Psychologists - Topics

Is joining a national psychology society worth the dues for an early-career researcher? Are speciality certification boards in psychology mainly a way to collect fees? How do professional psychology associations lobby governments on mental health funding? Are student research awards in psychology worth listing on a CV? What is the controversy over psychology awards named after figures with disputed legacies? Do early-career research awards actually predict who stays in academia? Has anyone independently reanalyzed Stanley Milgram's original obedience data? What is the difference between the APA and the Association for Psychological Science? Why do psychology associations struggle to keep members past the first year? Milgram's obedience experiments made him famous — but did his own students trust him? What changes for a psychologist after winning a lifetime achievement award? How did the joint work of Kahneman and Tversky get translated for a general audience? Why has no clinical psychologist ever won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine? What happens at the APA annual convention besides poster sessions? What is the International Union of Psychological Science and who funds it? How did the field respond to the fraud cases involving Diederik Stapel and Marc Hauser? Which living psychologist has the most citations and does that number mean anything? What makes Oliver Sacks's case histories read like short stories instead of clinical notes? How long does it take to become a licensed psychologist in the United States? What is the salary difference between a psychologist in private practice and one in a hospital? What is the etiquette for interviewing a psychologist about their own published work? How many divisions does the APA have and what do they actually do? How much prize money comes with the biggest psychology research awards? How does the APA ethics code handle a psychologist who witnesses a colleague's misconduct? Do student memberships in psychology societies ever lead to real jobs? How do regional psychology associations differ from the national bodies? Why do some countries license psychologists through a single national board? How accurate is the film A Beautiful Mind about John Nash and his schizophrenia? What should you look for in a psychology biography beyond the famous experiments? How do psychology associations handle complaints against their own members? Do forensic psychologists earn more than their colleagues in schools and clinics? What ethics complaints most often get psychologists disciplined by their boards?