The Industrial Revolution was the birthplace of social science as we know it. Entire disciplines such as sociology, political science and economics came into being to analyze enormous social ...

Ten articles collectively illustrate the power of temperament-based frameworks to better understand psychopathology.

A few of the scholars I interviewed who defended meditation acknowledged some of Britton’s findings, at least implicitly. Richard Davidson, a University of Wisconsin at Madison professor of psychiatry ...

Are you naturally anxious? Highly adventurous? More argumentative than you’d like to admit?...The findings, published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, reaffirmed scientists’ understanding that ...

Many people think that AI is going to gain consciousness and take over the world, but I’ve never been among them. That’s mostly because I believe the human mind contains depths and complexities that ...

It’s become a familiar TikTok trope.A millennial walks into a coffee shop and tries to order something. There are countless iterations, but the basic dynamic is the same: The cashier responds with a ...

Abstract The shift to a society organized around digital data has come with significant—although sometimes still underappreciated—implications for psychological research. In p ...

APS’s new journal will champion work that “dares to challenge convention” while upholding the highest standards of research integrity.

Abstract Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly transforming the context in which adolescents develop, presenting both opportunities and risks. Adolescence is a sen ...

Abstract Reward- and punishment-associated (i.e., Pavlovian) cues can trigger specific responses that interfere with learning appropriate actions. Prior work has shown that reward ...

However, previous studies suggest that people tend not to engage with source information during reading, and very little research exists on how source credibility and readers’ beliefs interact on ...

Prevailing theories of cognitive aging depict late life as a period of compensatory decline—an effort to preserve performance despite progressive neural deterioration. We propose instead that aging ...