In a lot of situations we don’t really notice because it’s already there.” For the paper, Yang and Yilin Liu, now a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Dallas, performed four studies on 4–9 ...

Dopamine sites play with the notion that much of the pleasure of an indulgence comes from the anticipation of it.In behavioral economic terms, imaginary purchases offer anticipatory utility — the good ...

The aging brain is often viewed through a lens of cognitive decline, with older adults seen as compensating for their fading memory. New research challenges that view.

The world's fastest-adopted technology is now a fixture of teenage life. We don't yet know what it's doing to the work of growing up.

The 2027 recipients have advanced research in sleep disorders, cross-cultural comparisons of parenting, emotional regulation, and many other topics.

Talking about yourself feels pleasurable, and there’s science to back that up, says Leslie John, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School and author of the book Revealing. She ...

Kean outlines her plenary topics for the 2027 APS Annual Convention in Seattle, Washington.

Abstract The shift to a society organized around digital data has come with significant—although sometimes still underappreciated—implications for psychological research. In p ...

Partisanship, whether you support a particular person, group, or cause, has long been known as a key factor in misinformed beliefs—from COVID-19 to Brexit. But how does partisanship drive bias and ...

The Industrial Revolution was the birthplace of social science as we know it. Entire disciplines such as sociology, political science and economics came into being to analyze enormous social ...

Are you naturally anxious? Highly adventurous? More argumentative than you’d like to admit?...The findings, published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, reaffirmed scientists’ understanding that ...