Qian Di talks about what it was like doing public health research as a Chinese scientist in the USA during the first Trump administration. His experiences foreshadow challenges that lie ahead this time around.

The Trump administration has launched an extraordinary and dangerous attack on US science. Climate and water scientist Peter Gleick calls on scientists who are able and willing to do so to speak out publicly, and argues that although dissent carries risks, it is riskier to stay silent.

Psychology’s definition and scope have shifted over the discipline’s short history, yet it has largely remained ahistorical and geographically narrow. Here we call for psychology to become a historical and geographical science, a transformation we term the chronospatial revolution. We list four barriers to this shift in psychology: problems in scope, data, synergy and theory. We discuss the need for

Degrowth is a socioeconomic paradigm that prioritizes planetary health and human wellbeing through a democratically planned reduction of unnecessary production and consumption. We urge psychological and behavioural scientists to study this important topic and suggest ways to develop an integrated research agenda for degrowth.

Switching fields for a PhD can be challenging. Williams-Ceci shares her experiences when transitioning from psychology to information science.

A negative relationship with caregivers early in life known as ‘disorganized attachment’ has disruptive long-term consequences in humans. Rolland et al. find no evidence for this relationship pattern in free (that is, wild) chimpanzees in their natural environment, which underscores its maladaptive nature and indicates the role of context in shaping caregiver–infant relations.

A polygenic risk score (PRS) summarizes in one number an individual’s estimated genetic association with a specific trait or disease based on the common DNA variants included in the score. Disease PRSs have the potential to positively affect population health by improving disease risk prediction, thereby also potentially improving disease prevention, early intervention and treatment. However, given

The Global Flourishing Study is a longitudinal panel study that is collecting nationally representative, multidimensional well-being data from more than 200,000 people in 22 geographically and culturally diverse countries. The first wave of results highlights the value of tracking a rich set of flourishing indicators for both science and policy.

Using nationally representative data from 202,898 participants in the Global Flourishing Study, this work examines factors associated with financial well-being across 22 countries. We investigate how demographic factors—including age, gender, marital status, employment status, education, religious service attendance and immigration status—are correlated with financial well-being (as assessed through

We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to review the association of lockdowns with adverse birth and pregnancy outcomes (ABPOs) and related inequalities, in high-income countries (HICs). Databases (EMBASE, MEDLINE/PubMed and Web of Science) were searched from 1 January 2019 to 22 June 2023 for original observational studies based in HICs that compared the rates of ABPOs, before and during

Interest in the scientific study of well-being has grown substantially, spanning various disciplines and sectors of society, while also gaining greater relevance in policymaking. In this Perspective, we compare and contrast unidimensional versus multidimensional understandings of well-being, and corresponding measures of life satisfaction or life evaluation versus flourishing. We consider conceptual

Correction to: Nature Human Behaviour https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02119-3, published online 10 March 2025.

Patricia Lockwood discusses why she values peer review and participating in the peer review process, despite some of the challenges.