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Laurie Santos: Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness
On “The Interview,” Laurie Santos, a cognitive scientist and a professor at Yale, says that Americans think about happiness in unique ways, and they have for a long time.
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What Do Human and Machine Minds Have to Offer Each Other?
Former Editor-in-Chief and APS Fellow Robert Goldstone (Indiana University) pulls together a collection featuring voices at the intersection of psychology and AI.
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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
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We’re Not Speaking as Much as We Used To — And Scientists are Concerned
People aren’t talking to each other as much as they used to, and our gift of gab and our cognition may suffer as a result. Scientists compared the number of words people spoke per day
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Member Spotlight: 2026 Spence Awardee Dorsa Amir on How Culture Shapes the Mind
The director of Duke University’s Mind & Culture Lab conducts research that sits at the intersection of culture, development, and cognition.
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Is The Key To Better Aging All In Our Mind?
Cheese and wine aren’t the only things that get better with age: many older adults also show significant improvements in their physical and cognitive health over time, according to a new study. The reason why seems
