Secularization and low fertility: How declining church membership changes couples’ childbearing

The correlation between the erosion of organized religious affiliation and the plummeting birth rates in modern industrialized societies has become a focal point for demographic research as nations grapple with…

Popular psychology task fails to link heartbeat perception with anxiety and depression

Understanding Interoception and the Heartbeat Counting Task Interoception is often described as the "sixth sense." It is the process by which the nervous system maps the internal state of the…

When cognitive offloading becomes dependence: how AI dependence mediates the pathway from academic stress to burnout and anxiety

The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence into higher education has sparked a profound shift in how students approach their coursework, but new psychological research suggests that this technological shift…

The Artists’ Brain: A Data Fusion Approach to Characterize the Neural Bases of Professional Visual Artists

The quest to understand the biological foundations of human creativity has long occupied the intersection of psychology and neuroscience. While the ability to sketch or paint is a common human…

Artificial intelligence accurately charts sleep stages without intrusive brain sensors

The current paradigm of sleep assessment relies heavily on polysomnography (PSG). While effective, PSG is an intensive procedure that requires patients to be tethered to dozens of sensors, including electroencephalogram…

The Preprint Problem: Fringe, Genetically Informed Studies of Group Differences in Behavior Housed on Open Science Platforms

The rapid evolution of the open science movement, designed to democratize knowledge and accelerate the pace of academic discovery, has inadvertently created a gateway for the resurgence of scientific racism.…

Breastfeeding and children’s sleep duration at 1 year of age: A nationwide birth cohort – The Japan Environment and Children’s Study.

A comprehensive longitudinal study recently published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition has established a significant correlation between early-life breastfeeding and improved sleep duration in infants by the time…

The association between video game play and cognitive ability: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

This comprehensive research, published in the peer-reviewed journal Acta Psychologica, represents one of the most extensive efforts to date to quantify the relationship between digital gaming and human intelligence. Led…

Study explores how cultural tightness shapes personality and political beliefs

Defining the Construct: The Mechanics of Tight and Loose Cultures At the heart of this research is the concept of cultural tightness-looseness, a framework popularized in modern psychology to describe…

Assessing the association between ADHD and brain maturation in late childhood and emotion regulation in early adolescence

Recent advancements in developmental neuroscience have provided a new lens through which to view the trajectory of childhood mental health, suggesting that the physical structure of a child’s brain may…