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Endorsement of hostile sexism indicates a greater tolerance for both public violence, e.g, street harassment & DV/IPV

4 months ago psychologicalscience.org anthropology

Many of us avoid discussing politics with someone who holds an opposing viewpoint, assuming the exchange will turn nasty or awkward

7 months ago psychologicalscience.org psychology

Artificial Intelligence Systems Excel at Imitation, but Not Innovation

9 months ago psychologicalscience.org ai psychology

People can be convinced they committed a crime that never happened (2015)

17 months ago psychologicalscience.org

Good News: People Can Recover and Thrive After Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders

2 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Study: A man does not seem sexist if he treats everyone—both men and women—poorly

2 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Scientists have found there is more to the story than matching mythological figures to patterns in the night sky

2 years ago psychologicalscience.org

New research on a fact-checked collection of tweets from former president Donald Trump uncovered telltale word choices when he was being deliberately misleading

2 years ago psychologicalscience.org trump

Study: The sometimes-violent antigovernment demonstrations that erupted during 2020 and 2021 were fueled in part by the spread of extremist ideologies, conspiratorial thinking, and a criminal-justice system that disproportionately targets racial minorities.

3 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Study shows white Liberals “dumb themselves down when they speak to black people”

3 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Despite increases in gender equality and the normalization of casual sex in many cultures, the belief that women who engage in casual sex have low self-esteem remains widespread

3 years ago psychologicalscience.org

It’s a common belief that exposure to television in toddlerhood causes attention-deficit problems in school-age children—a claim that was born from the results of a 2004 study that seemed to show a link between the two

3 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Referring to yourself in the third person during social conflicts when you feel personally attacked, can provide a detached, third-person perspective, and can help train yourself to resolve interpersonal conflicts in a wiser manner…

3 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Depression and Stress Could Dampen Efficacy of COVID-19 Vaccines: Interventions and Health Behavior Changes Could Boost Immunity

3 years ago psychologicalscience.org covid

Violent video games do not appear to be linked to aggression, finds new meta-analysis. There may be a stronger relationship with desensitization

3 years ago psychologicalscience.org game video

Why an early start is key to developing musical skill later in life

3 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Horror movies and ghost stories can be enjoyed, provided the fear they evoke is “just right”, neither too terrifying nor too tame

3 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Positive Outlook Predicts Less Memory Decline: A new study found people who feel enthusiastic and cheerful—what psychologists call “positive affect”—are less likely to experience memory decline as they age

4 years ago psychologicalscience.org

That Fake News You Read May Help You Remember Even More: People who receive reminders of past misinformation may form new factual memories with greater fidelity, according to a recent article that included two experiments (Ns = 96)

4 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Safe Sex or Risky Romance - Young Adults Make the Rational Choice: A study has found young adults—contrary to how they are sometimes portrayed in the media—tend to make highly rational decisions when it comes to selecting potential romantic partners

4 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Children Will Wait to Impress Others—Another Twist on the Classic Marshmallow Test: Researchers have shown that the ability to wait is associated with a range of positive life outcomes, including higher SAT scores more than a decade later

4 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Research suggests that people who use the term “fake news” to discredit information from largely legitimate news sources may do so partly to satisfy their need to see the world as an orderly and structured place rather than solely to express their political or personal ideology.

4 years ago psychologicalscience.org

From Voldemort to Vader, science says we prefer fictional villains who remind us of ourselves

4 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Social Anxiety May Hinder Ability to Mirror Body Language

4 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Are Courts Keeping “Junk Science” Out of the Courtroom?

4 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Children are more likely to control their immediate impulses when they and a peer rely on each other to get a reward than when they’re left to their own willpower

4 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Under time pressure, people tell us what we want to hear, suggests a new study (n=1,500)

5 years ago psychologicalscience.org

Touting Flavor Before Nutrition Encourages Healthy Eating

5 years ago psychologicalscience.org

People who live or think they live in a more economically unequal society may be more supportive of a strong, even autocratic leader, a large-scale international study shows.

5 years ago psychologicalscience.org

When the daily stress of parenting becomes chronic it can turn into parental burnout, an intense exhaustion that leads parents to feel detached, suggests new research (n=1,740), which can have serious consequences for parent and child…

5 years ago psychologicalscience.org