Candice Hargons, PhD, an Emory University professor, psychologist and community advocate, has been elected 2028 president of the American Psychological Association, bringing a vision of collaboration, ...

More Americans report having unmet mental health needs, but a declining number say it’s because they can’t afford it, according to data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services ...

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 ...

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 ...

How people think about disability affects how they feel about disability. Although people have various individual perspectives on disability, these viewpoints can be categorized into three overarching ...

The COVID-19 pandemic was especially hard on adults who have disabilities, inflicting almost twice the rate of distress on them as on adults without disabilities.

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers are expanding science on Black girls by treating them as knowledge producers, not just subjects of study. Emerging methods help researchers gather richer data that challenge long-held ...

50.6% Percentage of Americans who use in-person services alone to receive outpatient mental health care 27.8% Percentage of Americans who use telehealth services alone to receive outpatient mental ...

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 ...

Our personalities, and to some degree our life experiences, are defined by the way we behave. But what influences the way we behave in the first place? How does our behavior shape our experiences ...