At a special open meeting at SPSP 2013 in New Orleans, members voiced their thoughts to the SPSP leadership about a number of issues that...

With the U.S. presidential election just days away, tax policy is on the minds of many Americans. While President Obama and Governor Romney offer different...

Students’ gender affects how they are perceived and treated by science faculty members, according to a new study published this week in the Proceedings of...

Women in countries with great gender inequality are more likely than men to support authoritarian values, according to a new study of 54 countries. The...

Social psychologists are working to improve food marketing to children. In a new report, to be presented at this week's meeting of the Society for the Psychological...

Life satisfaction is an important predictor of major events that will occur in our lives, according to a new study. Researchers, led by Maike Luhmann...

The color green is all around us this week. In addition to spurring your St. Patrick's Day spirit, it may also spark your creativity. A...

While the Internet enables us to connect with one another in new ways and to explore ideas we may have never before considered, the lure...

We love heroes the most when they're fictional or dead, according to recent research. The more scientists dig into the social psychology of heroism, the...

When the crowd at the Republican presidential primary debate yelled "Let him die” in response to a question about a person who opts out of...

It’s no surprise to psychologist Lisa Kramer that financial market dips and crashes typically happen in the fall. People who experience seasonal depression shun financial...

To strengthen psychology as a STEM (science-technology-engineering-mathematics) discipline, the psychological science community has developed a set of recommendations for the future. These recommendations focus raising...