AI chatbots are becoming more and more a part of childhood and adolescence. ANNE MAHEUX: Kids who do have worse mental health are seeking out AI to help them. But that AI use may be exacerbating those ...

In retrospect, 2016, the year that Angela Duckworth published Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, may have been a high-water mark for the dogged go-getter‑ism she was selling. Her book landed ...

Psychological scientists argue that efforts to change individual behavior often overlook the larger systems, policies, and institutions that limit people’s choices. People aren’t simply shaped by ...

If you often find yourself lying wide awake at night — when you should be sleeping — stewing over an argument you had earlier in the day or worrying about an important upcoming meeting, you’re not ...

Are the letters of a written word processed sequentially or in parallel? Despite an abundance of research on visual word recognition, the evidence in this longstanding debate rests almost entirely on ...