Reporting research on human behavior and cognition, including #Psychology #Neuroscience #PoliSci #Sociology and #Psychiatry
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A large clinical trial tracked nearly 50,000 postmenopausal women for two decades to see if a low-fat diet could prevent dementia deaths. The results suggest that changing your diet later in life might not stop severe cognitive decline. dlvr.it/TW7469
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Americans in interracial relationships had 37% greater odds of leaning liberal than those with same-race partners. The pattern was stronger for women and weaker for married, Asian, and Hispanic participants. dlvr.it/TW6KcZ
A six-month study found that depressive symptoms and day-to-day emotional instability are linked to decreased sexual desire and increased sexual distress in people newly diagnosed with bipolar disorder. dlvr.it/TW6zs1
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Nearly one in five women seeking psychiatric help for anxiety or depression also meet the criteria for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to new research highlighting how overlapping symptoms obscure accurate diagnoses. dlvr.it/TW6FWK
Pro-choice and pro-life Americans sit on opposite sides of one of the country’s most heated debates. But among those willing to use illegal or violent tactics, a new study finds a common thread: a hostile, manipulative form of narcissism. dlvr.it/TW6vDs
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What happens when you tell a man he isn’t very manly? In a national experiment, men generally responded by endorsing more rigid masculine norms, but men who embraced a more flexible, “hybrid” masculinity showed little of that reaction. dlvr.it/TW68lX
People may reward intelligence for what it can do for the group rather than for its own sake. A new study found that the link between students’ test scores and the respect they earned appeared to run through how well they solved a group coordination problem. dlvr.it/TW6rxK
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Political comment sections can get ugly fast. New research suggests that subtle wording in the original post, such as broad claims about what “Democrats want,” is linked to how much partisan prejudice shows up in the replies. dlvr.it/TW66TJ
As traditional religious affiliations decline, supernatural beliefs are not vanishing. A new survey reveals that people who favor secular reasoning over religious authority often hold magical or superstitious beliefs, provided they maintain some residual… dlvr.it/TW6pkp
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People treated with ketamine or MDMA showed changes in chemical tags on genes related to brain plasticity, a small study found. The two drugs converged on similar biological pathways while affecting largely different genes. dlvr.it/TW647P
Some young men may have absorbed a cultural suspicion of men so deeply that they see themselves as potential perpetrators, according to an interview study that found fear and shame crowding out pleasure in their accounts of sex. dlvr.it/TW6mX8
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Childhood maltreatment comes in many forms, and a new brain imaging study suggests those forms aren’t interchangeable. Physical abuse and emotional abuse were tied to different structural brain patterns in young adults seeking mental health help. dlvr.it/TW623m
Before joining the second Trump administration, J. D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and three other future officials wrote books that framed politics largely through metaphors of war, decline, disease, and betrayal. Metaphors of threat outnumbered metaphors… dlvr.it/TW6kVZ
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Psychology’s replication problems drew wide attention after 2015. A new study in Nature suggests the challenge is not unique to psychology: across economics, education, business, sociology, and political science, success rates were similar. dlvr.it/TW5zv4
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Beauty has long been described as something that makes us pause and look. Neuroscientists in Italy tested that idea by recording brain activity while people viewed nature photos, and found signs that liked images dampened movement preparation. dlvr.it/TW5k52
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Children who experience trauma early in life don’t all develop the same problems. A new study suggests their cortisol response to stress may help predict whether anxiety or acting out becomes more prominent as they grow. dlvr.it/TW5gBn
Most research on social media and depression has focused on teenagers. A new analysis of more than 183,000 American adults suggests the link extends across the adult lifespan and has held steady for over a decade. dlvr.it/TW6PDN
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A large survey of Americans reveals that household income strongly shapes how religious individuals interpret the Bible’s teachings on charity, challenging the long-held idea that faith universally suppresses the desire for systemic economic change. dlvr.it/TW5bZJ
Americans in interracial relationships had 37% greater odds of leaning liberal than those with same-race partners. The pattern was stronger for women and weaker for married, Asian, and Hispanic participants. dlvr.it/TW6KcZ
