This year, psychological scientists tackled profound and varied questions to help us better understand ourselves and the ...

They're especially useful for communicating with people who've lost the ability to speak or move their body.At the extreme, one brain-computer interface prototype can decipher imagined sentences, and ...

Dr Becca Levy, a professor of public health and psychology, lit the touchpaper of this research at the turn of the millennium.As a young graduate student, she had just spent a semester in Japan, ...

The Observer has compiled a list of 2025 guides, tutorials, and manuals designed to support psychological scientists as they ...

Memory is better for event boundaries than for information throughout an event. For example, people might be more likely to ...

The college years once ranked among the happiest times of most people’s lives, but that’s changed. Young adults face an escalating mental health crisis, fueled in part by loneliness. In 2023, 19% of ...

For many in the U.S., the season most associated with giving, receiving and volunteering runs from Thanksgiving through Hanukkah and Christmas to New Year’s.But around the world, a giving season or ...

Participate in APS's social media video competition designed to bring the importance of psychological science to the ...

Understanding how the human brain learns to perceive objects is one of the ultimate challenges in neuroscience.  In 2003, Pawan Sinha, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ...

In some parts of the world, record numbers of people are being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In the United States, for example, government researchers last year ...

Have you ever reflected on what an ungrateful wretch you are? Instead of being thankful that a delicious beverage awaits at your favorite coffee shop, you fume because the person ahead in line ordered ...

What’s really going on inside the brain of an altruist? Why do altruists care so much more for a stranger who needs help? Why are they so willing to give away a kidney?In this episode, ...