Even though being in a committed relationship or marriage is still a societal norm in many cultures today, the number of single people has been increasing in many countries over the last few decades.

As the Year of AI Exploration enters its second semester, faculty and staff across all departments have been determining if and how to incorporate artificial intelligence into their instruction. In ...

Psychological science has never been more societally relevant, says APS President James Pennebaker in his third presidential column.

"Do your research" has become a cry for cynics who lack faith in those with expert knowledge, whereas "educating yourself" from credible sources is always sound advice.

In the current climate, generic and expensive programs to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion—for example, trainings—are increasingly falling out of favor. In fact, most of the existing research ...

This paper contributes to the debate on creativity, art, and artificial intelligence (AI) by integrating insights from cognitive psychology and empirical aesthetics into the field of AI, with the goal ...

Summary: For 40 years, the Big Five personality model has dominated psychology, but new research suggests it may be incomplete. Using taxonomic graph analysis, researchers mapped personality from the ...

Arousal—how alert or excited one feels—is a basic part of emotions, along with whether those emotions are positive or negative. Scientists still don't fully understand how the brain creates these ...

How do you design a study that captures human experience as it unfolds in real time? In this episode, Under the Cortex explores the Experience Sampling Method (ESM), a powerful approach for studying ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. The Pew-Knight Initiative supports new research on how Americans absorb civic ...

In 1785 English philosopher Jeremy Bentham designed the perfect prison: Cells circle a tower from which an unseen guard can observe any inmate at will. As far as a prisoner knows, at any given time, ...