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
For more than 100 years, APA’s journals, books, and databases have provided top-quality psychological research content to scholars around the world. The Breakthrough Research series, launched in 2025, revisits key papers published in APA journals that continue to shape the field decades later.
In each article, you’ll learn about the original research—its inspiration and impact—and hear from psychological scientists who are building on that foundational work today, demonstrating its enduring and evolving relevance.
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
