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>
NIH Funding Opportunity: Modeling Social Behavior
Announcing a funding opportunity from the NIH, a research project grant on Modeling Social Behavior. Letters of Intent due by April 3, 2012, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant… More>
Science on Love (and Hate, Too) at the APS Convention
Although Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, psychological scientists study love all year round — and it’s not always pretty. Plan to see psychological scientists present research on love,… More>
Oxytocin’s (Not So) Better Half
Feeling all warm and fuzzy? Chalk it up to oxytocin, the touchy-feely hormone that allows us to trust, bond, and even fall in love. Despite nicknames such as “the moral… More>
Crossing Borders to Build a Better Robot
Roberta Klatzky has spent much of her career getting to know robots. Thanks to the Humboldt Research Award, Klatzky, who is APS Treasurer, got to experience a new aspect of… 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>
