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January 26, 2025

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Recommendations for Studying the Impact of AI on Young People's Mental Health

Jan. 21, 2025 — Experts highlight the need for a clear framework when it comes to AI research, given the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence by children and adolescents using digital devices to access the ...

How Improving Education Could Close Maternal Heart Health Gaps

Jan. 15, 2025 — Research has established a clear link between racial and ethnic disparities in maternal heart health and higher risks of preterm birth, preeclampsia and cardiovascular issues for Black and Hispanic mothers and their ...

Do Parents Really Have a Favorite Child? Here's What New Research Says

Jan. 16, 2025 — A new study found that younger siblings generally receive more favorable treatment from parents. Meanwhile, older siblings are often granted more autonomy, and parents are less controlling towards them as they grow ...

From Caring Touch to Cooperative Communities

Jan. 15, 2025 — An international research team concludes that gentle touch is not only good for mental health, but also for the evolution of ...

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Mixed Signals: How the Brain Interprets Social Cues

Jan. 6, 2025 — Researchers have found that smell and sound signals merge in the mouse brain's hearing center, influencing social behaviors like pup retrieval. The discovery may lead to a better understanding of how ...

Risk of Domestic Abuse Increases Over Time for Those Exposed to Childhood Maltreatment

Jan. 6, 2025 — The risk of experiencing intimate partner violence may accumulate over time among people who experienced childhood maltreatment when they were ...

Loneliness Linked to Higher Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke and Susceptibility to Infection

Jan. 3, 2025 — Interactions with friends and family may keep us healthy because they boost our immune system and reduce our risk of diseases such as heart disease, ...

Too Many Men or Too Few Women? New Study Finds How the Gender Gap Is Framed Affects Perceptions of It

Jan. 2, 2025 — Recognizing that news coverage may have influence in forming attitudes and in driving action, a team of psychology researchers examined whether ...

Singles Differ in Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction Compared to Partnered People

Dec. 26, 2024 — New research finds that lifelong singles have lower life satisfaction scores compared to those in ...

Patience Isn't a Virtue; It's a Coping Mechanism

Dec. 19, 2024 — Impatience, studies of more than 1,200 people found, is the emotion people feel when they face a delay that seems unfair, unreasonable, or inappropriate -- like a traffic jam outside of rush hour, or ...

How to Deal With Narcissists at Home and at Work

Dec. 19, 2024 — The best way to deal with narcissistic people in your personal life may be the hardest advice to take, according to an expert who has studied narcissism for more than 20 years. The best course of ...

App Helps Alleviate Mental Health Symptoms in Bereaved Parents

Dec. 18, 2024 — A new study shows that an app can help parents who are mourning the loss of a child. Parents who used the app for three months reported reduced symptoms of prolonged grief and post-traumatic stress, ...

Paranoia May Be, in Part, a Visual Problem

Dec. 17, 2024 — Could complex beliefs like paranoia have roots in something as basic as vision? A new study finds evidence that they might. When completing a visual perception task, in which participants had to ...

Research Shows Solitude Is Better for Your Health When It's Not Too Intense

Dec. 17, 2024 — Hiking by yourself deep in a forest and similar episodes of intense solitude are not as likely to restore energy and enhance social connectedness as less complete forms of solitude, such as reading ...

Tracking Other People's Minds in Communication

Dec. 18, 2024 — Language and social cognition are fundamental to human communication. But how do these capacities interact? In a review paper, researchers show how language and social cognition are integrated in ...

Bias in AI Amplifies Our Own Biases, Researchers Show

Dec. 18, 2024 — Artificial intelligence (AI) systems tend to take on human biases and amplify them, causing people who use that AI to become more biased themselves, a new study ...

The Psychological Implications of Big Brother's Gaze

Dec. 16, 2024 — A new psychological study has shown that when people know they are under surveillance it generates an automatic response of heightened awareness of being watched, with implications for public mental ...

Online Training Could Help Older Adults Communicate in Noisy Environments

Dec. 9, 2024 — Online training that helps people recognize and understand new voices could be key to helping older adults improve communication in everyday environments, finds new ...

Emoji Use May Depend on Emotional Intelligence and Attachment Style

Dec. 6, 2024 — Higher emotional intelligence is linked to more emoji use with friends, while avoidant attachment is associated with less emoji use with friends and dating or romantic partners, according to a new ...

Owning a Home in the US Linked to Longer Life

Dec. 4, 2024 — A new study finds that owning a home in early adult life adds approximately four months to the lives of male Americans born in the early twentieth ...

Language Used by Mothers Affects Oxytocin Levels of Infants

Nov. 25, 2024 — Infants whose mothers regularly use language to describe what their child is thinking or feeling, have higher levels of the hormone oxytocin, finds a new ...

Political Opinions Influence Our Choice of Chocolate

Nov. 25, 2024 — We distance ourselves from completely neutral products if they are liked by people who have political views that we find disagreeable. Even chocolate can be political, according to new research from ...

Researchers Develop Tools to Examine Neighborhood Economic Effects on Spinal Cord Injury Outcomes

Nov. 25, 2024 — A new study emphasizes that neighborhood conditions significantly shape recovery opportunities for individuals with SCI and advocates for environmental interventions to reduce health ...

Social Networked Friendship Quality Can Be Means of Combating Loneliness

Nov. 25, 2024 — Spending too much time social networking appears to be a key driver in loneliness, but a new article suggests motivated uses of social networking sites for connecting with people and feeling ...

Overthinking What You Said? It's Your 'Lizard Brain' Talking to Newer, Advanced Parts of Your Brain

Nov. 22, 2024 — Scientists sought to better understand how humans evolved to become so skilled at thinking about what's happening in other peoples' minds. The findings could have implications for one day ...

Animal Characters Can Boost Young Children's Psychological Development

Nov. 22, 2024 — A study has shown that iconic characters such as Peter Rabbit -- or Toad and Ratty from The Wind in the Willows -- can also play an important role in the development of children's theory of mind ...

Tantrums in Young Children Could Be Linked to ADHD, Study Finds

Nov. 21, 2024 — Preschool children who struggle to control their emotions and behaviour have more symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder -- known as ADHD -- at age seven, a study suggests. Children ...

Cannabis Disrupts Brain Activity in Young Adults Prone to Psychosis

Nov. 20, 2024 — Young adults at risk of psychosis show reduced brain connectivity, a deficit that cannabis use appears to worsen, a new study has found. The breakthrough paves the way for psychosis treatments ...

How Children Learned for 99% of Human History

Nov. 19, 2024 — Unlike kids in the United States, hunter-gatherer children in the Congo Basin have often learned how to hunt, identify edible plants and care for babies by the tender age of six or seven. This rapid ...

'Jekyll and Hyde' Leaders Do Lasting Damage, New Research Shows

Nov. 16, 2024 — Employees struggle when supervisors swing between good and bad ...

Traditional Mayan Practices Have Long Promoted Unique Levels of Family Harmony: But What Effect Is Globalization Having?

Nov. 16, 2024 — A new study shows that the past 30 years of globalization have brought fundamental shifts in some aspects of family interaction among Indigenous people in Guatemala. But families have still ...

Social Isolation, Loneliness and Frailty in Older Adults Have a Complex and Sometimes Mutually Reinforcing Relationship

Nov. 14, 2024 — A new article examines how social isolation, loneliness and frailty affect one another and the bidirectional relationship they exert as an individual gets older. hey found that physical frailty can ...

Texting Abbreviations Makes Senders Seem Insincere, Study Finds

Nov. 14, 2024 — If you want to seem sincere and receive more responses to your texts, spell out words instead of abbreviating them, according to new ...

Stress Is Contagious -- For Animals, Too

Nov. 13, 2024 — What happens to animals when their friends are stressed? Is it possible to document the spread of stress within groups of ...