Simply trying to zone out is particularly ineffective when you’re waiting for significant news, said Kate Sweeny, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside, who studies the ...

Exposure therapy can help patients conquer their fears, but it isn’t effective for everyone. Researchers are exploring how ...

What potential do everyday devices, like smartwatches, have in transforming the management and treatment of eating disorders?

This webinar is only available to current APS Members or Non-Members who registered for the event, please log in to view. For many psychological researchers and ...

When Emma Hayes, the U.S. women’s national soccer team coach, kept the starters in the lineup over a grueling stretch of successive 90-minute Olympic soccer games in France, murmurs rose that the team ...

While the holiday season is often a time rich with cheer, sentiment, love and family connections, it can also be a painful reminder of what once was or what many other people have but you don’t....In ...

A Submitted Talk is a 15-minute individual presentation delivered by a primary researcher in a particular area of psychological science. Submitted Talks should present empirical research only, with ...

When a task isn’t urgent, it’s easy to keep procrastinating. Scheduling a doctor’s appointment or dusting your bookshelf can end up sitting on a to-do list for days, even weeks, despite taking only a ...

Relieving intense pain, such as that caused by surgery and traumatic injury, risks inducing the sort of pleasure that could leave patients addicted. Opioids are among ...