Research has shown that nations with more income inequality, including the United States, had higher levels of loneliness.

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APS sent a letter to congress urging them to preserve the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) at ...

In 2022, even though research on white parents discussing racism was still emerging, my colleagues and I argued that they needed to have these conversations with their children. At the time, we ...

Every day the human body replaces billions of cells, flushing out the old and generating the new, healthy ones. The average lifespan of a red blood cell is just under four months, while skin cells ...

The year 2004 marks the centenary of B. F. Skinner’s birth. I doubt that most members of the American Psychological Society (and even a smaller proportion of all psychologists) will pay much attention ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark US Surgeon General’s report linking cigarette smoke to lung cancer. Yet despite the endless antismoking campaigns, medical research documenting ...

The APS Student Caucus (APSSC) is a representative body of the student members of the Association for Psychological Science. All APS student members are members of the APSSC by default, and have ...

De-escalation training is thought to be a solution for mitigating police violence. Can research on its effectiveness be ...

Some years ago, a postdoctoral fellow in my lab tried to publish a series of experiments with results that — to his surprise — supported a theoretically important but extremely counterintuitive null ...

Toys are the most frivolous things in the world and, in some ways, the most essential. No culture is entirely without toys; where mass-produced and mass-marketed toys are absent, children transform ...

Let’s face it: People rarely make history by fitting in. It takes a Nelson Mandela or an Aung San Suu Kyi to draw attention to a cause, a George Lucas or a Madonna to revolutionize an entertainment ...