Human Behavior & Social Studies – Page 20

Targeted Digital Voter Suppression Efforts Likely Decrease Voter Turnout

The 2016 United States presidential election serves as a pivotal case study in the evolution of political influence, marking a transition from traditional broadcast messaging to the highly granular and…

Eating a diet rich in four key nutrients is linked to a lower likelihood of depression, study finds

Depression remains one of the most pressing challenges for modern medicine, affecting hundreds of millions of individuals and placing an immense burden on global economies through healthcare expenditures and lost…

The Influence of Stranger-to-Stranger Interactions on Crowds and Urban Pedestrian Dynamics at Eindhoven Centraal

A comprehensive study conducted at the Eindhoven Centraal Railway Station in the Netherlands has revealed that human walking patterns in high-density environments are governed by a "stranger-following effect," where individuals…

Attention and vigilance advantages related to formal musical training across childhood, adolescence and young adulthood.

New research published in the British Journal of Psychology suggests that the disciplined practice of a musical instrument may serve as a powerful catalyst for sharpening cognitive focus from the…

Age- and estrous-dependent effects of psilocybin in rats.

The burgeoning field of psychedelic medicine has long operated under a generalized assumption that the therapeutic effects of compounds like psilocybin are relatively uniform across adult populations. However, a groundbreaking…

Gender, Confidence, and the Mismeasure of Intelligence, Competitiveness, and Literacy

For decades, the bedrock of psychometric evaluation has rested upon the assumption that cognitive ability can be accurately distilled into a series of binary outcomes: a response is either correct…

Americans Overestimate How Many Social Media Users Post Harmful Content

The perception of social media as a digital landscape dominated by hostility and misinformation is a widely held sentiment among the American public. However, a comprehensive set of three studies…

Class, genes, and rationality: A gene-environment interaction approach to ideology

The longstanding debate over whether political identity is forged in the fires of social experience or encoded within the biological blueprint of the individual has reached a new milestone. Recent…

Social-Media-Based Mental Health Interventions: Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

The global mental health landscape is currently facing a period of unprecedented strain, with data from the World Health Organization suggesting that more than 1 in 8 individuals—nearly one billion…

Eye of the beholder: Pupillary response reflects how subjective prior beliefs shape reinforcement learning with fake news.

A groundbreaking study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that the human brain’s ability to learn and adapt to new information is profoundly compromised when…