Latest Research
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Encouraging Girls to Roleplay as Successful Female Scientists Could Help Close the Gender Gap in STEM
Girls may persist longer in science activities when they pretend to be successful female scientists. This kind of play-based intervention could help close the gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.
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Memory Makes It Hard to Fight Pandemics. But We Can Always Strive to Remember Lessons Learned
A multidisciplinary panel explored how psychological science might contribute to understanding digital contact tracing, maximizing its capabilities in the future and otherwise improving preparedness for future pandemics.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on personality across the world and face impressions, perceptual and cognitive judgments, cognitive control in lemurs, attitude change, fear, social touch, and much more.
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APS Articles on Juvenile Recidivism, the Gender/Sex Binary Win SPSP Awards
Two APS journal articles—one published in Psychological Science and the other in Perspectives on Psychological Science—have been singled out for awards from The Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP).
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Destigmatizing Their Own Truths: Clinical Psychologists’ Lived Experiences of Psychopathologies
Despite the nature of clinical psychologists’ work, there is a stigma around disclosing personal mental health difficulties or diagnoses, even if those difficulties or diagnoses are the reason they chose to enter the field.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on effort, the origins of disease, control and attention, the predictive mind, digital parenting, psychopathology models, spatial representations, and more.
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Remembering Sam Glucksberg, Who Pioneered the Study of Figurative Language
A professor at Princeton University for 44 years, Glucksberg chaired the APS Publications Committee in its critical earliest years and later edited Psychological Science from 2000–2003.
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on conceptual clarification, language acquisition, insights from deep neural networks, how to reduce academic procrastination, improve learning, craving, and more.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on racism, well-being in childhood and adult health, cultural differences in delayed gratification, problem solving in animals, and much more.
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Protecting Children’s Psychological Well-being Could Help Strengthen Their Hearts as Adults
Fostering children’s psychological well-being could help reduce their risk for heart conditions as adults, according to findings from a longitudinal study of British people born in 1958.
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How Work Is Evolving Under the Pressure of COVID-19
An interdisciplinary program of speakers shared research on the COVID-19 pandemic from a variety of perspectives, including big-data analyses, research methodologies, individual differences, and group inequities related to jobs, well-being, and social status.
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APS Receives Major Investment in Entrepreneurship and Psychological Science
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has awarded an $84,000 grant to support efforts by APS to advance and recognize field-leading work at the intersection of psychological science and entrepreneurship.
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How Can I Help? In Times of Need, People Just Want to Feel Supported
More often than not, recipients of support perceive offers of help far more positively than we might expect them to.
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Applying Psychological Science to Educational Policy and Practice: COVID-19 and the College Admissions Process
In a July 21 webinar produced by the APS Global Collaboration on COVID-19, four speakers from multiple areas of research and practice discussed how the pandemic has magnified interest in research on test-optional policies for college admissions.
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Me, My Job, and AI: Preserving Worker Identity Amid Technological Change
How artificial intelligence is functionally deployed in the workplace impacts whether workers feel threatened by it or embrace it.
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SAGE 10-Year Impact Awards Honor Two APS Articles
Two 2011 APS journal articles exploring the rise of Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) and the risk of accepting false-positive findings have received SAGE Publishing’s third annual 10-Year Impact Awards.
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Feelings of Belonging May Indicate Students’ Risk of Depression
Depression may be more closely related to how we perceive our relationships and position within a community than to whether or not we are socializing with others.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on psychologists with lived experience of psychopathology, resilience to stressors, the evolutionary value of warmth, and biases and validity in graduate-school admissions.
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‘Not Me, but We’: Identifying With a Group May Boost Individuals’ Sense of Control
Group-based control theory proposes that social identification with agentic in-groups—groups with a common goal—and engagement in collective action allow people to restore and maintain a sense of control and can help efforts feel less futile, even when the odds seem stacked.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on teaching and growth mindset, human echolocators, children’s knowledge about numbers, deception during 911 calls, mind wandering, depression, and memory.
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Experts Don’t Always Give Better Advice—They Just Give More
For tasks ranging from solving word puzzles to throwing darts, better performers didn’t give better advice—they just gave more of it.
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on abstract concepts, identity and group belongingness, religion, gender perceptions and sexual harassment, cognitive functioning, well-being and psychopathology, and more.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on antibias interventions, a databank to improve science, aging and emotion regulation, comparisons between interventions, failure, and more.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on social pain, adolescents’ political attitudes and values, disagreement and accuracy, effects of stress on voice features, learning, grief, and anxiety.
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Predictive Modeling Could Help Put Patients With Depression on the Right Path
Precision medicine, informed by predictive modeling, offers a promising avenue for helping patients and practitioners decide on the right combination of medication and therapy.
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“A Staggering Public-Health Problem”: Psychological Interventions for the Treatment of Chronic Pain
This PSPI Live is focused on how psychological interventions can be part of a comprehensive plan to manage chronic pain
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Podcast Collection: Eight Early-Career Researchers on Their Inspirations, Methods, and Goals
The full collection of podcast interviews with recipients of the 2022 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Early Career Contributions.
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Outnumbered: People Overestimate the Presence of Symbolically Threatening Groups
People commonly exaggerate the presence of certain groups simply because they are perceived as ideologically different.
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Depression May Cause Us to View Success as an Exception to the Rule
Researchers have started to link the negative outlook brought about by depression to an impaired ability to update expectations.
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Zoom and Alcohol Don’t Mix—Looking at Yourself During Online Social Gatherings May Worsen Mood; Alcohol May Increase This Effect
The more a person stares at themselves while talking with a partner in an online chat, the more their mood degrades over the course of the conversation, a new study finds. Alcohol use appears to worsen this effect.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on children’s development, unobtrusive measure of discrimination, well-being, selfishness, a model for mental-health interventions, gender differences, psychedelic drugs and social connection, neoliberalism and equity beliefs, mixed emotions, and adopted utility calculus.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on perceptual learning, prejudice, how the mind represents physical states, moralistic punishment, feelings, blindness and visual memory, perceptions of threat, and spatial navigation and reorientation.
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Snapshots From Chicago: APS’s 2022 Convention Marks the Return of In-Person Science
“An exhausting (but awesome) five days at #apschi22,” as one of the 2,500 attendees tweeted, the event featured a diverse variety of presentations across the major fields of psychological science.
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Mix It Up: Testing Students on Unrelated Concepts Can Help Jump-Start Learning
Unlike traditional “blocked” testing, which requires students to retrieve information about a single topic, interleaved testing presents a mix of topics from various lessons in order to encourage deeper conceptual learning.
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Building a Better, More Just Society Through Psychological Science: APS 2022 Opens
Equal Justice Institute’s Bryan Stevenson delivers opening keynote as 2,500 psychological scientists convene in Chicago.
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Virtual News Briefings at APS 2022 Convention
Journalists are invited to attend two virtual media briefings during the 2022 APS Annual Convention.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on behavior genetics, methods beyond experimentation, women and sex, clinical research, kinds of replication, ideology, COVID-19 as an opportunity to reimagine psychological science, and the measurement of consciousness.
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Ford Fellow to Explore Collaborative Research in “Extreme Ideological Hate”
Jeni Kubota, an associate professor at the University of Delaware, focuses on implicit racial bias and basic social cognitive processes as drivers of injustice.
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Treat Implicit Bias as a Public Health Problem, New Report Recommends
To turn the tide on the biases that perpetuate social injustice, the latest issue of PSPI recommends that governments and institutions treat implicit bias as a public-health problem.
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Embracing Discomfort Can Open Our Minds to New Ideas
When trying something new, discomfort might feel like a sign we’re in over our heads. Embracing these feelings as a part of learning could help motivate personal growth.
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on brain and learning, handedness in primates, cognitive modeling and large-scale digital data, language, blame, credibility in psychological science, musical synchrony, innovations in clinical science and assessment.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on how people view themselves and integrate others’ feedback, similarity reasoning in children, advice from top performers, science learning, working memory distortions, memory updating, motor coordination, and perceptions of authenticity.
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Collected Research by Asian American and Pacific Islander Psychological Scientists
Research by psychological scientists Serena Chen, Stephen Chen, Angela Duckworth, and Jackson Lu.
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Wendy Wood Elected Incoming APS President-Elect
Wendy Wood, provost professor of psychology and business at the University of Southern California, has been elected President-Elect of the APS.
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Eyewitness Error: Malleable Memories, Flawed Legal Processes, and an Opportunity to Train
First PSPI Live explores a 2021 case for testing a witness’s memory of a suspect only once.
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National Academy of Sciences Elects Four APS Fellows
New NAS members in 2022 include APS Fellows Robert A. Bjork, Alice H. Eagly, Megan R. Gunnar, and Roberta L. Klatzky.
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on computational models and psychological measurement, clinical applications of digital technologies, infants’ everyday experiences, trajectories of anxiety and depression, language acquisition, a new way of studying psychopathology, group-based control, binocular rivalry, and aging and digital technology use.
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“Everyone Will Need to Become an Entrepreneur”
Entrepreneurship poster award winners Lining Sun of the National University of Singapore and Heather Han of Northern Kentucky University will each receive $1,500 and free registration to the 2022 APS Annual Convention in Chicago.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on neural correlates of psychopathology in adolescence, affect-dynamics and psychosis risk, estimation of treatment effects, well-being and psychopathology, health-service-psychology training, social-media use and depression, negative information and anxiety and depression, drinking variables following college graduation, and alcohol and sexual decisions.
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Ruthless Competition, Top-Dog Cultures, and Too Few Women
An organizational emphasis on intellectual superiority can contribute to a “masculinity-contest culture” that may discourage women from jumping in.
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American Academy of Arts & Sciences Elects Eight APS Fellows
The latest class includes APS Fellows whose research covers broad aspects of human behavior.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on racial bias in police traffic stops, hypothesis testing, learning about the self, motivating growth by feeling discomfort, habits, stereotypes, and visual search.
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Trauma and Ukraine: The World Health Organization Leveraged Psychological Science to Help Prepare Us for This Moment
Addressing a crisis like this means looking directly at the problem-solving needs that arise in times of war, danger, or difficulty and empowering ourselves to meet these needs.
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Video: Observing Earth Day With Psychological Science
In recognition of Earth Day 2022, we have collected and summarized flash talks that discuss the effects of nature-assisted rehabilitation on mental health, the risks of air pollution exposure during childhood, the motivations behind climate-related discussions, and more.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on beliefs and information search, power holders and bribes, attitudes, children and choice, food judgments, gratitude, attitudes toward sexual assault, metacognition, and masculinity-contest cultures in organizations.
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New Content from Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on mediation analysis, human error in research, a tool to estimate sample size, machine-learning measurement bias, preprints, and an experiment builder.
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Moral Gridlock? Moralizing Issues Can Persuade—and Stifle Compromise
Framing policies through the lenses of morality and economics appear equally effective in persuading people to change their minds. But moral framing can also make people more resistant to compromise.
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Women and Sex: We’ve Been Measuring the Wrong Things
“What we as a society call ‘sex’ or ‘sexuality’—is different for women and men, rendering comparisons on this dimension faulty,” Conley and Klein wrote. With this premise, they reanalyzed a primary stereotype about gender and sex: women’s relatively lower interest.
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Suparna Rajaram Named 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
Former APS President Suparna Rajaram has received a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship in psychology in recognition of her research in cognitive psychology.
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Collected Research on Autism Spectrum Disorder
Research on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) published in various APS journals between 2017 and 2021 in recognition of Autism Acceptance Month.
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Good News: People Can Recover and Thrive After Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders
People who have suffered from mental illness can go on to develop a long-lasting sense of well-being and achieve a “high-functioning” life.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on COVID-19, stress, maternal health, anxiety, PTSD, psychopathology and diagnosis, alcohol’s effects, and verbal hallucinations.
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Safer Social Environments Could Help Prevent Campus Sexual Assault
This framework highlights how situational configurations can interact with mental processes to create the conditions that enable or discourage sexual assault on college campuses.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on language and counting, pain as social glue, perinatal conditions and gender nonconformity, constellations across cultures, generations and personality, attachment and hearing, app usage and identity, and sexism identification.
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Traffic Stops and Race: Police Conduct May Bend to Local Biases
New research covering tens of millions of U.S. traffic stops found that Black drivers were more likely than White drivers to be stopped by police in regions with a more racially biased White population.
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Personality and Birth Cohort: Does the Decade Make a Difference?
The generation people are born in might predict their personality traits and how they change as they grow older, this research suggests.
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Counting Ability May Emerge From the “Cognitive Technology” of Number Words
Humans’ ability to count may be limited by our knowledge of number words, according to a study of an isolated indigenous group in the Bolivian Amazon.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on college campus sexual assault, empathy, blame and retribution, implicit bias, mental health during COVID-19, security and freedom trade-off, consent, collectivist and independent values, and the quest for significance and social worth.
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The ‘Equal-Opportunity Jerk’ Defense: Rudeness Can Obfuscate Gender Bias
If a guy acts like a jerk to other men, he may seem less sexist than he actually is, according to new research in the journal Psychological Science.
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Video: Commemorating Women’s History Month with Psychological Science
In observance of the 2022 celebration, APS has collected and summarized flash talks from our 2021 Virtual Convention that discuss the effects of systemic sexism, gender stereotypes, and discrimination against women to reiterate the need for gender equality and acceptance.
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on social media, language comprehension, intelligence (and other variables) tracking, human movement patterns data, early language learning and auditory experiences, personality change, and digital games and skill acquisition.
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Collected Research on War, Conflict, and Authoritarianism
Research on war, conflict, and authoritarianism published in various APS journals between 2008 and 2020.
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Constellations Across Cultures: How Our Visual Systems Pick Out Patterns in the Night Sky
The Big Dipper, Orion, and the Pleiades are just a few of the many recognizable star patterns in the night sky. New research published in the journal Psychological Science reveals that our visual processing system may explain the striking commonality of constellations across cultures.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on incel activity on social media, the gender-equality paradox in chess, sources of regret, personality structure across nations, feedback and decision-making, early socioeconomic circumstances and physical activity in older adults, stopping actions, and mathematical ability.
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Expect the Unexpected: Why We Process Surprising Objects More Deeply
We tend to pay greater attention to incongruent objects, making us less likely to remember details about and changes to congruent objects.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on interventions to address anxiety, models of diagnosis, sensitivity to rewards, the association between gambling disorder and suicide, suicidal behavior and borderline personality disorder, parenting during COVID-19, and stress in healthcare workers during COVID-19.
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Internships (Paid Ones!), Passions, and Other Keys to a Successful Career Leap
How does a psychologist with little or no nonacademic experience position themselves to compete in a very different job market? Learn from these trailblazers.
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Video: Recognizing Black History Month With Psychological Science
We celebrate Black History Month 2022 with a collection of flash talks from the 2021 Virtual Convention that discuss race, anti-racist behaviors, and more.
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Is Your Identity a Concern? Smartphone App Usage Alone May Give It Away
The amount of time you spend each day using different smartphone apps may be enough to reveal your identity, according to new research published in the journal Psychological Science.
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Eight Psychological Scientists Receive 2022 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early-Career Contributions
The Spence Award recognizes APS members who have made transformative early career contributions to psychological science.
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Childhood Health and Cultural Inequalities: Women Pay the Price
A culturally underprivileged childhood increases a person’s risk of being less physically active in adulthood. This risk is greater for women than for men, according to new research published in the journal Psychological Science.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on nonsuicidal self-injury, emotion, pregnancy and mental health during COVID-19, rumination and learning, psychopathology models, antisocial behavior, close relationships and COVID-19, and the use of personality traits to predict mental health.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on number-to-space mapping, linguistic cues of lies in real life, stress and inflammation, fear responses, visual perception, group membership and copy of behaviors, how a narrative can change support for extremism, and object perception.
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Psychology Meets Biology in COVID-19: Past, Present, and the Road to Recovery
Psychological scientists have long known that psychological and social factors can affect our responses to viral infections and vaccinations, but that critical connection seems to have eluded many of the public health officials and others charged with leading the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic in its early days.
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Fertile Ground: Teachers’ Growth Mindsets Support Successful Interventions for Students
Teachers’ growth-mindset interventions may be particularly helpful for students who are struggling in the classroom.
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Extremism Threatened. Radio “Narratives” Intervened.
Narrative interventions using storytelling may provide impactful solutions for shifting behavioral intentions, beliefs, and attitudes around extremist violence.
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Trump’s Tweets: Telling Truth From Fiction From the Words He Used
Sometimes the words we choose say more than we intend. New research on a fact-checked collection of tweets from former president Donald Trump uncovered telltale word choices when he was being deliberately misleading. [Video Included]
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Banaji Receives Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2022 Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences to Mahzarin R. Banaji.
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Wixted Receives AAAS John P. McGovern Award Lecture in Behavioral Sciences
The Association for the Advancement of Science has awarded the 2022 John P. McGovern Award Lecture in the Behavioral Sciences to APS Fellow John T. Wixted.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on craving and smoking, obsessive compulsive symptoms, morality and refugees, emotional reactivity and depression, climate change and children’s mental health, psychopathy, traumatic memories, and mental health during COVID-19.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on information search and choice, intergroup conflict, tactile action, attention and visual search, face learning, noise and anchoring effects, children books and gender, and the impact of teacher mindsets on growth-mindset interventions.
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Haunted-House Experience Scares Up Interesting Insights on the Body’s Reaction to Threats
Dilated pupils, sweating, and a rapid heartbeat are some of the physiological responses that people experience when faced with a threatening situation. New research used the immersive experience of a haunted house to reveal that these responses differ depending on the social context and other factors.
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Breaking the “Curse of Knowledge”: Older Adults’ Supposedly Reduced Theory of Mind Might Reflect Experimental Demands
Findings indicating a decline in older adults’ theory of mind abilities may have been exaggerated by the cognitive demands of certain experimental designs.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on person perception, heritability of intelligence, values in psychometrics, race conversations in U.S. families, risk, how to study relationships and health, and scientific progress in psychological science.
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The Emerging Self: Social Anxiety Disorder and Emotional Maltreatment in Childhood
New research associates early life adversity with the presentation of social anxiety disorder later in life.
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on how animals learn, sexual- and gender-minority mental health, acculturation and immigration, emotion in social learning, stigma and treatment success, motor performance and learning, prosocial behavior, and social networking and well-being.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on the development of political attitudes, dominant leaders, sustained stress and aging, gender gaps in self-presentation, the neural representations of romantic partners, facial impressions, cognitive conflict and aging, and refugees’ identity.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on evolutionary psychology, longitudinal research, climate change, social media an well-being during the pandemic, the importance of olfaction for relaxation, risk surveys, reduction of social inequalities, and research on gender and sex.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on anger, attentional control in PTSD, factors on psychopathology, perception in schizophrenia and autism, publication of research with minoritized groups, well-being and cognition, perseverative thought, and adolescents’ technology use.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on helping and risk preferences, monkeys’ logical reasoning, mindfulness, impression formation, retirement and purpose, perceptions of the self, rewards and visual perception, listening fatigue, and the pursuit of extraordinary experiences.
