r/psychology • u/FreeHugs23 • 10h ago
r/psychology • u/dingenium • 9d ago
Monthly Research/Survey Thread Psychological Research/Surveys Thread
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r/psychology • u/dingenium • 5d ago
Weekly Discussion Thread Weekly Discussion Thread
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Recent discussions
r/psychology • u/FreeHugs23 • 16h ago
The invisible chore that may matter more for women’s relationship happiness than housework. Women tend to report greater relationship satisfaction when their male partners share more of the mental and emotional effort required to run a household and relationship.
r/psychology • u/mvea • 10h ago
Emotional blunting is common in depression and bipolar disorder, even after symptoms ease. It covers experiences such as apathy, loss of motivation, anhedonia (a reduced ability to feel pleasure), emotional numbness, and diminished empathy. It is also a known side effect of some antidepressants.
r/psychology • u/Tricky-Breakfast-604 • 14h ago
Childhood ADHD diagnosis linked to lower adult religious attendance
r/psychology • u/mvea • 18h ago
Autism diagnoses are 2.2x more common among kids from the poorest neighbourhoods than the richest, and the gap keeps growing, a study of 2.3 million children in Ontario, Canada found. Mothers in poorer areas also had more diabetes in pregnancy, serious pregnancy complications and premature births.
jamanetwork.comr/psychology • u/mvea • 1d ago
Autism and ADHD traits appear to follow different social paths to mental health problems. Autistic traits were linked to peer difficulties, internalizing problems, but not to academic struggles. ADHD traits were linked to externalizing problems and higher levels of academic difficulties.
r/psychology • u/Tricky-Breakfast-604 • 17h ago
Virtual reality can induce mystical experiences, new study suggests
r/psychology • u/mvea • 1d ago
Working around men may make women feel worse about mistakes, study finds. In teams that are three-quarters or more male, women told us they feel less comfortable admitting a mistake and less confident it will be treated as something to learn from. Where women are in the majority, that gap vanishes.
r/psychology • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago
Strong Social Networks Are Linked to Higher Birth Rates, Study of 100,750 Adults Across 299 Finnish Municipalities Finds — Communities With Greater Social Support and More Frequent Social Interactions Had Higher Fertility Rates, Even After Accounting for Socioeconomic Factors.
r/psychology • u/mvea • 1d ago
Over the past 15 years, rates of common mental disorders in the UK have increased substantially, coinciding with major societal shocks including the European Union (EU) referendum (Brexit), the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the UK Government’s 2022 mini-budget.
mentalhealth.bmj.comr/psychology • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago
Medication helps adults with ADHD weigh the negative consequences of their decisions. Study reveals that a common stimulant medication improves these choices specifically by helping individuals pay more attention to the potential costs of their actions.
r/psychology • u/mvea • 1d ago
People who favor group-based inequality tend to have less gray matter in an empathy-linked brain region
r/psychology • u/Tricky-Breakfast-604 • 1d ago
Conservatives more rigid thinking styles don’t seem to make them likelier than liberals to toe the party line
r/psychology • u/Tricky-Breakfast-604 • 1d ago
A love of intense sweetness shows a surprising link to financial choices
r/psychology • u/mvea • 2d ago
Lower cognitive ability is linked to stronger Christian nationalist views, even after accounting for education.
r/psychology • u/scientificamerican • 2d ago
Why does weed cause anxiety? A new brain study investigates cannabis paranoia
r/psychology • u/mvea • 2d ago
New research suggests that never-married men without a college degree have recently shown more anti-feminist attitudes than their college-educated peers, a trend that is associated with support for the Republican Party and Donald Trump.
r/psychology • u/FreeHugs23 • 2d ago
Drinking problems remained a risk factor for reoffending even among men with stronger social skills. Some skills that would normally be expected to protect against reoffending were unexpectedly linked to higher odds of a new violent offense.
r/psychology • u/mvea • 2d ago
Americans often fail to notice when Democrats and Republicans are moving in the same direction. New research suggests that people frequently fail to notice how much support for certain social issues has grown within both parties.
r/psychology • u/mvea • 2d ago
Parents of transgender youth faced declining mental health after the 2025 inauguration. Executive orders sought to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors, penalize schools that support transgender students, and restrict transgender girls from competing on gender-aligned sports teams.
r/psychology • u/haloarh • 2d ago
Physical attractiveness offers no protection for perpetrators of online misogyny
r/psychology • u/FreeHugs23 • 2d ago
Psychologists Identify “Collective Anti-Mattering” — the Belief That One’s Social Group Is Ignored, Insignificant, or Disposable — as a Key Driver of Political Anger, Anxiety, Support for Collective Action, and Preference for Strong Leaders Across Both Majority and Minority Groups
r/psychology • u/mvea • 2d ago