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Voters may form false memories after seeing fabricated news stories, especially if those stories align with their political beliefs

5 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Fake news can lead people to form false memories after they see fabricated news stories, especially if those stories align with their political beliefs, suggests a new study, which indicates how voters may be influenced in upcoming political contests like the 2020 US presidential race (n=3,140).

5 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Burnout and the Brain

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A neutral face—a face with no muscle movement or facial expression—appears to be more dominant when the head is tilted down, suggests a new study (n = 1,517), which found tilting the head downward can have the same effect on social perceptions as does lowering one’s eyebrows.

5 years ago psychologicalscience.org

People With Happy Spouses May Live Longer

5 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Data from more than 17,000 teenagers show little evidence of a relationship between screen time and well-being in adolescents

5 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Studies showing links between personality traits and life outcomes, such as marital stability and vocational achievements, provide a reasonably accurate map of the relationship between personality and various aspects of life, according to findings from a large-scale replication project (n>6,100).

5 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Researchers find no link between teens’ social media use and depression in two longitudinal samples

5 years ago psychologicalscience.org media

Data from more than 4 million tests completed between 2004 and 2016 show that Americans’ attitudes toward certain social groups are becoming less biased over time, according to research published in Psychological Science

5 years ago psychologicalscience.org

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…

5 years ago psychologicalscience.org

The joy of giving lasts longer than the joy of getting: The happiness we feel after a particular event or activity diminishes each time we experience that event…

5 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Our first impressions of a new person’s personality may depend, at least in part, on their body shape, according to new research

6 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Research has found participants of higher social class reported that their recent experiential purchases provided greater happiness

6 years ago psychologicalscience.org

No evidence that moral reminders reduce cheating behavior, finds a new replication study (n=4,674)

6 years ago psychologicalscience.org

We intuitively use more emotional language to enhance our powers of persuasion

6 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Around the World, People Have Surprisingly Modest Notions of the ‘Ideal’ Life

6 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Adolescents don't distinguish between negative emotions as clearly as younger children and adults in their 20s do, according to new findings

6 years ago psychologicalscience.org

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

6 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Researchers show that people tend to focus more on the outcome of their decision and less on absolute moral principles when faced with a real-life scenario as opposed to a hypothetical scenario.

6 years ago psychologicalscience.org

People whose negative emotional responses to stress carry over to the following day are more likely to report health problems and physical limitations later in life compared with peers who are able to "let it go," according to findings

6 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Adults’ Political Leanings Linked With Early Personality Traits

6 years ago psychologicalscience.org

A combination of archival and experimental studies indicates that exposure to air pollution, either physically or mentally, is linked with unethical behavior such as crime and cheating.

6 years ago psychologicalscience.org

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

6 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Today’s college students are slightly less narcissistic than their counterparts were in the 1990s, researchers report in a new study in Psychological Science – not significantly more…

7 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Counterarguments are critical to debunking misinformation according to an extensive new meta-analysis of debunking studies

7 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Feeling Sated Can Become a Cue to Eat More - When we start to feel full, we usually take it as a sign that we should stop eating

7 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Relative to men, women's cognitive performance past middle age tends to be better in countries with more gender equality

7 years ago psychologicalscience.org

A new study links workplace bullying to negative health outcomes for employees, including increases in long-term sick leave and prescriptions for antidepressants.

7 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Cruel can be kind: Study explains why we dish out tough love

7 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Although thinking about dying can cause considerable angst, new research suggests that the actual emotional experiences of the dying are both more positive and less negative than people expect.

7 years ago psychologicalscience.org