Harry Reis, a professor of psychology at the University of Rochester, said the silent treatment is “not really silent.”“There’s no sound to it, but the message is unmistakable. And that message is ...

The warning, buried in an obscure government report this summer, was unflinching....The loss of those funds affected researchers like Priti Shah, chair of the University of Michigan’s psychology ...

This article synthesizes emerging research on how children in the United States and China reason about social mobility. In early childhood, children view social status as malleable and recognize that ...

The APS Mentorship Program, designed to help members make connections with other professionals across the globe, welcomes 147 ...

A common maxim holds that “context is everything.” This perspective transformed the field of emotion regulation, which evolved from understanding which regulation strategies people use, to ...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so the saying goes, but a relationship scientist says compatibility is the number one factor in lasting partnerships.Psychology professor Paul Eastwick, of the ...

AI chatbots are becoming more and more a part of childhood and adolescence....ANNE MAHEUX: Kids who do have worse mental health are seeking out AI to help them. But that AI use may be exacerbating ...

Responding to a recent call for the development of a psychology of science, we examine how scientists manage empirical anomalies, a routine yet consequential challenge in scientific practice, and how ...

Are the letters of a written word processed sequentially or in parallel? Despite an abundance of research on visual word recognition, the evidence in this longstanding debate rests almost entirely on ...

Isaac J. Handley-Miner, Agata Bochynska, Brett Buttliere, Kai Li Chung, Mahmoud Elsherif, Christopher J. Graham, Neele Henriette Heiser, et al.

Why do researchers analyzing the same body of evidence reach different conclusions about whether social-media use poses risks to adolescent mental health? We offer a partial explanation: Two common ...

This ritual is in line with advice often given by Jamil Zaki, the director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory.“I tell people to think globally and hope locally, focusing on actions within ...