As well, in recent years, researchers have found ways to influence dreams by communicating with people while they are in a lucid state. In 2021, Ken Paller and Karen Konkoly of Northwestern University ...

Overthinking might not strike you as a strenuous activity. You don’t have to move a muscle to spend hours imagining worst-case scenarios, debating choices or playing the day’s headlines on a loop. And ...

The former APS president asked ChatGPT to describe its implicit biases. Its answer steered her research in a whole new ...

There are plenty of theories about the source of happiness. Who doesn’t think they would be happier with more money and success?We talked to happiness researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky, a professor of ...

Opportunities for students and early career researchers are dwindling as the U.S. political landscape shifts. How can ...

Psychological science has never been more societally relevant, says APS President James Pennebaker in his third presidential ...

From childhood, honesty is framed as a moral north star. Tell the truth. Don’t lie. Say what you mean, no matter the cost. But adult relationships quickly expose the limits of that lesson. Instead of ...

The winning videos included research on economic stressors, language processing in bilingual speakers, interactive learning, ...

Teaching: Why are U.S. middle-aged adults experiencing increasingly high levels of loneliness and depression? A three-part lesson brings this cutting-edge research into the classroom.

For much of my life, winter was something to be endured. Preferably, indoors....Another surprise finding: The emotional benefits are just as powerful in winter as in the rest of the year. That was the ...

Congrats to APS Fellows Deanna Barch, M.J. Crockett, Tor Wager!Deanna M. Barch, Washington University in St. Louis, and Tor D. Wager, Dartmouth College, will each receive an Atkinson Prize in ...

Is tech rewiring childhood or exposing what's already broken? Jonathan Haidt, Catherine Price, and a Gen Z advocate debate social media bans, attention and what "fun" looks like off-screen.