
APS and Open Science: Music to Our Ears
From most of the press accounts of the ambitious project on reproducibility in psychological research published in Science this past… More
Discoveries in Human Echolocation… More
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