According to researchers in a 2025 study, becoming aware of unrecognized psychological and behavioral challenges is the most ...

The APS Rising Star designation is presented to outstanding APS members in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD. Drawing its name from an Observer editorial series that featured ...

You’re undoubtedly familiar with the term FOMO—fear of missing out—but you may not have heard of FOFO: fear of finding out. It’s a common reason many people don’t get recommended health screening ...

A sample of research on motivation and pleasure deficits, rural suicide, the role of affective cognition in trauma and PTSD-related drinking, and much more.

The fathers I got to know showed me just what can be involved in caring for children with autism who need special services and devoted care. Neither parent has the resources to hire caregivers.Bill, ...

The notion that romantic attraction is purely a function of social and cultural forces is a common assumption. These factors do matter, but evidence from psychology and biology suggests that our ...

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found.The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, ...

What if every introductory psychology textbook is wrong about the role of the most basic and fundamental components of psychological science? For decades, textbooks have taught that there is a clear ...

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During the pandemic and when other natural disasters strike, governments may curtail certain liberties in an effort to save lives. These compromises also happen in everyday life, from seatbelt laws to ...

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 ...

In the late 1990s, the Department of Psychology at Dartmouth University became the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Howard Hughes, who served as chair at the time, recalls the change as ...