APSSC President Yuze Shi provides an overview of the student caucus' objectives and plans for the coming year.

Until very recently, airplanes were one of the last places where you couldn’t count on having good Wi-Fi. Even the Amazon’s most remote villages have high-speed internet, but for years, the typical in ...

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 ...

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 ...

“The quiet statisticians have changed our world; not by discovering new facts or technical developments, but by changing the ways that we reason, experiment, and form opinions” – Ian Hacking ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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), ...

The criminal justice system was designed to find and punish actual perpetrators guilty of the crimes of which they are accused. Questions and claims of innocence were rarely examined and, until ...

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 ...