When genetic sequencing of the human genome began in earnest in the 1990s, autism researchers hoped to identify the genetic cause—or more likely, causes—of the condition. “Twenty years ago the ...

APS Board Member Teresa Bajo has been honored with the Psychonomic Society’s Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership ...

Hannah Daugherty, a graduate student at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga and a Congressional Visits Day participant, ...

Clinical Psychological Science publishes advances in clinical science and provides a venue for cutting-edge research across a wide range of conceptual views, approaches, and topics. This bimonthly ...

Podcast: This guest's research uncovers a surprising illusion: Repeated experiences, which are more vividly remembered, are often perceived as having occurred further in the past than they did.

New Research From Clinical Psychological Science A sample of research on motivation and pleasure deficits, rural suicide, the role of affective cognition in trauma and PTSD-related drinking, and much ...

Procrastination is complex in its causes and the ways it affects the lives of those who wait; the consequences can be taxing on your well-being ...

A smile begins in our sensory corridors. The earcollects a whispered word. The eyes spot an old friend on the station platform. The hand feels the pressure of another hand. This emotional data funnels ...

We hope to see you at the virtual 2025 APS Global Psychological Science Summit and the 2026 APS Annual Convention in Barcelona, Spain, in May 2026.

Responsibility for environmental degradation and climate change can hardly be placed on the shoulders of any one person. An individual could, theoretically, do nothing but drink from disposable water ...

Observing someone else in anguish can evoke a deep sense of distress and sadness — almost as if it's happening to us. APS Fellow Ying-yi Hong and other scientists identify some of the regions of the ...

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 ...