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The Screen That Ate Your Child’s Education
The standardized test scores of American students had been rising for decades. Then they began to slide, dropping to their lowest point in two decades in 2023 and 2024. This is not a problem confined
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Global Summit Brings Psychological Scientists Together for Second Year
More than 500 scientists from 35 countries gathered in late October for APS’s second Global Psychological Science Summit.
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How Young People Learn to Be Unhappy
Why do so many young people have mental-health problems? The growing focus on students’ anxiety and depression, while well-intentioned, may be making psychological distress seem inevitable. Instead of fostering a supportive community for adolescent and
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The Perverse Consequences of the Easy A
… At the same time, professors were coming under more pressure to tend to their students’ emotional well-being, Amanda Claybaugh, Harvard’s dean of undergraduate education, told me. They received near-constant reminders that Harvard was admitting
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How to Break Free From Your Phone
There’s that nagging voice again: “Put the phone away. No, really this time.” But we don’t; 84 percent of Americans say that they are online either several times a day or “almost constantly.” … Delete the ‘slot
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Here’s Why Teens Don’t Belong On Dating Apps
Teenagers are using dating apps more than we previously knew, according to research published this week in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. The study found that 23.5% of teens ages 13 through 18 used dating
