You’re catching up with a friend over coffee when your elbow clips your cup, sending espresso all over her brand-new phone. You feel awful. You mop up the spill, apologize five times, and bolt—then ...
Abstract The validity of psychological measures depends on the selection of indicators—a process often handled subjectively and informally. We highlight problems resulting from ...
Abstract Parenthood introduces new constraints on adults’ spatial exploration, yet associations between mobility and parental mental health remain unexplored. We conducted conti ...
Abstract It has been argued that small effect sizes observed at a single instance should not be dismissed because they can often accumulate in the long term. This follows a classi ...
You’ve spent Monday through Friday running on five hours of sleep, working late nights and waking up early just to do it all over again. On Saturday, you get 12 glorious hours of shut-eye and feel ...
Suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) are an urgent concern, and there is elevated risk in individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Drawing ...
Generative AI (GenAI) use is transforming how people work, communicate, and make decisions, raising unique questions about how its users are judged—both by themselves and others. In this article, we ...
More than 80% of the world’s population lives in countries other than the United States, Canada, and Europe, which dominate psychological science nonetheless. The Global Spotlight series is a small ...
Recently, one of the researchers at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab was taking her 4-year-old son for a walk through the campus. The little boy looked up at the famous campanile ...
A few years ago a group of Swiss researchers scanned the brains of people who had been wronged during an economic exchange game. These people had trusted their partners to split a pot of money with ...
There’s no getting around it. In this world, you’re better off being good-looking. At all ages and in all walks of life, attractive people are judged more favorably, treated better, and cut more slack ...
“Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me the truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.” Once upon a time, long ago and far away (or perhaps not so long ago), ...