Special Episode I: APS 2023 Spence Awardees on Fresh Starts, Time Perception, and the Well-being of Black Families
Research contributions can be transformative in various ways, such as the establishment of new approaches or paradigms within a field of psychological science, or the development or advancement of bou...
9 Mars 202330min
Is Cheating Just a Symptom (and Not the Cause) of Declining Relationships?
Does infidelity predict an unhappy relationship? Or is it the other way around? Can a relationship recover after infidelity? In a recent study published in Psychological Science, researchers found th...
23 Feb 202314min
Stop Oversimplifying Mental Health Diagnoses
Diagnoses often oversimplify complex mental health problems. How can researchers and practitioners avoid oversimplifications, improve research, and provide more effective and customized clinical pract...
9 Feb 202320min
A Very Human Answer to One of AI’s Deepest Dilemmas
Imagine that we designed a fully intelligent, autonomous robot that acted on the world to accomplish its goals. How could we make sure that it would want the same things we do? In her latest president...
26 Jan 202312min
Top 10 Articles of 2022: Opinionated Fetuses! Cheating Spouses! And Much More
Do fetuses care about what their mothers eat? When do spouses cheat? Does the use of social media predict depression and anxiety? How can we understand and address older adults’ loneliness? Some of t...
12 Jan 202327min
What You Know Changes What and How You See
Can what we know about an object change the way we see it? Or the way we feel about it? If so, could that be because different brain areas process different features of any given object, such as what ...
15 Dec 202215min
Children, Creativity, and the Real Key to Intelligence
Human innovation will always be the essential complement to the cultural technologies we create, including artificial intelligence. In her latest presidential column for the APS Observer, APS Presiden...
1 Dec 202214min
Failure and Flourishing
In the final discussion with social psychologist David Myers, a professor of psychology at Hope College in Michigan, APS’s Ludmila Nunes talks with him about the third section of his book, in which he...
17 Nov 202217min
