An eclectic collection of seven articles and four commentaries showcase the power and ongoing challenges of multidisciplinary ...

Dogs] have different relationships in different places of the world, and so when we approach understanding dogs as a species, we do so from this narrow perspective of Western culture,” said Espinosa, ...

This wasn’t just in my head. In a 2017 study led by the evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar, researchers at the University of Oxford found that nights out with friends support mental and emotional ...

Matthias Mehl, a social psychologist at the University of Arizona, who helped conduct the study, recently set out to replicate his findings with a larger data set: audio from more than two thousand ...

APS issues comments on the Office of Management and Budget's rule proposed on May 29th, 2026. The proposal would strip the current checks and balance system ensuring funding is given on the basis of ...

It’s not gene equals disease,” Valerie Reyna, a professor and neuroscience researcher at Cornell University, explained to me. Although a specific gene may elevate the risk for a particular ailment, ...

You might think spending more time relaxing would make you happier.But recent research suggests that having more leisure time doesn’t necessarily make people more likely to rate their day as happy.

The award supplements the sabbatical allowance provided by each researcher’s institution for the 2026–2027 academic year, ...

On “The Interview,” Laurie Santos, a cognitive scientist and a professor at Yale, says that Americans think about happiness in unique ways, and they have for a long time.

There’s a reason why no one ever talks about “the bad old days.” A nostalgic longing for bygone times—and a sense that the present doesn’t stack up well against the past—is a common ...

In a special issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science (Vol. 35, Issue 3, June 2026), former Editor-in-Chief and APS Fellow Robert Goldstone (Indiana University) pulls together a collection ...

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