APA URGES DEFEAT OF LATEST SENATE 'REPEAL AND REPLACE' BILL
Provisions would impose deep cuts on vital state Medicaid programs, likely leave millions without insurance

  HOW DO CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS LEAD TO LONGER LIFE?
Special issue of APA journal outlines science on social ties and health, calls for public health priority

  APA STATEMENT ON PRESIDENT TRUMP'S DECISION TO END DACA
Calls for Congress to reinstate protections for young immigrants

  STATEMENT OF APA PRESIDENT IN RESPONSE TO HURRICANE HARVEY

  APA CALLS ON PRESIDENT TO PRESERVE "DREAMERS" PROGRAM
Urges him to consider impact on immigrants, families

  JUDGE DISMISSES DEFAMATION LAWSUIT AGAINST APA
Rules that Ohio state court had no jurisdiction

  APA REACTION TO SETTLEMENT OF TORTURE CASE AGAINST PSYCHOLOGISTS MITCHELL, JESSEN
Duo left stain on their profession, says APA president

  DAVID NYGREN SENIOR DIRECTOR, MARKETING AND BRANDING, FOR APA PUBLISHING
New post to promote key publishing programs

  SECRET TO HAPPINESS MAY INCLUDE MORE UNPLEASANT EMOTIONS
Research contradicts idea that people should always seek pleasure to be happy

  SO LONELY I COULD DIE
Social isolation, loneliness could be greater threat to public health than obesity, researchers say

  CAN DISCRIMINATION CONTRIBUTE TO FEELINGS OF RADICALIZATION?
Lack of cultural identity, marginalization related to Muslim immigrants’ support for extremism, research finds

  UNDERSTANDING HOW PERSUASION WORKS CAN MAKE CONSUMERS MORE SAVVY
It’s not just art, it’s science, psychologist says

  NEW MINDFULNESS METHOD HELPS COACHES, ATHLETES SCORE
Sessions can help athletes at all levels develop mental edge, psychologist says

  OLDER ADULTS WITH HIV: AN OVERLOOKED POPULATION?
Stigma due to age, sexual orientation, HIV status contributes to poor mental, physical health

  AGE OF FIRST EXPOSURE TO PORNOGRAPHY SHAPES MEN'S ATTITUDES TOWARD WOMEN
Young exposure associated with need for power over women, older with promiscuity, study says

  FAT SHAMING IN THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE CAN BE MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY HARMFUL
Health care providers may offer weight loss advice in place of medical treatment, researchers say

  WHY ARE DOCTORS UNDERUSING A DRUG TO TREAT OPIOID ADDICTION?
Access to counseling for patients, mentoring for physicians could help increase use, survey says

  YOGA EFFECTIVE AT REDUCING SYMPTOMS OF DEPRESSION
Multi-week regimen may be an effective complement to traditional therapy, multiple studies suggest

  APA REAFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH WITH NONHUMAN ANIMALS
Notes contributions to advancing scientific knowledge

  APA JOURNALS PROGRAM COLLABORATES WITH CENTER FOR OPEN SCIENCE TO ADVANCE OPEN SCIENCE PRACTICES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Offers preprint services, data repository, open science badges

  APA LAUNCHES COMPREHENSIVE ONLINE RESOURCE ON TREATMENT FOR PTSD
Clinical practice guideline can help inform health care providers’ and patients’ treatment plans for PTSD

  NATION'S LARGEST PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION MARKS 125TH ANNIVERSARY AT DC CONVENTION
Special sessions, posthumous award, other celebrations planned

  STATEMENT OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ON THE SENATE'S FAILURE TO REPEAL AND REPLACE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
APA praises Senate vote, calls for revision and improvement

  WOMEN AND MEN REPORT SIMILAR LEVELS OF WORK-FAMILY CONFLICTS
Research contradicts stereotypes that only women have trouble juggling work and family

  NOBEL LAUREATE DANIEL KAHNEMAN, PHD, TO BE KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT APA CONVENTION
Conversation highlights the past and future of psychology

  APA QUESTIONS ANNOUNCEMENT TO BAR TRANSGENDER PEOPLE FROM US MILITARY
Cites research showing no ill effects of open service on military readiness, harmfulness of discrimination to health, well-being

  APA AGAIN URGES SENATE DEFEAT OF "REPEAL AND REPLACE" BILLS
Measures under consideration would gut Medicaid, leave over 20 million uninsured

  SELF-PROCLAIMED SLACKERS MAY BE SABOTAGING OWN HEALTH
Feeling less active than your peers is associated with an earlier death, study says

  APA UPGRADES APA PSYCNET® CONTENT DELIVERY PLATFORM
New features improve searchability, add useful functions

  REVISED SENATE HEALTH CARE BILL WORSE THAN FIRST VERSION, APA SAYS
Two-tiered insurance markets would force most vulnerable into more-expensive plans

  UNDER STRESS, BRAINS OF BULIMICS RESPOND DIFFERENTLY TO FOOD
Scans suggest food is a form of escape from self-critical thoughts

  APA CONTINUES TO OPPOSE ADMINISTRATION'S TRAVEL BAN
Welcomes clarification allowing some to enter U.S.

  ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE TO REDUCE RISK OF CHRONIC DISEASE
Greater diversity of positive emotions associated with lower indicators of systemic inflammation, study says

  APA VOICES OPPOSITION TO SENATE BETTER CARE RECONCILIATION ACT
Bill would devastate Medicaid, endanger Americans with mental health and substance use disorders, including opioid addictions, APA says