If you often find yourself lying wide awake at night — when you should be sleeping — stewing over an argument you had earlier in the day or worrying about an important upcoming meeting, you’re not ...
Responding to a recent call for the development of a psychology of science, we examine how scientists manage empirical anomalies, a routine yet consequential challenge in scientific practice, and how ...
Episodic recollection involves retrieving context information bound to specific events. However, autobiographical memory largely comprises recurrent, similar experiences that become integrated into ...
APS recently submitted comments on the NIH's proposed changes to peer review based off of a working group recommendation. The proposed changes would hide the numerical score a grant receives from ...
For a long time, the idea that we would have A.I.s or robots that we could talk to, interact with, integrate into our personal lives — that was fantasy, science fiction....Alison Gopnik, the child ...
Ridgway and his University of Nevada, Las Vegas colleagues met to analyze narratives written by mass shooting survivors, a ...
A long-standing debate in the study of cognitive aging centers around the issue of whether aging results in a selective deficit in inhibitory control beyond general slowing of cognitive processing.
Abstract Psychological science, including research on child cognition, behavior, and development, has traditionally relied on convenience samples drawn from a narrow range of soci ...
Operational definitions have long been a core approach to measuring and relating observed data to theoretical constructs in psychological science. However, many contemporary modeling approaches ...
Drawing from social, cognitive, organizational, and relationship science, we argue that objectifying others can compromise the capacity to form close relationships, collaborate effectively, and ...
Abstract Flow is a state of optimal engagement. Autistic individuals and individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) might have variations in flow-like experi ...
It’s the weekend, and an 11-year-old is bored, so she messages her friend to hang out. Late on a school night, a 14-year-old waited too long to start his homework. He opens his laptop to begin. The ...