Older adults of today don’t have more favorable views of their age than older adults did two decades ago
Despite a large body of evidence suggesting old age is experienced as younger, more agentic, and happier than ever before,...
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Victims are perceived as more morally virtuous than non-victims, study finds
A series of 17 studies published in Science Advances document the Virtuous Victim effect – the tendency for people to...
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New psychology research indicates hatred toward collective entities inspires meaning in life
"Conflict and hatred can meet people’s psychological needs. This might help explain why people are endlessly drawn to conflict or...
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Brains are getting smaller in modern humans
Research published in Brain, Behavior, and Evolution has identified decreases to encephalization levels in modern humans, with much of these...
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Meat consumption is associated with better mental health, meta-analysis finds
According to a new meta-analysis published in the journal Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, compared to meat abstention,...
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Perceived publication pressure is linked to intentions to engage in future scientific misconduct
A series of two studies published in Research Ethics have found that most scholars believe themselves to be moral and...
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What are children’s beliefs about what is possible? A new study has answers
According to a series of three studies published in the journal Child Development, children’s beliefs about what is possible differ...
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Women get more upset when deceived about men’s work, while men get more upset when deceived about women’s looks
According to a series of two studies published in Archives of Sexual Behavior, men and women differ in the degree...
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New study finds no relationship between beard length and dominance or testosterone levels
Is a man’s beard length an honest signal of their psychological and physiological characteristics? Not really. According to a new...
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Older adults exhibit more altruism than younger adults, meta-analysis finds
A meta-analysis published in the journal Psychology and Aging has revealed that aging and altruism are positively associated, such that,...
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Childhood exercise is associated with cognitive control in later life, study finds
According to a study published in NeuroImage, childhood exercise prior to entering junior high school predicts better response inhibition in...
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A new concept called “social penumbras” can predict shifts in political attitudes
According to new research, there are important and systematic differences in the penumbras of various social groups. Further, entering a...
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Euphemistic language can sway opinions while avoiding the reputational costs of outright lying, study finds
According to a series of four studies published in Cognition, actions are judged more favorably when replacing a disagreeable term...
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Cross-ethnic exposure in childhood predicts political behavior 70 years later, study finds
According to research published in Science Advances, childhood exposure to black neighbors predicts Democratic partisanship in white American men, over...
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Dark personality traits positively associated with COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs
A study published in the journal of Personality and Individual Differences found that Machiavellianism, primary psychopathy, and collective narcissism positively...
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