Education is often thought of as an equalizer, as a way to allow anyone who works hard to pursue their aspirations. However, ...

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 ...

A new study provides a potential explanation for ethnic minorities shifting their voting preferences to the political right.

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

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 ...

An international team of researchers has proposed an overall definition of QRPs and published a comprehensive list of them—as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Companies like OpenAI and Meta are in a race to make something they like to call artificial general intelligence. But for all the money being spent on it, A.G.I. has no settled definition. It’s more ...

Human sensory systems are almost as good as they can get, but memory is pretty fallible. We often misremember or downright can't remember. Ours can't hold a candle to artificial memory.But, there are ...