2020 APS Mentor Awards
The 2020 recipients, selected for their dedication to their students and colleagues, are Toni C. Antonucci, Elizabeth Bjork and Robert Bjork, and E. Tory Higgins. More
The 2020 recipients, selected for their dedication to their students and colleagues, are Toni C. Antonucci, Elizabeth Bjork and Robert Bjork, and E. Tory Higgins. More
A sample of research on mind-set theory, desire to be moral, subjective well-being around the world and across life span, and gender-equality paradox in STEM, and a replication of social facilitation/inhibition effects with cockroaches. More
It’s time to get serious about a major redesign of life. Thirty years were added to average life expectancy in the 20th century, and rather than imagine the scores of ways we could use these years to improve quality of life, we tacked them all on at the end. Only More
APS Fellow Terrie Moffitt has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine in recognition of her path-breaking contributions to psychological science’s understanding of human development. More
A sample of new research reexamining links between smile intensity and longevity, exploring mothers’ responses to infant distress cues, and early predictors of number-system knowledge. More
Big Data involving thousands and thousands of participants is enabling researchers to track the development of different cognitive skills across the lifespan with increasing accuracy. And the results of these studies bring light to some surprising — and perhaps heartening — findings about the aging brain. More