During my tenure as APS President, I’ve called for broadening the way we train psychological scientists to prepare them for potential careers outside of academia. In my presidential columns for the Observer, I’ve discussed—and invited other leading scientists to discuss—career opportunities in technology, government, and more. In this final presidential column, I’ve asked APS Fellow […]

Editorial Fellows, clockwise from top left: Ivan Carbajal, Leyla Loued-Khenissi, Chelsea Boccagno, Aishwarya Rajesh, Kongmeng Liew, Dieu Truong. Six psychological scientists representing different cultures and nationalities have been named inaugural APS Editorial Fellows. APS launched the Fellows program to help scientists develop their skills as editors, with a goal of creating and sustaining a pipeline of

Promoting effective messaging • Sticking with it The numbers show why public health officials are declaring a global mental health crisis. At least 970 million people worldwide are living an anxiety and depressive disorder, according to the World Health Organization. And according to a recent longitudinal study, nearly half of adults worldwide will develop a mental disorder

APS Fellow Tess Neal, a clinical and forensic psychologist at Iowa State University, is focused on understanding and improving human judgment processes, particularly among trained experts.   Your research focuses on human judgment processes as they intersect with the law and the nature and limits of expertise. What led to your scientific interest in these

When we imagine a typical scene—for example, a kitchen—we tend to recall not just what a place looks like, but the sounds we associate with it. These audio associations can help us recognize objects more quickly, wrote Jamal R. Williams (University of California, San Diego) and Viola S. Störmer (Dartmouth College) in Psychological Science, such

How much of our behavior is habitual? APS President Wendy Wood and her colleagues answered this question on April 16 during “Habits and Behavior Change—A Case Study of Digital Technology,” an APS Science for Society webinar.   In a study in which some participants had strong habits involving drinking particular sugared beverages and others didn’t, Wood

Children absorb much from their environments. Although the impact of parental conflicts and fights on children has been greatly studied, the impact of positivity has yet to fully be explored.  In this episode, Under the Cortex features Brian Don from the University of Auckland who recently published an article on this topic in APS’s journal

The loss of Daniel Kahneman looms large over the behavioral sciences. The pathbreaking and Nobel-winning psychologist has died at the age of 90. His work deepened our understanding of how the mind works and how people make decisions. In doing so, it transformed the fields of psychology and economics.  … We bring together more than

If readers are anything like me, they likely have felt unsure about the direction of their research and have wondered if they’re capable of pursuing that dream research assistantship, postbaccalaureate position, or graduate program. Having gone through the process myself, I hope to show fellow young psychologists that they are not alone in navigating early-career

When Luna was seven months old, she began wearing, at the behest of her scientist father, a hot-pink helmet topped with a camera that would, for about an hour at a time, capture everything she saw, heard, and said. Her dad, Brenden Lake, is a cognitive scientist at New York University, where he thinks about