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

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.

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 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.

Although scientists understand a great deal about how a child’s mental capacities develop from decades of experimental evidence, much less is known about how everyday people perceive this process.

Partisanship, whether you support a particular person, group, or cause, has long been known as a key factor in misinformed beliefs—from COVID-19 to Brexit. But how does partisanship drive bias and ...

Image above: Occupy Wall Street movement, 2011. Boris D. Leak, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Class identity—whether a person identifies as upper, middle, or lower class—shapes how we behave, ...

For so many of us, our first day as a new faculty member is watermarked into memory. On my first day as a faculty member—three days after completing graduate school—I attended my first faculty meeting ...

A stressful year leads to anxiety. Lasting isolation gives way to depression. An old trauma nags until it becomes paralyzing. Psychological and social experiences shape the brain, potentially leading ...

Scientists who have shaped our understanding of clinical cognitive neuroscience, mental health, and racial biases are among the 12 recipients of the 2026 APS lifetime achievement awards. Since APS ...