As we look ahead to the new year, hope seems to be in short supply. Recent surveys have found that sizable majorities of Americans believed the United States was on track to become economically weaker ...

America has become a country of cynics. At least, that’s what studies show.People don’t trust each other, the media or the government. Most Americans, about 80 percent, don’t feel confident ...

In the long run, resolutions that keep others in mind tend to have greater staying power. Studies have found that brute willpower alone lasts for only so long, and that people have a much harder time ...

To obtain your Certificate of Attendance: Step One: Please log in to the APS website using the email address and password you used to create your profile and purchase ...

On this page you will find a host of resources designed to bring psychological science into the classroom. These include instructional materials for teaching about the latest in cutting-edge research ...

We hope to see you at the 2026 APS Annual Convention in Barcelona, Spain, in May 2026. To obtain your Certificate of Attendance and/or Certificate of Participation, please visit the Post Global Summit ...

Multi-lab, high-quality replications of important experiments in psychological science along with comments by the authors of the original studies. Replicability is a cornerstone of science. Yet ...

The APS Rising Star designation is presented to outstanding APS members in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD. Drawing its name from an Observer editorial series that featured ...

Most of us see the connection between social and physical pain as a figurative one. We agree that “love hurts,” but we don’t think it hurts the way that, say, being kicked in the shin hurts. At the ...

Believe it or not, the Internet did not give rise to procrastination. People have struggled with habitual hesitation going back to ancient civilizations. The Greek poet Hesiod, writing around 800 B.C.

Much emphasis has been placed on the use of activities at the begin-ning of a course to provide opportunities for introductions, begin to create a comfortable classroom atmosphere to encourage ...

How the “outside” affects the “inside” is at the heart of many of the deepest psychological questions. In this fast-paced survey of research on how culture shapes cognition, Nalini Ambady examines the ...