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Why We Feel Others’ Pain — or Don’t
The Huffington Post: When the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 teenage girls from a schoolhouse last month, the world responded with an outpouring of undiluted emotion — shock, outrage, fear, and most
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Comfort Food Myth: Ice Cream May Not Boost Your Mood
LiveScience: The idea that eating certain foods make us feel better when we’re down may be a myth, psychologists say. In fact, we may simply feel better after some time has passed, regardless of what
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The Anatomy of Everyday Hatred
The Huffington Post: It’s hard to outdo Medea for raw hatred. Thrown over by her husband Jason for another woman, the mythic sorceress takes revenge by poisoning her rival and, just for good measure, her
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Remembering, as an Extreme Sport
The New York Times: SAN DIEGO – The last match of the tournament had all the elements of a classic showdown, pitting style versus stealth, quickness versus deliberation, and the world’s foremost card virtuoso against
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Three Pioneers Go ‘Inside the Psychologist’s Studio’
At the 2014 APS Annual Convention in San Francisco, three of the world’s most celebrated psychological scientists sat down for interviews about their education, their accomplishments, and their legacies. It was all part of the
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Remembering the Stanford Prison Experiment
Hundreds of people gathered in the APS Exhibit Hall to meet the scientist responsible for one of the most famous psychology experiments of the 20th century. The line was long, stretching down one side of
