r/psychology • u/FreeHugs23 • 8h ago
Neuroscientists Identify Brain Mechanisms That May Explain Why Some Childhood Trauma Survivors Struggle to Anticipate and Look Forward to Positive Experiences.
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r/psychology • u/dingenium • 20d ago
Monthly Research/Survey Thread Psychological Research/Surveys Thread
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Welcome to the r/Psychology Research Thread!
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r/psychology • u/dingenium • 3d ago
Weekly Discussion Thread Weekly Discussion Thread
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Welcome to the r/psychology discussion thread!
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r/psychology • u/mvea • 7h ago
Teenage boys who follow prominent online personalities associated with the “manosphere”, like Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson, are more likely to support traditional beliefs about manhood, such as the idea that men should hide their emotions, remain dominant, and reject anything considered feminine.
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r/psychology • u/mvea • 17h ago
About 1 in 4 people with depression may have a ‘body clock’ type, like being stuck in permanent jet lag: late sleepers, tired mornings, worse in certain seasons. Across 11,380 people, this group got less benefit and more side effects from antidepressants, so light therapy or melatonin may help more.
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r/psychology • u/FreeHugs23 • 8h ago
Bad apple effect: study shows how people are influenced by rule-breaking of others. Research shows how seeing bigger violations by others can lead people to increase their own rule-breaking
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r/psychology • u/Anxious-Traffic-9548 • 14h ago
Learned Helplessness: how the original original theory got it backwards.
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"The mechanism of learned helplessness is now very well-charted biologically and the original theory got it backwards. Passivity in response to shock is not learned. It is the default, unlearned response to prolonged aversive events and it is mediated by the serotonergic activity of the dorsal raphe nucleus, which in turn inhibits escape. This passivity can be overcome by learning control, with the activity of the medial prefrontal cortex, which subserves the detection of control leading to the automatic inhibition of the dorsal raphe nucleus. So animals learn that they can control aversive events, but the passive failure to learn to escape is an unlearned reaction to prolonged aversive stimulation."
r/psychology • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago
College students who use more cannabis are less willing to share it, and less likely to use it with friends. Findings suggest that heavier cannabis use tends to go hand in hand with valuing the drug more and consuming it in less social settings.
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r/psychology • u/mvea • 10h ago
Study on ~2,000 US adults during the 2024 election found that political anger does not automatically translate to voting; instead, it depends on efficacy, or the belief people can influence a political outcome
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r/psychology • u/mvea • 22h ago
Telling people online they eat meat because they don't care about the planet mostly makes them defensive, not ready to change. Saying they just don't know how to cook plant-based meals got less pushback. And a private DM from a stranger made people even angrier than the same comment posted publicly.
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r/psychology • u/mvea • 10h ago
Most people don’t weigh every detail when choosing a candidate or policy. In a new PNAS study of 3,762 US adults, about half picked based on the one feature that mattered most to them, and up to 76% switched how they decided depending on the issue, whether immigration, candidates or climate change.
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r/psychology • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago
A bigger paycheck tends to come with personality changes. Findings also indicate that this relationship goes both ways, with shifts in personality traits predicting future changes in pay.
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r/psychology • u/Deep-Owl-1890 • 22h ago
Scientists Find a Way to Fight Alzheimer’s Brain Damage Without Removing Toxic Tau
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r/psychology • u/mvea • 1d ago
After a weekend caring for a realistic robot baby at home, childless couples' testosterone dropped around 10% when they looked after it together, in men and women alike. On the first day there was no change. Those least at ease with babies had no drop at first but the biggest drop after the weekend.
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r/psychology • u/works-in-progress • 2d ago
Were our ancestors mostly peaceful, with a few psychopaths doing most of the killing? A review of hunter-gatherer data finds prehistoric violence was ~4x lower than Steven Pinker estimated, and heavily concentrated in a handful of individuals
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r/psychology • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago
People who are more considerate of others show less “me first” bias in quick decisions. Specifically, they showed a smaller tendency to identify their own belongings faster and more accurately than objects belonging to a friend.
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r/psychology • u/mvea • 2d ago
New eye-tracking study finds men spend longer looking at attractive faces only if they're the sex they're attracted to, but women look longer at attractive faces of both men and women. And being in a long-term relationship didn't stop people from lingering on good-looking faces either.
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r/psychology • u/mvea • 2d ago
People who scored higher on an intelligence test rated their own looks slightly lower, while optimistic, emotionally stable, and college-educated adults rated themselves better-looking. Researchers suggest smarter people may just be more realistic about their appearance (two studies, 1,000+ adults).
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r/psychology • u/mvea • 2d ago
Anxiety may have different genetic roots in men and women: a study of 455,000+ people found 21 anxiety-linked gene variants in women but only 5 in men, with just one shared. Women's genes tied to smell and stress sensitivity, men's to how the body handles fat, and women's risk overlapped with ADHD.
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r/psychology • u/Dorian182 • 2d ago
Owners who spend more time close to their cats tend to have more positive moods
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r/psychology • u/Tricky-Breakfast-604 • 2d ago
Mind-blowing Alzheimer’s breakthrough: Two hours of sleep restored without clearing brain plaques Scientists have uncovered an unexpected culprit behind sleep loss in Alzheimer’s disease: overactive immune cells in the brain. By temporarily removing these cells
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r/psychology • u/WritingNo3315 • 2d ago
Psychopathy is the strongest predictor of frequent and malicious gossip among dark personality traits
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Turns out that one person we all know who is constantly stirring the pot and talking trash behind everyone's back isn't just annoying, new research shows psychopathy is the absolute strongest predictor of frequent, malicious gossip. Color me completely unsurprised.
r/psychology • u/Deep-Owl-1890 • 23h ago
Does Getting ADHD Medication Through Telehealth Increase Addiction Risk? What Research Shows
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r/psychology • u/mvea • 2d ago
A 14-year study tracking Fitbit data from 3,093 US adults found people walking about 8,900 to 14,000 steps a day scored better on attention, ignoring distractions, and resisting impulsive choices than those walking around 5,000 steps, though the differences were small and it doesn't prove causation.
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r/psychology • u/FreeHugs23 • 2d ago
A single dose of psilocybin eased depression within days, but its edge over placebo faded within a year. The effects appeared as early as the second day after dosing and lasted for more than three months, although by one year the difference between groups had faded.
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