New research provides evidence that how women judge the transition from normal to overweight in other women’s bodies is related to perceptions of their own body size and their body dissatisfaction. The findings have been published in the journal Fronti…
Body dysmorphic disorder linked to deficits in cognitive flexibility and visuospatial skills
Body dysmorphia is something a lot of people suffer from, and it can lead to low self-esteem and disordered eating. A study published in Brain and Behavior seeks to understand the differences in cognitive function between people struggling with body dy…
People who lack cognitive reflectiveness are more likely to believe Trump’s false election fraud claims, study finds
Individuals who fail a test of cognitive reflectiveness are more likely to doubt the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election and also less likely to characterize the January 6 Capitol attack as violent and extreme, according to new research publis…
Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research
Sexualization in video games does not appear to harm players, according to new research published in Computers in Human Behavior. The findings indicate that playing video games does not lead to misogynistic views or detrimental mental health outcomes. …
New study reveals how intellectual humility influences existentially-relevant moral decisions
Intellectual humility affects how people make moral decisions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the results of a cross-cultural experiment published in The Journal of Positive Psychology. “Research on humility has been on the rise. However…
The use of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies is linked to worse coping during the first year of the pandemic
A Swiss study has shed light on how the use of specific emotion regulation strategies affected people’s coping during different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Adaptive strategies like positive reappraisal mitigated anxiety and depression during the e…
Bad dreams and nightmares could be an early warning sign of Parkinson’s disease, according to new research
Every night when we go to sleep, we spend a couple of hours in a virtual world created by our brains in which we are the main protagonist of an unfolding story we did not consciously create. In other words, we dream. For most people, dreams are mainly …
Being reminded of one’s own death increases spatial-religious associations
In general, most Western Christians and non-believers alike tend to associate God with “upper space” (i.e., heaven, higher power) and the devil with “lower space” (i.e., depths of hell, underground). New research published in Religion, Brain, & Behavio…