As Americans scramble to respond to rising rates of suicidal behavior among youth, many policymakers have locked in on an alarming metric: the number of hours a day that American children spend glued ...

At the APS 37th Annual Convention, scientists shared their concerns about the challenges facing psychological science amidst ...

Groundbreaking research on the mechanisms of emotional memory and brain plasticity, the dynamics of collective cognition, and ...

The mechanisms fostering merging include mutual self-disclosure and repeated interactions. Such merging can have positive or ...

The idea seems so old-fashioned, so sentimental: that you could fall for someone “at first sight,” deeply and instantly. It’s straight out of the classic romance dramas—Jack’s gaze freezing when he ...

Loneliness has become a global public health concern. Countries including the United Kingdom and Japan have appointed “ministers of loneliness” to help tackle the problem. In the United States, ...

Social rejection by someone close to you can feel as acute as physical pain. If you felt as though your heart broke, or you’d been punched in the gut, that’s because social rejection and physical ...