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New psychology study challenges a major assumption about why we bond with our friends
7+ hour, 50+ min ago (765+ words) Our study found that friends were actually similar in personality, with the exception of extraversion," said study author Hyewon Yang, who recently earned her doctorate in psychology at Michigan State University. At the same time, people tended to perceive their…...
How fictional violence shapes the actions of copycat offenders
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (694+ words) Psy Post...
Heavy video gaming is not linked to cognitive harm in teens, but gaming addiction is
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (556+ words) To address this ambiguity, the researchers set out to untangle how daily gaming duration and the severity of gaming addiction independently relate to the mental and physical skills of teenagers. They also wanted to see if the specific types of…...
Body size predicts how well men read gendered facial traits
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (1126+ words) Men with larger bodies are less likely to easily recognize exaggerated masculine or feminine facial features when judging another person's gender. This dynamic suggests that an individual's physical size might alter how they perceive the social cues etched into the…...
Neuroscience breakthrough uses AI to uncover the cellular building blocks of human speech
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (558+ words) The scientists synchronized the audio recordings of these conversations with the electrical activity recorded from the neurons. They used natural language processing models to analyze the spoken sentences. These programs act like automated grammar teachers, labeling each word based on…...
East Asian countries lead the world in embracing contradiction and change
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (210+ words) East Asian countries show the strongest tendency to embrace contradiction and change, according to a study published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. The research also suggests this way of thinking reflects a distinct cultural mindset rather than simply being…...
Viral heatmap gets it wrong: Liberals don't prioritize strangers over family
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (585+ words) Over time, human societies have grown more interconnected, prompting discussions about how people expand their moral circle. The moral circle is a concept describing the psychological boundary of who or what a person considers worthy of ethical care. In 2019, a…...
Aging gut bacteria numb the vagus nerve and drive memory loss in mice
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (1115+ words) Cognitive decline is one of the most common and challenging aspects of growing older. As human life expectancy increases, memory disorders have become a pressing issue for global health. While traditional research historically focuses on problems occurring directly inside the…...
Neuroscientists shed light on the illusion of learning from short videos
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (487+ words) Meiting Wei and Guang-Heng Dong, researchers based at Yunnan Normal University in China, suspected that the frenetic pace of social media clips would disrupt this chain of events. Along with their colleagues, they designed a sequence of three studies to…...
People hide psychopathy but highlight narcissism when trying to look good
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (328+ words) The research team, consisting of Bojana M. Dini" from the University of Novi Sad and Irena Boskovic from Erasmus University Rotterdam, wanted to explore how dark personality traits interact with deceptive test-taking. The Dark Tetrad refers to four socially aversive personality…...