Zero-sum thinking has spread like a mind virus, from geopolitics to pop culture....“One thing I’ve seen people do if they know they’re being forced into a zero-sum game is minimize investment and hold ...

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A new special issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science explores the nature of “noise” in human behavior.

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Ethan Kross is a world expert in the psychology of emotions, and he has identified a set of tools that can help us to tend our wellbeing.Ever since he was a child, Ethan Kross has ...

Many psychological scientists are now calling for a “heterogeneity revolution,” focused on uncovering individual and ...

Researchers break apart monoliths to find out why bisexual people are more burdened by mental health challenges than gay or ...

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How might teachers of psychology respond to allegations that their subject undermines conservative values? David Myers has ...

Scientific research may not have evidence of the sacred, but there is a large body of work that shows the positive effects of ...

Janet Taylor Spence recipient Mark Thornton, an assistant professor at Dartmouth College and director of the Social ...

When my son was three years old, he told me one day after preschool that he didn’t want to play with me because I was Black. He went on; Black people are mean, he said, ...