APA’s 2026 Work in America survey finds rising workplace stress and economic uncertainty are harming employee mental health, while investing in psychological capital can boost resilience, well-being, ...

Specifically, intuitive low-effort cognitive processes can increase susceptibility to bias in particular circumstances (lower left side of figure). And deliberative effortful cognitive processes can ...

The medications suggested for the treatment of PTSD are sertraline, paroxetine, fluoxetine and venlafaxine. Each patient varies in their response and ability to tolerate a specific medication and ...

Washington — The American Psychological Association will provide institutions electronic access to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association with the release of the APA Style ...

"Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute." That observation comes from "Winter Notes on Summer ...

The brief, practical texts in the Essentials of Qualitative Methods series introduce social science and psychology researchers to key approaches to qualitative methods, offering exciting opportunities ...

In this thoroughly revised edition of his trailblazing book, Michael C. Seto summarizes and integrates advances in the study of pedophilia and sexual offending against children over the past 10 years.

Researchers have recently begun to study individuals who are no longer religious. This group of formerly religious individuals—known as the religious dones—is growing in number, but little is known ...

Nearly 50 years after the controversial Milgram experiments, social psychologist Jerry M. Burger, PhD, has found that people are still just as willing to administer what they believe are painful ...

Research by Thalia Wheatley, PhD, a psychology professor at Dartmouth College, has shown that both friends and strangers feel more connected when their conversation partner responds to them quickly ...

New evidence has emerged suggesting that the tendency for gay men to become aroused only to same-sex images and heterosexual men to become aroused only to opposite-sex images is not true of women.

Practicing psychologists have the professional training and clinical skills to help people learn to cope more effectively with life issues and mental health problems. After years of graduate school ...