Joseph Ferrari has a nickname for procrastinators — procs — and he’s been studying them for 40 years. He became fascinated with procrastination when he was working on a PhD in experimental psychology ...

Strategic Initiatives Liaison Mary Czerwinski Microsoft Research (ret.) and University of Washington CEO Robert Gropp (Ex Officio) Association for Psychological Science Margaret E. Beier Rice ...

In the present study, we explore the utility of latent transition analysis to better understand the developmental course of youths’ externalizing psychopathology using the Oregon ADHD-1000 data set.

Let’s face it: People rarely make history by fitting in. It takes a Nelson Mandela or an Aung San Suu Kyi to draw attention to a cause, a George Lucas or a Madonna to revolutionize an entertainment ...

More than 80% of the world’s population lives in countries other than the United States, Canada, and Europe, which dominate psychological science nonetheless. The Global Spotlight series is a small ...

The COVID-19 pandemic and corresponding lockdowns have prompted one of the greatest mass disruptions to civil life in modern history. The potential psychological consequences of facing a virus without ...

Recently, one of the researchers at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab was taking her 4-year-old son for a walk through the campus. The little boy looked up at the famous campanile ...

Believe it or not, the Internet did not give rise to procrastination. People have struggled with habitual hesitation going back to ancient civilizations. The Greek poet Hesiod, writing around 800 B.C.

The year 2004 marks the centenary of B. F. Skinner’s birth. I doubt that most members of the American Psychological Society (and even a smaller proportion of all psychologists) will pay much attention ...

Months after COVID-19 forced millions of people to begin working from home, politicians and pundits worldwide began to speculate that the pandemic would forever change how and where we work. We ...

One of the greatest threats to workplace safety may be from an unexpected source: stress. Just a few years after launching the Huffington Post media empire, company president and editor-in-chief ...

Corporations, universities, and individuals have tried to find some magic formula to understand personalities and what characteristics and skills someone brings to the table. Over the years and across ...