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…

The Global Resonance of Koreanness: From Culinary Staples to Cultural Hegemony Amidst Persistent Racial Disparities

The global fascination with Koreanness, encompassing everything from K-pop and K-dramas to K-movies, K-food, K-fashion, and K-beauty, has cemented South Korea’s cultural influence on an unprecedented scale, making "Korean" virtually…

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…

The Intricate Web of Laughter: How Social Networks Shape Comedy in The Office

Sociology, a discipline dedicated to understanding the complexities of human interaction, has long offered profound insights into the unseen forces that shape our lives—from the spread of social phenomena like…

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…