Cover Story
Rewired
Has Google replaced the brain? Psychological scientists are decoding how technology has reprogrammed our minds.
Presidential Column
Rigor Without Rigor Mortis: The APS Board Discusses Research Integrity
From the influence of impact factors to promoting transparency, the APS Board discusses ways to build a better psychological science. More>
Observer Article
The Realities of Reason
In his Award Address at the 23rd APS Annual Convention in Washington, DC, Phillip Johnson-Laird said that people aren't always rational, but we aren't intrinsically irrational either. More>
Member Article
How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Testifying Before the US Congress
Arguing that behavioral science is a worthy investment, Hillary Anger Elfenbein helped fight funding cuts to a critical NSF program. More>
Member Article
Why I Became An Administrator… And Why You Might Become One Too
Trading a lab for a desk doesn't mean leaving your research behind, Says Robert Sternberg. More>
Observer Article
Rising Stars
In a continuing series, the Observer presents more Rising Stars, exemplars of today's psychological scientists. More>
Psych Today
Reflections on Rogers
Carl Rogers’s research changed counseling forever. David Baker explores the impact of this influential scientist on clinical psychology. More>
Even Babies Know What’s Fair
Psychological scientists have typically assumed that kids don’t start to understand morality until they reach their preschool years. New research, however, on 19- to 21-month-olds has indicated that sensitivity to… More>
Social Pain Hurts Too
An article published by Janet Taylor Spence Award recipient Naomi I. Eisenberger shows there is a growing body of evidence that social pain shares some of the neural circuitry that… More>
Romantic Jealousy and Self-Esteem
In case you missed it, the cameras were rolling at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. Watch Jessica L. Bowler from Pitzer College present her poster session research… More>
Kids Show How Society Thinks
Psychological scientist Margaret Beale Spencer says that children can teach us a lot about the society in which they’re raised. In 2010, CNN commissioned her to lead a pilot study… More>
Do The Funky…Pigeon
Watch Emma Ware, Social Science winner of the 2011 Dance Your PhD Contest, perform her dance on the courtship behavior of pigeons.
More>Writing Tip: Better “You” Than “I”
Do readers responded differently to stories depending upon whether they are narrated from the perspective of ‘‘you’’ or ‘‘I’’? Recent research published in the Journal of Cognitive Psychology offers some… More>
