Conversation is ubiquitous in social life, but the empirical study of this interactive process has been thwarted by tools that are insufficiently modular and unadaptive to researcher needs. To relieve...

Dr. Ashwini Ashokkumar’s lab at the Department of Psychology at Harvard University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position to start in Summer 2026. The lab conducts research on social ...

Stanford researchers have produced a virtual underwater experience to allow you to observe firsthand what reefs are expected to look like by the end of the century if we do not curb our CO2 emissions....

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

How societies remember the dead can reveal what people value in life. We analyzed 38 million obituaries from the United States to examine how perso...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Meta is telling developers that the ideal VR session length with today's hardware is 20-40 minutes, and has explained its reasoning.

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

This Review presents five canonical psychological research findings in virtual reality (VR) over the past three decades. These findings have been consistently replicated and are useful for both resear...

This Review presents five canonical psychological research findings in virtual reality (VR) over the past three decades. These findings have been consistently replicated and are useful for both resear...

APS’s incoming president describes the lessons and impacts of his research in social psychology.

The social sciences have long relied on comparative work as the foundation upon which we understand the complexities of human behavior and society. However, ...

How has the field of virtual reality (VR) evolved and what type of research has made an impact? We used natural language processing techniques and generative artificial intelligence to develop the mos...

Despite high levels of innumeracy and math anxiety, people often appreciate numeric data

Abstract. This article evaluated the effectiveness of using generative AI to simplify science communication and enhance the public's understanding of scien

Typical news readers prefer news headlines with simple language over more complex wording.

The social sciences have long relied on comparative work as the foundation upon which we understand the complexities of human behavior and society. However, as we delve deeper into the era of artifici...

The social sciences have long relied on comparative work as the foundation upon which we understand the complexities of human behavior and society. However, as we delve deeper into the era of artifici...