Ridgway and his University of Nevada, Las Vegas colleagues met to analyze narratives written by mass shooting survivors, a ...

APS recently submitted comments on the NIH's proposed changes to peer review based off of a working group recommendation. The proposed changes would hide the numerical score a grant receives from ...

For a long time, the idea that we would have A.I.s or robots that we could talk to, interact with, integrate into our personal lives — that was fantasy, science fiction....Alison Gopnik, the child ...

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David Strayer, a professor of cognition and neural science at the University of Utah, co-authored a 2025 study that investigated how movement in nature influences brain activity. “We took measurements ...

A long-standing debate in the study of cognitive aging centers around the issue of whether aging results in a selective deficit in inhibitory control beyond general slowing of cognitive processing.

Abstract Psychological science, including research on child cognition, behavior, and development, has traditionally relied on convenience samples drawn from a narrow range of soci ...

Operational definitions have long been a core approach to measuring and relating observed data to theoretical constructs in psychological science. However, many contemporary modeling approaches ...

Drawing from social, cognitive, organizational, and relationship science, we argue that objectifying others can compromise the capacity to form close relationships, collaborate effectively, and ...

Episodic recollection involves retrieving context information bound to specific events. However, autobiographical memory largely comprises recurrent, similar experiences that become integrated into ...

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When Fan Yang’s children came home complaining about a crafting class, they had a particularly strong advocate. “They said, ‘They don’t let us take home our creations,’” Yang, a research associate ...