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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Hannah Eneix is a fourth-year industrial/organizational psychology doctoral student at Central Michigan University. Her research is focused on remote work and diversity in the workplace and is ...

The APS Janet Taylor Spence Award recognizes APS members who have made transformative early career contributions to psychological science. Research contributions can be transformative in various ways, ...

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 ...

The Association for Psychological Science (previously American Psychological Society) is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1988 to advance scientific psychology and its representation as ...

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

Sexual violence prevention programs effectively change ideas and beliefs that underscore assaults, but show no evidence of reducing their actual occurrence, according to a new analysis published in ...

Student researchers share their motivations and personal stories behind their award-winning posters featured at the APS 2023 Annual Convention.