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 ...

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 ...

“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), ...

How the “outside” affects the “inside” is at the heart of many of the deepest psychological questions. In this fast-paced survey of research on how culture shapes cognition, Nalini Ambady examines the ...

At various points during the past year, many of us have lost our jobs and financial security. We’ve lost social interactions and the little freedoms we once took for granted. We’ve lost what made our ...

Corporations, universities, and individuals have tried to find some magic formula to understand personalities and what characteristics and skills someone brings to the table. Over the years and across ...

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 ...

The study only shows correlation, not causation. But it builds on decades of previous research, including clinical trials, that suggests that people who are more able to let go of grudges tend to be ...