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 ...

Janet Taylor Spence recipient Mark Thornton, an assistant professor at Dartmouth College and director of the Social ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Let's say you've gone through a breakup. You're heartbroken, confused and angry. What do you do with all those feelings?That's up to you. You have the power to "turn the intensity up or down on ...

Video tutorials, teaching blogs, classroom activities, and other creative inspiration for your next lesson. These resources are made possible with the support of the APS Fund for Teaching and Public ...