The award supplements the sabbatical allowance provided by each researcher’s institution for the 2026–2027 academic year, ...

There’s a reason why no one ever talks about “the bad old days.” A nostalgic longing for bygone times—and a sense that the present doesn’t stack up well against the past—is a common ...

On “The Interview,” Laurie Santos, a cognitive scientist and a professor at Yale, says that Americans think about happiness in unique ways, and they have for a long time.

Rich Uncle Pennybags winking through his monocle forever sticks in the minds of Monopoly players. Er, strike that—the board game’s iconic mascot (also known as Monopoly Man) has never worn a monocle.

Image above: Grotzinger and lab members of the P-Badger Lab, University of Colorado Boulder. Your research aims to understand the genetic signal for psychiatric and neurodegenerative conditions. What ...

The APS Janet Taylor Spence Award recognizes APS members who have made transformative early career contributions to psychological science. Research contributions can be transformative in various ways, ...

In recent years, several scholars have argued that the influence of deliberate practice on expertise has been overstated. Others have contended that these critiques conflate deliberate practice with ...

Scientists who have shaped our understanding of clinical cognitive neuroscience, mental health, and racial biases are among the 12 recipients of the 2026 APS lifetime achievement awards. Since APS ...

Memory and smell are intertwined; it’s through memory that we learn to remember smells, and disorders that take away memory also take away the ability to distinguish scents. Some of this learning ...

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 ...

Never before or since the Scottish Mental Surveys (SMS) of 1932 and 1947 has the cognitive capacity of almost an entire birth-year segment of a country’s population been measured. The results of those ...

The Psychology Today interview with Jean Piaget took place in 1970 at the height of his influence. During that year, the international Jean Piaget Society was formed, and the society, as well as ...