Researchers explore how dampening, defined as minimizing positive emotions, can relate to depression symptoms in a new study.

Research has shown that nations with more income inequality, including the United States, had higher levels of loneliness.

APS sent a letter to congress urging them to preserve the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) at ...

In 2022, even though research on white parents discussing racism was still emerging, my colleagues and I argued that they needed to have these conversations with their children. At the time, we ...

De-escalation training is thought to be a solution for mitigating police violence. Can research on its effectiveness be ...

Every day the human body replaces billions of cells, flushing out the old and generating the new, healthy ones. The average lifespan of a red blood cell is just under four months, while skin cells ...

People aren't talking to each other as much as they used to, and our gift of gab and our cognition may suffer as a result. Scientists compared the number of words people spoke per day ...

In Category B, human therapists’ communications are evaluated by AI. The system evaluates the treatment, summarizes the ...

When young adults are asked to recall their drinking habits, their recollections may not always match what actually happened ...

Edna Foa, an Israeli American psychologist who pressed her field — and her patients — to more directly confront fear and anxiety, revolutionizing the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, died ...

This article provides a preview of a workshop that will take place during APS’s Annual Convention in Barcelona. The workshop ...

Many people have ambitious goals to improve their health: work out, meditate, eat healthier, get to bed earlier. But so often, those good intentions to improve your well-being can fail to translate to ...