progscrape: psychology

When children in a disadvantaged position believe their status is unchangeable, they may adopt beliefs that justify the existing hierarchy to make sense of their reality

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Parents who support school prayer also favor arming teachers

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People who identify as politically conservative are more likely than their liberal counterparts to find “slippery slope” arguments logically sound

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Purpose in life acts as a psychological shield against depression

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A meta-analysis of more than 40 studies finds that people who show compassion toward others — through empathy, emotional support, or a desire to help — tend to feel more at ease…

13 hours ago nature.com psychology

Eye-tracking study reveals that calorie labels only influences people who are already actively trying to lose weight

6 days ago surrey.ac.uk psychology

Study reveals silent mental health crisis among new parents

10 days ago uea.ac.uk psychology

People blink less when they are working harder to understand speech in noisy environments, suggesting that blinking reflects the mental effort behind listening, while blink patterns remain stable across different lighting conditions

2 days ago concordia.ca psychology

Common left-right political scale masks anti-establishment views at the center

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Feeling that a sentence is unacceptable may have little to do with an internal grammar module

38 hours ago doi.org psychology

College women willing to pay more for contraception when abortion is illegal

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Priming for planned sex increases desire, frequency in parents with young children

11 days ago yorku.ca psychology

A new study of US adults found that overall trust in scientists was high (86%), but significantly lower among individuals with more conservative political views

9 days ago jamanetwork.com psychology

Why we procrastinate on joy — and how to stop

7 days ago wapo.st psychology

People who have children tend to report lower levels of romantic love, intimacy, and passion toward their partners compared to individuals without children…

10 days ago psypost.org psychology

Scientists found that physical intimacy can speed healing, when combined with the "love hormone" oxytocin

9 days ago wsj.com psychology

People who read right-leaning tabloid papers more often showed stronger negative automatic biases towards autism

4 days ago citystgeorges.ac.uk autism psychology

US pop music has grown darker and more stressed over 50 years: Words related to stress, anxiety and pressure increased 81% from 1973 to 2023, tracking rising depression and anxiety

39 hours ago nature.com music psychology

Belief in misinformation and conspiracy theories is often based on experience and not just cognitive errors, as evidenced by the fact that the flat earth theory is popular but not the cone-shaped earth theory

11 days ago theconversation.com earth psychology

Autistic employees are less susceptible to the Dunning-Kruger effect. Autistic participants estimated their own performance in a task more accurately

2 days ago psypost.org autism psychology

Autistic individuals are more prosocial towards strangers and people they barely know compared to their non-autistic peers

12 days ago psypost.org autism psychology

Reciprocity drives support for climate action—citizens in China, India, Japan and the United States were more willing to back ambitious climate policies when they believed other countries were making substantial efforts of their own…

2 days ago journals.plos.org china japan psychology

Shopping for goods or services that you will share is significantly more stressful than shopping for yourself or for something to be given to another person, because “You feel more responsible and you feel less confident about your ability to do a good job with it”

10 days ago news.ucr.edu psychology

Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation

16 days ago theguardian.com psychology

Tourists are 13.4% more likely than locals to give restaurants higher online ratings

22 days ago informs.org psychology

Analysis of 45 serial killers sheds new light on the dark psychology of sexually motivated murderers

23 days ago psypost.org psychology

Singlehood isn’t a static state but an evolving personal journey

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New study implies that the rise of right-wing populism is partly a psychological response to fear of the unknown

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Visible physical aggression in popular online pornography has increased substantially over the past 25 years

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Toxic masculinity indirectly lowers help-seeking behavior by encouraging men to bottle up emotions

24 days ago psypost.org psychology

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