Biological Psychology

Latest research

1. The nature of the relation between mental well-being and ill-being

   • Christian K. Tamnes
   • Mona Bekkhus
   • Tilmann von Soest

   in Nature Human Behaviour

   Article 16 October 2025

   

2. Counting Sexes and Gender: Reflections on a Timeless Tension at the Heart of Psychology

   • Lucas B. Mazur
   • Tom Mazur

   in Archives of Sexual Behavior

   Article Open access 15 October 2025

3. The functional adaptations of mammalian brain structures through a behavioural ecology lens

   • Ornella C. Bertrand
   • Leah Krubitzer

   in Nature Reviews Biodiversity

   Article 15 October 2025

   

4. Stress across systems and lifespan: emerging biomarkers and mechanisms of resilience

   • Mustafa al’Absi

   in Journal of Neural Transmission

   Article 08 October 2025

5. Can a marker approach exclude?

   • Jonah Branding

   in Biology & Philosophy

   Article Open access 08 October 2025

   

6. Beyond the Binary: When to Lump and When to Split in Sex Differences Research

   • Andrea L. Meltzer
   • Elizabeth A. D. Hammock

   in Archives of Sexual Behavior

   Article 06 October 2025

7. Early-life neural correlates of behavioral inhibition and anxiety risk

   • Courtney A. Filippi
   • Alice Massera
   • Luis Martinez Agulleiro

   in Neuropsychopharmacology

   Article Open access 04 October 2025

   

8. Polygenic architecture of brain structure and function, behaviors, and psychopathologies in children

   • Yoonjung Yoonie Joo
   • Bo-Gyeom Kim
   • Jiook Cha

   in Nature Communications

   Article Open access 26 September 2025

   

9. Interview with Gene Robinson for Theory and Society

   • McCaffree Kevin
   • Gene E. Robinson

   in Theory and Society

   Article 24 September 2025

10. Arousal reframed as an organism‑wide dynamic system

    in Nature

    Article 24 September 2025

    

11. Maternal depression and offspring neurodevelopmental impairments in wild rodents induced by ecologically relevant prenatal stress

    • Jinyue Pang
    • Jinmei Hao
    • Ruiyong Wu

    in Molecular Psychiatry

    Article 13 September 2025

    

12. Daily briefing: Different people’s brains process colours in the same way

    • Flora Graham

    in Nature

    Article 09 September 2025

    

13. Motivation und Handeln

    • Jutta Heckhausen
    • Heinz Heckhausen

    Textbook 2025

    

14. Psycho-Somatik – Psychotherapie an der Schnittstelle zur Somatik

    • Sebastian Euler

    in Die Psychotherapie

    Article 29 August 2025

    

15. Unveiling the enigma of anxiety disorders and depression: from pathogenesis to treatment

    • Han-Qing Pan
    • Tian Xia
    • Bing-Xing Pan

    in Science China Life Sciences

    Article 28 August 2025

16. Maternal separation disrupts noradrenergic control of adult coping behaviors

    • Chayla R. Vazquez
    • Léa J. Becker
    • Jordan G. McCall

    in Neuropsychopharmacology

    Article Open access 28 August 2025

    

17. Daily briefing: Repeated heatwaves make your biological clock run fast

    • Flora Graham

    in Nature

    Article 26 August 2025

    

18. Differential Effects of Objective and Subjective Nature Contact on Social, Cognitive, and Academic Outcomes across the Lifespan: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis

    • Haoning Liu
    • Xinyi Yang
    • Xiao Yu

    in Educational Psychology Review

    Article 23 August 2025

    

19. Neural correlates of human fear conditioning and sources of variability in 2199 individuals

    • Joaquim Radua
    • Hannah S. Savage
    • Miquel A. Fullana

    in Nature Communications

    Article Open access 23 August 2025

    

20. Genetics and generics

    • Rajeev R. Dutta

    in Synthese

    Article Open access 22 August 2025

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