From most of the press accounts of the ambitious project on reproducibility in psychological research published in Science this past… More

Doubtless the genetic studies reviewed in the October 2015 Observer article “Passing Down Psychopathology” are providing important biological links to… More

Across psychological science, there has been an explosion of new tools and technologies over the last decade. In an upcoming… More

To submit a new book, email apsobserver@psychologicalscience.org. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson… More

Three psychological scientists — APS Fellow Valerie F. Reyna, and Nobel laureates Edvard I. Moser and May-Britt Moser — are… More

Edited by C. Nathan DeWall and David G. Myers  Aimed at integrating cutting-edge psychological science into the classroom, Teaching Current… More

It is hard to express the importance of the mentor–mentee relationship in a brief article. In my experience, this relationship… More

Discoveries in Human Echolocation… More

The Observer concludes a year-long series celebrating a quarter-century of the journal Psychological Science by taking a look back at… More

Some people think Pavlovian fear conditioning research has convincingly shown how fear and anxiety operate in the brain — but APS William James Fellow Joseph E. LeDoux believes there is more to the story… More

What is it like to be a bat?” asked philosopher Thomas Nagel in his influential 1974 essay. “I assume we… More

APS Fellow Wendell E. Jeffrey, known as Jeff, took an unusual path to developmental psychology. He finished high school at… More

Psychological science is making a big splash in world of international development. This month the World Bank announced a new… More

Findings suggest that the work and achievements of men tend to be evaluated as more creative than similar work and achievements produced by women… More