A third of American teens use AI agents as friends or romantic partners. What will be the long-term consequences?

An early figure in the psychoanalytic movement, Jung is often written off. But his ideas of the collective unconscious and ...

When you walk into a doctor’s office, you assume something so basic that it barely needs articulation: your doctor has touched a body before. They have studied anatomy, seen organs and learned the ...

With the widespread application of artificial intelligence in social and emotional companionship, understanding the intimate relationship between humans and AI has become a critical issue. Human-AI ...

With the Frontiers Research Topic “Resources for Developmental Ecological Psychology,” we aimed to bring together researchers from various branches of developmental psychology that can broadly be ...

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

Cybersecurity has always been about people, even if we’ve spent years pretending it’s purely technical. Firewalls, encryption, and controls matter, but breaches usually begin with a very human moment: ...

The brutally frigid weather that has gripped most of America for the past 11 days is not unprecedented. It just feels that way. The first quarter of the 21st century was unusually warm by historical ...

A course that deepens the study of the cognitive and affective-relational development in typical and atypical pathways of adolescents and in families. Students study the risk factors and mechanisms of ...

Researchers discovered that unusually high temperatures can hinder early childhood development. Children living in hotter conditions were less likely to reach key learning milestones, especially in ...