Education is often thought of as an equalizer, as a way to allow anyone who works hard to pursue their aspirations. However, ...

A new study provides a potential explanation for ethnic minorities shifting their voting preferences to the political right.

When someone you care about lies to you, you’ll probably feel betrayed, furious—and maybe even foolish, because how could you possibly have been duped like that? “People start to question themselves ...

In this special edition of the Student Notebook, early-career scholars from across the APSSC community share their ...

Issues arise when the body fails to control the on–off switch, says Wendy Berry Mendes, a psychologist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Stress becomes problematic if the body overreacts ...

Podcast: This guest's research uncovers a surprising illusion: Repeated experiences, which are more vividly remembered, are ...

APS Board Member Teresa Bajo has been honored with the Psychonomic Society’s Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership ...

An international team of researchers has proposed an overall definition of QRPs and published a comprehensive list of them—as ...

Featured Psychological Science Needs the Entire Globe, Part 3 Does Psychological Science Deserve Brilliant Researchers From Outside North America and Europe?

APS President Alison Gopnik writes that the contrast between the reasoning of creative 4-year-olds and predictable artificial intelligence may be a key to understanding how human intelligence works.

Most of us see the connection between social and physical pain as a figurative one. But research is providing compelling evidence that the two types of pain share a common source.

Psychological research is revealing that facial expressions and other forms of nonverbal communications may have culturally specific identifiers, contrary to long-held beliefs about cultural ...