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Nostalgia warms the body as well as the soul
MinnPost: Nostalgia received a bad rap for centuries. It was long equated with homesickness, and thus associated with symptoms of grief and depression. In fact, the term nostalgia was coined by a Swiss physician, Johaness
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Planet in a Jar: Studying Behavior on a Worldwide Scale
No jar exists that is large enough to contain Planet Earth. Most social and behavioral scientists who study the planet as a whole concede that they can’t set up controlled experiments like scientists who study
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about new research published in Psychological Science. Is It Light or Dark? Recalling Moral Behavior Changes Perception of Brightness Pronobesh Banerjee, Promothesh Chatterjee, and Jayati Sinha Can the recollection of past ethical and unethical
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Bandura and Bobo
In 1961, children in APS Fellow Albert Bandura’s laboratory witnessed an adult beating up an inflatable clown. The doll, called Bobo, was the opposite of menacing with its wide, ecstatic grin and goofy clown outfit.
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Science Is International at the APS Annual Convention
Disaster, Response, and Recovery featuring Silvia H. Koller (Rio Grande do Sul Federal University, Brazil) and Dirk Helbing (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) Biological Beings in Social Context featuring Annette Karmiloff-Smith (Birkbeck, University of
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Parents Are Happier People
Contrary to recent scholarship and popular belief, parents experience greater levels of happiness and meaning in life than people without children, according to researchers from the University of California, Riverside, the University of British Columbia