Executive summary Every infant, child, and adolescent will experience pain at times
throughout their life. Childhood pain ranges from acute to chronic, and includes procedural …

There are ever more compelling tools available for neuroscience research, ranging from
selective genetic targeting to optogenetic circuit control to map** whole connectomes …

Meehl argued in 1978 that theories in psychology come and go, with little cumulative
progress. We believe that this assessment still holds, as also evidenced by increasingly …

These questions could hardly be more timely or impor tant. As extreme weather events
become more common, sea levels rise, and climate-induced migrations flow across borders …

Drawing on the philosophy of psychological explanation, we suggest that psychological
science, by focusing on effects, may lose sight of its primary explananda: psychological …

In this paper we outline a framework for the study of the mechanisms involved in the
engagement of human agents with cultural affordances. Our aim is to better understand how …

Researchers have wondered how the brain creates emotions since the early days of
psychological science. With a surge of studies in affective neuroscience in recent decades …

Learning has been defined functionally as changes in behavior that result from experience
or mechanistically as changes in the organism that result from experience. Both types of …

The concept of mechanism has been an important organizing principle in science and
philosophy since at least the early modern period (Dijksterhuis 1950 [1961]; Boas 1952) …

Phenomenology originated as a novel way of doing philosophy early in the twentieth
century. In the writings of Husserl and Heidegger, regarded as its founders, it was a non …