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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Increasing evidence demonstrates an association between social isolation and psychosis risk. In this perspective, we attempt to account for why that is. Drawing from work in social psychology, social ...
Sylvia Chou, former NIH program director, says “nobody’s OK” after massive disruptions to funding policies and infrastructure ...
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 ...
Teaching: Use the student activities to teach how prosocial behavior can enhance the giver’s mental and physical health.
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 ...
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 ...
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.