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David Strayer, a professor of cognition and neural science at the University of Utah, co-authored a 2025 study that investigated how movement in nature influences brain activity. “We took measurements ...

Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why you’re there? Or struggled to recall where you left your keys?These memory lapses aren’t unusual, especially as we age, but a new paper published ...

Sylvia Chou, former NIH program director, says “nobody’s OK” after massive disruptions to funding policies and infrastructure ...

Abstract Behavioral science has achieved remarkable policy influence, yet the problems it addresses, such as climate change, health inequality, and financial precarity, have worsened. We argue this is ...

Abstract This article offers a critical reworking of ecological and social-ecological models as applied to intellectual and developmental disabilities, autism, and severe mental i ...

Neuroaesthetics has mapped the mature brain networks underlying aesthetic experience but lacks a developmental mechanism explaining how these networks become tuned to produce culturally specific ...

Nominations close October 1, 2026. Nominees must be members of the Association for Psychological Science and may be employed in academia or another employment sector. Nominees must have completed ...

In a lot of situations we don’t really notice because it’s already there.” For the paper, Yang and Yilin Liu, now a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Dallas, performed four studies on 4–9 ...

Teaching: Use the student activities to teach how prosocial behavior can enhance the giver’s mental and physical health.

The Ballmer Institute aims to grow the youth behavioral health workforce to increase access to care and improve mental health and well-being for young people nationwide.