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Here’s How Much Practice You Need to Become the Best in the World
What does it take to become the best at something? The answer may not lie in early childhood practice or in lifelong, laser-focused dedication. Instead the path to becoming exceptional at a skill might look a lot more like meandering. That’s according to a new paper, published today in Science, that seeks to untangle what it takes to excel across different disciplines, from sports to chess to classical music. Somewhat counterintuitively, performers who showed the greatest promise in their discipline as children rarely went on to reach the pinnacle of their field as adults.
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Australia’s Grand Social-Media Experiment
To celebrate the start of a nationwide ban on social media for kids under the age of 16, the Australian government lit the Sydney Harbour Bridge with the slogan Let Them Be Kids. ... Candice Odgers, a psychology professor at UC Irvine, also mentioned country-to-country comparisons as a problem. Odgers has studied several of the big questions around kids and social media, and has often challenged the idea that there is a scientific basis for the current level of concern. “Kids in Norway differ from kids in Australia for all kinds of reasons,” she told me. “I hope that’s not the pathway people go, but I fear it will be.”
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Mitochondria May Be Missing Link Between Mental Health and Brain Function
The bean-shaped organelles are now being recognized for their part in immune signaling, stress responses, and neural functioning.
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New Content From Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on statistical models, post publication, replication, and much more.
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2025 in Review: Revisiting Top Research From APS’s Journals
This year, psychological scientists tackled profound and varied questions to help us better understand ourselves and the world around us.
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Brain-computer Interfaces
They're especially useful for communicating with people who've lost the ability to speak or move their body. At the extreme, one brain-computer interface prototype can decipher imagined sentences, and comes with password protection to avoid revealing private thoughts. To understand more, Mihi is joined by University of Auckland Professor of Psychology Anthony Lambert.
