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Candice Hargons, PhD, elected as 2028 APA president

October 5, 2026

Will serve as 2027 president-elect before becoming president on January 1, 2028

APA CEO Arthur C. Evans Jr., PhD, to retire in January 2028 after more than a decade of growth and transformation

September 22, 2026

APA Board launches national search for his successor

Workers with psychological capital better prepared to weather increasing work stress

September 22, 2026

Nearly half of U.S. workers typically feel tense or stressed during their workday

APA names Muriel Clauson Closs executive director of new Center for Behavioral Science and AI

September 3, 2026

Clauson Closs will lead APA’s work to ensure psychological science shapes how artificial intelligence is designed and how it affects the people who use it

With education technology, engagement is not the same as learning

September 3, 2026

APA report calls for greater scrutiny of EdTech claims, extra caution when students use generative AI

Schools must adapt to extreme heat in a warming world

August 12, 2026

New report finds extreme heat in pre-K through 12 schools harms learning and health, offers recommendations to mitigate the damage

Political moderates may be perceived as disloyal by both sides

July 27, 2026

Polarization increasingly offers little room for moderates or the middle ground, study finds

Learning to live with uncertainty may pay off at work

July 23, 2026

People don’t need the perfect job to find meaning in their work, study finds

APA applauds new state laws allowing psychologists to prescribe medications

July 15, 2026

New legislation will help psychologists provide an integrated model of care for patients, APA says

Growing up gets less scary with time, research finds

June 25, 2026

Millennials feared adulthood more than Gen Xers and baby boomers—but those fears diminished over time

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