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 ...

Berry bowls. Erewhon smoothies. Chia pudding. Many of us mindfully sprinkle wheat germ on grapefruit or embrace whatever healthy food trend promises to deliver a longer lifespan, and what’s the harm ...

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

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

Even better is a technique called mental contrasting, co-developed by the psychologist Gabriele Oettingen, who led the study on college students. The idea is to visualize an attainable goal (such as ...

Advanced statistics classes almost never teach us how to estimate power to test innovative hypotheses embedded in complex ...

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

Podcast: This episode explores whether children’s weaker selective attention is a hidden strength by addressing findings on attention, memory, and childhood learning.

Psychologists define meaning as the feeling that one’s life is significant, coherent, and purposeful, says Constantine Sedikides, a psychologist at the University of Southampton, in the U.K. And many ...