Behavior – Page 18 – Dating Mansion

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…

Genetic Predisposition to Hand Grip Strength Predicts Cognitive Decline

A comprehensive study led by researchers at the University of Toronto, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), and Rush University Medical Center has identified a significant genetic link…

Women who out-earn their partners through education face a smaller child penalty

The study, led by University of Vienna sociologist Nadia Steiber alongside researchers Lara Lebedinski, Bernd Liedl, and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, provides a granular look at how household power dynamics and economic…

A Replication and Extension of Willer et al. (2013), Overdoing Gender: A Test of the Masculine Overcompensation Thesis

A comprehensive new study published in the Journal of Experimental Political Science has cast doubt on a long-held psychological theory suggesting that men adopt more conservative or aggressive political stances…

Investigating Flight Instructors’ Safety Behaviors Through Personality Traits, Affective Domain, and Safety Climate in the United States.

A comprehensive study published in the peer-reviewed journal Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors has identified a definitive link between a flight instructor’s psychological profile, the organizational culture of their…

The moving brain: A cross-pathways framework linking exercise to the modulation of aversive information processing

A comprehensive theoretical study published in the journal Mental Health and Physical Activity has introduced a groundbreaking framework for understanding how physical movement serves as a sophisticated external tool for…