MSU researchers found Michigan is one of the leading states across the country with the most childfree adults.

Associate Editors work closely with the Editors in helping to steer and manage the journal, playing an active role in journal development. The key responsibility as an Associate Editor will be managing the lifecycle of a paper through the peer review process. This includes:

This paper describes the adaptation and validation of a brief Big Five Inventory for upper elementary school children in China. Two independent samples, comprising 1884 and 2245 children from Grade 4...

Complete this short questionnaire to help develop Guidelines for Reporting About Network Data (GRAND).

Hostile Attribution Bias (HAB) is the tendency to perceive ambiguous social information as threatening. The social information processing (SIP) model provides a theoretical framework for determining ....

Anxious shyness refers to social inhibition and wariness toward familiar peers or authority figures, possibly due to concerns about negative social evaluation. In contrast, regulated shyness is chara...

Nigel Farage supports the scraping the two-child benefit cap as a way of encouraging people to have more children. But pronatalist policies that offer a one-off "baby bonus" are not effective.

Children acquire gender stereotypes at a young age and these subsequently influence cognition and behavior. Stereotypes may be learned through a child's direct observation of gender differences as we...

Children acquire gender stereotypes at a young age and these subsequently influence cognition and behavior. Stereotypes may be learned through a child's direct observation of gender differences as we....

Although lessons about sexism can increase gender egalitarianism in children, teachers often shy away from discussing sensitive topics, such as sexism, in classrooms. We conducted two studies to exami...

Healthy human relationships incorporate empathy; yet empathy may sometimes be a risky strength. Here we examine whether links between parent and child depressive symptoms are moderated by child empat...

A hard look at whether the rise comes from more awareness, better diagnosis—or something else

In the second installment of our "Childfree By Choice" series, host K. Wilkes engages in an enlightening discussion with Dr. Jennifer Neal, a prominent researcher, at Michigan State University, specia...

In 2015, I graduated college with a degree in psychology and I wanted to conduct research to reduce health disparities. First, I needed more research experience if I wanted to