Childhood bullying may lead to long-lasting health consequences, impacting psychosocial risk factors for cardiovascular health well into adulthood

Using machine learning to predict suicide attempts over time: Researchers developed machine learning algorithms that accurately predicted future suicide attempts

Drinkers often believe alcohol greatly alters their personality

Humans subconsciously perceive words as 'round' or 'sharp'

Stereotypes Skew Our Predictions of Others’ Pains and Pleasures

Key study from "Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow" fails replication

Sleep Makes Relearning Faster and Longer-Lasting

Why Wait? the Science Behind Procrastination

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…

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

Feeling Like a Fraud on the Job

Superforecasters: The Art of Accurate Predictions - Some people are absurdly good at making predictions

Income Inequality Explains Why Economic Growth Does Not Always Translate to an Increase in Happiness

The common perception of violent, psychotic criminals might be wrong -- psychosis and violence normally don't co-occur

Longer Acquaintance Levels the Romantic Playing Field - "Partners who become romantically involved soon after meeting tend to be more similar in physical attractiveness than partners who get together after knowing each other for a while"

Self-Promoters Tend to Misjudge How Annoying They Are to Others

Imagining performing a visual search task beats actually practising it, and leads to a faster time finding a target

Video game violence doesn't boost aggression among adults with autism

Humans may be able to communicate positive emotions like happiness through the smell of our sweat

Cognitive Skills Peak at Different Ages Across Adulthood

People Can Be Convinced They Committed a Crime They Don’t Remember: New research provides lab-based evidence for this phenomenon, showing that innocent adult participants can be convinced, over the course of a few hours, that they had perpetrated crimes as serious as assault with a weapon ...

Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape [pdf]

New study shows that being in a position of power can fundamentally change the way you speak, altering basic acoustic properties of the voice, and other people are able to pick up on these vocal cues to know who is really in charge.

People’s views on income inequality and wealth distribution may have little to do with how much money they have in the bank and a lot to do with how wealthy they feel in comparison to their friends and neighbors, according to new findings published in Psychological Science

People often follow or conform to the behavior of those around them as a way of fitting in

Sharing makes both good and bad experiences more intense: Undergoing an experience with another person — even if we do it in silence, with someone we met just moments ago — seems to intensify that experience…

People tend to perceive their dominant hand as staying relatively the same size even when it’s magnified, lending support to the idea that we use our hand as a constant perceptual “ruler” to measure the world around us

What doesn’t kill us may make us stronger as a group, according to new research

Stigma as a Barrier to Mental Health Care: Despite availability of effective evidence-based treatment, about 40% of individuals with serious mental illness do not receive care

Public Trust Has Dwindled With Rise in Income Inequality: Trust in others and confidence in societal institutions are at their lowest point in over three decades…

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