Sue Frantz

Does the quality of your microphone affect how others perceive you? Experimental design practice - Psych Matters During the COVID lockdown, Yale psychological scientist Brian Scholl “found himself reacting unexpectedly to two of his colleagues. One was a close collaborator with whom Scholl usually saw eye to eye...

Time to upgrade your microphone? This post ends with suggestions for a student/faculty research project. suefrantz.com/2025/09/20/d...

What wisdom do the elders of our communities have to share? A class discussion and authentic assessment - Psych Matters This is the sixth in a series of posts based on Becca Levy’s book Breaking the age code: How your beliefs about aging determine how long & well you live. **** Near the end of chapter five, which is on...

I hope a psych instructor tries the authentic assessment I suggest here. I'd love to hear how it goes! Also, I called the Misericordia Place Life Advice Line to hear about moose hunting.

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Beliefs about aging affect expression of gene associated with Alzheimer’s - Psych Matters This is the fifth in a series of posts based on Becca Levy’s book Breaking the age code: How your beliefs about aging determine how long & well you live. **** Our risk of developing late-onset Alzheim...

While the specific mechanisms are yet unknown, this may be an example of epigenetics at work.

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I'm thrilled to announce that this article just published.

Bernstein, D. A., & Frantz, S. (2025). Teaching an introductory psychology course that matters. American Psychologist. Advance online publication. dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0...

ResearchGate pre-pub draft: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

At the American Psychological Association convention? Visit Linda M. Woolf for APA President near the registration area! Get a ribbon for your badge!

Assumptions about older people: Class discussion - Psych Matters I’ve been thinking a lot lately about aging. Several years ago, I had a friend in her 80s tell me that internally she didn’t feel any different than she did when she was in her 40s. While I’m gaining ...

The @stpteachpsych.bsky.social late career/retirement affinity group has been chatting about late career/retirement stuff. I finally picked up Becca Levy's book Breaking the Age Code. This is the first of what I imagine will be several posts on the topic. suefrantz.com/2025/08/01/a...

How many of us have learned and continue to learn from this amazing teacher/author? So honored and grateful for Dr. David Myers' endorsement!

Members of the American Psychological Association, time to vote! Click on the link in your email (APA Election Admin) or go to apa.org & log into your MyAPA page. Look at all the excellent candidates & rank order. I recommend #1 Linda M. Woolf! I commit to working for you! Let's do this together!

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📣In case you missed it: With growing uncertainty about federal research funding in the United States, SPSP members have compiled a helpful collection of non-governmental funding sources. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this guide!

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So honored to receive the Society for the Psychology of Women - APA Divsion 35's #1 and Sole endorsement!! Linda M. Woolf for APA President-Elect. We are Many Voices, One Psychology!

So grateful and honored to receive an endorsement from former APA President Dr. Melba Vasquez.

Linda M. Woolf for APA President-Elect

So grateful and honored to receive an endorsement from former APA President Dr. Sandy Shullman.

Linda M. Woolf for APA President-Elect

So honored to receive the Society for the Teaching of Psychology's #1 and Sole endorsement!! Linda M. Woolf for APA President-Elect

Friends, are you going to the American Psychological Association Convention in Denver? We would love to have you join our team as a volunteer at the “Linda 4 APA President” campaign table! Sign up here: link.suefrantz.com/Linda4APA-ca...

Contingency management for abstaining from recreational drugs: Discussion for the learning or therapy chapters - Psych Matters What information do public policy makers need to help them decide if we should use public funds to pay people who are addicted to recreational drugs to stay clean? Before giving students this question...

Contingency management for drug addiction works. suefrantz.com/2025/07/22/c...

PsychSessions: Conversations about Teaching N' Stuff The PsychSessions podcast is co-hosted by Garth Neufeld from Cascadia College and Eric Landrum from Boise State University. We leverage our connections with psychology teachers from all levels (high ...

Friends, Garth Neufeld and I are delighted to announce this 35-minute Psych Sessions side bar episode with American Psychological Association presidential candidate Linda M. Woolf ( @linda4apa ). psychsessionspodcast.libsyn.com/sb27-linda-w...

For more info, please visit www.linda4apa.com

Need a new cross-cultural example for your Intro Psych sensation and perception chapter? suefrantz.com/2025/07/16/t...

There are four candidates — all good -- running for American Psychological Association President-Elect. Regardless of the outcome, APA will be in good hands. You can find information about the candidates in this month's Monitor at www.apa.org/monitor/2025....

Up your Intro Psych knowledge: Recommended books - Psych Matters Intro Psych is the most difficult course we teach because we are not experts in the vast majority of the content. We rely on our Intro Psych textbooks—the one we adopted for our class and a stable of ...

This week's blog post includes shout outs to Christina Luzzi, the Psych One Conference, Ken Carter, and Kurt Gray. suefrantz.com/2025/07/07/u...

🎉 Congratulations to Drs. Stephen Chew & Susan Nolan! 🎉

We’re thrilled to present the 2025 STP Presidential Citations to two extraordinary educators whose lifetime contributions have transformed the teaching of psychology.

👏 Join us in celebrating their impact this October at ACT!

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Practice reading a journal article: Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research - Psych Matters Are you looking for new ways to introduce original psychological research to your Intro Psych students? In this freely available journal article, authors identified 14 articles from the open access Ps...

For Psych faculty looking for easy-to-read journal articles for their students, here are some ideas from Psi Chi.
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F1 road rage: An emotion regulation discussion - Psych Matters Photo by Jonathan Borba on Pexels.com It’s not unusual to see professional athletes lose their composure. Given the intensity of emotions athletes may experience during competition, it’s a wonder that...

Another reason to discuss emotion in Intro Psych.

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The doll study: Thoughts from the National Museum of African American History and Culture - Psych Matters While in Washington, DC, for the Association for Psychological Science annual convention, I took an afternoon to visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture. I was especially int...

While in DC for the Association for Psychological Science convention, I visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture. I was especially interested in the Brown v. Board of Education exhibit that mentions Kenneth & Mamie Clark. Here are thoughts.

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Registration is now open for STP's Annual Conference on Teaching, October 16-18, 2025 in Minneapolis, MN.

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We are excited to see you all soon!

Researchers used AI to post to Reddit: A discussion of ethics - Psych Matters Unnamed researchers at the University of Zurich created 34 false Reddit accounts that represented diverse demographics, such as “a male rape survivor, a trauma counselor, and a Black person who disagr...

Looking for a new discussion starter on ethics in social science research? suefrantz.com/2025/06/03/r...

The old “tug-a-roo”: Experimental design practice - Psych Matters In Agnes, a comic strip by Tony Cochran, the protagonist is an eccentric little girl who lives with her grandmother and who often shares her quirky ideas with her best friend, a girl nicknamed Trout. ...

For Intro Psych instructors, here is a very light hypothesis you can use for experimental design practice in Intro Psych. It's a good one for getting students thinking about operational definitions.

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Happy fourth bookiversary to the <i>Better Posters</i> book! I can’t quite believe it’s been four years since the Better Posters book was released. And I am even more incredulous that it’s been bought...

Faculty, before your or your students' next poster presentation, read this book. Or at least read this blog.

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Science’s ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ contest is open again! This year’s competition has a special category on artificial intelligence research or quantum science—no Ph.D. needed

Can you explain your doctoral research through interpretive dance?

The 17th annual #DanceYourPhD competition is open! Submit by 28 March for a chance to win $2000: scim.ag/3BcKi0e