New research sheds light on attitudes towards police repression of protests
Americans generally support protesting as a civil liberty and agree that protesting is an effective strategy to support the goals...
Witnessing your preferred candidate lose an election triggers increases in testosterone, study suggests
People who were rooting for Mitt Romney during the 2012 US presidential election showed acute increases in testosterone after watching...
Misleading videos about ADHD are being widely disseminated on TikTok, study finds
A new study published in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry has uncovered a high prevalence of misinformation about ADHD in...
“Need for chaos” study shows some people only support disruptive activism if helps to rebuild society
New research, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, shows that support for disruptive activism, or chaos-seeking behavior, is...
The ability to control one’s attention might eliminate the attentional bias associated with social anxiety, study suggests
New findings suggest that people with social anxiety pay more attention to negative social information — but only if they...
New study suggests metacognitions about rumination play a prominent role in depression
New research provides evidence that metacognition -- or how people think about their thinking -- is related to the development...
Unvaccinated Trump supporters are mostly unmoved by expert messaging, study finds
Trump voters are more likely to be swayed by a political figure endorsing the COVID-19 vaccine rather than factual, scientific...
Women who self-objectify are less aware of the cold during nights out, study finds
A heightened focus on appearance might explain why many women do not feel cold when wearing little clothing in low...
Microdosing zebrafish with LSD shows its potential benefits for humans
Zebrafish might seem an odd choice in studying human health, but they share 70 per cent of their genes with...
New psychology research uncovers an interesting link between inflammatory responses and depression
People who experience high inflammatory reactivity to socially stressful situations are more likely to develop depressive symptoms, according to a...
