The former APS president asked ChatGPT to describe its implicit biases. Its answer steered her research in a whole new ...

Congrats to APS Fellows Deanna Barch, M.J. Crockett, Tor Wager!Deanna M. Barch, Washington University in St. Louis, and Tor D. Wager, Dartmouth College, will each receive an Atkinson Prize in ...

Is tech rewiring childhood or exposing what's already broken? Jonathan Haidt, Catherine Price, and a Gen Z advocate debate social media bans, attention and what "fun" looks like off-screen.

Teaching: Why are U.S. middle-aged adults experiencing increasingly high levels of loneliness and depression? A three-part lesson brings this cutting-edge research into the classroom.

Psychological science has never been more societally relevant, says APS President James Pennebaker in his third presidential column.

For much of my life, winter was something to be endured. Preferably, indoors....Another surprise finding: The emotional benefits are just as powerful in winter as in the rest of the year. That was the ...

The winning videos included research on economic stressors, language processing in bilingual speakers, interactive learning, ...

Today nearly everyone in America has become just as silly. People are “exactly like the pigeons,” says Peter Balsam, a professor of psychology at Columbia University. Because, he says, we carry around ...

During the 2025 APS Global Summit, the APS Student Caucus organized a roundtable session to bring together scholars with ...

Are you a verbal learner or a visual learner? Chances are, you’ve pegged yourself or your children as either one or the other and rely on study techniques that suit your individual learning needs. And ...

Two researchers advocate for new AI-based measures not because they offer measurement free from error, but rather because they avoid specific problematic forms of error linked to overreliance on ...

More than 80% of the world’s population lives in countries other than the United States, Canada, and Europe, which dominate psychological science nonetheless. The Global Spotlight series is a small ...