In this special edition of the Student Notebook, early-career scholars from across the APSSC community share their ...

More than 500 scientists from 35 countries gathered in late October for APS’s second Global Psychological Science Summit.

You may already know that moving your body is good for your mind. The good news is that you don’t necessarily need to sign up for a marathon or climb a mountain to reap the mental health ...

Psychology professor Gordon Flett has shown that the amount a person feels they "matter" could be the key factor in how positive they feel about their life.He also argues there are evidence-based ways ...

Stress, challenges and failure are a part of life, but how we emotionally respond to them can shape our future.As Shakespeare put it, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” ...

Teaching: These lesson plans aim to help students make associations between positive-affect dynamics and mental and physical ...

As of September 2025, EveryDay Labs has grown to employ 30 full-time employees and 10 part-time employees. They deliver ...

Research reveals how people process information, how they acquire—and sometimes reject—knowledge, and how that compares to ...

A new study shows that how we process information, in addition to party allegiances, can contribute to beliefs of vote ...

Let’s stop confusing humanity to think that it’s more difficult than it really is, and give them much clearer guidelines of how to do this,” says psychology professor Todd Kashdan, who runs the ...

Why do so many young people have mental-health problems? The growing focus on students’ anxiety and depression, while well-intentioned, may be making psychological distress seem inevitable. Instead of ...

Some of this was projection. “We love an avatar more than a specific being,” Pettman writes, “a gestalt abstraction, lifted from all the love stories we’ve imbibed since childhood.” I wanted this guy ...