The former APS president asked ChatGPT to describe its implicit biases. Its answer steered her research in a whole new ...

From childhood, honesty is framed as a moral north star. Tell the truth. Don’t lie. Say what you mean, no matter the cost. But adult relationships quickly expose the limits of that lesson. Instead of ...

Congrats to APS Fellows Deanna Barch, M.J. Crockett, Tor Wager!Deanna M. Barch, Washington University in St. Louis, and Tor D. Wager, Dartmouth College, will each receive an Atkinson Prize in ...

Teaching: Why are U.S. middle-aged adults experiencing increasingly high levels of loneliness and depression? A three-part lesson brings this cutting-edge research into the classroom.

Is tech rewiring childhood or exposing what's already broken? Jonathan Haidt, Catherine Price, and a Gen Z advocate debate social media bans, attention and what "fun" looks like off-screen.

The winning videos included research on economic stressors, language processing in bilingual speakers, interactive learning, ...

For much of my life, winter was something to be endured. Preferably, indoors....Another surprise finding: The emotional benefits are just as powerful in winter as in the rest of the year. That was the ...

Today nearly everyone in America has become just as silly. People are “exactly like the pigeons,” says Peter Balsam, a professor of psychology at Columbia University. Because, he says, we carry around ...

My son was 14 weeks old when he made his first unmistakable whole-body belly laugh. In the months that followed, his laughter was accompanied by playful provocations — grabbing my hair and shrieking ...

The psychologist first became intrigued by the phenomenon decades ago, while he was setting up an experiment about the effects of drinking on anxiety and heart rate.Women had been excluded from many ...

Psychological science has never been more societally relevant, says APS President James Pennebaker in his third presidential column.