PSPI Live is a series of 60-minute live events highlighting recent or upcoming papers published in the APS journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest (PSPI). Speakers include the authors, ...

Harry Reis, a professor of psychology at the University of Rochester, said the silent treatment is “not really silent.”“There’s no sound to it, but the message is unmistakable. And that message is ...

The APS Mentorship Program, designed to help members make connections with other professionals across the globe, welcomes 147 participants to the 2026 cohort. The 60 mentors and 96 mentees represent ...

The warning, buried in an obscure government report this summer, was unflinching....The loss of those funds affected researchers like Priti Shah, chair of the University of Michigan’s psychology ...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so the saying goes, but a relationship scientist says compatibility is the number one factor in lasting partnerships.Psychology professor Paul Eastwick, of the ...

This article synthesizes emerging research on how children in the United States and China reason about social mobility. In ...

A common maxim holds that “context is everything.” This perspective transformed the field of emotion regulation, which evolved from understanding which regulation strategies people use, to ...

You’ve just listened to your doctor explain a treatment plan, heard a roomful of new names or sat through an important work presentation and you want to remember the details later. Turns out, sitting ...

In retrospect, 2016, the year that Angela Duckworth published Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, may have been a high-water mark for the dogged go-getter‑ism she was selling. Her book landed ...

AI chatbots are becoming more and more a part of childhood and adolescence....ANNE MAHEUX: Kids who do have worse mental health are seeking out AI to help them. But that AI use may be exacerbating ...

Psychological scientists argue that efforts to change individual behavior often overlook the larger systems, policies, and institutions that limit people’s choices. People aren’t simply shaped by ...

In this article, we propose and test a model of how readers construct representations of the situations described in simple narratives the event-indexing model According to the event-indexing model, ...