Teaching: Use the student activities to teach how prosocial behavior can enhance the giver’s mental and physical health.

In a lot of situations we don’t really notice because it’s already there.” For the paper, Yang and Yilin Liu, now a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Dallas, performed four studies on 4–9 ...

The Ballmer Institute aims to grow the youth behavioral health workforce to increase access to care and improve mental health and well-being for young people nationwide.

The aging brain is often viewed through a lens of cognitive decline, with older adults seen as compensating for their fading memory. New research challenges that view.

The world's fastest-adopted technology is now a fixture of teenage life. We don't yet know what it's doing to the work of growing up.

In the last 5 years, the use of handheld devices such as smart phones and tablets has exploded, and it should come as no surprise that the massive growth in smart technology has had a trickle-down ...

The year 2004 marks the centenary of B. F. Skinner’s birth. I doubt that most members of the American Psychological Society (and even a smaller proportion of all psychologists) will pay much attention ...

“Professor Schlockenmeister, I know that we have to learn about visual perception in your course, but aren’t we going to learn anything about extrasensory perception? My high school psychology teacher ...

Are you a verbal learner or a visual learner? Chances are, you’ve pegged yourself or your children as either one or the other and rely on study techniques that suit your individual learning needs. And ...