questions give students the opportunity to reflect on preceding essays. Stories from all areas of psychology appeal to learners beyond subfields of psychology.
Peers, Procedures, and Panic: A Careless Error That Offered a Lifetime of Benefits
Peers, Procedures, and Panic: A Careless Error That Offered a Lifetime of Benefits
It was late on a Wednesday evening. The light from my faculty office was the only one shining in an otherwise empty and eerily silent psychology department. I had just completed my postdoctoral fellowship only two years prior, and I had hoped that the solitude on this winter night would allow me to make significant progress on a manuscript recently invited for resubmission.
This paper had been especially frustrating to write. I had written what I hoped was a paradigm-shifting theoretical analysis of prior work on adolescent aggression, and I had data from two empirical studies to support my hypotheses. The paper had been ...
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