For most of the spring semester, students and faculty members heading to William James Hall—the 15-story home of the Psychology and Sociology departments and the Social Studies concentration—will face delays as they travel to higher floors.One of three elevators in William James Hall has grounded to a halt, frustrating faculty and students alike. The elevator is not broken but is undergoing renovation as part of a larger upgrade process begun last July, according to building manager William J. Santoro. >>>

New findings from IU Kelley School of Business professor Herman Aguinis suggest hundreds of thousands of college students have been affected by varied predictions of standardized test 
performance.Aguinis’ recent study, published in the Journal of Educational Psychology, is drawing attention to the contextual reception of tests like the SAT and GRE in different institutions, according to an IU press release.He and study coauthors argued admission policies, grading approaches and academic support are different at each school, raising questions as to how useful and fair standardized >>>

IMAGE: This is Herman Aguinis. view more Credit: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A little over two years after the College Board released research rebutting findings by an Indiana University Kelley School of Business professor concerning the board's testing methods, the professor and his colleagues have raised new questions in a paper about test bias, based on the testing service's own data. The paper, to be published in the Journal of Educational Psychology, suggests that hundreds of thousands of college students have been affected by differential and varied >>>

Officials from the Department of Defense and the American Psychological Association will meet again soon to hash out what exactly should be the role of psychologists in interrogating, and allegedly torturing, terrorism suspects.The upcoming meeting, reported on Sunday by the New York Times follows the delivery of this request from the Pentagon to the APA that its psychologists return to Guantánamo Bay.This summer, psychologists in the APA voted to prohibit its counselors from taking part in interrogation of prisoners at Guantánamo. On October 28, the APA sent a letter to the Pentagon letting >>>

By Ed Coghlan Dr. Beth Darnall Beth Darnall PhD is Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Pain Medicine at Stanford University and treats individuals and groups at the Stanford Pain Management Center. She has been a leading voice in arguing for the importance of more access to pain psychology services for the nation’s large chronic pain population. She is chair of the American Academy of Pain Medicine Task Force on Pain Psychology and late last year asked the National Pain Report’s help in getting pain patient reaction to a survey. (Here’s the story) She shared some insights from >>>

The Pentagon has asked the country’s top psychologists organization to end its ban on psychologists participating in interrogations at Guantanamo Bay and other facilities. “Although the Department of Defense (DoD) understands the desire of the American psychology profession to make a strong statement regarding reports about the role of former military psychologists more than a dozen years ago, the issue now is to apply the lessons learned to guide future conduct,” according to a memo sent to the American Psychological Association (APA).The New York Times first reported the memo and an accompanying >>>

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The psychological side of maintaining a healthy lifestyle includes what Dr. Hrabowski refers to as a biopsychosocial model, an approach that includes biological, psychological and social factors. He says his role isn’t to educate about what is or isn’t healthy so much as about what prevents people from implanting change toward healthy choices. “One major obstacle is their definition of self-control and will-power,” Dr. Hrabowski said. “A lot of people will perceive it as something innate and something they should have and just be able to do. There is an expectation that it should just >>>

Free Will Steve Taylor says of determinism: “I refute it thus!” One of the main trends of recent academic culture has been to take freedom and autonomy away from human beings. I don’t mean that professors armed with guns have been locking up their intellectual opponents; I mean that from sociology to philosophy, from psychology to neuroscience, a common theme has been to try to show that our ‘free will’ is either severely limited or non-existent, and that we have much less control over our own lives than we’d like to believe. It was one of the central beliefs of behaviourist >>>

David Rolfe/Winston-Salem Journal John Woodmansee Woodmansee works on a balky tub faucet for a Shepherd’s Center client. Woodmansee is also a former associate professor of psychology. >>>