Psychology

Psychology (psychologicalscience.org):
A study reveals that lifelong singles have lower scores on life satisfaction measures and different personality traits compared to partnered people, findings that point to the need for both helpful networks and ways to create such networks that are better catered to single people.
Psychology (psypost.org):
Sexual satisfaction’s link to marital happiness grows stronger with age. The study found that age, rather than the length of a marriage, plays the dominant role in this trend, suggesting that couples may increasingly value sexual satisfaction as they grow older.
Psychology (psypost.org):
Women exhibit less manipulative personality traits in more gender-equal countries. In countries with lower levels of gender equality, women scored higher on Machiavellianism, potentially reflecting increased reliance on manipulative strategies to navigate restrictive or resource-scarce environments.
Psychology (theconversation.com):
How feelings of disconnection and lack of control fuel conspiracy beliefs. Certain core psychological needs attract people to conspiracy theories. When these needs go unmet over long periods of time, people are more likely to turn to conspiracy beliefs, possibly as a way to fulfill these needs.
Psychology (mdpi.com):
Effectiveness of Meditation Techniques in Treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Psychology (news.umich.edu):
In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, University of Michigan researchers dug deeper into the numbers-only data of COVID-19-era suicides and evaluated the narratives contained in reports from coroners, medical examiners, police and vital statistics.
Psychology (psypost.org):
Individuals with higher verbal IQ were more likely to vote in elections and participate in civic activities while being less inclined to endorse traditionalist and authoritarian values. They also tended to hold more liberal social attitudes and support egalitarian views.
Psychology (mcri.edu.au):
Almost three quarters of adolescents experience clinically significant depression or anxiety symptoms, with most being chronic, according to a new study.
Psychology (eurekalert.org):
Hiking by yourself deep in a forest and similar episodes of intense solitude are not as likely to restore energy and enhance social connectedness as less complete forms of solitude, such as reading in a café or listening to Spotify while commuting, research finds
Psychology (nature.com):
Complex beliefs like paranoia may have roots in vision, Yale study finds: When completing a visual perception task, participants identifed whether one moving dot was chasing another moving dot. Those with greater tendencies of paranoid thinking performed worse than their counterparts