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For the past several years, the conventional wisdom has been that teen mental health is in a downward spiral, sending us on a search for the causes of this deep dysfunction. But the conventional wisdom is wrong. According to the best measures we have, the mental health of American teenagers is not only not in free fall but has been steadily improving.
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Kristin Laurin, a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, said Berry’s and Ong’s exchange matches a lot of research on political polarization.
“That was just such a perfect example of two things that I see in the literature,” Laur...
Can you remember the last time that you received an especially good hug?
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Brooke C. Feeney, a professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University who was not involved in Dr. Dueren’s study, has found in her...
How do chatbots affect our emotional state? What can scientists do to fight fraud on a global scale? How is human conversation evolving?
These queries are just a few of the complex questions psychological scientists tackled this year, and readers of APS journals are taking notice.
Below we list the two most downloaded articles in 2026 from six of
Image above: Milwaukee VA Medical Center, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
APS’s Advocacy Task Force is committed to bringing psychological science into the forefront of both