Candice Hargons, PhD, an Emory University professor, psychologist and community advocate, has been elected 2028 president of the American Psychological Association, bringing a vision of collaboration, ...

Researchers are expanding science on Black girls by treating them as knowledge producers, not just subjects of study. Emerging methods help researchers gather richer data that challenge long-held ...

More Americans report having unmet mental health needs, but a declining number say it’s because they can’t afford it, according to data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services ...

The COVID-19 pandemic was especially hard on adults who have disabilities, inflicting almost twice the rate of distress on them as on adults without disabilities.

Practicing psychologists have the professional training and clinical skills to help people learn to cope more effectively with life issues and mental health problems. After years of graduate school ...

The medications suggested for the treatment of PTSD are sertraline, paroxetine, fluoxetine and venlafaxine. Each patient varies in their response and ability to tolerate a specific medication and ...

Specifically, intuitive low-effort cognitive processes can increase susceptibility to bias in particular circumstances (lower left side of figure). And deliberative effortful cognitive processes can ...

Research by Thalia Wheatley, PhD, a psychology professor at Dartmouth College, has shown that both friends and strangers feel more connected when their conversation partner responds to them quickly ...

Researchers have recently begun to study individuals who are no longer religious. This group of formerly religious individuals—known as the religious dones—is growing in number, but little is known ...

50.6% Percentage of Americans who use in-person services alone to receive outpatient mental health care 27.8% Percentage of Americans who use telehealth services alone to receive outpatient mental ...

Most people who menstruate experience mild physical symptoms in the week before their periods start. Some may also experience mild emotional symptoms. Called premenstrual syndrome (PMS), these ...

Nearly 50 years after the controversial Milgram experiments, social psychologist Jerry M. Burger, PhD, has found that people are still just as willing to administer what they believe are painful ...