Psychology

Psychology (psypost.org):
Children raised in poverty are less likely to believe in a just world. Belief in a just world refers to the psychological tendency to think that people generally get what they deserve and deserve what they get.
Psychology (tandfonline.com):
Perceived stigma is an important predictor of addiction treatment completion; more perceived stigma = higher likelihood of treatment discontinuation
Psychology (warwick.ac.uk):
Analysis of data from over 10,000 teenagers has found that sleep problems at age 14 are associated with self-harm behaviour at that age and future self-harm at age 17. Sleep problems contributed to risk, even when accounting for other factors such as previous instances of self-harm, self-esteem
Psychology (unsw.edu.au):
90% of Australian teachers experience severe levels of stress and 70% describe their workload as largely or completely unmanageable
Psychology (psypost.org):
Study finds Trump and Harris used distinct rhetoric in 2024—but shared more similarities than expected
Psychology (psypost.org):
Highly attractive fitness influencers, or “fitfluencers,” tended to receive less engagement from audiences than their moderately attractive counterparts. The reason appears to center on relatability. The authors refer to this as the “beauty backfire effect.”
Psychology (journals.sagepub.com):
A 5-year study finds it is not gullibility but community that draws people in. Conspiracy spaces offer identity, support, and purpose, which helps explain their pull and persistence.
Psychology (psypost.org):
Women feel unsafe when objectified—but may still self-sexualize if the man is attractive or wealthy | However, this heightened anxiety did not reduce women’s tendency to self-sexualize when the partner was described as attractive or high in socioeconomic status.
Psychology (psypost.org):
For Republicans, items associated with Democratic Party—regardless of racial or gender content—were more likely to be seen as “woke”. Republicans also associated female politicians—like Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—with wokeness, while not extending the same to males like Joe Biden.
Psychology (today.ucsd.edu):
When people get paid to punish others, it actually makes everyone less likely to cooperate. This has implications for private, for-profit prisons, quota-based policing, and civil asset forfeiture — when law enforcement seizes property, even without charging or convicting the owner of a crime.