The APS Mentorship Program, designed to help members make connections with other professionals across the globe, welcomes 147 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Image above: Capitol police lead a rehearsal parade for the 60th Presidential Inauguration in Washington D.C., Jan. 12, 2025. More than 5,000 military members from across all branches of the U.S.

Launched by the Association for Psychological Science in 2006, Perspectives on Psychological Science is a bimonthly journal publishing an eclectic mix of provocative reports and articles, including ...

Why do researchers analyzing the same body of evidence reach different conclusions about whether social-media use poses risks to adolescent mental health? We offer a partial explanation: Two common ...

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 ...

Abstract Psychological science, including research on child cognition, behavior, and development, has traditionally relied on convenience samples drawn from a narrow range of soci ...

Drawing from social, cognitive, organizational, and relationship science, we argue that objectifying others can compromise the capacity to form close relationships, collaborate effectively, and ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...