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A special series of session summaries from this year's conference is now available. The series offers a glimpse at the incredible content from this year's conference. Visit the PS website to read the series, then head over to the Virtual Psychonomics website to watch these talks and hundreds more.

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The Psychonomic Society is pleased to announce that Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CR:PI) has been accepted for inclusion in the SSCI/Impact Factor ratings from Clarivate. CR:PI's first Impact Factor will be received in June 2021, looking at citations in 2020 to articles published in 2018 and 2019.

Congratulations to Jeremy Wolfe (Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital), CR:PI's Editor-in-Chief, as well as the entire CR:PI Editorial Team, on their incredible accomplishment.

CR:PI Special Issue: Systemic Racism: Cognitive Consequences and Interventions

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CR:PI) publishes “use-inspired basic research”: fundamental and theoretically relevant research that grows from hypotheses about real-world problems. Systemic Racism is an urgent, real-world problem with implications for every area of cognitive research. The purpose of this special issue is to add to the scientific understanding of the cognitive roots of and fallout from minority status, discrimination, police violence, vigilantism, implicit bias, and more. View the Call for Papers.

Individual differences in susceptibility to false memories for COVID-19 fake news

By Ciara M. Greene & Gillian Murphy 

In an investigation of individual differences in vulnerability to false memories of COVID-19 – related items, participants were probed for their knowledge on the topic, how they learned about the pandemic, reported anxiety about the virus, and reasoning ability. One finding was that considering oneself knowledgeable didn't mean that they were. Participants with higher anxiety had an increase in memory for true but not false information. And participants with high analytic reasoning had fewer memories for true and false information. Read the article.

More from Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

By Laurie O’Neill, Rahman Rasyidi, Ronan Hastings & Auguste M. P. von Bayern 

But questions remain whether they understand the functional usefulness of the tools they created. Read the article.

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This past summer, the Psychonomic Society Governing Board and Diversity & Inclusion Committee released a Statement on Racism, condemning structural racism and outlining a series of actions the Society is undertaking in order to better understand and counter racism.

Members of the Society who are considering making additional year-end charitable contributions are encouraged to donate to the SPARK Society (donate), J. Frank Yates Student Conference Award (donate), and other causes dedicated to fighting racism and to enhancing the safety and well-being of victims of discrimination.