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Caring for Loved Ones the Top Priority for People Worldwide
Evolutionary psychologists have focused much their research on the human pursuit of love and sex, but a global study shows that people’s strongest motivations lie elsewhere.
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Dozens of APS Leaders, Fellows Make 2019 List of Top-Cited Researchers
More than 50 APS Fellows are listed in the Web of Science Group’s Highly Cited Researchers 2019.
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Children’s Preference for Learning Could Help Create Curious AI
The strategies children use to search for rewards in their environment could be used to create more sophisticated forms of artificial intelligence.
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It’s Time for Psychological Science to Become More Entrepreneurial
Entrepreneurs have brought us smartphones, GPS, and online shopping. What drives these innovators? Why do some succeed while most fail? Psychological scientists face a ripe opportunity to help answer these questions, says APS Fellow Robert Baron.
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Games Can Be Good – When You Play for the Right Reasons
The effects of playing video games on well-being seem to depend largely on why and how an individual chooses to partake.
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US Congress Cautions NIH on Clinical Trials Policies
The US Senate has instructed the National Institutes of Health to acknowledge the behavioral science community’s opposition to classifying basic research with humans as clinical trials.
