Cornell University’s Department of Human Development incorporates not only various aspects of psychological science, but also law, sociology, history, and more. APS Fellow and Department Chair Qi Wang details the department’s successes. More
New findings signal an important relationship between children’s ability to physically interact with their environment and their cognitive development. More
Several APS leaders, including APS Past President Robert W. Levenson, APS Past Board Member Lisa Feldman Barrett, and Current Directions in Psychological Science Editor Randall W. Engle, have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More
Olson is the first psychological scientist to receive the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award, established in 1975. More
Those participants who were told their group members were patient ended up waiting almost twice as long for a second marshmallow as the others More
A few years ago, researchers in Germany set out to plumb the moral consciences of small children. They invited a series of 2- and 3-year-olds to play with a marble track in a lab. Close to the track—inauspiciously close—was a block tower that one of the adult experimenters claimed to More
