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Up-and-Coming Voices: Combating Stereotypes and Bias
Previews of research by students and early-career scientists related to combating stereotypes and bias.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on attention to emotional stimuli, representations of time and number, choice and control, gender stereotypes in language, impressions of other people, gender gaps in negotiation, perceptual features in visual memory, the benefit of talent in team performance, and how children process what adults say.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on attentional control and chronic pain, reward processing and externalizing psychopathology, women with generalized anxiety disorder, trajectories of distress after a disaster, ruminative inertia and depression.
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Uniquely Human: Understanding Our Cultural Evolution
Several theories point to human’s unique capacity to teach and learn from others as an evolutionary turning point in human history.
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Your In-laws’ History of Drinking Problems Could Lead to Alcohol Issues of Your Own
A new study finds marriage to a spouse who grew up exposed to parental alcohol misuse increases a person’s likelihood of developing a drinking problem. [August 20, 2020]
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Does a Pie Chart Change Who You Are?
23andMe’s senior director of research, Joanna Mountain, says she’s long wondered how recreational DNA testing affects our thinking about genetic differences. This is more than a mere academic concern. More than than 30 million people