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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Issues arise when the body fails to control the on–off switch, says Wendy Berry Mendes, a psychologist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Stress becomes problematic if the body overreacts ...

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

An international team of researchers has proposed an overall definition of QRPs and published a comprehensive list of them—as ...