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 ...

Thank you to everyone who attended the Barcelona meeting, our first international APS convention. We’re committed to holding more international meetings going forward, and I enjoyed hearing many of ...

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 ...

Strategic Initiatives Liaison Mary Czerwinski Microsoft Research (ret.) and University of Washington CEO Robert Gropp (Ex Officio) Association for Psychological Science Margaret E. Beier Rice ...

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 ...

Seven early career scientists are recipients of the 2025 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions. These researchers are leading cutting-edge psychological research ...

During the pandemic and when other natural disasters strike, governments may curtail certain liberties in an effort to save lives. These compromises also happen in everyday life, from seatbelt laws to ...

Robert Zajonc was a consummate scientist, scholar and social science researcher. His was a remarkable life, a life led during a renaissance period of social psychology and he had much to do with its ...

I first met Tom, a 13-year-old boy at a school for children with emotional and behavioral difficulties, when first starting out on my PhD research. Tom was a charming and effusive pupil and I ...

What has one voice but goes on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three in the evening? The wise Sphinx posed this riddle, and clever Oedipus guessed the answer. It’s a human being, ...

Our topic for this month is … zombies. Not the charmingly decayed corpses you encounter in movies and books, but zombie ideas. According to the economist Paul Krugman (2013), a zombie idea is a view ...

What if every introductory psychology textbook is wrong about the role of the most basic and fundamental components of psychological science? For decades, textbooks have taught that there is a clear ...