The founding editor of APS’s Perspectives on Psychological Science journal, he received the APS William James Fellow Award in 2013. More
The founding editor of APS’s Perspectives on Psychological Science journal, he received the APS William James Fellow Award in 2013. More
… A 2017 scientific paper published by the Association for Psychological Science reported that nature-themed words were losing ground in our pop culture. Researchers surveyed song lyrics, books and movie scripts and found that words associated with nature have declined steadily since 1950. During that time, the loss of nature words was More
In contrast to the offline world, the online world is largely driven by the logic of the attention economy: Users’ attention is a precious currency, and online environments are designed to capture and steer that attention. Yet users and legislators currently have little say in how these environments are regulated More
A meta-analysis finds no clear link between video game violence and aggression in children. More
Many would agree that happiness is difficult to define and challenging to measure—partly due to its subjective nature. Is it possible to get a scientific handle on such a slippery concept? In happiness surveys, over 80% of people rate their overall life satisfaction as “pretty to very happy,” and comparably More
Researchers closely examine the racial dimensions of what they consider to be top-tier cognitive, developmental, and social psychology journals. More