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TIL people are more creative in the shower
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Recent research suggests that even brief periods of mindfulness meditation can have a profound impact on our ability to learn and make decisions
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Study using Q-sort method to explore autistic students’ views of the impacts of their anxiety at school highlights the importance of academic support for autistic students with anxiety.
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Women reported more social media friendship jealousy than men and younger women had the highest levels of social media friendship jealousy. Anxious and depressed adults may be predisposed to monitor threats to their friendships via social media and experience negative consequences because of this.
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Fathers’ and Mothers’ Sexism Predict Less Responsive Parenting Behavior During Family Interactions. Fathers higher in hostile sexism reported lower authoritative (warm, involved) and higher authoritarian (directive, controlling) parenting attitudes.
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Study shows that nonconsensual sharing of sexual images among youth has significant negative impacts on social well-being and mental health, such as the increased likelihood of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation
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Do We Know How Happy Strangers Are? New findings suggest that strangers can accurately evaluate someone’s life satisfaction and positive affect in brief self-introductions, and loud voice and physical attractiveness are the sources of the accurate well-being judgments.
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New study discusses when and why people conceal infectious diseases: Concealment motives were found to be largely social (e.g., wanting to attend events like parties) and achievement oriented (e.g., completing work objectives).
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The ethnic homogeneity of modern European nation-states is in large part due to violent ethnic cleansing of minorities during the 19th and 20th centuries. Multi-ethnic European states opted to wipe out minorities during the age of nationalism in order to prevent territorial loss through secession.
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Nearly 4 out of 5 Canadians believe that the use of psilocybin, the active ingredient in hallucinogenic mushrooms, is an acceptable medical approach to treat existential distress in patients suffering from a serious and incurable disease
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Better living conditions are associated with larger sex differences in personality and cognitive function, a phenomenon sometimes referred to as the “gender-equality paradox.” Sex differences refer to differences in cognitive abilities, emotions, and behaviors between men and women.
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World scientists’ warning: The behavioural crisis driving ecological overshoot (reddit)
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A new study finds that more users prefer configuring stricter content controls than relying on social media sites' default moderation to regulate inappropriate content online. (reddit)
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Men with hostile sexist attitudes are more likely to express skepticism about scientific research on sexual assault , according to new research. (reddit)
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Children Value Animals More Than Adults Do: A Conceptual Replication and Extension (reddit)
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Social media influencers use personal vulnerability as a strategy for building community and accruing followers as part of the influencer economy. But their disclosures are often entangled with their identities (e.g., gender, race, sexuality, body type), which makes them a target for harassment. (reddit)
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Academic freedom is associated positively with democracy and negatively with state religiosity and militarism. Country linkages to liberal international institutions are positively associated with academic freedom. Illiberal international structures and organizations have the opposite effect. (reddit)
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Negative implicit partner evaluations forecast destructive daily interactions and relationship decline. (reddit)
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In a study of Prozac for adolescents, researchers found that the placebo effect predicted good outcomes, but the actual drug treatment did not. In fact, those who received a placebo but thought they received Prozac improved more than those who received the drug and knew it. (reddit)
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Study finds outlier emotions were often overestimated within crowds. And when a close friend expressed the group emotion, participants overestimated the outlier less than when a close friend expressed the outlier emotion. (reddit)
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Data from two national surveys (total n = 102,425) fielded during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary shows that more moderate Democratic candidates (such as Joe Biden) perform better against Trump than more partisan candidates (such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren). (reddit)
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Research found judgments of a public figure who tweeted racist statements in the past were less harsh when more time had passed and when the public figure was younger at the time. Also, liberals allowed less forgiving of anti-Black tweets, while conservatives were less forgiving of anti-White ones. (reddit)
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Finance as a form of economic planning. On the financialization of planning and its democratization (reddit)
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In 2006, China’s central government launched a national campaign to boost science and innovation by rewarding local officials who produce more patents. Since 2006, there has been a massive surge in Chinese patents, but they overwhelmingly appear to be non-novel—possibly junk—patents. (reddit)
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"results showed that IV infusions of DMT... were psychologically and physiologically well tolerated, and that the protocol was effective at extending the duration of the psychological effects of DMT, achieving a steady-state of subjective with low-to-negligible changes in anxiety" (reddit)
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Gaining a younger sibling increases behavioral problems for first- and second-born children. Having older siblings has beneficial effects on sociobehavioral development. (reddit)
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Psychedelic science is facing serious challenges that threaten the validity of core findings and raise doubt regarding clinical efficacy and safety. In this paper, researchers introduce the 10 most pressing challenges and provide a roadmap for tackling these challenges. (reddit)
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Pet ownership and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: A study finds that pet ownership was not reliably associated with well-being. (reddit)
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Low cognition predicts unrealistic optimism. High cognition predicts realism and pessimism (reddit)
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Reducing loneliness: A study finds in-person interactions most strongly predicted reduced loneliness. And negative interactions were actually associated with higher loneliness. So, the solution to high loneliness may be to increase in-person interactions and reduce negative social experiences. (reddit)
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Digital marketers and media platforms profit from the spread of disinformation. A conceptual paper analyzed the business models of three types of media markets (broadcasting, partisan, and digital). It argues that disinformation is an expected outcome, not a side effect, of the current media market. (reddit)
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Political Person–Culture Match and Longevity: In Republican states, up to 50.1% of all Republicans but only 36.3% of all Democrats reached an age of 80 years. In Democratic states, there was no such longevity gap. This effect is limited to persons with strong political convictions. (reddit)
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Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens
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