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Religion Past and Present

0:13 – How Religions Became Moral and Spiritual – Pascal R. Boyer, Washington University in St. Louis 15:17 – I’m Learning (,) God: Spirituality and Religion in African American Life – Jacqueline S....

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New Research From Psychological Science

Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: A Safe Haven: Investigating Social-Support Figures as Prepared Safety Stimuli Erica A. Hornstein, Michael S. Fanselow, and Naomi I....

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Are Neutral Faces Really Neutral?

When your face is relaxed and visibly devoid of any emotional expression, do people see a neutral affect or do they perceive something else entirely? A symposium at the 2016 APS Annual Convention in...

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Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science

Aimed at integrating cutting-edge psychological science into the classroom, Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science offers advice and how-to guidance about teaching a particular area of...

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Bringing Together Cultural Evolution and Cultural Learning

Psychology generally has begun to recognize the importance of integrating and unifying its many diverse interests and accomplishments. As APS Fellow David G. Myers so valuably indicates in “Simulating...

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Research on Baboons’ Capacity for Speech Sounds Makes International Splash

Nonhuman primates can do a lot of things that humans do – they can use tools, teach each other skills, and use sound to communicate. But they don’t seem to be capable of making human-like speech...

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2017 APS Mentor Awards

The APS Mentor Award recognizes those who have fostered the careers of others, honoring APS members who masterfully help students and others find their own voices and discover their own research and...

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2017 APS Janet Taylor Spence Awards for Transformative Early Career...

Five psychological scientists whose research aims to illuminate some of the most fundamental aspects of human life — from romantic relationships to moral judgment, from eating behavior to cognitive...

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Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science

Aimed at integrating cutting-edge psychological science into the classroom, Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science offers advice and how-to guidance about teaching a particular area of...

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Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science

Aimed at integrating cutting-edge psychological science into the classroom, Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science offers advice and how-to guidance about teaching a particular area of...

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Food for Thought: Was Cooking a Pivotal Step in Human Evolution?

The shift to a cooked-food diet was a decisive point in human history. The main topic of debate is when, exactly, this change occurred. All known human societies eat cooked foods, and biologists...

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Why Grandmothers May Hold The Key To Human Evolution

A hunter with bow and arrow, in a steamy sub-Saharan savanna, stalks a big, exotic animal. After killing and butchering it, he and his hunt-mates bring it back to their families and celebrate. This...

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Why You Should Stop Being So Hard on Yourself

“We’re all our own worst critics.” Ever heard that one before? Yes, it’s an obnoxious cliché, but it’s not just self-help fluff. Evolutionary psychologists have studied our natural “negativity bias,”...

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For Gorillas, Being a Good Dad Is Sexy

He was tall and rugged, with piercing blue eyes, blond hair and a magnificent jawline. And what was that slung across his chest? A holster for his Walther PPK? When I saw what the actor Daniel...

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Cooperation in Chimpanzees Reveals Aspects of Our Evolutionary Past

At the Jane Goodall Institute’s Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Sanctuary in the Republic of Congo, more than 150 chimpanzees roam the tropical plains and islands that make up their new home, orphaned as a...

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Cooperation in Chimpanzees Reveals Aspects of Our Evolutionary Past

At the Jane Goodall Institute’s Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Sanctuary in the Republic of Congo, more than 150 chimpanzees roam the tropical plains and islands that make up their new home, orphaned as a...

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Adapting Into the Future

Atsushi Iriki Investigates the Brain’s Evolutionary Phases The human brain isn’t the biggest of all animal brains, but evidence suggests that it’s worthy of another superlative: most sophisticated. Our...

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Caring for Loved Ones the Top Priority for People Worldwide

The human pursuit of romantic love and sex may be the mainstay of evolutionary psychology research, but according to the results of a global study published in Perspectives in Psychological Science,...

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Caring for Loved Ones the Top Priority for People Worldwide

The human pursuit of romantic love and sex may be the mainstay of evolutionary psychology research, but according to the results of a global study published in Perspectives in Psychological Science,...

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Your Brain Is Not for Thinking

APS Past-President/ Author: Lisa Feldman Barrett Five hundred million years ago, a tiny sea creature changed the course of history: It became the first predator. It somehow sensed the presence of...

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