You probably think you’re listening to my voice right now. But what if I told you that you’re actually experiencing a sophisticated hallucination?Perception isn’t the passive process that most of us ...

For decades the term “Monday blues” has been shorthand for the collective groan that greets the start of each workweek. It’s also well documented in medical statistics. Mondays come with higher rates ...

Laurie Santos, a psychology professor at Yale and host of “The Happiness Lab” podcast, pointed to research from John and Julie Gottman, the renowned marriage researchers, that suggests happy couples ...

A new study highlights how people around the world often overestimate climate skepticism and presents ways to push back on this misperception.

The staff at my local library are usually a convivial bunch, but when I asked them about a recent report that fewer people were reading for fun, they grew subdued....Elizabeth A.L. Stine-Morrow, a ...

At the same time, professors were coming under more pressure to tend to their students’ emotional well-being, Amanda Claybaugh, Harvard’s dean of undergraduate education, told me. They received ...

Scientists who have shaped our understanding of clinical cognitive neuroscience, mental health, and racial biases are among ...

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 ...

Simine Vazire, University of Melbourne, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences ...

We hope to see you at the virtual 2025 APS Global Psychological Science Summit and the 2026 APS Annual Convention in Barcelona, Spain, in May 2026. To obtain your ...

Intergroup allyship has become an increasingly visible and pressing area of inquiry as societies grapple with persistent social inequality and group-based disparities. This Current Directions special ...

I’ve been a member of both Facebook and Twitter for many years, and my experiences with the two couldn’t be more different. While both are “social” in the broadest sense, Facebook for me is really ...