A recent study published in Imaging Neuroscience indicates that engaging in a very slow jog for just ten minutes can improve a person’s mood and enhance their ability to focus.

Relying on university students skews global psychological research

Chronic shame may fuel destructive thought patterns in survivors of abuse

For skeptical conservative voters in the US, public information campaigns did not increase trust in American elections

Study identifies the values most strongly associated with rejecting antidemocratic politicians, offering new insight into why some voters resist leaders who challenge democratic norms.

Comedy is funnier when it is easier to process, new psychology study finds

People with clinical levels of love addiction experience more severe relationship anxiety than those who are simply at risk

A new study reveals that voters use a politician's everyday lifestyle choices, such as their vehicle or restaurant preferences, as mental shortcuts to infer their political leanings, but only when explicit political information is missing.

Stanford Prison Experiment has no scientific merit

Emerging adults with an average age of 19 who experienced four or more adverse childhood experiences had substantially higher rates of depression, suicidal ideation, hard drug use…

The Aging Brain Is Not Declining. It’s Adapting

Frontiers | When Support Becomes Dependence: Conversational Continuity and Relational Safety in Human-AI Interaction

A recent study found more religious women demonstrate a broader initial openness and are more likely to accept male profiles in modern dating app simulations, contrary to researchers' expectations that they would be more selective.

New study maps over 9,000 strategies women use to prevent or respond to sexual violence where tactics change whether the perpetrator is a stranger or a partner

A new study involving 309 couples found romantic partners share much more similar musical tastes than they do personality traits or personal values, and this musical alignment is modestly linked to higher relationship quality and tenderness.

New study links the spread of the internet to a global decline in religious identity

A new study outlines how the use of AI chatbots for companionship and support is linked with “severe negative outcomes.”

The assumption that men’s interest in sex is purely physical and always switched on is a common stereotype, but recent evidence indicates that men’s sexual desire is actually quite complex

Study found that witnessing someone express gratitude creates a halo effect that makes observers want to interact or collaborate with them

A new study indicates that individuals with high levels of dark personality traits, specifically psychopathy and sadism, tend to support political violence from both sides of the Israel–Hamas conflict…

People with higher social anxiety are more likely to conform to negative feedback, new research finds, suggesting that fear of social judgment may make negative opinions especially influential.

Republicans are more likely than Democrats to support political violence

Using VR to take another perspective has been used to develop empathy but may backfire

Artificial intelligence acts as an ‘ideological chameleon’ and may deepen political polarization

Personality impairments link childhood maltreatment to adult anxiety

Higher overall disgust sensitivity was associated with a greater likelihood of identifying as a Republican and holding a conservative ideology

How companies use digital dark patterns to trick online consumers into handed-over personal tracking data for behavioral advertising

Research shows that people with low implicit self-worth, or a large mismatch between their conscious and unconscious self-esteem, are quicker to detect subtle facial expressions of anger and disgust.

A new study suggests that briefly watching hopeful, uplifting YouTube videos can effectively reduce momentary feelings of depression by boosting positive emotions and motivation, regardless of a person's baseline depression levels.

Scientists thought “intensive parenting” was driving down birth rates. They found the exact opposite

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