Teaching: Use the student activities to teach how prosocial behavior can enhance the giver’s mental and physical health.

In a lot of situations we don’t really notice because it’s already there.” For the paper, Yang and Yilin Liu, now a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Dallas, performed four studies on 4–9 ...

The Ballmer Institute aims to grow the youth behavioral health workforce to increase access to care and improve mental health and well-being for young people nationwide.

The 2027 recipients have advanced research in sleep disorders, cross-cultural comparisons of parenting, emotional regulation, and many other topics.

Dopamine sites play with the notion that much of the pleasure of an indulgence comes from the anticipation of it.In behavioral economic terms, imaginary purchases offer anticipatory utility — the good ...

The world's fastest-adopted technology is now a fixture of teenage life. We don't yet know what it's doing to the work of growing up.

The aging brain is often viewed through a lens of cognitive decline, with older adults seen as compensating for their fading memory. New research challenges that view.

Talking about yourself feels pleasurable, and there’s science to back that up, says Leslie John, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School and author of the book Revealing. She ...

Kean outlines her plenary topics for the 2027 APS Annual Convention in Seattle, Washington.

Abstract The shift to a society organized around digital data has come with significant—although sometimes still underappreciated—implications for psychological research. In p ...