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- Is Our Society Manufacturing Depressed People? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shift-mind/201203/is-our-society-manufacturing-depressed-people 40 comments
- Is There Something Wrong with People Who Do Not Use Facebook? (2012) https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/unique-everybody-else/201209/is-there-something-wrong-people-who-do-not-use-facebook 4 comments
- Anti-Intellectualism and the “Dumbing Down” of America https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201407/anti-intellectualism-and-the-dumbing-down-america 21 comments
- New research (N =436) in Personality and Mental Health: People in relationship with narcissists (family members, relatives, romantic partner) experience abuse, financial burden, and unwanted sexual behavior. And they tend to report high anxiety, depression, self-aggression, and somatic symptoms. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-new-home/202211/the-four-faces-narcissistic-abuse 45 comments science
- New research finds subclinical sadism is associated with aggressive behavior offline (r = 0.30) and online (r = 0.40), particularly trolling. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-new-home/202208/research-shows-most-trolls-have-subclinical-sadism 60 comments science
- New Brain-Computer Interface Transforms Thoughts to Images https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-future-brain/202009/new-brain-computer-interface-transforms-thoughts-images 4 comments technology
- Coronavirus Drives Us to Drink and Our Microbes Are Enablers https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mood-microbe/202008/coronavirus-drives-us-drink-and-our-microbes-are-enablers 12 comments science
- Why Toilet Paper? https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/science-and-philosophy/202003/why-toilet-paper 56 comments politics
- A Complete Psychological Analysis of Trump's Support https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201812/complete-psychological-analysis-trumps-support#_=_ 13 comments politics
- Adults with avoidant attachment (avoid deep emotional connections) practiced “safer” sex, and used condoms during promiscuous sex. In contrast, anxiously attached adults (clingy, needy, and distrustful) were more willing to have intercourse without condoms, despite known risk of STIs (n=7,233). https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/talking-apes/201912/why-do-people-engage-in-risky-sexual-behaviors 12 comments science
- A new paper in Psychological Science suggests that people are more likely to make socially desirable responses under time pressure than when given a lot of time to respond. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ulterior-motives/201912/time-pressure-and-social-norms 5 comments cogsci
- Hong Kong protests hold lessons on how the selfish and the other-regarding combine in human nature https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/201908/hong-kong-protests-reasoning-and-emotion 13 comments politics
- Counter to public beliefs, the majority of mental health symptoms examined were not related to gun violence, according to a new study. Instead, access to firearms was the primary culprit. The findings have important implications for gun control policy efforts. https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/finding-new-home/201906/more-dangerous-mental-illness-or-access-guns 718 comments science
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a disturbance of normal brain functions due to a head injury that everyone is at risk. Recently, physicians have found an over 30% reduction in unnecessary CT scans for TBI evaluations in emergency rooms https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-future-brain/201905/ai-brain-device-reduces-need-ct-scans-over-30-percent 2 comments science
- Why Fascists Hate Masturbation: The rise of nationalism coincides with anti-masturbation movements https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/women-who-stray/201810/why-fascists-hate-masturbation 717 comments politics
- New Theory of Intelligence May Disrupt AI and Neuroscience https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-future-brain/201810/new-theory-intelligence-may-disrupt-ai-and-neuroscience 5 comments artificial
- The US Ranks Last in Health Care System Performance https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-economy-happiness/201807/the-us-ranks-last-in-health-care-system-performance 8 comments worldnews
- 9 Way to Preserve Your Sanity in the Trump Era https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/stonewall-strong/201807/9-way-preserve-your-sanity-in-the-trump-era 16 comments politics
- Positive parenting has a significant association with higher levels of maternal education (but not with IQ), and both maternal and paternal marital satisfaction, as well as the child’s level of affection, language and cognitive ability, finds a new twin study (N= 976 twins). https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/finding-new-home/201807/what-factors-are-associated-positive-parenting 20 comments science
- Why Narcissists Can Be So Mean, Competitive and Jealous https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/insight-is-2020/201807/why-narcissists-can-be-so-mean-competitive-and-jealous 4 comments science
- The Psychology Behind Donald Trump's Unwavering Support https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201609/the-psychology-behind-donald-trumps-unwavering-support 54 comments politics
- Trump: The Master Distractor https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rewired-the-psychology-technology/201611/trump-the-master-distractor 3 comments politics
- A paper in Psychological Science demonstrates the link between creativity and memory. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/201510/creativity-is-memory 12 comments cogsci
- Does Putin Suffer From the Napoleon Complex? PsychologyToday http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/naturally-selected/201405/does-putin-suffer-the-napoleon-complex 9 comments worldnews
- A paper in Psychological Science explores whether inflated praise actually hurts the performance of children with low self-esteem. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/201404/the-dangers-extreme-praise 7 comments cogsci
- Tolstoy thought Shakespeare was crap. "Not only did I feel no delight, but I felt an irresistible repulsion and tedium..." http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/adventures-in-old-age/200912/battle-the-titans-tolstoy-disses-shakespeare 11 comments books
- Scientists Finally Conclude Nonhuman Animals Are Conscious Beings http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201208/scientists-finally-conclude-nonhuman-animals-are-conscious-beings?goback=.gde_120409_member_271369413#! 881 comments science
- A paper in the latest JPSP suggests that extended periods of foreign travel (at least during college) can change your personality. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/201309/extended-travel-affects-personality 41 comments cogsci
- SCOTUS Unwittingly Makes the Case for Singles’ Rights http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/living-single/201303/scotus-unwittingly-makes-the-case-singles-rights 6 comments politics
- The Relationship Between Psilocybin Mushrooms and Personality http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/unique-everybody-else/201209/psilocybin-and-personality# 12 comments science
- Rich People More Likely to Have Boys http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200909/the-scientific-fundamentalist-chip-the-best-block 10 comments science
- Credit cards make you pay attention to the benefits of products. From the latest Journal of Consumer Research http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/201203/credit-cards-make-you-pay-attention-benefits 7 comments cogsci
- An hour tomorrow is longer than an hour next year. From the latest JESP http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/201110/hour-next-year-is-shorter-hour-tomorrow 11 comments cogsci
- Bedtimes & wake-up times for Americans in their 20s by IQ http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200911/intelligence-the-evolution-night-owls 13 comments cogsci
- Your brain reacts more strongly to the negative, so you need to OVER balance with positive things! http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200306/our-brains-negative-bias 9 comments cogsci
- How the Brain Stops Time [Psychology Today] http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/extreme-fear/201003/how-the-brain-stops-time 21 comments science
- High School English teacher suspended for assigning an article about homosexuality in the animal kingdom to his students http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/gender-and-schooling/200910/high-school-teacher-suspended-after-assigning-article-homosexuality 6 comments reddit.com
- The brain's "default" response is to tell the truth. "No area of the brain works harder to tell the truth than to lie." http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=pto-2004.html 147 comments science
- Sex, Love, and SSRIs: Can Prozac keep you from falling—and staying—in love? How SSRIs are wreaking havoc on courtship. http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=pto-20070403-000003&page=1 29 comments reddit.com
- The science of flirting. http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=pto-19990101-000033&print=1 2 comments reddit.com