It turns out there’s science behind the old saw “the older you get, the wiser you are.” Laura Carstensen, founding director of Stanford University’s Center on Longevity, says research has made ...

The world is full of things to learn. Where to start? How to choose what to pay attention to? What motivates someone to seek new knowledge?We’re often curious in a particular way: we want to ...

The expression “a smile a day keeps the blues away” may have some credence beyond the realm of greeting card messages. The lingering question of whether a smile or frown lifts or depresses emotion has ...

A decade ago then president Barack Obama proposed spending $75 million over three years to help states buy police body cameras to expand their use. The move came in the wake of the killing of ...

Leading scholars in psychology and other disciplines are striving to help scientists enhance the way they conduct, analyze, and report their research. They advocate the use of “the new statistics”— ...

The connection between food and cooperation was explored in a 2019 research article by Kaitlin Woolley and Ayelet Fishbach that was published by The Journal Psychological Science. The authors found ...

The Association for Psychological Science (APS) appointed Arturo Hernandez, PhD, to serve as the Editor-in-Chief of Perspectives on Psychological Science, beginning December 1, 2024. More information ...

It’s easy to sympathize with both my patient and her son. With the son for having suffered more than he might have with earlier intervention. With the mother for believing she had failed him and ...

Tittle-tattle, scuttlebutt, dishing the dirt, spilling the tea: Whatever you call it. there's no doubt gossip can be seductive.Gossip has long had a bad reputation and gossipers have been seen as ...

If a hard day in the office leaves you crabby and uncooperative, you may have an excuse: scientists say exercising self-restraint can exhaust parts of the brain related to decision-making and impulse ...