The findings may have implications for the classroom, as well as for broader efforts to reduce socioeconomic disparities in ...

A great irony of this contemporary insecurity about attention is that, compared with the rest of the animal kingdom, the human attention span is really not that impressive. Although we have many ...

The APS William James Fellow Award honors APS members for their lifetime of significant intellectual contributions to the basic science of psychology. Recipients must be APS members recognized ...

There’s plenty of research on children and young adults, and plenty of research on senior citizens, but what about middle-aged people? It can sometimes feel like they’re the forgotten middle child of ...

APS welcomes nine psychological researchers to the third cohort of APS Editorial Fellows.

If computers are flawed analysts of straightforward productivity, imagine, now, applying that same technology to something as complex as the constellation of emotions expressible by humans. Study ...

As generative AI and large language models (LLMs) rapidly reshape the research landscape, psychological scientists are seeking guidance on how to responsibly integrate these tools into their work. The ...

APS Fellows, Charter Members, and award winners have been elected to both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the ...

Rebecca Schlegel, a professor of psychology and brain sciences at Texas A&M University who studies the “true self,” told me people can feel that they become more authentic over time. In her research, ...

Many people have ambitious goals to improve their health: work out, meditate, eat healthier, get to bed earlier. But so often, those good intentions to improve your well-being can fail to translate to ...

We are at an inflection point. The world is now nearly evenly divided between democracies and autocracies, and the share of the global population living under autocratic regimes has surged from 50% to ...