With the stresses of daily life, it can often seem difficult to find moments to smell the proverbial roses....“You can make small changes in your life that have big effects,” said Darwin Guevarra, an ...

Optimism and pessimism aren’t unchanging traits; they tend to shift with age, although the trajectories vary from culture to culture. Nor is optimism an unquestioned good. “Extreme optimism might not ...

To improve willpower, it boils down to “just try harder,” said Kentaro Fujita, a professor of psychology at Ohio State University who studies self-regulation and decision making. But self-control ...

Firestone and the members of the Perception & Mind Laboratory, 2024.Chaz Firestone is a cognitive psychologist and associate ...

Indeed, studies have shown that having more distributed attention, where a child is able to absorb the world around them and ...

Education is often thought of as an equalizer, as a way to allow anyone who works hard to pursue their aspirations. However, ...

A new study provides a potential explanation for ethnic minorities shifting their voting preferences to the political right.

Podcast: This guest's research uncovers a surprising illusion: Repeated experiences, which are more vividly remembered, are ...

In adults, three key areas of the brain are known to respond specifically to faces. These include the fusiform face area (FFA), the superior temporal sulcus (STS), and the medial prefrontal cortex ...

In this special edition of the Student Notebook, early-career scholars from across the APSSC community share their ...

APS Board Member Teresa Bajo has been honored with the Psychonomic Society’s Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership ...

When someone you care about lies to you, you’ll probably feel betrayed, furious—and maybe even foolish, because how could you possibly have been duped like that? “People start to question themselves ...