Love Lets Us Learn: Psychological Science Makes the Case for Policies That Help Children
Adverse early experiences, quite literally, can kill. In her latest presidential column for the APS Observer, APS President Alison Gopnik, who studies learning and development at the University of Cal...
1 Sep 202217min
Underweight and Overexposed: How Women’s Perceptions of Thinness Are Distorted
How people judge others’ bodies might be influenced by what they are used to seeing in magazines, TV, or social media. Recent research suggests that women’s judgments about other women’s bodies can be...
25 Aug 202216min
The August Collection: Attitude Changes, Cognition in Lemurs, and Much More
How have our biases and attitudes changed in the last decade? Are there sex or gender differences in verbal skills? And do the impressions of personality we form from someone’s face depend on our cult...
18 Aug 202222min
A Paradox in the Field: Mental-Health Disorders Among Psychologists
It’s been estimated that at least one third of the population will experience mental disorders and difficulties in their lifetimes, from anxiety to depression. Those affected can be helped by people w...
8 Aug 202220min
The July Collection: Five Research Briefs
What gives away a deceitful 911 caller who might have committed a crime? From a cross-cultural spin on the classic “marshmallow experiment” to deceitful 911 homicide calls to what true smiles do, new ...
20 Juli 202223min
The New Riddle of the Sphinx: Life History and Psychological Science
Life history—the transformations that occur throughout the lifespan—shapes the human mind. This idea cuts across all the subdisciplines of psychology and underlies the answers to the two main question...
30 Juni 202217min
I Don’t Care If It’s Fake News, I Believe It
While the past several decades can rightly be called the “information age,” the rise of social media platforms makes is seem like the past few years could be considered the misinformation age. The vir...
23 Juni 202216min
2022 Spence Award Mini Episode: Brian Anderson and Habit-Reinforcing Behavior
The winners of the 2022 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions represent some of the brightest and most innovative young psychological scientists in the world. In ...
16 Juni 202212min
