Behavior – Dating Mansion

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…

Inhibiting glycan degradation prevents HIV-induced inflammaging and cognitive impairment

The medical community has long celebrated the success of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in transforming HIV from a fatal diagnosis into a manageable chronic condition. However, this increased longevity has revealed…

Social attunement and alcohol use: The role of age and gender

A comprehensive international study involving an international sample of adolescent and adult alcohol users has revealed that social attunement—the subtle process of aligning one’s behavior with social norms—plays a paradoxical…

Anhedonia makes young people less likely to work for high rewards

The Global Burden of Youth Depression and Anhedonia Depression remains one of the primary drivers of disability on a global scale, particularly among adolescents and young adults. According to the…

Remote work could threaten your relationship

The study, led by Alejandro Canek Hermida Carrillo of Imperial College London, alongside colleagues Felix Bölingen, Russell A. Matthews, and Ingo Weller, identifies a critical variable known as "segmentation preference."…

Emptiness, Personality Dysfunction, and Emotion Dysregulation: An Experience Sampling Study.

A comprehensive new study led by researchers at the University of Toronto has provided a transformative look at the psychological experience of emptiness, challenging long-held clinical assumptions about how this…

An international mega-analysis of psychedelic drug effects on brain circuit function

A comprehensive international analysis combining brain imaging data from multiple independent studies has identified a definitive and common pattern in how psychedelic drugs alter communication between different brain networks. Published…

People prefer negotiating with women over men, study suggests

These findings suggest that the "relational capital" built by women during negotiations creates a compounding economic advantage. By prioritizing the interpersonal experience without sacrificing the bottom line, women are significantly…

Baby teeth reveal how early metal exposures shape the adolescent brain

The Biological Black Box: Baby Teeth as Temporal Records One of the primary obstacles in environmental medicine has long been the "snapshot" limitation of traditional testing. Blood and urine samples…