Psychological Science Agenda

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Promoting psychology as a STEM discipline
This year’s APA Science Leadership Conference focused on how to highlight the science behind psychology.

Honoring service
Academic and government psychologists are recognized for their service to the field.

Boston's Museum of Science: Come a visitor, leave a participant
Developmental psychology laboratory operates within a popular museum.

Treating postpartum depression
Psychotherapy, rather than medication, should be the first line of treatment, research suggests.

Coed versus single-sex ed
Does separating boys and girls improve their education? Experts on both sides of the issue weigh in.

Scents and sensibility
Perhaps the most primal of senses, smell holds surprising sway over cognition, emotion and even other senses.

Reflecting on narcissism
Are young people more self-obsessed than ever before?

Tapping our powers of persuasion
Robert Cialdini’s research harnesses social norms to help you save the world and find a job.

Examining emotions' impact
Emotion’s incoming editor David DeSteno wants to publish more research that shows how emotions influence a wide range of real-life situations.

A passion for editing
Isabel Gauthier plans to introduce a brief-articles section and expand diversity in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

NSF closes another door on psychology
APA’s Steve Breckler on NSF’s graduate fellowship rules. 

In Brief
A sample of recently published findings.

Full February issue