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Staying human in the age of artificial intelligence: Psychology as a hub major to cultivate resilient graduates
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Staying human in the age of artificial intelligence: Psychology as a hub major to cultivate resilient graduates

Lisa Durrance Blalock and Vanessa R Rainey
Scholarship of teaching and learning in psychology, Vol.online ahead of print
04/09/2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/stl0000482

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Abstract

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the workforce and challenging educators to prepare students for an unpredictable future. Amid this change, core human skills, such as critical thinking, creativity, and interpersonal communication, remain essential and irreplaceable. In this chapter, we argue that psychology is uniquely positioned to cultivate the cognitive, interpersonal, and applied skills needed to thrive in a technology-driven world as a collaborative hub major. Grounded in the American Psychological Association’s learning goals, psychology programs foster critical competencies such as critical thinking and scientific reasoning, data literacy and technological fluency, creative problem solving, and interpersonal and cross-cultural communication. These skills can be utilized to meet the demands of the AI era in an ethical way. We provide concrete examples of how the major can foster these skills, along with program-level initiatives to ensure curricula remain relevant in a rapidly changing workforce. Moreover, we discuss creative ways for universities to integrate psychological literacy skills into other disciplines that are facing significant impacts from AI. By focusing on the human skills developed in psychologically literate graduates, universities can not only adapt but also lead in an increasingly complex, AI-augmented world. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)

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