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 ...

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 ...

Image above: Occupy Wall Street movement, 2011. Boris D. Leak, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Class identity—whether a person identifies as upper, middle, or lower class—shapes how we behave, ...

In early 2023, Mahzarin Banaji was meeting with her student Tessa Charlesworth (who is now at Northwestern University) when the topic of ChatGPT arose. Banaji had heard of the tool but hadn’t yet ...

Over the last 50 years, political rights for lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals have significantly broadened in some countries, while they have narrowed in others. In many parts of the world ...