The world's fastest-adopted technology is now a fixture of teenage life. We don't yet know what it's doing to the work of growing up.

Dopamine sites play with the notion that much of the pleasure of an indulgence comes from the anticipation of it.In behavioral economic terms, imaginary purchases offer anticipatory utility — the good ...

Kean outlines her plenary topics for the 2027 APS Annual Convention in Seattle, Washington.

Talking about yourself feels pleasurable, and there’s science to back that up, says Leslie John, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School and author of the book Revealing. She ...

The 2027 recipients have advanced research in sleep disorders, cross-cultural comparisons of parenting, emotional regulation, and many other topics.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...