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The best Psychology newsletters
Psychology newsletters, ranked. Our editorial team curates and orders this list by hand: the top picks below are the ones we'd subscribe to first, followed by the full directory of everything we track in this category.
Ranked by the Hark News editorial team: every newsletter here is verified against its live signup page (publisher, cadence, pricing), and the order reflects our hand-curated ranking, not raw subscriber counts.
Hark's top 10 Psychology newsletters
Hand-ranked by the Hark News editorial team. Every one is free to read (or has a real free tier).
Granted
Organizational psychologist Adam Grant sends Granted monthly, sharing what he is learning and reading about work, motivation, and generosity. It is short, evidence-minded, and draws on his Wharton research and bestsellers like Think Again. Read by more than 500,000 people.
Astral Codex Ten
Psychiatrist Scott Alexander writes Astral Codex Ten: long, skeptical essays on psychology, medicine, AI, and how to reason about evidence, several times a week. It is the closest thing the internet has to a working model of changing your mind in public. All the important posts are free; a paid tier adds open threads, AMAs, and drafts.
Experimental History
Research psychologist Adam Mastroianni writes funny, iconoclastic essays about how science actually works and how it often doesn't, every other Tuesday. He left the academic track and treats the newsletter as his lab. One of the few psychology newsletters that is genuinely fun to read end to end.
Psyche Weekly
Psyche, Aeon's sister magazine on the mind and living well, sends a free weekly digest of its essays and guides every Friday. The writing is commissioned from researchers and clinicians and edited to essay quality, with no paywall anywhere. For readers who want depth on psychology without the self-help gloss.
Small Potatoes
Paul Bloom, the Yale and Toronto psychologist, writes Small Potatoes once or twice a week: wry, erudite essays on morality, pleasure, cruelty, and the rest of the human condition. He is one of the field's best explainers and it shows. Free to read, with a paid tier for extras.
Behavioral Scientist
Behavioral Scientist is the nonprofit digital magazine where leading researchers and practitioners write from the front lines of the science of human behavior. The email edition collects new essays, events, and opportunities. The closest thing the field has to a trade paper for ideas.
BPS Research Digest
The British Psychological Society's Research Digest has summarized new psychology studies for a general audience since 2003, written by science journalists who read the full papers, caveats included. It is a reliable filter on a field with a replication problem.
Monitor Digital
Monitor Digital is the American Psychological Association's email edition of Monitor on Psychology, covering news and trends in the field eight times a year. It is the association's house organ: professional issues, practice, and research policy more than pop psychology. Free to sign up.
More Psychology newsletters
The rest of our catalog for this category, in our ranked order.
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Frequently asked
- What is the best psychology newsletter?
- Our top pick is Granted from Adam Grant. The full ranking above lists every psychology newsletter we recommend, in order.
- Are these newsletters free?
- Every newsletter in the main ranking is free to read or has a real free tier. Paid-only newsletters are listed separately in the paid recommendations section.
Last updated: August 2026