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Fourteen APS Fellows Elected to Two Prestigious Organizations in 2026
APS Fellows, Charter Members, and award winners have been elected to both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences in 2026 elections.
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The Gift of Getting Weirder With Age
... Rebecca Schlegel, a professor of psychology and brain sciences at Texas A&M University who studies the “true self,” told me people can feel that they become more authentic over time. In her research, participants aged 19 to 67 were asked to think about life as if it were a book and rate each “chapter” using an authenticity scale. Dr. Schlegel and her co-author found that the subjects tended to believe they were getting closer to their true selves over the course of their lives. “They also think they’re going to be even more authentic in the future,” she added.
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
New content covering, empathy, altruism, artificial intelligence, and more.
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Why Is It Hard to Fully Enjoy Positive Moments?
Researchers explore how dampening, defined as minimizing positive emotions, can relate to depression symptoms in a new study.
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How to Use Habit-Stacking to Reach Your Health and Wellness Goals
Many people have ambitious goals to improve their health: work out, meditate, eat healthier, get to bed earlier. But so often, those good intentions to improve your well-being can fail to translate to real life — despite your best efforts. ...
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How to Let Go of Grudges— And Why It Could Be Good for Your Health
... The study only shows correlation, not causation. But it builds on decades of previous research, including clinical trials, that suggests that people who are more able to let go of grudges tend to be doing a bit better emotionally and socially over time. Everett Worthington Jr., a professor emeritus of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University and a co-author of the NPJ Mental Health Research study, said he was intrigued by the cross-country differences in the data.
