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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

When genetic sequencing of the human genome began in earnest in the 1990s, autism researchers hoped to identify the genetic cause—or more likely, causes—of the condition. “Twenty years ago the ...

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.

This online data visualization tool provides a historical record of psychological and behavioral reactions to the pandemic, based on responses from more than 60,000 participants globally.

In the mid-1990s, scientists at the University of Parma, in Italy, made a discovery so novel that it shifted the way psychologists discuss the brain. After researchers implanted electrodes … ...