Giving Psychological Science Away The Role of Applications Courses

logical science is obvious to those in the field, but too often underappreciated outside of it. In this article, I suggest some reasons for that gap, including confusion between the relevance of psychological science and its actual applica-tion, which can lead to hype; the interdisciplinary na-ture of applied science, which can obscure the credit due to the field; and the considerable difficulty of moving basic research into application, including the potential for re-sistance to the products we deliver. I suggest that our own students constitute a relatively underutilized audience for demonstrating that psychological science has been critical to applications, and I describe an applied cognitive science course that is intended to make the case to them. A decade ago, a group of psychological scientists convened in Santa Barbara, CA, for a ‘‘summit’ ’ meeting, with the lofty goal o