By Caroline Verdier, Managing Editor of Cognitive Science I’ve been working with two extraordinary people for the past—well, who’s counting the years? Wayne Gray and Rick Cooper will soon step down as the executive editors of their respective journals, Topics...
By Ava Ma de Sousa This post was originally published on Cogbites. Figure 1. Image created with Canva. Reference: Amodio, D., & Cikara, M. (2020). The social neuroscience of prejudice. In press at Annual Review of Psychology. Is racism rooted in the brain?...
By Keri Carvalho Ask any researcher who studies racial health disparities, and they will tell you that even before COVID-19, we were already in a public health crisis. Black Americans were already disproportionately affected by chronic health conditions,...
By Valerie van Mulukom Introduction Unexpected and often unpleasant events are the name of the game this year, 2020. From a cluster of pneumonia cases to a full-blown coronavirus pandemic, killer hornets, and a bitterly fought USA general election, to name a few....
By Melissa Troyer Sketch by Natalia Vélez 2020 is a year of the (perhaps shouldn’t-have-been-so-) unexpected. The Big Topics are on the table. A global pandemic; civil unrest; a call to action against white supremacy and the structural racism built into the...
