Psychologists define meaning as the feeling that one’s life is significant, coherent, and purposeful, says Constantine Sedikides, a psychologist at the University of Southampton, in the U.K. And many ...

Scientific research may not have evidence of the sacred, but there is a large body of work that shows the positive effects of ...

The researchers anticipated that participants with high levels of negative emotionality or neuroticism would have higher ...

Podcast: This episode explores whether children’s weaker selective attention is a hidden strength by addressing findings on attention, memory, and childhood learning.

The seven recipients are honored for cutting-edge research on topics ranging from the neurocognitive mechanisms of ...

APS began sharing the following statement with federal lawmakers in Congress. The statement encourages lawmakers to sustain ...

A sample of articles on the importance of life skills and civic science, the psychology of secrecy, how we use our imaginations to condemn and condone, and much more.

CBT is the gold standard therapy for treating depression and anxiety, one or both of which will afflict around 20 percent of people during their lifetime. It may be the best remedy we have, a ...

On this page you will find a host of resources designed to bring psychological science into the classroom. These include instructional materials for teaching about the latest in cutting-edge research ...

A couple sits together on a sunny park bench. He appears to be studying the passing clouds; she’s absorbed in a novel. Some passersby might think, How sweet. Others might see them as ...

Humans are pretty good at guessing whether a towering stack of dishes in the sink will topple over or where a pool ball will go when a cue hits it. We evolved this kind of ...

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