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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Participation Assistance for the 2025 Global Summit is now closed. The deadline to apply was July 31, 2025, at 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC). APS is pleased to offer participation assistance to defray costs ...

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 ...

Whether it’s watching a friend get a paper cut or staring at a photo of a child refugee, observing someone else’s suffering can evoke a deep sense of distress and sadness — almost as if it’s happening ...

Some years ago, a postdoctoral fellow in my lab tried to publish a series of experiments with results that — to his surprise — supported a theoretically important but extremely counterintuitive null ...

Being ignored, excluded, or overlooked at work inflicts more damage on our physical and mental health than does being harassed, a new study shows. Canadian researchers found that while most people ...