If you want to increase your happiness and well-being, spend your money, time or energy on someone else.Research consistently finds that acts of altruism, such as donating money, volunteering or ...

I’m not sure it’ll be enough to elicit wonder, but it’s worth trying. According to Michelle Shiota, a psychology professor at Arizona State University who has researched the impact of awe, a ...

Machines can now beat us at chess, create art, and even diagnose diseases. Yet, for all its capabilities, artificial ...

What drives the onset of alcohol dependence in midlife? How does it present unique challenges, and what strategies can help ...

Individuals acting as caregivers saw a decrease in life satisfaction and mood, alongside increases in depression, anxiety, ...

Elizabeth Kensinger discusses her research on the role of emotion in memory and changes in the field in an interview with APS ...

Nearly 150 APS members will join this year’s APS Mentorship Program. The program was reinvigorated in 2023 to help the global ...

A decade ago then president Barack Obama proposed spending $75 million over three years to help states buy police body cameras to expand their use. The move came in the wake of the killing of ...

Whatever the cause, hypochondria is associated with a certain level of innumeracy, or trouble grasping risk levels—difficulty perhaps compounded by anxieties about those risks. Tobias Kube, a ...

The world is full of things to learn. Where to start? How to choose what to pay attention to? What motivates someone to seek new knowledge?We’re often curious in a particular way: we want to ...

The expression “a smile a day keeps the blues away” may have some credence beyond the realm of greeting card messages. The lingering question of whether a smile or frown lifts or depresses emotion has ...

The connection between food and cooperation was explored in a 2019 research article by Kaitlin Woolley and Ayelet Fishbach that was published by The Journal Psychological Science. The authors found ...