Research is the first to demonstrate that awe-eliciting art can spark prosociality in children as young as 8 years old, motivating them to set aside their own concerns to focus on others. Awe also has physical benefits for children.
“Human behavior is at the heart of so many global challenges involving behavior change,” said Susan Michie at ICPS 2023. And at the heart of “preventing and getting out of them.”
Julian Jara-Ettinger, Emily Fyfe, and Calvin Lai discuss reading and sharing minds, the development of learning and its practical applications, and the importance of studying the gap between what people value and what people do.
Edward Wasserman explores the origin of the famous “lightbulb moment,” how the popular cliché originated, and what can be learned from it.
Why should kids have all the fun? Science and business, too, can resolve the tension between the lure of the crazy new thing and the safe haven of the tried and true.
An adaption of a 2022 preprint article published in Technovation, this article explores how alertness might be related to entrepreneurial discovery and whether positivity or negativity are more associated with alertness.
APS Fellow and James McKeen Cattell Award recipient Gail S. Goodman discusses her NIJ-funded research project, “Long-Term Eyewitness Memory in Children Exposed to Violence.”
APS calls on governments and governing bodies to protect and promote academic freedom around the world.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is a US federal agency that supports participation in the arts and the development of creative capacities.
