To build closer friendships, experts say tell your friends you appreciate them, be vulnerable and “repot” the relationship....It’s important to show interest and full attention to what a friend is ...

Elizabeth Kensinger discusses her research on the role of emotion in memory and changes in the field in an interview with APS ...

Machines can now beat us at chess, create art, and even diagnose diseases. Yet, for all its capabilities, artificial ...

Teaching: These student activities call on recent research to help students identify myths about misinformation.

People often believe that stepping up to assist an aging or ailing relative with the daily tasks of living will foster a ...

Nearly 150 APS members will join this year’s APS Mentorship Program. The program was reinvigorated in 2023 to help the global ...

Whatever the cause, hypochondria is associated with a certain level of innumeracy, or trouble grasping risk levels—difficulty perhaps compounded by anxieties about those risks. Tobias Kube, a ...

It turns out there’s science behind the old saw “the older you get, the wiser you are.” Laura Carstensen, founding director of Stanford University’s Center on Longevity, says research has made ...

The world is full of things to learn. Where to start? How to choose what to pay attention to? What motivates someone to seek new knowledge?We’re often curious in a particular way: we want to ...

The connection between food and cooperation was explored in a 2019 research article by Kaitlin Woolley and Ayelet Fishbach that was published by The Journal Psychological Science. The authors found ...

The expression “a smile a day keeps the blues away” may have some credence beyond the realm of greeting card messages. The lingering question of whether a smile or frown lifts or depresses emotion has ...