Human Behavior & Social Studies – Page 6

Higher education is less associated with economic parity for women in highly hierarchical cultures

The findings arrive at a time when international organizations are sounding the alarm over the slow pace of progress toward gender equality. While education has long been touted as the…

Democrats are disproportionately driving the rise in angry congressional tweets, study finds

The findings indicate that this surge in outrage is not a uniform phenomenon across the political spectrum. Instead, the data reveals that Democratic lawmakers are disproportionately driving the escalation of…

Voters find AI-generated debate answers more authentic than real political speech

In a landmark study that challenges the perceived boundaries of human communication and political discourse, researchers have discovered that large language models (LLMs) can generate political debate responses that the…

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

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…