progscrape: psychology

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

46 days ago psypost.org psychology

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.

49 days ago psypost.org psychology

How Wealth Reduces Compassion

46 days ago scientificamerican.com psychology

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

45 days ago psypost.org psychology

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

47 days ago reading.ac.uk psychology

Reducing social media use for just one week improved mental health

34 days ago jamanetwork.com media psychology

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

29 days ago theconversation.com ai psychology web

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

33 days ago annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org mrna psychology vaccine

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

34 days ago news.osu.edu algorithm psychology

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

47 days ago onlinelibrary.wiley.com psychology