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Teachers Show Biases Against Overweight Kids, Including Giving Them Lower Grades

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

From digital detoxes to the fad of “dopamine fasting”, it appears fashionable to abstain from digital media

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk media

Simply Imagining Other People Can Change Our Own Sense Of Self. Who you “are” can easily be manipulated

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

A lack of sleep may lead to feelings of anxiety, even among healthy people, suggests a new study (n=172), which found “deep” or slow-wave sleep is important because slow-wave brain oscillations offer an “ameliorating, anxiolytic benefit” on brain networks associated with emotional regulation.

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk brain

We eat more when we’re with friends and family than alone, and are more likely to moderate the way we eat with people we don’t know, suggests new research

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

People think about breaking up more when they look outside their relationship for psychological fulfillment, suggests a new study (n=5,169), which found the more emotional support people received from outside their romantic relationship…

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

Harsh sound like screams hijack brain areas involved in pain and aversion, making them impossible to ignore, suggests a new study, which found rough sounds with fluctuations in the range of 40-80 Hz particularly awful…

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk brain

Spending more time on your hobbies can boost your confidence at work, if they are sufficiently different from your job, but if your hobby is too similar to your work…

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

Politicians with greater openness to experience were less likely to win elections compared to unsuccessful rivals, suggests new Canadian study (n=3,328)

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk canada

“Dietarian identity”, the social identity of how people feel, think and behave around their diets, may not always line up with their behaviour, suggests a new study (n=837), which found flexitarians may consider themselves vegetarian despite eating meat because of their “meat-avoider identity”.

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

When people close to us behave immorally, we are inclined to protect them, even if their crimes are particularly heinous, suggests a new study (n=2,847), which could explain why we hear of high profile figures committing horrific crimes for decades…

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

When false claims are repeated, we start to believe they are true, suggests a new study

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

People who have experienced adversity are resistant to “numeracy bias” in compassion, where feelings of compassion do not tend to increase in response to greater numbers of people in distress…

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

Why spiky shapes seem angry and round sounds are calming

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

Five unusual, evidence-based ways to get better at a new language

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

Children With An Older Brother Have Poorer Language Skills Than Those With A Big Sister

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

The human impact of having too few nurses

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

The average person’s reading speed is slower than commonly thought

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

Sensorimotor Mechanics of People with a Sixth Finger

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

Smoking not only affects physical health, but it also may lead to negative personality changes over time

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

Adults who played Pokémon extensively in childhood have a Pokémon-sensitive region in their visual cortex.

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

A systematic study of the advice people would give to their younger selves

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

Academic press releases are often misleading, with a tendency to confuse causal and correlational claims, leading to inaccurate news headlines

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk release

Prestige and dominance-based social hierarchies emerge even amongst choirs and chess clubs, finds a new study testing evolutionary psychology theory outside of the lab

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

Psychologists have identified the creatures we find most scary and revolting, in a new study (n~2,000), which found spiders were unique in being both intensely fear- and disgust-inducing in equal measure, while parasites elicited the strongest disgust reactions.

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

Bungee Jumpers’ Cognition Enhanced After A Jump – "The surprising findings, reported in Cognition and Emotion, suggest that when an intensely arousing experience is perceived positively, it may actually enhance cognition rather than be impairing

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

An uncomfortable disconnect between who we feel we are today, and the person that we believe we used to be, a state that psychologists recently labelled “derailment”, may be both a cause…

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

Teens Define Themselves in Terms of Positive Traits; Adults More by Social Roles

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

A little discussed effect of therapy: it changes your personality

6 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

New Insights into Hikikomori – People Who Withdraw from Society for Years on End

5 years ago digest.bps.org.uk

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