Life has improved for most people around the world over the past generation, temporary pandemics aside. The rub is that you can’t get anyone to believe the good news. And the result is a toxic political environment—and the potential collapse of democratic norms if too few people feel that a stressed system is worth saving. Those More
A sample of research on economic behavior, motivation interventions in education, perception, neural representations of procedural knowledge, empathy and romantic relationships, and stereotype-threat in chess. More
Images and reports of people taking to the streets to protest last month’s killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police have sparked conversations among Americans on police use of force to control crowds, the morality of looting, and the destruction of property to vent anger and garner attention for a More
A sample of research on honesty, the scent of a loved one and sleep efficiency, and contextual effects on shape perception. More
A look at how scientific advances are calling into question one of the most basic and fundamental components of psychological science. More
The Jerome Bruner Library opened January, 2020 at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands. More
