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, ...

Researchers explore how dampening, defined as minimizing positive emotions, can relate to depression symptoms in a new study.

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 ...

The study only shows correlation, not causation. But it builds on decades of previous research, including clinical trials, that suggests that people who are more able to let go of grudges tend to be ...

De-escalation training is thought to be a solution for mitigating police violence. Can research on its effectiveness be ...

The Spence Award recipient answered a few questions about his research on the interactions between human psychology and ...

APS sent a letter to congress urging them to preserve the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) at ...

In Category B, human therapists’ communications are evaluated by AI. The system evaluates the treatment, summarizes the ...

In 2022, even though research on white parents discussing racism was still emerging, my colleagues and I argued that they needed to have these conversations with their children. At the time, we ...

Partisanship, whether you support a particular person, group, or cause, has long been known as a key factor in misinformed beliefs—from COVID-19 to Brexit. But how does partisanship drive bias and ...

My son was 14 weeks old when he made his first unmistakable whole-body belly laugh. In the months that followed, his laughter was accompanied by playful provocations — grabbing my hair and shrieking ...