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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

Abstract Flow is a state of optimal engagement. Autistic individuals and individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) might have variations in flow-like experi ...

Image above: A wall with photos of the victims who were killed in the 2017 Las Vegas Shooting. Noah Wulf, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons If you or someone you know has concerns about gun violence ...

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

One of the benefits of being an APS member is that at the beginning of each month you receive an email from our team with the latest Observer content. Since the Observer is a fully digital publication ...