On “The Interview,” Laurie Santos, a cognitive scientist and a professor at Yale, says that Americans think about happiness in unique ways, and they have for a long time.

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 ...

Even as smartphones and digital devices change so much of how we do things—ordering food through an app, attending remote meetings over Zoom, avoiding boredom with the constant companion in our pocket ...

Neuroscientist Emily Finn often trawls Reddit for disagreements about television shows, movies, books or podcasts—any narratives that “evoke really different reactions in different people,” she ...

Image above: Grotzinger and lab members of the P-Badger Lab, University of Colorado Boulder. Your research aims to understand the genetic signal for psychiatric and neurodegenerative conditions. What ...

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, ...

Strategic Initiatives Liaison Mary Czerwinski Microsoft Research (ret.) and University of Washington CEO Robert Gropp (Ex Officio) Association for Psychological Science Margaret E. Beier Rice ...

In recent years, several scholars have argued that the influence of deliberate practice on expertise has been overstated. Others have contended that these critiques conflate deliberate practice with ...

Over the last 50 years, political rights for lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals have significantly broadened in some countries, while they have narrowed in others. In many parts of the world ...

Scientists who have shaped our understanding of clinical cognitive neuroscience, mental health, and racial biases are among the 12 recipients of the 2026 APS lifetime achievement awards. Since APS ...

Memory and smell are intertwined; it’s through memory that we learn to remember smells, and disorders that take away memory also take away the ability to distinguish scents. Some of this learning ...

There’s no getting around it. In this world, you’re better off being good-looking. At all ages and in all walks of life, attractive people are judged more favorably, treated better, and cut more slack ...