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- Study: Experiencing Childhood Trauma Makes Body and Brain Age Faster https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/08/experiencing-childhood-trauma 2 comments
- Saying No: The Negative Ramifications From Invitation Declines Are Less Severe Than We Think https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/psp-pspi0000443.pdf 6 comments science
- Children whose mothers are highly stressed, anxious or depressed during pregnancy may be at higher risk for mental health and behavior issues during their childhood and teen years https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2023/11/maternal-stress-behavior-problems 102 comments science
- American police are more likely to use a positive tone when addressing whites than blacks https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/psp-pspa0000270.pdf 1949 comments science
- Prospective Teachers Misperceive Black Children as Angry https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/07/racialized-anger-bias 65 comments science
- In the first few weeks of the lockdown of New Zealand in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, residents reported a slight increase in mental distress but higher levels of confidence in the government, science and the police, as well as greater patriotism https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/06/new-zealand-pandemic-lockdown 95 comments science
- People May Lie to Appear Honest. Efforts to avoid appearing dishonest may actually lead to lying, study finds. https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/01/lie-appear-honest 6 comments science
- Strict Adherence to Traditional Masculinity Associated With More Severe PTSD in Vets - "Emotional suppression, self-reliance, may also hinder access to and effectiveness of treatment, study says" https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/01/traditional-masculinity-ptsd-vets 12 comments science
- Racial stereotyping might be one reason some continue to blame video games for school shootings, suggests new US study (204,796 news stories of 204 mass shootings). When shooting occurred at a school, video games were 8.35 times more likely to be discussed when the shooter was White than when Black. https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/ppm-ppm0000255.pdf 4 comments technology
- Gender Stereotypes Have Changed: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis of U.S. Public Opinion Polls From 1946 to 2018. Belief in competence equality increased over time, along with belief in female superiority among those who indicated a sex difference in competence. https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-amp0000494.pdf 10 comments science
- Women Now Seen as Equally as or More Competent Than Men https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2019/07/women-equally-more-competent 8 comments nottheonion
- High School Seniors Losing Trust in Law Enforcement, Justice System https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/dev-dev0000760.pdf 902 comments science
- People who don’t give up on their goals (or who get better over time at not giving up on their goals) and who have a positive outlook appear to have less anxiety and depression and fewer panic attacks, according to a new study (n=3,294 over course of 18 years). https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2019/05/goals-perseverance 7 comments science
- A child with more than one brother or sister is more likely to be the victim of sibling bullying than those with only one sibling, and firstborn children and older brothers tend to be the perpetrators. Competition for limited resources within family may lead to fight for dominance https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2019/02/multiple-siblings-bullying 7 comments science
- The search for meaning in life was strongly associated with a need for excitement and greater support for political violence, suggests a new APA study. Interventions to counter violent extremism should include access to exciting, nonviolent alternatives that may help curb this impulse to harm. https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2018/10/political-violence.aspx 3 comments science
- Students who show interest in school report greater income 50 years later, regardless of IQ, parental income http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2018/02/high-school-behavior.aspx 53 comments science
- People who earn more money tend to experience more positive emotions focused on themselves, while people who earn less take greater pleasure in their relationships and ability to connect with others, according to research https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/12/earn-happiness.aspx 20 comments science
- Researchers have found that people who earn more money tend to experience more positive emotions focused on themselves, while people who earn less take greater pleasure in their relationships and ability to connect with others. http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/12/earn-happiness.aspx 14 comments science
- Social isolation, loneliness could be greater threat to public health than obesity, researchers say http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/08/lonely-die.aspx 3 comments science
- People See Black Men as Larger, More Threatening Than Same-Sized White Men http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/03/black-men-threatening.aspx 49 comments science
- Study finds that physicians prescribe antibiotics more often when they perceive that their patients are expecting to receive them, which may be a factor in over-prescribing of antibiotics http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/02/antibiotics-expectations.aspx 4 comments science
- Experts' ability to predict if someone will attempt to take his or her own life is no better than chance and has not significantly improved over the last 50 years, according to a comprehensive review of suicide research http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/bul-bul0000084.pdf 13 comments science
- Study Erred In Finding No Link Between Teen Pot Use And Psychosis http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/adb-adb0000103.pdf 8 comments science
- People worldwide tend to gain self-esteem as they grow older, and men generally have higher levels of self-esteem than women, but this self-esteem gender gap is more pronounced in Western industrialized countries, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2016/01/self-esteem-gender.aspx 5 comments science
- Awe May Promote Altruistic Behavior - "Sense of something greater than the self encourages cooperative behavior, study says" http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2015/05/altruistic-behavior.aspx 5 comments science
- Internet Searches Create Illusion of Personal Knowledge, Research Finds: "Searching the Internet for information may make people feel smarter than they actually are" http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2015/03/internet-knowledge.aspx 80 comments science
- Internet Searches Create Illusion of Personal Knowledge, Research Finds http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2015/03/internet-knowledge.aspx 4 comments science
- Study finds that more than 70 minutes of homework a day is too much for adolescents http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2015/03/math-science-homework.aspx 4412 comments science
- American Psychological Association Survey Shows Money Stress Weighing on Americans’ Health Nationwide http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2015/02/money-stress.aspx 6 comments science
- Childhood psychological abuse as harmful as sexual or physical abuse: Often unrecognized, emotional abuse prevalent form of child abuse, study finds http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/10/psychological-abuse.aspx 60 comments science
- Black Women Express More Interest in STEM Majors Than White Women, But Earn Fewer STEM Degrees, Study Finds http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/09/women-stem-majors.aspx 7 comments science
- Black Boys Viewed as Older, Less Innocent Than Whites, Research Finds http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/03/black-boys-older.aspx 33 comments science
- In a study of crimes committed by people with serious mental disorders, only 7.5% were directly related to symptoms of mental illness http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/mental-illness-crime.aspx 45 comments science
- Girls Make Higher Grades than Boys in All School Subjects: Despite the stereotype that boys do better in math and science, girls have made higher grades than boys throughout their school years for nearly a century, according to a new analysis published by the American Psychological Association. http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/girls-grades.aspx 1972 comments science
- Taking a Walk May Lead to More Creativity than Sitting, Study Finds: When the task at hand requires some imagination, taking a walk may lead to more creative thinking than sitting, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/creativity-walk.aspx 69 comments science
- Only 7.5% of crimes committed by people with serious mental disorders were directly related to symptoms of their mental illness (full pdf) http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/lhb-0000075.pdf 32 comments science
- A total of 43 percent of high school boys and young college men reported they had an unwanted sexual experience and of those, 95 percent said a female acquaintance was the aggressor, according to a study published online in the APA journal Psychology of Men and Masculinity http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/03/coerced-sex.aspx 598 comments science
- People who suck usually don't know enough to know they suck http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf 35 comments cogsci
- Actually Reddit, THIS is why you're all assholes. http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb03/overestimate.html 5 comments reddit.com
- Why do "they all look alike"? http://www.apa.org/monitor/dec00/lookalike.html 12 comments reddit.com