Early career scientists affiliated with an EU institution who are looking to work independently and lead a new research effort should consider applying for the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant program. These grants support scientific research from any field, including psychological science, and are available to researchers with 2-7 years of experience since the […]

Summary: For tasks ranging from solving word puzzles to throwing darts, better performers didn’t give better advice—they just gave more of it. When you want advice to achieve something, whom would you rather ask: the top performer in that area or someone barely scraping by? Most people would choose the top performer. That person’s advice,

It’s an unfounded message experts say is repeated again and again: Having an abortion may damage a woman’s mental health, perhaps for years. “There’s so much misinformation, so many myths about abortion. Abortion will lead to substance abuse, depression, suicidal thoughts; abortion is bad for your health; every woman is going to regret it,” said

When we regret our past, it can feel like we’re incapable of changing our future. But it may be our past “mistakes” that help us realize there is room to evolve. In the finale episode of How to Start Over, we explore how regret can be a catalyst of change, what holds us back from

Does success make us miserable? Sigmund Freud was one of the first to propose this peculiar form of distress in an essay he published more than a century ago. It was a theory built around a few case studies: a patient who fell into depression after earning a promotion at work, another patient who fell

The annual funding cycle for the U.S. government is underway. The U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee advanced appropriations funding bills and accompanying reports that include support for behavioral science. Approved bills include the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (Labor-HHS) bill, which funds the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as well as the

Depression can be tricky to treat. Not only do people respond to interventions differently depending on the cause and severity of their depression, but even when a treatment successfully alleviates a patient’s symptoms, the condition is likely to reoccur in the years to come, according to recent research by Zachary D. Cohen (University of California,

When can psychological science be useful in educational policy and practice? Register for the virtual panel on July 21, 2022 at 2:00 ET for the discussion on the intersection between college admissions processes and COVID-19!

PSPI Live is a series of 60-minute live events highlighting recent or upcoming articles published in the APS journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest (PSPI). Speakers include the authors, policymakers, or representatives of important stakeholder groups.  Chronic pain has broad negative consequences beyond causing physical suffering. It also affects well-being, emotional functioning, and overall

Ukrainians are trying to confront the war’s psychological wounds even as the battles wear on. … Kate Pokrovskaya, a 39-year-old psychotherapist, was asleep at her home in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 24 when she and her husband were awakened by the sound of explosions. Russia had launched its invasion. “At that moment, our life stopped,”