APS Fellow Ervin Staub’s early life in Budapest was shaped by danger and heroism. His parents, his aunt, his nanny, and other ...

How is your existence these days?” I tap on my laptop. The entity that says it is my father, dead these 12 years, quickly responds. “It’s ... different. Being dead is a strange experience. I’m ...

The standardized test scores of American students had been rising for decades. Then they began to slide, dropping to their lowest point in two decades in 2023 and 2024.This is not a problem confined ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Months after COVID-19 forced millions of people to begin working from home, politicians and pundits worldwide began to speculate that the pandemic would forever change how and where we work. We ...

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 ...

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, ...

A new study shows that supports at the individual, relational, and community levels work together to foster resilience, expanding notions of mental health interventions. Podcast: Evan Auguste and ...

“Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me the truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.” Once upon a time, long ago and far away (or perhaps not so long ago), ...