Joy—Finding Happiness in Troubled Times, in which the 14th Dalai Lama and the late archbishop Desmond Tutu talked about their friendship and offered lessons on creating ...

APS Fellow Stephan Lewandowsky and colleagues recently developed the Anti-Autocracy Handbook, designed to provide guidance to ...

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation: An organization dedicated to funding scientific research to find cures for mental ...

Hari Srinivasan describes the difficulty autistic people face in starting, stopping, or switching tasks, as well as how to ...

This APS Rising Star and social psychologist studies political polarization, antiscience attitudes, and morality.

It could be a reasonable strategy to “be a gray rock” when dealing with someone you interact with only occasionally, such as an annoying neighbor or co-worker,“but when there is a narcissist in your ...

Your peripheral nervous system (PNS) is crucial to navigating daily life. It lets you walk, controls your eye movements, and rings your brain’s alarms when you step on a Lego brick. Yet researchers ...

Sitting in an airport with my 18-year-old and her friend, on the way to check out a college campus ...

If computers can do all that with just a pigeonlike brain, some animal researchers are now wondering if actual pigeons deserve more credit than they’re commonly given. “When considered in light of the ...

Some recent surveys have indicated that young women are earning more than young men, at least in some large coastal cities. Social pressure to marry young and have children has largely diminished in ...

If you’re trying to get someone to do something, what’s the best way to achieve that? Paying them probably comes to mind, and this intuition is a basic tenet of economic theory. In a massive ...

Initial Proposal Deadline: September 1, 2025 Final Proposal Deadline (by Invitation): December 1, 2025 The William K. and Katherine W. Estes Fund invites proposals to fund the creation and hosting of ...