Climate Change is an Existential Threat to Life on our Planet. Why Aren’t We Doing More About It? Why are we not doing more to save the planet? Experts explain eight psychological processes that are keeping us from confronting climate change.
Personality in Later Life: The Struggle Between Decline and Development Accentuate the positive but don’t overlook the role of the negative. Both are important for healthy personality development.
Why Social Change is Contagious When we learn that many people are changing their beliefs or behavior, we come to see change as more possible, more important, and more fitting for people like us.
Grassroots Actions Promote Forgiveness by Victim Groups Learning that citizens of a country feel sorry for past misdeeds can be more powerful than hearing national leaders offer an apology.
From Couples to Communities: The Built Environment Shapes Us As Much As We Shape It A newly published literature review in Personality and Social Psychology Review describes the importance of the person-environment connection.
Giving Feels Good, Even for Criminals Giving feels good for most people, and new research suggests that this is true for at risk youth and ex-offenders too.
Stereotypical Biases in Black People toward Black People Even Black people may possess hidden stereotypes about Black people.