What role does motivation play in IQ testing?

New psychology research at Penn demonstrates a correlation between a test-taker’s motivation and that person’s performance on an IQ test and, more important, between that performance and a person’s future success.   Angela Lee Duckworth, an assistant professor of psychology, led the research, which involved two related studies.

Evan Lerner

Penn Research Using Frog Embryos Leads to New Understanding of Cardiac Development

PHILADELPHIA—During embryonic development, cells migrate to their eventual location in the adult body plan and begin to differentiate into specific cell types. Thanks to new research at the University of Pennsylvania, there is new insight into how these processes regulate tissues formation in the heart.

Evan Lerner