Researchers are designing studies that better represent how memory works in daily life, leading to discoveries about how to intervene when it falters.

"If APS is to thrive, we must come to terms with each of these issues," writes APS President James W. Pennebaker in his second presidential column.

Three researchers will receive support this year from the Sabbatical Fund Fellowship from the James McKeen Cattell Fund.

New research examines overconfidence among tournament chess players to investigate if it is prevalent in an environment that ...

These are things people might say when they claim to be setting boundaries:“You really have to stop coming over unannounced.”“Don’t talk to me that way.”“If you can’t honor my needs, I’m cutting off ...

Aimed at integrating cutting-edge psychological science into the classroom, columns about teaching Current Directions in ...

Elika Bergelson, a Harvard University language scientist who was not part of the new study, says human infants “mostly rely on how things look. But by 14 months they can also use role or function—for ...

You probably think you’re listening to my voice right now. But what if I told you that you’re actually experiencing a sophisticated hallucination?Perception isn’t the passive process that most of us ...

When I play, I feel the vibration in my heart,” the cellist Yumi Kendall told Dacher Keltner, a psychologist who studies awe. “It is beyond language. Beyond thought. Beyond religion. It is like a ...

For decades the term “Monday blues” has been shorthand for the collective groan that greets the start of each workweek. It’s also well documented in medical statistics. Mondays come with higher rates ...

At the close of the fall semester, professors across the country will grade their students. Based on recent trends, those grades will be higher than ever. Around the same time, students will hand ...