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APS: Leading the Way in Replication and Open Science
Read about the breadth of APS activities on advancing replicability and reproducibility in psychological science.
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Where Psychological Science and Cancer Research Unite
Acute stress and chronic-stress-induced inflammation contribute to the progression of cancer, research shows.
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Linking Personality with Organizations, Occupations, and Income
Two recent studies highlight how personality and occupations intertwine.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring: distrust and borderline personality disorder; desistance of alcohol use disorder over the lifespan; reappraisal, cognitive control, and emotion; and rumination in psychopathology.
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Understanding Mental Disorder through a Scientific Lens
A team of clinical scientists takes an in-depth look at three systems used for understanding mental-health disorders.
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Three Approaches to Understanding and Classifying Mental Disorder: ICD-11, DSM-5, and the National Institute of Mental Health’s Research Domain Criteria (RDoC)
Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Volume 18, Number 2 ) Read the Full Text (PDF, HTML) When people go to a clinician for mental-health assistance, the diagnostic process can often seem quite straightforward: Patients discuss their symptoms, and the clinician then matches those symptoms to a disorder and devises a treatment. However, this simplified view of the diagnostic process belies the complexity inherent in understanding, classifying, and diagnosing psychiatric phenomena. In this issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Volume 18, Issue 2) Lee Anna Clark, Bruce Cuthbert, Roberto Lewis-Fernández, William E. Narrow, and Geoffrey M.
