This APS Rising Star and social psychologist studies political polarization, antiscience attitudes, and morality.

A new study suggests that assortative mating, where partners choose a mate like themselves, can be explained by looking at ...

APS Fellow Stephan Lewandowsky and colleagues recently developed the Anti-Autocracy Handbook, designed to provide guidance to ...

Psychological research, like many areas of science, stands at a critical juncture in the United States. Numerous federally funded grants have been frozen, delayed, or terminated, upending laboratory ...

Sitting in an airport with my 18-year-old and her friend, on the way to check out a college campus ...

A new study examines the extent of adverse effects for those who meditate and pinpoints those most at risk of experiencing ...

Your peripheral nervous system (PNS) is crucial to navigating daily life. It lets you walk, controls your eye movements, and rings your brain’s alarms when you step on a Lego brick. Yet researchers ...

What is a good life, and how can we create it?...“We wanted to capture more explorative, adventurous, creative types of good life,” like those of artists and poets, said Shigehiro Oishi, a ...

Using the Same Function ‘Forwards’ and ‘Backwards’ The difference between probability and likelihood becomes clear when one uses the probability distribution function in general-purpose programming ...

Hari Srinivasan describes the difficulty autistic people face in starting, stopping, or switching tasks, as well as how to manage this feeling of “inertia” as a graduate student.

Most of us see the connection between social and physical pain as a figurative one. We agree that “love hurts,” but we don’t think it hurts the way that, say, being kicked in the shin hurts. At the ...

The Psychology Today interview with Jean Piaget took place in 1970 at the height of his influence. During that year, the international Jean Piaget Society was formed, and the society, as well as ...