Above: APS Founding Executive Director Alan G. Kraut on May 25, after receiving a special proclamation for his years of service to psychological science and APS. The 2023 APS Annual Convention is the association’s 35th such gathering, held only months after the 1988 launch of APS itself. The following August, a young developmental psychologist named […]

We’re nervous about an upcoming work presentation, then lament our lack of confidence. We get angry at our partner, then feel guilty about our impatience. Our emotions undoubtedly influence our well-being — but recent research suggests that how we judge and react to those emotions may affect us even more. In a study published last month in

Do you ever feel like everyone on social media has a more extreme viewpoint than your own? We often blame social media companies for the cacophony of politically extreme opinions around us. After all, these companies are generally motivated to promote the most emotionally potent and attention-grabbing content and perspectives. But my colleagues and I

In ancient Greece, the physician Hippocrates is said to have theorized that the ratio of four bodily fluids—blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm—dictated a person’s distinct temperament. The psychologist Carl Jung, in his 1921 book, Psychological Types, proposed two major attitudinal types (introversion and extroversion) and four cognitive functions (thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition) that combine to yield eight

In the upper echelons of politics, there’s no shortage of men and women working well past the conventional retirement age. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who turns 90 next month, has said she won’t seek reelection in 2024, but she continues to serve as the oldest member of the U.S. Senate, despite a recent extended medical absence and

Registration Information   When: July 10-13, 2023   Where: Zoom virtual event   Cost: $125      Some partial scholarships are available for graduate students and postdocs. What is it?                        The Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research is offering its fifth annual Cornell Translational Research Summer Institute (CTRSI) virtually

We often speak with the goal of “getting on the same wavelength.” Research on brain synchrony suggests that this familiar saying may be especially relevant to learning. Monitoring of students’ brain activity shows that brain-to-brain synchrony (BBS) within groups of students, as well as between students and their teacher, is predictive of learning outcomes, according

The mass incarceration of Black people in the United States is gaining attention as a public health crisis with extreme mental-health implications. Despite Black Americans making up just 13% of the general U.S. population, Black people constitute about 38% of people in prison or jail. What does this have to do with psychological science? Well,

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Above: This photo features posters from ICPS 2023 in Brussels, the most recent APS convention. A highlight of every APS convention since 1991 is the poster sessions, where hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students, along with psychological scientists at all levels, present their research and engage in discussions with interested colleagues. The following responses reveal