Self-efficacy: The theory at the heart of human agency
October 22, 2025
Self-efficacy theory helps us understand behavior across fields like education, health, performance, and more
Criminal trajectories: Antisocial behavior across the lifespan
July 17, 2025
Adolescent offenders follow two paths, each with distinct causes and trajectories
Culture and the self: The universal capacity to be shaped by your contexts
June 30, 2025
How culture can exert broad influence across cognition, emotion, and motivation
The implicit association test: Shining a light on hidden beliefs
May 14, 2025
A surprising test result in 1995 sparked a global shift in how we understand unconscious attitudes
The Stroop effect’s long (and colorful) influence
March 24, 2025
Stroop developed a colorful strategy for studying interference between conflicting psychological processes—in this case, color identification and word reading
Self-determination theory: A quarter century of human motivation research
March 2, 2025
What motivates people to do what they do? For decades, theories of human motivation emphasized external rewards and punishment. Self-determination theory (SDT) helped turn that focus inward
