All Episodes
Under the Cortex — 100 episodes
How Our Brains Grasp Faces
The Cost of Efficiency: Exploring Doubling-Back Aversion
Time Warped: How Repetition Distorts Our Sense of Duration
Two Maps in the Mind: How the Brain Stores What We Know About Others
Bridging Research and Editorial Vision: A Conversation with Arturo Hernandez
Real-Time Research: How the Experience Sampling Method Is Changing Psychology
Why Do Emotions Hijack Our Decisions? The Neuroscience of Impulsivity
Beyond Words: Why TalkBank is Crucial for Spoken Language Research
Ensuring Research Validity: A Checklist for Stronger Science
Young Minds, Smart Strategies: How Children Decide When to Use External Memory Aids
Understanding Addiction: A General Liability or Unique Disorders?
Addressing Selection Bias in Disparities Research
Beyond Focus: How Attention Shapes Learning Differently for Children and Adults
Dosage Dilemma: Unpacking Meditation App Science
The Hidden Cost of Caregiving: Stress, Anxiety and Coping Mechanisms
2024 in Review: 10 Most Popular Articles from APS Journals
Building Bridges: Exploring Cooperation in Children
Heart Rates and Step Counts: A Novel Approach to Eating Disorder Care
Midlife-Onset Alcohol Dependence: Causes and Consequences
Too Many Connections? How Aging Impacts Memory and Recall
Green Actions, Brighter Lives: Enhancing Well-Being Through Environmental Action
A New Approach to Understanding Psychopathology: Insights from the HiTOP Model
Navigating Divisive Conversations: Why We Underestimate the Benefits
Friendship and Diversity: A Path to Stronger Communities?
What Type of Templates Do We Use for Visual Processing? Caricatures Might Be the Answer
The Integrity of Psychological Research: Uncovering Statistical Reporting Inconsistencies
The Benefits of Everyday Math for Kids
Racial Disparities in Drug Intervention: Culturally Inclusive Approaches
When Versus Whether: Gender Differences in Leadership
Tools to Bolster Executive Function Skills in Kids
Navigating Regret in Decision-Making
Is Everyone Out to Get Me? Paranoia in Social Interactions
Allergies or Sickness? Unraveling the Mystery of Concealing Infectious Diseases
Desire Dynamics: Navigating Intimacy and Attraction in Relationships
Shaping Kinder Kids Through Parental Example
Parental Engagement Enhances Children’s Therapy Experience and Outcomes
Twisted Tales: Unraveling the Surprising Benefits of Irony
What Comes Next? The Joy of Anticipating Melodies
Couples Who Laugh Together, Stay Together
Community Engagement in Psychological Research
Information Avoidance in the Modern Age
Linking Developmental Delays and Parenting Strategies With Inclusivity in Mind
Is Our Early Attachment Our Destiny? Finding the Link Between Attachment Patterns and Personality Disorders
Guilty as Charged: How We Contribute to Polarizing Content on Social Media
Getting Your Research Published: Insights on Academic Publishing with Simine Vazire
Do Risky Drinkers Think Differently? Insights From Cognitive Experiments
Do Lockdown Drills Create Anxiety? New Research Says No
Cautionary Notes: The Science of Trigger Warnings
Feeling Young at Heart Comes With Well-Being Benefits
The Tale of Two Cities: Water Access Influences Human Decision Making
Loneliness Across the Globe: A Life-Span Approach
Wendy Wood: It’s Time We Trained Students for Diverse Careers in Psychological Science
Best Of: Revisiting Episodes on the Myers-Briggs Test, the Grieving Brain, and More
Understanding Childhood Adversity Across Time and Cultures
Nobody’s Fool: How to Avoid Getting Taken In
Carl Hart on Clinicians’ Bias Toward Drug Use
Bringing Contexts In, Taking Racism Out: How to Improve Cognitive Psychology
Endless Love: You’ve Got Ideas About Consensual Nonmonogamy. They’re Probably Wrong
Psychology’s Role in the Criminalization of Blackness
Silver Linings in the Demographic Revolution
Industrialized Cheating in Academic Publishing: How to Fight “Paper Mills”
Exploration vs. Exploitation: Adults Are Learning (Once Again) From Children
Lived Experiences Can Be a Strength. So Why the Bias Against “Me-Search”?
Special Episode II: APS 2023 Spence Awardees on Sharing Minds, the Development of Learning, and Implicit Bias
Special Episode I: APS 2023 Spence Awardees on Fresh Starts, Time Perception, and the Well-being of Black Families
Is Cheating Just a Symptom (and Not the Cause) of Declining Relationships?
Stop Oversimplifying Mental Health Diagnoses
A Very Human Answer to One of AI’s Deepest Dilemmas
Top 10 Articles of 2022: Opinionated Fetuses! Cheating Spouses! And Much More
What You Know Changes What and How You See
Children, Creativity, and the Real Key to Intelligence
Failure and Flourishing
Why Is Everyone Else Having More Fun?
How Do We Know Ourselves?
What Music Does to Us
Exploration and Risk-Taking: Hallmarks of Adolescence That Increase Well-Being
Talking With Birds: The Fascinating World of Avian Intelligence
The September Collection: New Technology Can Be Scary, Why to Stop Worrying and Love the Eco-Apocalypse, and Much More
Attitudes Improve for Sex and Race. Disability and Age? Not So Much
Self-Injury: Can the Internet Play a Positive Role?
Love Lets Us Learn: Psychological Science Makes the Case for Policies That Help Children
Underweight and Overexposed: How Women’s Perceptions of Thinness Are Distorted
The August Collection: Attitude Changes, Cognition in Lemurs, and Much More
A Paradox in the Field: Mental-Health Disorders Among Psychologists
The July Collection: Five Research Briefs
The New Riddle of the Sphinx: Life History and Psychological Science
I Don’t Care If It’s Fake News, I Believe It
2022 Spence Award Mini Episode: Brian Anderson and Habit-Reinforcing Behavior
2022 Spence Award Mini Episode: Patricia Lockwood and the Foundations of Social Learning
Delusion and the Uses of Not Being Rational
2022 Spence Award Mini Episode: Neil Lewis Jr. on the Unequal Nature of Society
2022 Spence Award Mini Episode: Human to Nonhuman Interactions with Kai Chi (Sam) Yam
Traffic Stops and Race: Police Conduct May Bend to Local Biases
2022 Spence Award Mini Episode: Jason Okonofua and the Power of Empathy
2022 Spence Award Mini Episode: Investigating Complex Brain Processes
2022 Spence Award Mini Episode: How People Manage Their Emotions
Mini Episode: How We Internalize Disorders
Constellations Across Cultures: How Our Visual Systems Pick Out Patterns in the Night Sky
Freedom vs Security: Can We Find the Right Balance?
Debunking Four Common Myths of Psychological Science