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A Child’s Environment May Shape How Their Brain Solves Problems
The findings may have implications for the classroom, as well as for broader efforts to reduce socioeconomic disparities in children’s academic outcomes.
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The Attention-Span Panic
... A great irony of this contemporary insecurity about attention is that, compared with the rest of the animal kingdom, the human attention span is really not that impressive. Although we have many exceptional cognitive abilities (abstract thought, for instance), Raymond Klein, an experimental psychologist at Dalhousie University, told me that a house cat staring at a mouse hole can marshal much more impressive attentional resources than the average person.
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The Oldest Millennials Are 45! This Tool Helps Plan For Longevity
"We did a survey where we asked people what their aspirations were for living to 100," says psychologist Laura Carstensen, director of the Stanford Center on Longevity. "The most common responses were: I hope I don't have dementia, and I hope I haven't run out of money." Practical concerns matter, of course, but Carstensen says the risk is that they crowd out any ability to see the upsides of a longer life. "If we only have this white-knuckled approach, we're never going to realize the potential opportunities," she says.
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Why Middle-Aged Americans Are in Crisis
There’s plenty of research on children and young adults, and plenty of research on senior citizens, but what about middle-aged people? It can sometimes feel like they’re the forgotten middle child of generational studies. But now, a new paper published in Current Directions in Psychological Science is taking a comprehensive look at middle-aged Americans, and it paints a pretty bleak picture.
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The Rise of Emotional Surveillance
... If computers are flawed analysts of straightforward productivity, imagine, now, applying that same technology to something as complex as the constellation of emotions expressible by humans. Study after study shows that AI replicates the biases of the data it’s trained on.
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2026 Editorial Fellows Bring Diverse and Global Perspectives
APS welcomes nine psychological researchers to the third cohort of APS Editorial Fellows.
