The APS Mentorship Program, designed to help members make connections with other professionals across the globe, welcomes 147 ...

Responding to a recent call for the development of a psychology of science, we examine how scientists manage empirical anomalies, a routine yet consequential challenge in scientific practice, and how ...

AI chatbots are becoming more and more a part of childhood and adolescence....ANNE MAHEUX: Kids who do have worse mental health are seeking out AI to help them. But that AI use may be exacerbating ...

Image above: Capitol police lead a rehearsal parade for the 60th Presidential Inauguration in Washington D.C., Jan. 12, 2025. More than 5,000 military members from across all branches of the U.S.

If you often find yourself lying wide awake at night — when you should be sleeping — stewing over an argument you had earlier in the day or worrying about an important upcoming meeting, you’re not ...

Launched by the Association for Psychological Science in 2006, Perspectives on Psychological Science is a bimonthly journal publishing an eclectic mix of provocative reports and articles, including ...

Why do researchers analyzing the same body of evidence reach different conclusions about whether social-media use poses risks to adolescent mental health? We offer a partial explanation: Two common ...

If you have a job that makes you sit at a desk most of the time, by the end of the workday you might feel stiff and exhausted.At that point, “it might seem overwhelming to ...

Abstract Psychological science, including research on child cognition, behavior, and development, has traditionally relied on convenience samples drawn from a narrow range of soci ...

Drawing from social, cognitive, organizational, and relationship science, we argue that objectifying others can compromise the capacity to form close relationships, collaborate effectively, and ...

A long-standing debate in the study of cognitive aging centers around the issue of whether aging results in a selective deficit in inhibitory control beyond general slowing of cognitive processing.