For much of my life, winter was something to be endured. Preferably, indoors....Another surprise finding: The emotional benefits are just as powerful in winter as in the rest of the year. That was the ...

Today nearly everyone in America has become just as silly. People are “exactly like the pigeons,” says Peter Balsam, a professor of psychology at Columbia University. Because, he says, we carry around ...

The winning videos included research on economic stressors, language processing in bilingual speakers, interactive learning, ...

Two researchers advocate for new AI-based measures not because they offer measurement free from error, but rather because they avoid specific problematic forms of error linked to overreliance on ...

My son was 14 weeks old when he made his first unmistakable whole-body belly laugh. In the months that followed, his laughter was accompanied by playful provocations — grabbing my hair and shrieking ...

The psychologist first became intrigued by the phenomenon decades ago, while he was setting up an experiment about the effects of drinking on anxiety and heart rate.Women had been excluded from many ...

A new study highlights that most adults experience little to no dissociation, though it is frequently reported in clinical populations, particularly people with dissociative disorders, PTSD, and ...

The tail end of winter can be a bit rough. In the Northeast, I’ve had enough of extreme cold, gray skies and piles of snow that refuse to melt. The holidays are a dim memory.

During the 2025 APS Global Summit, the APS Student Caucus organized a roundtable session to bring together scholars with ...

Are you a verbal learner or a visual learner? Chances are, you’ve pegged yourself or your children as either one or the other and rely on study techniques that suit your individual learning needs. And ...