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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In early 2023, Mahzarin Banaji was meeting with her student Tessa Charlesworth (who is now at Northwestern University) when the topic of ChatGPT arose. Banaji had heard of the tool but hadn’t yet ...
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 ...