Lonely children have an increased risk of dementia and cognitive decline in adulthood

See Figure 1: When a major Nature journal approves AI slop, it raises real questions about peer review, Nature’s quality control, and whether scientific institutions can police themselves.

Using computer vision techniques on sound pictures of short speech fragments (“spectrograms”), researchers trained a neural network on voice recordings from people with and without schizophrenia

Morality & Beliefs on Language Use: Study finds prioritizing moral values related to in-group loyalty, hierarchy, and purity predicts more restrictive language beliefs

New study finds that "selective prosociality" (i.e., helping some people but not others) is not just about a particular situation

Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use

Populist parties choose divisive issues on purpose, finds new study from 13 European countries

Families exposed to war and political violence are more likely to behave aggressively toward each other

Cannabis derived products, including cannabidiols (CBD) could make dogs less aggressive over time, finds largest study of its kind involving 47,355 dogs

The most comprehensive study of ketogenic diet’s mental health effects pooled 50 studies spanning 60 years to see what we know about its influence on mood

New study of individuals with ADHD revealed that those with increased folds (gyrification) in frontal cortical regions of the brain generally responded better to treatment

Disgust sensitivity is linked to a sexual double standard, study finds

Women’s sexual desire is more strongly affected by stress, new study suggests. Higher subjective stress is linked to lower sexual desire and arousal

Some conservative voters in the United States view inflammatory pro-gun rhetoric as a sign that a political candidate is unwilling to compromise with Democrats—and that this unwillingness to compromise can make the candidate seem more trustworthy and appealing to those voters.

How Wealth Reduces Compassion

Publicly sharing experiences of suffering, a behavior known as victim signaling, may lead observers to form more negative impressions of the person sharing

Five minute training on common computer rendering mistakes significantly enhances ability to detect AI-created fake faces, with accuracy improving from 31% to 51% for average participants

Reducing social media use for just one week improved mental health

Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search

Misconceptions about the effects of mRNA vaccination has led to a study on how to combat unfounded mRNA vaccine fears

Personalized algorithms lead to a distorted view of reality when learning new information, a new study finds

When Prophecy Fails, the case study that helped launch cognitive dissonance theory, was misrepresented

A single 30-minute session of physical activity can produce immediate antidepressant effects in both humans and mice, involving a hormone released by fat cells that alters brain plasticity to improve mood

Women can read age, adiposity (body fat) and testosterone level from a man’s face

'Super recognisers' - people with extraordinary face recognition abilities - do not see more detail in faces, instead, they naturally look at the parts of a face that carry the best information for identifying faces

A woman’s choice of words for her genitals is tied to her sexual well-being, study finds

Men and women looking for long-term relationships are attracted to prestige (which can signal intelligence and competence) but find dominance (which signals strength and competence) unattractive, while men and women looking for shorter-term relationships are attracted to both prestige and dominance.

Individuals with high-trait social anxiety were significantly worse at recognizing happy facial expressions than controls

Tying climate action to the protection of people’s way of life can boost motivation, a global study finds

Adults aged 55 and older are significantly more likely to share political misinformation than younger social media users

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