General Psychology

ADHD Symptoms Can Go With Both Binge Eating and Restrictive Eating

ADHD Symptoms Can Go With Both Binge Eating and Restrictive Eating

ADHD symptoms have a direct relationship with disordered eating behaviors including binge eating and restrictive eating, according to a new study published in Frontiers in Psychiatry. In the study, researchers in the ...
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People With Low Self-Esteem See Narcissistic Leaders as More Abusive

People With Low Self-Esteem See Narcissistic Leaders as More Abusive

Here’s a trait you don’t necessarily want in your boss, or in any leader for that matter: high levels of narcissism. According to a team of researchers in the Netherlands, narcissistic leaders ...
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Adults Judge Preschoolers for Violating Gender Stereotypes

Adults Judge Preschoolers for Violating Gender Stereotypes

Even for young children, behaving in ways that don’t conform to traditional gender roles can result in a "backlash" of judgment from others. That’s the conclusion of a study published this month ...
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Sleep Deprivation Messes With Autobiographical Memory

Sleep Deprivation Messes With Autobiographical Memory

It’s well known by now that a lack of sleep can interfere with learning and memory. What’s relatively less studied is how sleep deprivation affects the memories we form of our personal ...
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Living in a More Diverse Neighborhood Might Make You a Better Person

Living in a More Diverse Neighborhood Might Make You a Better Person

The people around us influence how we see the world, so perhaps it’s not so surprising that who our neighbors are plays a role in determining how we interact with society. New ...
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Biking in the City Is Enough to Give Anyone Paranoia

Biking in the City Is Enough to Give Anyone Paranoia

Riding your bike to work will put you in better shape and help protect the environment. Apparently, it’ll also make you a little paranoid. That’s according to a new paper titled State ...
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The Different Ways People Use Their Autobiographical Memories

The Different Ways People Use Their Autobiographical Memories

Your life story is unique, and how you use it might be a matter of individual preference too. Different people use their autobiographical memories in different ways, and a person’s age, gender ...
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Is a Social Blunder Less Embarrassing If It's Unintentional?

Is a Social Blunder Less Embarrassing If It’s Unintentional?

Is flouting social rules more forgivable if it’s done as a genuine accident than if it’s intentional? Depends who you ask, apparently. In particular, whether people have higher or lower levels of ...
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Feelings of Happiness Make Teens More Tolerant Toward Asylum Seekers

Feelings of Happiness Make Teens More Tolerant Toward Asylum Seekers

How British teenagers feel about young people seeking asylum depends in part on how happy they currently feel, according to a new study from researchers at University of Surrey, University of Birmingham ...
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Knocking Down Walls in Virtual Reality Can Boost Creativity

Knocking Down Walls in Virtual Reality Can Boost Creativity

Creativity can be thought of as a process of breaking down walls between different ideas. Now, a team of researchers in China and the United States have taken that metaphor to entirely ...
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