If a friend is struggling with a big challenge or feels defeated, it’s usually our first instinct to offer words of comfort and understanding. But often it’s not so easy to do this for ...

Podcast: New research outlines ten key design and implementation considerations for ESM studies, helping researchers apply ...

Such courage and self-sacrifice toward kin can certainly be inspiring, but moral beauty is most striking in acts of goodness toward others with whom one does not have obvious ties, exhibiting a degree ...

A healthy diet is a goal for many consumers, but a recent study found something that can deter people from eating more healthful food: They worry about it spoiling....“There are so many different ...

Cognitive neuroscientist Laura Pritschet, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, is fascinated by how female hormones, including estrogen and ...

A meta-analysis examines the progress scientific psychology has made in strengthening its practices and results.

Securing funding for graduate research is a significant milestone, and, for me, receiving the Crossing Boundaries Research ...

Science seldom works in straight lines. Sometimes it’s “applied” to solve specific problems: Let’s put people on the moon; we need a Covid vaccine. Much of the time it’s “basic,” aimed at ...

Assistant Professor of Psychology at Yale University and 2025 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award recipient Julia Leonard’s ...

Teaching: Here’s a strategy to help students think critically about the state of the science on alcohol use disorder.

Dr. Sbarra celebrates the end of the semester with then graduate students, Dr. Rita Law and Dr. Lauren Lee, December ...

Image above: APS Editorial Fellows, clockwise from top left: Pankhuri Aggarwal, Sarah Brislin, Darwin Guevarra, Karoline Huth ...