Zero-sum thinking has spread like a mind virus, from geopolitics to pop culture....“One thing I’ve seen people do if they know they’re being forced into a zero-sum game is minimize investment and hold ...

Even better is a technique called mental contrasting, co-developed by the psychologist Gabriele Oettingen, who led the study on college students. The idea is to visualize an attainable goal (such as ...

Ethan Kross is a world expert in the psychology of emotions, and he has identified a set of tools that can help us to tend our wellbeing.Ever since he was a child, Ethan Kross has ...

A new special issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science explores the nature of “noise” in human behavior.

Many of us are proud to have learned sophisticated statistical methods like structural equation modeling and multilevel modeling and are eager to use these methods to test increasingly sophisticated ...

APS and Sage announce the launch of Advances in Psychological Science Open, a fully open access journal that will publish high-quality empirical, technical, theoretical, and review articles, across ...

Many psychological scientists are now calling for a “heterogeneity revolution,” focused on uncovering individual and ...

How might teachers of psychology respond to allegations that their subject undermines conservative values? David Myers has ...

Image above: Portraits from left to right of Nancy J. Cooke, Robert L. Goldstone, and Suparna Rajaram. How collaborative remembering shapes individual and collective memory • The special role of ...