Three researchers will receive support this year from the Sabbatical Fund Fellowship from the James McKeen Cattell Fund.

Elika Bergelson, a Harvard University language scientist who was not part of the new study, says human infants “mostly rely on how things look. But by 14 months they can also use role or function—for ...

These are things people might say when they claim to be setting boundaries:“You really have to stop coming over unannounced.”“Don’t talk to me that way.”“If you can’t honor my needs, I’m cutting off ...

Scientists who have shaped our understanding of clinical cognitive neuroscience, mental health, and racial biases are among ...

Aimed at integrating cutting-edge psychological science into the classroom, columns about teaching Current Directions in ...

When I play, I feel the vibration in my heart,” the cellist Yumi Kendall told Dacher Keltner, a psychologist who studies awe. “It is beyond language. Beyond thought. Beyond religion. It is like a ...

At the close of the fall semester, professors across the country will grade their students. Based on recent trends, those grades will be higher than ever. Around the same time, students will hand ...

You probably think you’re listening to my voice right now. But what if I told you that you’re actually experiencing a sophisticated hallucination?Perception isn’t the passive process that most of us ...

Laurie Santos, a psychology professor at Yale and host of “The Happiness Lab” podcast, pointed to research from John and Julie Gottman, the renowned marriage researchers, that suggests happy couples ...

A new study highlights how people around the world often overestimate climate skepticism and presents ways to push back on this misperception.

For decades the term “Monday blues” has been shorthand for the collective groan that greets the start of each workweek. It’s also well documented in medical statistics. Mondays come with higher rates ...

At the same time, professors were coming under more pressure to tend to their students’ emotional well-being, Amanda Claybaugh, Harvard’s dean of undergraduate education, told me. They received ...