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- Burnout and the Brain (2016) https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/burnout-and-the-brain 104 comments
- Children Motivated to Earn Social Approval Over Treats, Study Suggests https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2023-november-social-approval.html 2 comments science
- Study: A man does not seem sexist if he treats everyone—both men and women—poorly. The research shows that such gender blindness can be exploited to refute accusations of sexism. For example, perpetrators may highlight instances in which they’ve been rude to men as evidence that they aren’t sexist. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/2022-march-equal-opportunity-jerk.html 3044 comments science
- Study: Cultural rather than economic factors during childhood impact how physically active a person will become in adulthood. This effect is more pronounced in women than in men. The cultural factors include such things as the prevalence of books in one’s home and the occupation of one’s parents. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/2022-feb-childhood-cultural-women.html 3 comments science
- Eye movements related to emotions. Recent published works are welcomed. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/we-read-emotions-based-on-how-the-eye-sees.html 3 comments science
- Touting Flavor Before Nutrition Encourages Healthy Eating. Diners put vegetables on their plates 29% more often when the food had taste-focused versus health-focused names and 14% more often when it had taste-focused versus neutral names. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/touting-flavor-before-nutrition-encourages-healthy-eating.html?aps_source=homepage&aps_medium=featuredtile&aps_campaign=internal 52 comments science
- Data from more than 17,000 teenagers show little evidence of a relationship between screen time and well-being in adolescents. The study casts doubt on the widely accepted notion that spending time online, gaming, or watching TV, especially before bedtime, can damage young people's mental health. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/screen-time-even-before-bed-has-little-impact-on-teen-well-being.html 684 comments science
- Researchers find no link between teens’ social media use and depression in two longitudinal samples https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/no-evidence-that-teens-social-media-use-predicts-depression.html 9 comments science
- Our Social Judgments Reveal a Tension Between Morals and Statistics - “People don’t like it when someone uses group averages to make judgments about individuals from different social groups...But when it comes to making judgments themselves, these people make the same types of judgments..." https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/social-judgments-morals-statistics.html 21 comments science
- Study suggests people use emotionally charged language to persuade others by bringing more attention to what they're trying to communicate. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/people-use-emotion-to-persuade-even-when-it-could-backfire.html 7 comments science
- Watching other people perform a certain action makes people falsely confident in their own ability to perform that action. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/watching-others-makes-people-overconfident-in-their-own-abilities.html 8 comments cogsci
- People often encode the inaccurate statements that they read into memory because it’s easier than critically evaluating and analyzing what they’ve heard. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/why-we-fall-prey-to-misinformation.html 9 comments cogsci
- Research shows that presenting a less convenient option for hand sanitizing may actually boost workers' use of hand sanitizer and increase sanitary conditions in the workplace. This utilizes the "decoy effect" - when the introduction of an inferior option makes a preexisting option more favorable https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/giving-employees-decoy-sanitizer-options-could-improve-hand-hygiene.html 8 comments science
- Study shows that "unfair lineups" in which the police-identified suspect stands out, make witnesses more willing to identify that suspect. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/witnesses-confuse-innocent-and-guilty-suspects-with-unfair-lineups.html 6 comments cogsci
- Our emotional state in a given moment may influence what we see, according to findings . Experiments provide further evidence that what we see is not a direct reflection of the world but a mental representation of the world that is infused by our emotional experiences. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/the-emotions-we-feel-may-shape-what-we-see.html 4 comments science
- A study has found that people who allow their negative emotional responses to stress to persist into the following day have an increased risk of health problems and physical limitations later in life. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/lingering-negative-responses-to-stress-linked-with-health-a-decade-later.html 6 comments science
- Ratings rise over time because they feel easier to make - This effect emerged with judges on a dance show, with teachers who give higher grades the longer they teach a course, and in the lab. People new to an evaluation task may be more critical than those who have been doing it for longer. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/ratings-rise-over-time-because-they-feel-easier-to-make.html 20 comments science
- Watching Others Makes People Overconfident in their Own Abilities - Watching YouTube videos, Instagram demos, and Facebook tutorials may make us feel as though we’re acquiring all sorts of new skills but it probably won’t make us experts, according to research published in Psychological Science. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/watching-others-makes-people-overconfident-in-their-own-abilities.html 6 comments science
- Being able to see isn’t required in order to gesture like a native speaker https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/seeing-isnt-required-to-gesture-like-a-native-speaker.html 12 comments linguistics
- People are biased toward buying a product with more reviews, even when the product rating is poor http://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/people-favor-highly-reviewed-products-even-when-they-shouldnt.html 13 comments science
- Gallistel - What We Have and Haven't Learned http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2016/may-june-16/what-we-have-and-havent-learned.html 2 comments cogsci
- Poverty Dampens Genetic Influence on IQ, in the US: An analysis of data gathered from 14 independent studies indicates that the influence of genes on intelligence varies according to people’s social class in the US, but not in Western Europe or Australia. http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/poverty-dampens-genetic-influence-on-iq-in-the-us.html 26 comments science
- Helping Others Dampens the Effects of Everyday Stress: Providing help to friends, acquaintances, and even strangers can mitigate the impact of daily stressors on our emotions and our mental health, according to new research published in Clinical Psychological Science http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/helping-others-dampens-the-effects-of-everyday-stress.html 4 comments science
- Superforecasters: The Art of Accurate Predictions - Some people are absurdly good at making predictions. Scientists are now studying "superforecasters" to understand accurate decision-making http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/minds-business/superforecasters-the-art-of-accurate-predictions.html 10 comments science
- The common perception of violent, psychotic criminals might be wrong -- psychosis and violence normally don't co-occur http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/obsonline/psychosis-and-violence-arent-strongly-linked.html 676 comments science
- Imagining performing a visual search task beats actually practising it, and leads to a faster time finding a target http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/imagination-beats-practice-in-boosting-visual-search-performance.html 3 comments science
- Average faces aren't the most attractive - but they are considered to be the most trustworthy http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/people-trust-typical-looking-faces-most.html 3 comments science
- Informing the public about African Americans’ disproportionate incarceration rate may actually bolster support for punitive policies that perpetuate inequality, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/racial-disparities-incarceration.html 16 comments science
- ADHD Drug May Help Preserve Our Self-Control Resources: Methylphenidate, also known as Ritalin, may prevent the depletion of self-control, according to research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/adhd-drug-may-help-preserve-our-self-control-resources.html 200 comments science
- Classifying cognitive style across disciplines: Various fields have developed diverse approaches to understand the way people process information. A new report aims to integrate these disciplines by offering a new framework of cognitive styles that bridges different concepts and approaches http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/classifying-cognitive-styles-across-disciplines.html 4 comments science
- When to make the first move: Experimental research suggests that it is best to move first. In negotiations, people who receive an opening offer become psychologically anchored to that initial proposal which takes the form of a numerical value. All subsequent bargaining builds off that first number http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/minds-business/when-to-make-the-first-move.html 77 comments science
- For infants, stress may be caught, not taught: New research shows that babies not only pick up on their mother’s stress, they also show corresponding physiological changes http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/for-infants-stress-may-be-caught-not-taught.html 6 comments science
- Researchers and practitioners on repressed memory: Skepticism about repressed traumatic memories has increased over time, but new research shows that researchers and practitioners still tend to hold different beliefs about whether such memories occur and whether they can be accurately retrieved. http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/scientists-and-practitioners-dont-see-eye-to-eye-on-repressed-memory.html 5 comments science
- You’re only as old as you feel, or so the saying goes. Now, research suggests that a simple memory test can have a noticeable impact on just how old some older adults feel, aging them about five years in the span of five minutes. The findings are published in Psychological Science http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/brief-memory-test-ages-older-adults.html 17 comments science
- Whether a person believes obesity is caused by overeating or by a lack of exercise predicts his or her actual body mass http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/beliefs-about-causes-of-obesity-may-impact-weight-eating-behavior.html 120 comments science
- Study shows how bilinguals switch between languages http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/exploring-how-bilinguals-switch-between-languages.html 3 comments linguistics
- "How does being in a position of power at work, with friends, or in a romantic relationship influence well-being? While we might like to believe the stereotype that power leads to unhappiness or loneliness, new research indicates that this stereotype is largely untrue" http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/power-helps-you-live-the-good-life-by-bringing-you-closer-to-your-true-self.html 3 comments science
- New research finds that racial stereotyping and creative stagnation share a common mechanism: categorical thinking. "They hypothesized that, once activated, an essentialist mindset would lead to a reluctance to consider alternative perspectives, resulting in a generalized closed-mindedness." http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/racial-essentialism-reduces-creative-thinking-by-making-people-more-closed-minded.html 35 comments science
- In order to win a prize, Nick (6 y.o.) readily cheated in a game, then lied to cover up his cheating. When pressed, he elaborated on his lie, and he showed not a glimmer of remorse. Indeed, he was gleeful. http://www.psychologicalscience.org/onlyhuman/2009/08/science-of-kids.cfm 11 comments science
- The Psychology of Crying http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/2008/rottenberg.cfm 14 comments cogsci