Review of 25 years of research found plant-forward diets may enhance physical attractiveness through multiple pathways, including healthier-looking facial coloration, more pleasant body odor and body composition associated with greater attractiveness.

Computational study reveals how eye movements shape our choices: concentration and gaze duration actively biasing the brain's decision process

Medical Cannabis Dispensary Availability Improved Self-Reported Mental Health among Older Adults in New York

Women globally place higher importance on moral identity than men. The researchers analyzed data from 46,490 adults across 67 countries

How use of AI harms college students’ ability to learn: Students who copy answers from AI tools without verifying information experience declines in their ability to learn independently

Study suggests waist-to-bust ratio, not waist-to-hip ratio, drives female body attractiveness among Japanese men

Analyzing how children speak about stressful events with linguistic models, predicted depression and anxiety up to 6 years later more accurately than human experts, with sentence structure (such as use of words like and, to, and but) more predictive than the actual descriptions of stress

Social anxiety, not masking, may drive mental health struggles in autistic adults

Study links short-form video addiction to a decline in teenagers' academic coping skills

New follow-up study shows that a Finnish digital intervention programme Master Your Worries continued to reduce children's anxiety and improve their functional ability even after two years.

Subtle white light changes make indoor rooms feel cooler or warmer: blue-enriched white light made people feel cool enough to tolerate indoor temperatures 1.3°F (0.72°C) warmer, while red-enriched white light made them feel warmer without any visible difference in light color

People who feel lonely show altered brain activity when processing internal physical signals

Why getting extra time in your day seems to make you late: across seven studies of both real and hypothetically gained free time, researchers found this mental time expansion changes how we behave, and we’ll often spend longer doing the same things and choose activities that take more time

A randomized clinical trial of 532 adolescents found that a video game-based prevention intervention reduced depressive symptoms at 12-month follow-up compared with commercial video games

In a randomized comparison, a community-engaged translation of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) into Navajo (focused on accurately representing the meaning of ambiguous terms like 'special person') was not clearly more valid or reliable than a basic forward translation

During the 2024 US presidential primary season, a recent study found reading or watching negative political media predicted higher anxiety and lower work engagement, whereas positive political content predicted increased hope and helpfulness on the job.

Losing an election is associated with lower social trust among polarized voters

Sharing a similar, positive sense of humor appears to boost the chances of a successful romantic connection

Excessive time spent online linked to stress and worse mood – study

Students are more likely to cheat under intense pressure or when they rationalize the behavior

Crypto investors more likely to skip mortgage payments and misuse credit cards, study finds

ADHD remains substantially underdiagnosed in England, despite a recent surge in recognized cases

Men are more likely than women to view infidelity favorably when relationships falter

An 18-year study found that children diagnosed with ADHD face broader challenges in adulthood across multiple areas of life

Relying on reminders could be weakening your memory skills

Narcissists are actually less likely to endorse left-wing authoritarianism

Trauma survivors process angry expressions differently on a subconscious level

A study of more than 128,000 U.S

High-achieving working mothers face harsher moral judgments for parenting mistakes

PTSD therapy walks patients through past trauma

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