Psychology News Robot<p>DATE: August 11, 2025 at 12:00PM<br>SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG</p><p>** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **<br>-------------------------------------------------</p><p>TITLE: What really keeps people committed to long-term goals? This study offers a key insight</p><p>URL: <a href="https://www.psypost.org/what-really-keeps-people-committed-to-long-term-goals-this-study-offers-a-key-insight/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">psypost.org/what-really-keeps-</span><span class="invisible">people-committed-to-long-term-goals-this-study-offers-a-key-insight/</span></a></p><p>A new series of studies suggests that to achieve long-term goals, finding enjoyment in the process is a better predictor of success than focusing on the importance of the outcome. Research recently published in Psychological Science indicates that this principle applies to a wide range of personal goals, holds true across different cultures, and can be used to causally increase a person’s engagement with their objectives.</p><p>Every year, millions of people set ambitious New Year’s resolutions, from eating healthier to saving money, only to abandon them within weeks. This common struggle prompted a team of researchers—Kaitlin Woolley from Cornell University, Laura M. Giurge from the London School of Economics, and Ayelet Fishbach from the University of Chicago—to investigate the underlying motivations that separate success from failure in long-term goal pursuit.</p><p>The researchers focused on two types of motivation. Extrinsic motivation is the drive to pursue a goal as a means to a separate end, like exercising to improve long-term health. This is typically why people set difficult goals in the first place; they are willing to endure short-term costs for a larger, later reward. In contrast, intrinsic motivation is the experience of pursuing a goal as an end in itself, where the activity is inherently enjoyable or engaging. A runner who is intrinsically motivated simply enjoys the act of running.</p><p>Given that people often set goals for extrinsic reasons, one might assume that the perceived importance of a goal would be the primary factor in sticking with it. The research team, however, hypothesized the opposite. They proposed that because the benefits of extrinsic goals are often delayed, they can be mentally “discounted” over time. Immediate rewards, like the enjoyment captured by intrinsic motivation, might be a more powerful engine for sustained effort over the long haul. The study aimed to test whether intrinsic motivation could better predict—and even cause—long-term adherence to goals.</p><p>“This paper builds on a stream of research on intrinsic motivation I’d started with Ayelet Fishbach in graduate school and continued with Laura Giurge during her postdoc at Cornell,” explained Woolley, a professor of marketing at Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.</p><p>“In most of my research, I studied short-term persistence—like a single study session or gym visit—and was curious how these effects would play out over longer time horizons. One prior study followed people for two months, but that still felt relatively short. So with this project, I wanted to test how these motivational dynamics unfold over a full year, across a wide range of personal goals.”</p><p>The first study followed 2,000 U.S. adults over the course of a full year. All participants had set a New Year’s resolution and were asked to report their intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for pursuing it. Intrinsic motivation was measured through questions about how enjoyable or engaging the activity was, while extrinsic motivation reflected perceptions of usefulness and long-term importance. These ratings were collected at four timepoints throughout the year. Participants also rated their success in sticking with their resolution and reported whether they had continued, abandoned, or completed the goal.</p><p>The most common types of resolutions included physical health (nearly 40%), financial goals, and healthy consumption. Notably, participants were generally more extrinsically motivated than intrinsically motivated, suggesting that most resolutions were set for long-term gains rather than short-term enjoyment.</p><p>Despite being set for extrinsic reasons, the resolutions people stuck with were those that were enjoyable to pursue. Across the year, higher levels of intrinsic motivation predicted greater self-reported success and a higher likelihood of completing the resolution. By contrast, extrinsic motivation did not significantly predict adherence or completion.</p><p>The results remained consistent even when accounting for how easy or long-lasting participants expected their resolutions to be. Additionally, the findings held up across multiple statistical approaches and robustness checks, suggesting that people who found their goals more enjoyable were more likely to stay committed over time.</p><p>Interestingly, the researchers also found that people underestimated the importance of intrinsic motivation. In follow-up surveys, most participants believed extrinsic factors like usefulness or long-term importance would better predict whether they or others would stick to a resolution. This misjudgment could explain why people tend to select extrinsically motivated goals that are harder to maintain.</p><p>In their second study, the researchers aimed to test whether the findings from Study 1 would generalize to a non-Western population. They recruited 500 adults in China who had recently set goals for the Lunar New Year. Participants reported their intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for pursuing the resolution and, one month later, indicated how successful they had been at sticking with it.</p><p>Compared to the U.S. sample, participants in China were more likely to set professional or learning-related goals. While their goals also tended to be more extrinsically than intrinsically motivated, the relative distribution allowed for cross-cultural comparisons.</p><p>As in the U.S. sample, intrinsic motivation significantly predicted whether Chinese participants stuck to their goals after one month. Extrinsic motivation did not predict adherence. This replication suggests that the influence of intrinsic enjoyment on long-term behavior is not limited to Western contexts.</p><p>Although extrinsic motivation varied less in this sample—possibly contributing to its weaker predictive power—follow-up analyses confirmed that even when variance was equated, intrinsic motivation remained the stronger predictor of adherence.</p><p>“We found that this pattern emerged among participants in the United States and China,” Woolley told PsyPost. “While our year-long study was conducted with U.S. participants, we conceptually replicated the effects on a shorter time horizon with participants from China. Participants in these two studies set different resolutions—US participants focused on resolutions mainly related to healthy eating/exercise, whereas in China, participants’ goals for the new year related to career or financial pursuits. So we were able to generalize our findings both to a different population and also to a different distribution of resolutions.”</p><p>To test whether the pattern held for real-world behavior, the third study focused on participants who had set a goal to walk more. The researchers recruited 439 people who tracked their steps using a smartphone app. Participants submitted their daily step counts for 14 days and reported how much they enjoyed walking (intrinsic motivation) versus how important or useful they believed it was (extrinsic motivation).</p><p>The researchers found that intrinsic motivation significantly predicted how many steps people took on average each day. Participants who found walking enjoyable walked about 1,250 more steps per day than those who were less intrinsically motivated. In contrast, extrinsic motivation had no statistically significant effect.</p><p>These findings held even when the researchers adjusted for skewed data and conducted additional analyses, such as applying log transformations or capping extreme values. Once again, intrinsic motivation proved to be the key driver of actual behavior, not just intentions.</p><p>Finally, the fourth study tested whether increasing intrinsic motivation could actively improve engagement with a new health behavior. Participants were asked to download a mobile app that scans food and cosmetic products to evaluate their health impact. Before using the app, participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups: one that framed the app as fun and surprising (intrinsic motivation), and another that described it as informative and useful (extrinsic motivation). App usage was then tracked over a 24-hour period. The final sample included 763 individuals.</p><p>Participants in the intrinsic motivation group scanned significantly more products with the app—on average, over 25% more—than those in the extrinsic motivation group. These results suggest that framing a task as enjoyable can causally increase engagement, even for health-related behaviors that are often framed in terms of utility or future rewards.</p><p>“People set extrinsic goals – goals that are useful or important in the long run,” Woolley said. “But, they are more likely to stick with goals that are intrinsically motivating – those they pursue as an end in itself, often because they offer interest and enjoyment in the moment. In other words, people are more likely to abandon goals that lack intrinsic motivation, but when they set goals, they aren’t focused on setting goals that are intrinsically motivating.”</p><p>“One of the big surprises for me was just how stable the effect of intrinsic motivation on goal adherence was. I knew that intrinsic motivation mattered for goal adherence in the short-term, but I thought that motivational dynamics may change over time. But we found robust evidence across a year, and for the large variety of personal goals people set for themselves, that intrinsic motivation was a stronger predictor of goal adherence than extrinsic motivation.”</p><p>Many people assume that long-term commitment is fueled by the promise of future rewards, yet this research suggests that enjoyment and immediate satisfaction play a bigger role in sustaining effort. But that doesn’t mean people should abandon extrinsic goals, the researchers caution.</p><p>“We find that people often set goals for extrinsic reasons, but tend to persist in goals that feel intrinsically motivating,” Woolley explained. “One concern I have is that this might lead people to believe they should only set intrinsic goals. But that’s not the takeaway. I’d actually encourage people to continue setting extrinsic goals—goals that feel important, useful, or even life-changing—but to design their pursuit in ways that make the process more intrinsically enjoyable. That shift can help people stick with the goals that matter most to them.”</p><p>The study, “Adherence to Personal Resolutions Across Time, Culture, and Goal Domains,” was authored by Kaitlin Woolley, Laura M. 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Psychology News Robot<p>DATE: August 11, 2025 at 10:26AM<br>SOURCE: PSYCHIATRIC TIMES</p><p>Direct article link at end of text block below.</p><p>The FDA has granted Fast Track designation to NRX-100 for the treatment of suicidal ideation in patients with depression, including bipolar depression. <a href="https://t.co/66v69O95Km" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">t.co/66v69O95Km</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Here are any URLs found in the article text: </p><p><a href="https://t.co/66v69O95Km" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">t.co/66v69O95Km</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Articles can be found by scrolling down the page at Articles can be found at <a href="https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/news" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">psychiatrictimes.com/news</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>". </p><p>-------------------------------------------------</p><p>Private, vetted email list for mental health professionals: <a href="https://www.clinicians-exchange.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">clinicians-exchange.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>NYU Information for Practice puts out 400-500 good quality health-related research posts per week but its too much for many people, so that bot is limited to just subscribers. You can read it or subscribe at <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/@PsychResearchBot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>PsychResearchBot</span></a></span></p><p>-------------------------------------------------</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/counseling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>counseling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/socialwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialwork</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/psychotherapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psychotherapy</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/psychotherapist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>psychotherapist</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/psychotherapists" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>psychotherapists</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/psychology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>psychology</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/socialpsych" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>socialpsych</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/socialwork" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>socialwork</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/psychiatry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>psychiatry</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/mentalhealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mentalhealth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/psychiatry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psychiatry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>healthcare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/psychotherapist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psychotherapist</span></a></p>
Psychology News Robot<p>DATE: August 11, 2025 at 10:00AM<br>SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG</p><p>** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **<br>-------------------------------------------------</p><p>TITLE: Psychedelic experiences may offer a lasting boost in perceived life meaning</p><p>URL: <a href="https://www.psypost.org/psychedelic-experiences-may-offer-a-lasting-boost-in-perceived-life-meaning/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">psypost.org/psychedelic-experi</span><span class="invisible">ences-may-offer-a-lasting-boost-in-perceived-life-meaning/</span></a></p><p>An analysis of data from three studies on psychedelic use indicates that participants’ sense of meaning in life tends to increase following a psychedelic experience. Specifically, the “presence of meaning” tends to rise, while the “search for meaning” tends to decline slightly. The findings were published in Frontiers in Psychology.</p><p>Psychedelics are substances that alter perception, mood, and cognition by interacting with serotonin receptors in the brain, particularly the 5-HT2A receptor. Common psychedelics include psilocybin, LSD, mescaline, and DMT. These substances can produce profound shifts in consciousness, such as visual hallucinations, ego dissolution, and altered perceptions of time. Many users describe experiences involving emotional release, spiritual insight, or an increased sense of connectedness.</p><p>Psychedelics are being studied for their therapeutic potential in treating mental health conditions such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and addiction. Research suggests they may help “reset” maladaptive brain activity and enhance emotional flexibility. However, they can also induce distressing reactions—such as paranoia, anxiety, or confusion—especially in uncontrolled environments. Both mindset and setting strongly influence the nature of a psychedelic experience. While psychedelics are generally not considered addictive, they exert powerful psychological effects and should be used with caution.</p><p>Study author William Roseby and his colleagues set out to examine the extent to which psychedelics influence one’s sense of meaning in life. This concept refers to the feeling that one’s existence has purpose, coherence, and significance, often derived from personal values, relationships, long-term goals, or a connection to something larger than oneself.</p><p>The studies included in the analysis assessed meaning in life using the Meaning in Life Questionnaire, alongside additional measures of mental wellbeing (Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale), depression (Beck Depression Inventory), mystical experiences (Mystical Experience Questionnaire), ego dissolution (Ego-Dissolution Inventory), and emotional breakthroughs (Emotional Breakthrough Inventory).</p><p>The three studies were as follows:</p><p> • An online prospective study in which individuals planning to attend psychedelic retreats completed questionnaires before and after their experience. The retreats involved one to three ceremonies using substances such as psilocybin or ayahuasca. Data were collected two weeks before the retreat and up to six months afterward. While 886 people initially enrolled, only 141 completed the final follow-up, reflecting high attrition.<br> • </p><p> • A laboratory study known as Insight, which involved 28 healthy, psychedelic-naive participants undergoing two psilocybin sessions separated by one month. The first session involved a 1 mg placebo dose, while the second involved a 25 mg active dose. Participants were blinded to which dose they received. Assessments were conducted two weeks after each session.<br> • </p><p> • A randomized controlled trial called Psilodep, which compared psilocybin with escitalopram, a widely used antidepressant, in individuals with treatment-resistant depression. Thirty participants received psilocybin, and 29 received escitalopram. Both groups received psychological support throughout the study.<br> • </p><p>Across all three studies, participants reported significant increases in the presence of meaning in life following a psychedelic experience. In contrast, the search for meaning showed only a modest reduction. This suggests that people tended to feel that their lives had more meaning after their experience, without necessarily losing the desire to continue exploring that meaning.</p><p>Increases in the presence of meaning were also moderately correlated with improvements in mental wellbeing and reductions in depressive symptoms. In particular, mystical experiences, ego dissolution, and emotional breakthroughs were linked to greater increases in perceived meaning.</p><p>“The convergence of evidence from multiple studies shows that psychedelic use has a robust and long-lasting positive effect on meaning in life. We explore potential mechanisms of psychedelic-induced meaning enhancement and highlight the possible influences of psychosocial context on outcomes,” the study authors concluded.</p><p>The study contributes to the scientific understanding of the consequences of the use of psychedelics in controlled and guided settings. However, it should be noted that the first study had a huge attrition rate, leaving open the possibility that participants with less positive outcomes dropped out of the study and were thus not included in the analysis. Additionally, all the outcome data was based on self-reports leaving room for reporting bias to have affected the results.</p><p>The paper “Enhanced meaning in life following psychedelic use: converging evidence from controlled and naturalistic studies” was authored by William Roseby, Hannes Kettner, Leor Roseman, Meg J. Spriggs, Taylor Lyons, Joe Peill, Bruna Giribaldi, David Erritzoe, David J. Nutt, and Robin L. 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Psychology News Robot<p>DATE: August 11, 2025 at 09:36AM<br>SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG</p><p>TITLE: Living Longer May Not Be the Only Reason Alzheimers Hits More Women</p><p>URL: <a href="http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=186978&url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/alzheimer-women-risks-1.7604574?cmp=rss" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">socialpsychology.org/client/re</span><span class="invisible">direct.php?from=rss_feed&id=186978&url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/alzheimer-women-risks-1.7604574?cmp=rss</span></a></p><p>Source: Canadian Broadcasting Company - Health News</p><p>Women are more likely than men to get diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease—the most common form of dementia in the world. In developed countries, studies suggest about two-thirds of people with Alzheimer's are women. Scientists have long explained this with a simple demographic fact: women tend to live longer, and age is a strong risk factor for the development of dementia. 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Psychology News Robot<p>DATE: August 11, 2025 at 08:00AM<br>SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG</p><p>** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **<br>-------------------------------------------------</p><p>TITLE: Inflammation levels may shape how cannabis affects anxiety and sleep</p><p>URL: <a href="https://www.psypost.org/inflammation-levels-may-shape-how-cannabis-affects-anxiety-and-sleep/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">psypost.org/inflammation-level</span><span class="invisible">s-may-shape-how-cannabis-affects-anxiety-and-sleep/</span></a></p><p>A new study published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience suggests that baseline levels of inflammation may influence how cannabis affects mood and sleep in people with anxiety. Researchers found that cannabis products higher in cannabidiol (CBD) tended to produce more consistent improvements in negative mood and sleep quality, while the benefits of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)-dominant products varied depending on participants’ inflammatory status.</p><p>Anxiety affects nearly one in three adults in the United States and often overlaps with other issues, such as poor sleep. Many individuals with anxiety experience insomnia or disrupted rest, which can in turn worsen mental health. Treatments for these conditions are often addressed separately, even though they frequently occur together.</p><p>Emerging evidence indicates that inflammation—a process in which the immune system releases chemical messengers called cytokines—may be a shared biological factor contributing to both anxiety and sleep problems. Higher cytokine levels have been linked to worse mood and poorer sleep quality in prior studies.</p><p>Cannabinoids like THC and CBD, found in the cannabis plant, are known to have anti-inflammatory effects in laboratory settings. Surveys also suggest that many medical cannabis users turn to the drug to help with anxiety and sleep issues. However, scientific findings on cannabis for these purposes remain mixed, and little is known about whether a person’s level of inflammation might influence the outcome.</p><p>The researchers sought to investigate whether four weeks of cannabis use would affect inflammatory markers in the blood, and whether baseline inflammation might change how cannabis influences mood and sleep quality. They also wanted to compare products with different cannabinoid profiles: THC-dominant, CBD-dominant, and those containing equal parts THC and CBD.</p><p>“Reducing anxiety and improving sleep are two of the most commonly reported reasons why people report using cannabis. And while it makes sense that anxiety and sleep might be linked (who hasn’t tossed and turned at night when they have a lot on their mind?), both are also rooted in inflammation,” said study author Jonathon K. Lisano, a postdoctoral research associate in the CUChange lab at the University of Colorado Boulder.</p><p>“Higher levels of inflammation, which is generally not great, have been linked to both higher levels of anxiety and worsened sleep quality. With cannabis, particularly CBD, being able to impact inflammation we wanted to see if there was a relationship between cannabis use, inflammation, anxiety, and sleep.”</p><p>The study included 171 adults with at least mild anxiety. Of these, 147 were assigned to use one of three types of cannabis—THC + CBD (12% each), THC-dominant (24% THC, very low CBD), or CBD-dominant (24% CBD, very low THC)—while 24 participants served as a non-use control group. Participants in the cannabis groups purchased their assigned products from a dispensary and used them as much or as little as they wished over the four-week period.</p><p>All participants completed questionnaires assessing depression, anxiety, stress, and sleep quality at the start of the study and after four weeks. Blood samples were collected at both time points to measure concentrations of six pro-inflammatory cytokines, which were combined into a single inflammation score. The researchers examined whether cannabis use changed cytokine levels and whether starting levels of inflammation influenced the effects of cannabis on mood and sleep.</p><p>Cannabis use did not significantly alter cytokine levels over the four-week period, regardless of the product type. “I was surprised to see that despite there being a decent amount of pre-clinical data on the anti-inflammatory effects of cannabis, we did not observe any changes in inflammation over the 4 weeks of this study,” Lisano told PsyPost. “This could be due to those pre-clinical studies using much higher doses of CBD and THC than is obtainable for the average individual using cannabis.”</p><p>However, initial inflammation levels played a notable role in shaping outcomes for mood and sleep. Participants using CBD-dominant or THC + CBD products experienced consistent improvements in overall negative mood scores—covering depression, anxiety, and stress—across all levels of baseline inflammation. These improvements were driven mainly by reductions in depression and anxiety, while stress levels showed little change.</p><p>In contrast, those using THC-dominant cannabis saw mood improvements only if their baseline inflammation was in the average range, with little or no benefit for participants with low or high inflammation. The non-use control group also showed some mood improvement, but it was less consistent and did not appear tied to changes in specific mood components.</p><p>Sleep quality showed a similar pattern. Cannabis users with average or high baseline inflammation tended to report better sleep after four weeks, particularly if they used CBD-rich products. For participants with low inflammation, improvements were smaller and less consistent. Those who did not use cannabis reported no meaningful changes in sleep quality regardless of their inflammation level.</p><p>The researchers suggest that CBD’s more consistent effects could be linked to its stronger anti-inflammatory actions compared to THC. Laboratory studies indicate that CBD may reduce the release of inflammatory cytokines by influencing pathways in immune cells, potentially stabilizing mood and sleep regulation across different inflammatory states.</p><p>“I think my big takeaways from these results are twofold,” Lisano explained. “1. Inflammation does appear to impact how cannabis affects our sleep and anxiety over time (which is the first time this has been reported). 2. Products containing higher amounts of CBD appeared to produce the most consistent reductions in anxiety and improvements in sleep quality. Products containing high amounts of THC had varied results, especially when it came to sleep.”</p><p>The study’s design had strengths, including a naturalistic approach that reflected real-world cannabis use and verification of product adherence through blood tests. However, the absence of a placebo control means some of the reported benefits could reflect participants’ expectations rather than purely pharmacological effects. Federal restrictions in the United States make placebo-controlled studies with legal-market cannabis challenging.</p><p>The results are also limited to smoked or vaporized cannabis flower and may not apply to edibles, tinctures, or concentrates. Additionally, the study only covered a four-week period, so it is unclear whether the effects would persist, diminish, or change with longer-term use.</p><p>“I think the big thing people need to keep in mind is that these results are preliminary; one study is not the end-all be-all when it comes to the impact of cannabis on sleep and anxiety,” Lisano noted. “While we report that sleep quality got better over the 4 weeks, this is based on the participant’s subjective experience. Just because we feel like we are sleeping better doesn’t mean we actually got better sleep. There still needs to be more research using more objective data (i.e., sleep studies looking at sleep cycles and brain wave activity).”</p><p>The authors note that future studies should examine how dose, frequency, and method of cannabis use interact with inflammation to influence mood and sleep. Longer-term research could also determine whether these benefits hold for individuals with more severe, clinically diagnosed anxiety disorders.</p><p>“I’m hoping we can start to look at a few different things,” Lisano said. “It would be great to look at more objective data regarding sleep quality to assess if people are actually getting better quantifiable sleep versus just feeling like they are sleeping better. It would also be great to see what other aspects of health, like exercise, diet, etc., influence the effects of cannabis on things like anxiety, sleep, and pain.”</p><p>The study, “Inflammatory state moderates response to cannabis on negative affect and sleep quality in individuals with anxiety,” was authored by Jonathon K. Lisano, Carillon J. Skrzynski, Gregory Giordano, Angela D. Bryan, and L. 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Healthcare Tech Robot<p>DATE: August 11, 2025 at 06:00AM<br>SOURCE: DIGITALHEALTH.NET</p><p>TITLE: Interactive digital platform launched to tackle health inequalities</p><p>URL: <a href="https://www.digitalhealth.net/2025/08/interactive-digital-platform-launched-to-tackle-health-inequalities/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">digitalhealth.net/2025/08/inte</span><span class="invisible">ractive-digital-platform-launched-to-tackle-health-inequalities/</span></a></p><p>The NHS Race and Health Observatory has launched a digital platform to support healthcare organisations in tackling health inequalities.</p><p>URL: <a href="https://www.digitalhealth.net/2025/08/interactive-digital-platform-launched-to-tackle-health-inequalities/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">digitalhealth.net/2025/08/inte</span><span class="invisible">ractive-digital-platform-launched-to-tackle-health-inequalities/</span></a></p><p>-------------------------------------------------</p><p>Private, vetted email list for mental health professionals: <a href="https://www.clinicians-exchange.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">clinicians-exchange.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>.<br>NYU Information for Practice puts out 400-500 good quality health-related research posts per week but its too much for many people, so that bot is limited to just subscribers. 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Psychology News Robot<p>DATE: August 11, 2025 at 06:00AM<br>SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG</p><p>** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **<br>-------------------------------------------------</p><p>TITLE: Assimilation-induced dehumanization: Psychology research uncovers a dark side effect of AI</p><p>URL: <a href="https://www.psypost.org/assimilation-induced-dehumanization-psychology-research-uncovers-a-dark-side-effect-of-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">psypost.org/assimilation-induc</span><span class="invisible">ed-dehumanization-psychology-research-uncovers-a-dark-side-effect-of-ai/</span></a></p><p>A series of experiments published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology indicates that when people interact with autonomous agents—such as robots or virtual assistants—that display strong emotional intelligence, they tend to see those machines as more humanlike. But this shift comes with an unintended consequence: people may also begin to see other humans as less human, leading to a higher likelihood of mistreating them.</p><p>Autonomous agents have moved beyond purely functional roles. Virtual assistants can chat naturally, social robots can comfort patients, and large language models can engage in humanlike dialogue. These advances have been accompanied by a growing effort to give machines emotional intelligence—the ability to detect and respond to human emotions.</p><p>While this shift can make AI interactions more engaging and satisfying, the researchers wanted to explore a less obvious question: what happens to our perceptions of other people when we interact with emotionally capable machines?</p><p>Psychological research has long shown that the way we attribute mental capacities—such as the ability to think, plan, and feel—to others affects how we treat them. Emotional capacity, in particular, is seen as central to being human. The team theorized that when people encounter AI with humanlike emotional abilities, they may mentally group it closer to humans. Because AI is still generally perceived as having less of a mind than people, this mental “assimilation” could drag down humanness ratings of actual humans, leading to subtle forms of dehumanization.</p><p>The researchers called this phenomenon assimilation-induced dehumanization. They also wanted to know whether this effect could be mitigated, for example, if AI’s abilities were so extreme that people clearly saw them as nonhuman, or if the AI displayed only cognitive skills without emotional understanding.</p><p>“With recent technological advancements, we’ve been fascinated by how humanlike AI technologies have become—not just in what they can do, but in how they’re presented and how they interact with people,” explained study author Hye-young Kim, an assistant professor of at the London School of Economics and Political Science.</p><p>What’s interesting is that people respond to even subtle humanlike cues in AI, often treating them much like they would other humans. This led us to ask: while AI’s humanlike qualities clearly make machines seem more human, could they also make real people seem more like machines? Our research was driven by the idea that the more human we perceive AI to be, the more it may quietly reshape our understanding of what it means to be human.”</p><p>The researchers conducted five main experiments, supplemented with additional studies, involving both embodied AI (like humanoid robots) and disembodied systems (like customer service chatbots). Participants were exposed to AI agents with either high or low socio-emotional capabilities, then asked to evaluate the humanness of the AI and of real people. The researchers also measured behavior toward humans.</p><p>The first study aimed to establish a basic link between perceiving socio-emotional ability in a robot and the willingness to mistreat human employees. For this experiment, 195 online participants were divided into two groups. One group watched a video of a humanoid robot, named Atlas, dancing energetically to music—a hedonic and expressive activity. The other group watched the same robot performing parkour—a more mechanical and utilitarian task.</p><p>Afterward, all participants read three scenarios describing potentially negative changes to employee welfare, such as replacing workers’ hot meals with meal-replacement shakes, housing them in tiny “micro-capsule” rooms, and making them wear tracking devices to monitor their every move.</p><p>The researchers found that participants who watched the dancing robot perceived it as having more of a “mind” than those who watched the parkour robot. These same participants were also significantly more supportive of the harsh and dehumanizing workplace practices, like replacing meals and using invasive tracking.</p><p>The second study was designed to get at the psychological mechanism behind the effect, testing the concepts of assimilation and contrast. The experiment involved 451 participants and again used the dancing and parkour robot videos to represent high and low socio-emotional capabilities.</p><p>However, a second factor was added: the robot’s capabilities were described as either moderate (similar to what was used in the first study) or extreme. In the extreme condition, the robot was said to have superhuman abilities like infrared, UV, and X-ray vision. After this exposure, participants completed a scale measuring their level of dehumanization, which assesses the extent to which people are seen as cold and mechanical or unsophisticated and animal-like.</p><p>The second study shed light on the boundary conditions of assimilation-induced dehumanization. When the robot’s capabilities were moderate and comparable to a human’s, the initial finding was replicated: seeing the emotional, dancing robot led to greater dehumanization of people.</p><p>However, when the robot had extreme, superhuman abilities, the effect reversed. In that case, seeing the dancing robot made participants perceive people as more human. This suggests that when a machine is clearly in a different category from humans, we contrast ourselves against it, reinforcing our own humanity. But when the line is blurry, assimilation occurs.</p><p>The third study sought to pinpoint whether it was socio-emotional skills, specifically, or any advanced human-like skill that caused the effect. A group of 651 participants was divided into three conditions. They read about a fictitious artificial intelligence service. One group read about “EmpathicMind,” a virtual therapy program that could respond to subtle emotions. A second group read about “InsightMind,” a medical diagnosis program with powerful cognitive abilities to analyze complex data. A control group read about a simple survey analysis program. All participants then completed the same dehumanization scale from the previous study.</p><p>Results from the third study confirmed that socio-emotional capability is the key ingredient. Only the “EmpathicMind” artificial intelligence, the one with emotional skills, led to increased dehumanization among participants. The highly intelligent “InsightMind” program, which had advanced cognitive but not emotional skills, produced no more dehumanization than the control condition. This demonstrates that it is the perception of a capacity to feel, not just to think, that triggers the assimilation process.</p><p>The fourth study was constructed to directly measure the entire proposed chain of events and test it with a consequential choice. The 280 participants first read a fictitious article that framed artificial intelligence as either having remarkable emotional capabilities or having significant limitations in that area. They then used a slider scale to rate the “humanness” of both artificial intelligence agents and a typical person.</p><p>For the final part of the study, they were told they could win a $25 gift card and were asked to choose between one for Amazon or one for Costco. Before they chose, they read a real news article detailing Amazon’s allegedly dehumanizing working conditions. The researchers predicted that people who dehumanized workers would be less bothered by this information and more likely to choose the Amazon gift card.</p><p>The fourth study provided direct evidence for the full psychological process. Participants exposed to the emotionally capable artificial intelligence rated the technology as more human-like, and critically, they rated actual people as less human-like. This shift in perception had a real-world consequence: they were significantly more likely to choose the Amazon gift card, suggesting they were less troubled by the reports of poor employee treatment.</p><p>A final study aimed to demonstrate the effect within a specific company setting. A total of 331 participants read about a company’s new conversational virtual assistant for customer service. For one group, the assistant was described as having high socio-emotional skills, able to adapt its tone to a customer’s emotional needs. For the other group, its abilities were described as purely functional. Participants then rated the humanness of both the virtual assistant and a human customer service operator. As a behavioral measure, they were told they would receive a $0.25 bonus and were given the option to donate it to a fundraising campaign to support the mental health of the company’s human customer service agents.</p><p>The fifth study replicated these findings in a direct consumer context. Participants who read about the emotionally intelligent virtual assistant perceived it as more human, which in turn led them to rate the human operator as less human. This translated directly into behavior: they were less likely to donate their bonus payment to a fund supporting the mental health of those same human employees.</p><p>“The more we perceive social and emotional capabilities in AI, the more likely we are to see real people as machine-like—less deserving of care and respect,” Kim told PsyPost. “As consumers increasingly interact with AI in customer-facing roles, we should be mindful that this AI-induced dehumanization can make us more prone to mistreating employees or frontline workers without even realizing it.”</p><p>However, “this research does not suggest that AI itself is inherently harmful to the quality of our social experiences,” she added. “The issue arises when people unconsciously judge and compare humans and AI agents using the same standard of ‘humanness.’ While intentionally making AI appear more humanlike may help consumers feel more comfortable adopting and using it, we should be mindful of the unintended negative consequences that may follow.”</p><p>The authors identify several avenues for future research to clarify and extend their findings on assimilation-induced dehumanization. One priority is to examine how the physical appearance of autonomous agents interacts with their perceived socio-emotional capabilities. The studies here focused on agents with limited humanlike embodiment, which likely minimized identity-threat effects.</p><p>Another suggested direction is to explore self-perception. The current work measured changes in perceptions of others, but it remains unclear whether interacting with emotionally capable AI would cause individuals to apply the same dehumanizing shift to themselves. One possibility is that people might accept less humane treatment in workplaces where AI is present, especially if the AI appears to match human socio-emotional abilities. Alternatively, they might engage in self-affirmation strategies, reinforcing their own humanness even if they dehumanize others.</p><p>“Going forward, we’re interested in exploring how AI might influence not only how people treat others, but also how we see ourselves—and how that, in turn, shapes our values, preferences, and choices,” Kim explained. “Understanding how these effects unfold over time would be especially important as AI becomes increasingly embedded in our daily lives. Ultimately, we aim to shed light on the responsible design and deployment of AI technologies so they can enhance, rather than erode, our social relationships and human values.”</p><p>The study, “AI-induced dehumanization,” was authored by Hye-young Kim and Ann L. 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Healthcare Tech Robot<p>DATE: August 11, 2025 at 03:30AM<br>SOURCE: DIGITALHEALTH.NET</p><p>TITLE: Ultromics secures £41m Series C funding to expand AI solution</p><p>URL: <a href="https://www.digitalhealth.net/2025/08/ultromics-secures-41m-series-c-funding-to-expand-ai-solution/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">digitalhealth.net/2025/08/ultr</span><span class="invisible">omics-secures-41m-series-c-funding-to-expand-ai-solution/</span></a></p><p>Ultromics, a provider of AI-driven cardiology solutions, has raised $55m (£41m) in Series C financing to scale its technology across the US.</p><p>URL: <a href="https://www.digitalhealth.net/2025/08/ultromics-secures-41m-series-c-funding-to-expand-ai-solution/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">digitalhealth.net/2025/08/ultr</span><span class="invisible">omics-secures-41m-series-c-funding-to-expand-ai-solution/</span></a></p><p>-------------------------------------------------</p><p>Private, vetted email list for mental health professionals: <a href="https://www.clinicians-exchange.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">clinicians-exchange.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>.<br>NYU Information for Practice puts out 400-500 good quality health-related research posts per week but its too much for many people, so that bot is limited to just subscribers. 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Psychology News Robot<p>DATE: August 10, 2025 at 03:00AM<br>SOURCE:<br>NEW YORK TIMES PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGISTS FEED</p><p>TITLE: Dr. Phil’s Road From Oprah to ICE Raids</p><p>URL: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/style/dr-phils-road-from-oprah-to-ice-raids.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/08/10/style/d</span><span class="invisible">r-phils-road-from-oprah-to-ice-raids.html</span></a></p><p>The daytime TV fixture seems to have taken a rightward turn. 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Psychology News Robot<p>DATE: August 10, 2025 at 04:00PM<br>SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG</p><p>** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **<br>-------------------------------------------------</p><p>TITLE: Dementia rates vary sharply across U.S. regions</p><p>URL: <a href="https://www.psypost.org/dementia-rates-vary-sharply-across-u-s-regions/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">psypost.org/dementia-rates-var</span><span class="invisible">y-sharply-across-u-s-regions/</span></a></p><p>A study of older U.S. veterans found that dementia incidence was lowest in the Mid-Atlantic region (11.2 cases per 1,000 person-years) and highest in the Southeast (14.0 cases per 1,000 person-years). The paper was published in JAMA Neurology.</p><p>Dementia is a broad term for a group of symptoms affecting memory, thinking, and social abilities severely enough to interfere with daily life. It is most commonly caused by Alzheimer’s disease, but other types include vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, and frontotemporal dementia. Dementia is progressive, meaning symptoms worsen over time.</p><p>Early signs can include forgetfulness, difficulty finding words, and trouble with problem-solving or planning. As the condition advances, individuals may struggle to recognize familiar people, perform routine tasks, or regulate emotions. Although aging is the greatest risk factor, dementia is not a normal part of aging. Genetics, cardiovascular health, head injuries, and lifestyle factors also contribute to risk. Research suggests that maintaining physical activity, cognitive engagement, and a healthy diet may help reduce the likelihood of developing dementia.</p><p>Study author Christina S. Dintica and colleagues sought to investigate whether dementia incidence varies across U.S. regions. They focused on older veterans enrolled in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the largest integrated healthcare system in the United States.</p><p>The analysis included 1,268,599 veterans aged 65 years or older who received care at VHA medical centers between October 1999 and September 2021. This group represented a randomly selected sample of about 5% of older veterans who used VHA services during those years. The average age was 73.9 years, and 2% were women.</p><p>To be included, participants had to have known zip code information so that researchers could determine their geographic location. Those without a zip code were excluded. Dementia diagnoses were identified using medical records.</p><p>Based on their zip codes, participants were classified into one of 10 U.S. regions, each composed of 4 to 7 states: Southeast (Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi); Southwest (Arizona, California, Hawai‘i, and Nevada); South Atlantic (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida); South (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas); Rocky Mountains (Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming); Northwest (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington); Northeast (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and New York); Midwest (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska); Mid-Atlantic (Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and New Jersey); and Great Lakes (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin).</p><p>The lowest dementia incidence was observed in the Mid-Atlantic (11.2 per 1,000 person-years) and the highest in the Southeast (14.0 per 1,000 person-years). Compared with the Mid-Atlantic, dementia risk was 25% higher in the Southeast, 23% higher in both the Northwest and Rocky Mountains, 18% higher in the South, and 12% higher in the Midwest and South Atlantic. In the remaining regions, rates were less than 10% higher than in the Mid-Atlantic.</p><p>“Among older adults in the VHA, dementia incidence varied significantly across US regions, independent of key covariates. These findings highlight the need for targeted health care planning, public health interventions, and policy development,” the study authors concluded.</p><p>The study sheds light on the regional variation in dementia incidence rates. However, it should be noted that the design of the study does not allow any causal inferences to be derived from the results. 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Psychology News Robot<p>DATE: August 10, 2025 at 02:00PM<br>SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG</p><p>** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **<br>-------------------------------------------------</p><p>TITLE: Intellectual humility is linked to less political and religious polarization across the board</p><p>URL: <a href="https://www.psypost.org/intellectual-humility-is-linked-to-less-political-and-religious-polarization-across-the-board/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">psypost.org/intellectual-humil</span><span class="invisible">ity-is-linked-to-less-political-and-religious-polarization-across-the-board/</span></a></p><p>A new study published in The Journal of Positive Psychology indicates that people who score higher in intellectual humility tend to show less political and religious polarization — regardless of whether they are Republican, Democrat, Christian, or atheist. This link held across different measures, including both self-reported attitudes and behavioral indicators of hostility toward ideological outgroups, and often remained significant even after accounting for the strength of a person’s beliefs.</p><p>Intellectual humility refers to the recognition that one’s knowledge and understanding are limited. It involves a willingness to revise one’s views when presented with new evidence, the ability to separate personal identity from beliefs, and a respect for the perspectives of others. While it does not require abandoning one’s convictions, it emphasizes openness, curiosity, and a readiness to acknowledge that one could be wrong. Past research has tied intellectual humility to less ideological rigidity, more tolerance for opposing views, and a greater willingness to engage constructively with people who hold different beliefs.</p><p>In the United States, political and religious divisions are deeply intertwined, with each often reinforcing the other. Political polarization — particularly the “affective” kind, which combines disagreement with active dislike of the other side — has reached historically high levels. Religious polarization, though less studied, is also significant, contributing to mistrust and prejudice.</p><p>Because intellectual humility aligns closely with interventions shown to reduce polarization — such as promoting accurate perceptions of the outgroup and encouraging respectful intergroup contact — the researchers wanted to know whether its effects would be consistent across both political and religious divides. They also sought to determine whether these patterns held regardless of the specific group identities involved.</p><p>“Previous studies found that intellectual humility was related to less political and religious polarization, but these two forms of polarization were assessed independently in relation to intellectual humility,” said study author Shauna Bowes, an incoming assistant professor of psychology at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.</p><p>“Political and religious polarization are often deeply intertwined. Moreover, if intellectual humility is powerful for understanding less polarization, then it should be related to less polarization across belief domains and identities. Thus, I simultaneously examined religious and political polarization in relation to intellectual humility.”</p><p>The researchers recruited participants through an online panel, first screening 1,000 people to identify those who identified as either Christian or atheist and as either Republican or Democrat. This yielded a final sample of 473 adults, predominantly White and evenly split between men and women, with 44% identifying as Republican and 56% as Democrat. Most participants were Christian (76%), with the remainder identifying as atheist.</p><p>Participants completed several measures. Intellectual humility was assessed using the Comprehensive Intellectual Humility Scale, which captures four dimensions: independence of intellect and ego, openness to revising one’s viewpoint, respect for others’ viewpoints, and lack of intellectual overconfidence.</p><p>Polarization was measured in two ways. First, participants rated their attitudes toward their political and religious outgroups on items related to social contact, favorability, emotional warmth, and prejudice. Second, in a behavioral task, participants were asked to assign tangram puzzles of varying difficulty to an outgroup member, with the opportunity to make the task either easier or harder for the other person, and reported their motives for doing so.</p><p>The study also included measures of variables that often predict polarization, such as intolerance of uncertainty, distress intolerance, moralization of political beliefs, and the degree to which participants’ political and religious beliefs were central to their identity. Belief strength — how strongly participants held and felt certain about their political or religious views — was included as a control variable in some analyses.</p><p>Across the board, higher intellectual humility was linked to lower levels of political and religious polarization. This was true for both self-reported attitudes and the behavioral measure of hostility toward outgroups. The relationships tended to be consistent across different dimensions of intellectual humility, although openness to revising one’s viewpoint was generally the weakest predictor, especially in the behavioral task.</p><p>“It was interesting to see that the results did not vary across methods of assessment,” Bowes told PsyPost. “That is, we used self-report and experimental measures of polarization. Intellectual humility was related to less polarization for the self-report measures and the experimental measures of polarization. These findings provide additional support for the robustness of the relationship, as it is not solely driven by shared method variance (i.e., that everything is self-reported).”</p><p>When the researchers compared political and religious domains directly, they found almost no differences in how strongly intellectual humility related to polarization. In other words, the quality of being intellectually humble seemed to work similarly in both contexts.</p><p>The relationships also held across group identities. Republicans and Democrats showed similar patterns, as did Christians and atheists. Notably, this symmetry between Christians and atheists is striking given the lack of middle ground between their worldviews, suggesting that intellectual humility may reduce animosity even across deeply opposed existential positions.</p><p>Most of these effects remained significant even after controlling for belief strength. This suggests that the link between intellectual humility and reduced polarization is not simply a byproduct of holding weaker convictions. On average, intellectual humility explained an additional 3% to 5% of the variance in polarization beyond what could be accounted for by belief strength alone.</p><p>However, the study found little evidence that intellectual humility buffered against other traits and tendencies known to increase polarization, such as intolerance of uncertainty or distress intolerance. The few protective effects observed were linked to the ability to separate one’s ego from one’s beliefs, which appeared to weaken the connection between strong identity-based beliefs and polarization.</p><p>“Across belief domains and identities, intellectual humility is related to less polarization,” Bowes explained. “As such, intellectual humility may help people be less prone to polarization across the board. That said, intellectual humility likely contributes to less polarization in concert with other processes, such as a low need for closure, as intellectual humility did not invariably statistically protect against variables that predict more polarization.”</p><p>As with all research, there are some limitations to consider. The study focused only on two political identities (Republican and Democrat) and two religious identities (Christian and atheist), leaving out many other important identity groups. Political and religious identities also overlapped considerably in the sample — for example, most Republicans identified as Christian — which limited the ability to explore combinations such as Republican atheists or Democratic Christians in depth.</p><p>“We can only draw conclusions about intellectual humility and polarization in the context of (1) Republicans and Democrats and (2) Christians and atheists,” Bowes noted. “Additional research is needed to clarify the generalizability of our results when examining other political, religious, and irreligious identities.”</p><p>The researchers suggest that future work should investigate intellectual humility in other political and religious groups, examine more diverse irreligious identities, and explore how interventions might foster intellectual humility over time. They also highlight the need to determine whether increasing intellectual humility can causally reduce polarization, rather than simply being associated with it.</p><p>“I would be eager to conduct more causal and applied research,” Bowes said. “Regarding causal research, it will be important to establish that intellectual humility precedes less polarization and causes less polarization. Regarding applied research, which is linked with causal research, I would be excited to look at whether increasing or cultivating intellectual humility reduces polarization.”</p><p>The study, “How intellectual humility relates to political and religious polarization,” was authored by Shauna M. 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Psychology News Robot<p>DATE: August 10, 2025 at 12:00PM<br>SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG</p><p>** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **<br>-------------------------------------------------</p><p>TITLE: Physically active individuals tend to have slightly better cognitive abilities on average</p><p>URL: <a href="https://www.psypost.org/physically-active-individuals-tend-to-have-slightly-better-cognitive-abilities-on-average/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">psypost.org/physically-active-</span><span class="invisible">individuals-tend-to-have-slightly-better-cognitive-abilities-on-average/</span></a></p><p>A meta-analysis of studies exploring the relationship between physical activity and cognitive performance found a small positive association between the two. The strongest effects were observed for moderate-to-vigorous outdoor physical activity. The paper was published in the Psychological Bulletin.</p><p>Research indicates that physical activity can benefit cognitive performance across the lifespan. Regular exercise improves blood flow to the brain, supporting the delivery of oxygen and nutrients essential for brain function. It also stimulates the release of neurotrophic factors such as brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which promote neuronal growth and connectivity. Both aerobic and resistance training have been linked to improvements in memory, attention, and executive functioning.</p><p>In children, physical activity tends to be associated with better academic achievement and concentration. Among adults, it may help slow age-related cognitive decline and reduce the risk of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. Acute bouts of exercise can temporarily enhance mood and mental clarity. These cognitive benefits are thought to result from a combination of biological and psychological mechanisms. Exercise can also reduce stress and improve sleep, both of which support cognitive functioning.</p><p>Lead author Myrto F. Mavilidi and colleagues aimed to integrate findings from existing studies on the link between physical activity and cognition, while also examining how this relationship might depend on contextual factors such as the physical and social environment, delivery mode (e.g., face-to-face, remote, virtual reality), delivery style, and life domain. They also distinguished between the effects of single, acute bouts of activity and regular, long-term physical activity.</p><p>The researchers searched ERIC (ProQuest), APA PsycInfo, PubMed, Scopus, and SPORTDiscus for studies presenting original data on physical activity interventions. They focused on experimental designs involving random assignment or randomized crossover designs, with cognitive outcomes including executive functioning, memory, attention, or intelligence.</p><p>They examined exercise intensity, duration, type, and cognitive demand (for example, repetitive motor exercises versus complex sports or skill-based activities). They also considered participant age, adherence to the intervention, study design, and any special participant characteristics.</p><p>The initial search yielded 16,515 records. After screening, 239 studies met inclusion criteria for the meta-analysis. These studies were published between 1989 and 2023, involved a total of 48,625 participants, and covered a mean age range from 4 to 85 years.</p><p>Results showed that regular physical activity had a small positive effect on cognition. Studies examining single bouts of physical activity also found small positive effects. These effects did not appear to vary substantially by physical or social environment, or by life domain in which the activity took place.</p><p>For acute exercise studies, light, moderate, and moderate-to-vigorous intensity activities all produced small positive effects, whereas vigorous or near-maximal activity showed negligible effects. Regarding activity type, the largest effects in chronic interventions were observed for holistic movement practices and martial arts, followed by motor–cognitive activities such as sports games—both of which tend to be more cognitively demanding. Outdoor activities also tended to yield stronger effects.</p><p>“The current review found that several facets of the physical activity context, including physical and social environment, domain, and delivery mode do not moderate the effects of physical activity on cognition individually. Instead, the outdoor physical environment seems to amplify the beneficial effect of physical activity of specific doses and features. Our findings show promise that providing people of all ages with opportunities to be active in natural outdoor environments can be conducive to enhanced cognitive functioning,” the study authors concluded.</p><p>The study sheds light on the effects of physical activity on cognition. However, study authors note that results were substantially influenced by individual studies reporting much stronger results compared to other studies. They note that effects would be much smaller if only 6 studies with strong results were removed from the dataset.</p><p>The paper, “How Physical Activity Context Relates to Cognition Across the Lifespan: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis,” was authored by Myrto F. Mavilidi, Spyridoula Vazou, David R. Lubans, Katie Robinson, Andrew J. Woods, Valentin Benzing, Sofia Anzeneder, Katherine B. 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Psychology News Robot<p>DATE: August 10, 2025 at 10:00AM<br>SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG</p><p>** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **<br>-------------------------------------------------</p><p>TITLE: Sleep may amplify negative memory bias in anxious youth</p><p>URL: <a href="https://www.psypost.org/sleep-may-amplify-negative-memory-bias-in-anxious-youth/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">psypost.org/sleep-may-amplify-</span><span class="invisible">negative-memory-bias-in-anxious-youth/</span></a></p><p>New research published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry indicates that sleep may amplify the tendency for anxious children and young adolescents to overgeneralize negative experiences. In a controlled experiment, higher anxiety was linked to a greater chance of mistaking new but similar negative images for ones seen before—but only after a night’s sleep.</p><p>The study was motivated by growing evidence that sleep shapes emotional memory. During sleep, the brain tends to reactivate and consolidate recent experiences, with emotionally charged material often receiving priority over neutral content. That bias can be adaptive, helping people learn from significant events. In anxiety, however, this same machinery may tilt toward negative material, feeding what researchers call negative overgeneralization—when a memory of one unpleasant event carries over to similar, harmless situations.</p><p>Because late childhood and early adolescence are marked by heightened emotional responses, changing sleep patterns, and rising rates of anxiety, the team examined whether anxiety interacts with sleep to change how emotional memories are recognized and generalized during this period.</p><p>“Our interest was sparked by a growing recognition that sleep plays a pivotal role in cognitive processes like memory consolidation, especially during critical neurodevelopmental periods such as early adolescence,” said study author Liga Eihentale, a doctoral student at Florida International University and member of the REMEDY research group.</p><p>“Anxiety disorders often emerge during this time, and understanding sleep-dependent memory processes—such as overgeneralization—could shed light on early mechanisms driving psychopathology. By bridging cognitive neuroscience with clinical science, we aimed to explore how sleep interacts with anxiety to influence negative overgeneralization.”</p><p>The researchers studied 34 participants between 9 and 14 years old, recruited from both clinical settings and the community to capture a broad range of anxiety severity. Anxiety was assessed with a clinician-rated measure. Participants were randomly assigned to either a sleep condition or a wake condition. Everyone completed an emotional memory similarity task. In the first phase, they viewed 145 images—negative, neutral, and positive—and rated each one’s emotional tone. They were not told there would be a later test.</p><p>After a 10- to 12-hour interval, which included overnight sleep for one group and a daytime period of wakefulness for the other, participants took a surprise recognition test. That test included exact repeats of some images, new but similar “lure” images, and entirely new images. The main outcome was how often a participant labeled a similar-but-new negative image as “old,” adjusted for any general tendency to say “old.”</p><p>Among children and young adolescents who slept, higher anxiety was linked to greater generalization of negative images—that is, a stronger tendency to believe that new but similar negative pictures had been seen before. This relationship did not appear in the wake group. The three-way interplay between anxiety, emotional tone, and condition was statistically significant for negative images, but not for neutral images. Positive images showed a weaker and less consistent pattern.</p><p>Exploratory comparisons suggested that the effect was most pronounced at higher anxiety levels. Participants with high anxiety generalized negative memories substantially more after sleep than those with low anxiety. At the other end of the spectrum, participants with low anxiety sometimes generalized negative memories more after daytime wakefulness than after sleep, which hints that sleep may reduce negative generalization in less anxious individuals.</p><p>“The key message is that sleep plays an active role in shaping memory and our perception of the world, particularly in emotionally vulnerable youth,” Eihentale told PsyPost. “Specifically, children and adolescents with higher levels of anxiety tend to overgeneralize negative experiences more after sleep compared to wakefulness, meaning they are more likely to extend negative associations to similar but non-threatening situations, which can perpetuate anxiety.”</p><p>“Our findings underscore sleep’s key role in emotional memory processing during a sensitive developmental stage and point to the need for a deeper understanding of what is happening during sleep (i.e., sleep neurophysiology) in anxious youth to drive aberrant memory consolidation processes.”</p><p>These findings align with theories proposing that sleep strengthens emotional memories and extend that idea to a pattern that may be maladaptive in anxiety. The data indicate that sleep-related memory consolidation could be one pathway through which negative overgeneralization takes hold in anxious children and young adolescents. That interpretation fits with broader work suggesting that the brain extracts the “gist” of experiences during sleep and integrates that gist into existing knowledge, which can be helpful in many situations but may become problematic when negative themes become dominant.</p><p>This line of research also points toward potential clinical applications. If sleep can strengthen memory traces, it might be possible to guide that process toward more adaptive outcomes. Some experimental approaches cue specific memories during sleep to change how they are stored, and there is interest in testing whether such techniques could help reduce negative overgeneralization by reinforcing neutral or positive interpretations. The present findings indicate that such strategies might be especially relevant for children and young adolescents who show heightened anxiety.</p><p>But anxiety severity did not meaningfully change recognition accuracy for negative images in either condition.</p><p>“We were surprised to find that anxiety severity did not interact with sleep to predict recognition accuracy of negative images,” Eihentale said. “Emotional reactivity, which is often heightened in individuals with anxiety, is typically associated with better recognition of negative memories after sleep. However, in our clinical sample, this relationship did not hold—possibly due to differences in memory processing in clinical versus non-clinical populations. Perhaps more affirming, we found that at low levels of anxiety, sleep appeared to reduce negative generalization—highlighting a potential therapeutic effect of sleep in dampening the emotional intensity of negative memories in non-anxious youth.”</p><p>The authors noted some limitations.</p><p>“Our sample size was relatively small, which limits the statistical power and generalizability of the findings,” Eihentale noted. “We also relied on actigraphy and sleep diaries to assess sleep, which, while ecologically valid, do not capture the detailed neural processes—such as slow-wave activity and sleep spindles—that are integral to memory consolidation. Additionally, circadian factors and emotional arousal were not fully controlled or directly measured, which could have influenced memory encoding and retrieval. These limitations underscore the importance of replication using larger samples and more comprehensive, multimodal assessments of sleep.”</p><p>Future studies could examine the sleep stages and brain rhythms most closely tied to emotional memory generalization, include larger and more diverse samples, and use image sets that are matched for arousal as well as content. It would also be useful to follow children and young adolescents over time to see whether sleep-related generalization of negative memories predicts later anxiety symptoms, or whether shifting sleep habits changes the tendency to generalize.</p><p>“Our long-term goal is to map how sleep-related memory mechanisms contribute to the onset and persistence of anxiety in early adolescence,” Eihentale explained. “This includes investigating specific features of sleep microarchitecture—such as slow-wave activity and spindles—that are critical for memory formation and long-term storage. By identifying when and how overgeneralization becomes maladaptive, we aim to inform targeted sleep-based interventions that can disrupt these processes early and reduce the risk of chronic anxiety disorders.”</p><p>The study, “Anxiety severity in peri-adolescents is associated with greater generalization of negative memories following a period of sleep relative to wake,” was authored by Liga Eihentale, Adam Kimbler, Nathan A. Sollenberger, Logan R. Cummings, Carlos E. Yeguez, Guadalupe C. Patriarca, Jeremy W. Pettit, Dana L. McMakin, and Aaron T. 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Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **<br>-------------------------------------------------</p><p>TITLE: People with narcissistic tendencies report more ostracism and are more often excluded</p><p>URL: <a href="https://www.psypost.org/people-with-narcissistic-tendencies-report-more-ostracism-and-are-more-often-excluded/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">psypost.org/people-with-narcis</span><span class="invisible">sistic-tendencies-report-more-ostracism-and-are-more-often-excluded/</span></a></p><p>Narcissistic individuals report feeling excluded more often in everyday life, and this link is driven by both how they perceive social situations and how others react to them, according to research published in the Journal of Personality & Social Psychology.</p><p>Ostracism (being excluded or ignored) is a psychologically painful experience with well-documented negative consequences. This study examines the role of narcissism, a personality trait marked by self-centeredness, entitlement, and a strong desire for admiration. The authors focus on grandiose narcissism in particular, which combines assertive self-enhancement (admiration) with antagonistic tendencies (rivalry). While previous research has shown that narcissists often react aggressively to exclusion, this study explored whether they may also be more likely to be excluded in the first place.</p><p>Christiane M. Büttner and colleagues explored this possibility by proposing three mechanisms linking narcissism to ostracism: (1) narcissists may be overly sensitive to exclusion cues and thus perceive more ostracism (negative perceptions), (2) their behavior may prompt others to actually exclude them (target behavior), and (3) repeated experiences of exclusion may reinforce narcissistic traits over time (reverse causality).</p><p>By combining large-scale surveys, daily diary data, experiments, and a 14-year longitudinal study across 77,000+ participants, this research provides an unusually comprehensive picture of this dynamic.</p><p>Study 1 relied on a nationally representative German panel survey in which 1,592 adults completed a brief narcissism questionnaire (NARQ-S), which includes items reflecting admiration (e.g., “Being a very special person gives me a lot of strength”) and rivalry (e.g., “Most people are somehow losers”). They rated how often they felt ostracized over the past two months. Participants also reported their self-esteem, which allowed the researchers to examine whether narcissism predicted ostracism independently of general self-worth.</p><p>Study 2 used an experience sampling approach to capture more fine-grained, real-world data. Nearly 500 U.S.-based participants completed a longer narcissism scale (the extended NARQ), a rejection sensitivity measure, and reported daily instances of exclusion over a 14-day period using a mobile app. They also estimated, at the end of the study, how often they had felt excluded, providing insight into whether narcissistic individuals overestimate exclusion.</p><p>In real-time reports, both admiration and rivalry facets correlated with more daily exclusion experiences, with admiration reaching statistical significance. Rivalry was more strongly linked to retrospective recall of ostracism. Narcissists also tended to slightly overestimate how many exclusion episodes they had experienced during the study period, suggesting a modest perceptual bias.</p><p>However, narcissism was not linked to the belief that one is excluded more than others, indicating that the distortion lies in recalling one’s own experience rather than making social comparisons.</p><p>Studies 3a, 3b, and 3c used the Cyberball paradigm, where participants experienced either clear (complete) or partial exclusion, and judged their inclusion level. These experiments tested whether narcissists were more likely to perceive ostracism in scenarios with clear versus partial exclusion. Study 4 shifted to ambiguous, everyday social scenarios to test whether narcissists interpret subtle cues as ostracism.</p><p>The final three studies examined the role of narcissistic behavior in eliciting exclusion from others. In Study 5, participants were given written profiles of potential teammates that varied in how narcissistic the described individuals were, and then asked how willing they would be to include or exclude these people.</p><p>In Study 6, a similar design was used, but this time participants watched short video clips of people displaying narcissistic traits and inferred their personalities. In both studies, participants were less inclined to include individuals described or perceived as narcissistic, especially those displaying high levels of narcissistic rivalry.</p><p>Finally, Study 7 leveraged 14 years of longitudinal data from the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study, allowing the authors to track the long-term relationship between narcissism and ostracism.</p><p>Across the studies, a consistent pattern emerged: individuals with higher levels of narcissism, especially the antagonistic, rivalry-oriented type, reported being ostracized more frequently than those lower in narcissism. In Study 1, this link held even after accounting for self-esteem, suggesting the effect was not just about feeling insecure.</p><p>The rivalry facet of narcissism, which involves hostility and competitiveness, was particularly predictive of higher reported exclusion. Admiration, which reflects a more charming and self-enhancing style of narcissism, had a weaker association with ostracism in retrospective recall but was linked to more ostracism in daily life.</p><p>Study 2 confirmed this pattern using real-time data; participants higher in narcissism reported more daily experiences of exclusion, with admiration showing a significant association in the moment and rivalry more strongly linked to remembered ostracism. Narcissists also tended to slightly overestimate how many exclusion episodes they had experienced during the study, though the effect was modest.</p><p>Studies 3a–3c found that narcissistic individuals were not more likely to perceive clear, unambiguous acts of exclusion, but Study 4 confirmed that they were significantly more likely to interpret ambiguous situations as ostracism. This supports the idea that narcissists are hyper-vigilant to social threats when cues are subtle or open to interpretation.</p><p>Meanwhile, Studies 5 and 6 demonstrated that narcissists may also be more likely to be actually excluded by others. When participants were told about a hypothetical group member with narcissistic traits, or inferred those traits from videos, they were less inclined to include that person in a team, especially when the individual displayed high levels of narcissistic rivalry.</p><p>Finally, Study 7 revealed a bidirectional relationship over time: narcissism predicted future increases in ostracism, and being ostracized also predicted increases in narcissistic traits one year later. This suggests a feedback loop in which narcissism and exclusion reinforce each other throughout a person’s life.</p><p>Together, the findings illustrate that narcissists are not only more prone to perceive exclusion, especially in ambiguous situations, but may also behave in ways that lead others to socially reject them. Over time, these experiences appear to contribute to the further development of narcissistic traits, creating a self-perpetuating cycle.</p><p>The authors note that narcissism was examined in non-clinical student, community, and representative samples, so the findings may not fully generalize to individuals with clinically diagnosed narcissistic personality disorder.</p><p>The research, “Narcissists’ Experience of Ostracism,” was authored by Christiane M. Büttner, Selma C. Rudert, Elianne A. Albath, Chris G. 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Psychology News Robot<p>DATE: August 10, 2025 at 06:00AM<br>SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG</p><p>** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **<br>-------------------------------------------------</p><p>TITLE: Sense of personal victimhood linked to conspiracy thinking in large international study</p><p>URL: <a href="https://www.psypost.org/sense-of-victimhood-linked-to-conspiracy-thinking-in-large-international-study/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">psypost.org/sense-of-victimhoo</span><span class="invisible">d-linked-to-conspiracy-thinking-in-large-international-study/</span></a></p><p>People who are quick to see themselves as victims of unfair treatment may be more likely to believe in conspiracy theories, according to a massive international study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology. The research links a stable personality trait called “victim justice sensitivity” to greater endorsement of conspiracy narratives about climate change, vaccines, and other topics.</p><p>The work was led by Daniel Toribio-Flórez of the University of Kent in collaboration with an international team of more than 70 researchers from institutions across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania. Previous studies have often focused on collective victimhood — the belief that one’s group has been historically harmed — as a driver of conspiratorial thinking. But the authors argued that conspiracy theories also tend to revolve around the idea of being wronged personally.</p><p>“Many conspiracy theories are rooted in the idea that one’s group has been unfairly treated or targeted by a powerful group acting malevolently in secret,” said Toribio-Flórez, a postdoctoral research associate and member of the CONSPIRACY_FX project.</p><p>“Because of this, past research has mostly focused on how conspiracy beliefs are related to collective victimhood-that is, when people feel their social group, community, or country has been wronged or harmed by another group. However, within a specific social context, individuals differ in their tendency to perceive and react as victims of injustice, independently of their group identity.”</p><p>“We were curious whether people who show this individual tendency to see themselves as victims are also prone to believe in conspiracy theories. To investigate this, we collaborated with a multinational team of researchers and collected data from 15 countries. This allowed us to examine whether the patterns we observed held up across different cultural and societal contexts, an important step in assessing the generalizability of our findings.”</p><p>The first phase of the research was a secondary analysis of two surveys originally conducted in Germany. These surveys had explored how personality traits shape trust in science, but they also contained relevant measures for the present investigation. In total, the combined sample included 743 participants: 370 drawn from the general public and a student population, and 373 drawn entirely from a student population. The age range was broad, spanning from teenagers to older adults, and women made up the majority of both samples.</p><p>Participants completed a 10-item scale designed to measure victim justice sensitivity — the degree to which a person tends to notice, feel angered by, and react to situations in which they believe they are personally treated unfairly. They also completed a validated five-item measure of conspiracy mentality, which captures a general tendency to suspect that important events are shaped by hidden plots. In the second German sample, the researchers also had access to other relevant traits such as dispositional mistrust, intolerance of ambiguity, and need for control, along with political orientation.</p><p>The analysis revealed a small to moderate positive correlation between victim justice sensitivity and conspiracy mentality in both samples. In the first sample, the association was statistically significant, albeit weaker, while in the second it was stronger and remained significant even after controlling for other traits and political orientation.</p><p>This indicated that the relationship between feeling like a victim and endorsing conspiratorial thinking was not simply explained by a general distrustful outlook or a desire for certainty and control. However, because both samples were from Germany, the authors noted that the findings could not yet be assumed to apply universally.</p><p>To address this, the researchers conducted a second study which expanded the scope considerably. As part of the Trust in Science and Science-Related Populism (TISP) ManyLabs project, the researchers collected responses from nearly 15,000 people in 15 different countries, including Australia, Austria, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, the United States, and Costa Rica. The samples were designed to reflect national distributions of age, gender, and education level.</p><p>This large-scale online survey measured victim justice sensitivity using a short two-item scale from the Justice Sensitivity Inventory (“It makes me angry when others are undeservingly better off than me” and “It worries me when I have to work hard for things that come easily to others”).</p><p>Participants also completed three separate measures of conspiracy belief: a general statement about authorities often hiding the truth, a climate change conspiracy statement claiming that global warming is a hoax orchestrated by scientists, and a vaccine conspiracy statement alleging that scientists conceal vaccine dangers. These were rated on scales indicating the degree of agreement.</p><p>The researchers analyzed the data using multilevel models, which allowed them to separate individual-level effects from possible country-level influences. Across the pooled data, victim justice sensitivity was consistently linked to greater endorsement of conspiracy beliefs within countries. The effect was strongest for general conspiracy belief, slightly weaker for vaccine conspiracies, and weakest for climate change conspiracies. Even after adjusting for demographic factors, political orientation, and religiosity, the link remained statistically significant for general and vaccine-related conspiracies.</p><p>“According to our data, people’s individual tendency to perceive and react as victims of injustice is positively, though weakly, related to belief in conspiracy theories, even when controlling for indicators of collective victimhood or exposure to collective violence,” Toribio-Flórez told PsyPost. “In other words, people who tend to see themselves as victims are a bit more likely to endorse conspiracy beliefs, regardless of how victimized others feel in their country or of the level of collective violence their country has recently suffered.”</p><p>The strength of the relationship varied across nations. In countries such as the United States, New Zealand, and Australia, the association between victim justice sensitivity and conspiracy beliefs was notably stronger. In others, including Costa Rica, Chile, and Colombia, it was minimal or non-existent for some conspiracy measures.</p><p>The researchers explored whether country-level factors — such as wealth, income inequality, personal freedoms, corruption perceptions, institutional trust, or cultural orientation toward individualism versus collectivism — explained these differences. They also considered historical exposure to violence, such as armed conflicts or political repression. None of these indicators consistently moderated the association. The one tentative exception was that the relationship appeared stronger in more individualistic societies, but this pattern did not replicate across all cultural indices tested.</p><p>“While we observed this pattern in most countries, the strength of the relationship between individual victimhood and conspiracy beliefs varied,” Toribio-Flórez said. “We explored whether economic, sociopolitical, cultural, or historical factors might explain these differences, but we didn’t find clear answers. So we still don’t fully understand why the connection is stronger in some contexts than in others.”</p><p>The study, like all research, includes some caveats. The studies were correlational, meaning they cannot determine whether victim justice sensitivity leads to conspiracy belief or vice versa — or whether the relationship is bidirectional.</p><p>“We cannot say for certain whether an individual’s tendency to feel like a victim makes people more likely to believe in conspiracy theories, or if it’s the other way around,” Toribio-Flórez explained. “While some studies suggest that conspiracy beliefs might increase individual perceptions of victimhood, more experimental work is needed to understand the direction and nature of this relationship.”</p><p>“I hope it encourages other researchers to examine victimhood at both the personal and group levels when studying conspiracy beliefs. 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TITLE: Antidepressant vortioxetine linked to greater cognitive and mood improvements in Alzheimer’s patients
A new study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease suggests that vortioxetine, an antidepressant with a unique multimodal mechanism, may offer greater benefits for both mood and cognitive function in people with Alzheimer’s disease who also experience depressive symptoms, compared to other commonly prescribed antidepressants. Over the course of a year, patients taking vortioxetine showed larger improvements in measures of memory, attention, and reasoning, as well as a greater reduction in depressive symptoms, than those taking escitalopram, paroxetine, or bupropion.
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects memory, thinking, and behavior. It is the most common cause of dementia in older adults, gradually impairing a person’s ability to carry out daily activities. Alongside cognitive decline, many people with Alzheimer’s also experience neuropsychiatric symptoms such as depression, anxiety, and apathy. Depression in Alzheimer’s is common and can intensify the difficulties posed by memory loss and disorientation, while also worsening quality of life for both patients and caregivers.
The high prevalence of depression in Alzheimer’s has led to increased prescribing of antidepressants in this population. Yet research on how these drugs affect cognitive function has been limited and sometimes conflicting. Certain antidepressants may worsen cognition due to side effects on neurotransmitter systems, while others could potentially support brain function.
Vortioxetine is of particular interest because, beyond its action on serotonin receptors, it also influences other neurotransmitter systems involved in learning and memory. Previous studies in people with depression and in those with mild cognitive impairment have hinted at cognitive benefits, but few have directly compared vortioxetine to multiple other antidepressants in patients with Alzheimer’s.
To address this gap, researchers Eduardo Cumbo and Daniela Migliore conducted a 12-month randomized, open-label study at the Neurodegenerative Disorders Unit in Caltanissetta, Italy. The analysis focused on 108 outpatients with mild Alzheimer’s disease and depressive symptoms. Participants were randomly assigned to receive either vortioxetine (n=36) or one of three other antidepressants—escitalopram, paroxetine, or bupropion (n=72 in total)—while continuing standard Alzheimer’s treatments such as cholinesterase inhibitors or memantine. Patients were assessed at the start of the study, after six months, and after twelve months.
Cognitive function was measured using several established tests. The Mini-Mental State Examination evaluated overall cognitive ability, including memory, orientation, and language. The Attentive Matrices test measured selective attention, while the Coloured Progressive Matrices assessed nonverbal reasoning and problem-solving. The Digit Span task tested verbal working memory. Depression severity was measured with the Hamilton Depression Scale and the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia.
By the end of the study, patients in all groups showed some improvement on cognitive tests, but gains were generally largest and most consistent in the vortioxetine group. On the Mini-Mental State Examination, vortioxetine-treated patients improved by nearly three points, a statistically significant change. They also showed significant gains in selective attention and nonverbal reasoning, while patients on other antidepressants tended to improve less, and in some cases, not significantly. Working memory scores improved slightly in the vortioxetine group but did not reach statistical significance.
When comparing groups directly, vortioxetine outperformed the other antidepressants on most cognitive measures. The difference was particularly notable when compared to paroxetine, which has anticholinergic properties that can impair cognition in older adults. Escitalopram and bupropion showed moderate improvements on some attention measures, but not to the same extent as vortioxetine.
The study also found that depressive symptoms decreased in all groups over the 12-month period, but the reduction was more pronounced in patients taking vortioxetine. On both depression scales, the vortioxetine group’s scores dropped by about seven points from baseline—an improvement considered clinically meaningful. Between-group comparisons showed that vortioxetine’s effect on depressive symptoms was statistically superior to that of the other antidepressants.
Side effects were relatively uncommon and generally mild. Nausea and headache were the most frequently reported with vortioxetine, occurring in about 8% of patients. Two participants—one on paroxetine and one on bupropion—discontinued treatment due to side effects. No serious adverse events or deaths occurred during the study.
The researchers note some limitations. The trial was conducted at a single site with a modest sample size, which may limit how well the findings apply to the wider Alzheimer’s population. It was also open-label, meaning patients and doctors knew which treatment was being given, which could introduce bias.
Importantly, only patients with mild Alzheimer’s were included, so the results may not extend to those with more advanced disease. The study also could not determine whether the observed cognitive improvements were due directly to vortioxetine’s pharmacological effects or indirectly through relief of depressive symptoms.
Despite these caveats, the findings add to a growing body of evidence suggesting that vortioxetine may have cognitive benefits beyond its antidepressant effects. The authors suggest that larger, longer-term, and double-blind studies are needed to confirm these results and to clarify how vortioxetine’s effects on neurotransmitter systems might influence both mood and cognition in people with Alzheimer’s.
If future research confirms these findings, vortioxetine could be considered a particularly useful option for Alzheimer’s patients who experience depression—addressing not only mood symptoms but also potentially helping to preserve certain cognitive functions.
The study, “Differential effects of antidepressants on cognition in Alzheimer’s disease with depression: A sub-group analysis of an open-label, observational study,” was authored by Eduardo Cumbo and Daniela Migliore.
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PsyPost Psychology News · Antidepressant vortioxetine linked to greater cognitive and mood improvements in Alzheimer’s patientsBy Eric W. Dolan
DATE: August 09, 2025 at 02:00PM
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TITLE: Neuroticism is linked to more frequent nightmares in adults
URL: https://www.psypost.org/neuroticism-is-linked-to-more-frequent-nightmares-in-adults/
People who score higher on neuroticism are more likely to experience frequent nightmares, according to research published in Dreaming.
Nightmares—vivid, emotionally intense dreams that often lead to waking—are quite rare, comprising about 3% of dreams on average. Yet for some individuals, they occur far more frequently and with significant emotional distress. Persistent nightmares can worsen mental health outcomes, increasing the risk of PTSD, suicidal ideation, and impaired daily functioning.
Past research has suggested that personality traits may play a role in who is more vulnerable to nightmares, but findings have been inconsistent, particularly regarding which of the Big Five personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) are most associated with nightmare frequency and distress.
Aurore Roland and Zosia Goossens conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to clarify these associations.
To identify relevant studies, the authors conducted a systematic search across four major scientific databases, including PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and Web of Science, using a comprehensive set of search terms related to nightmares and the Big Five personality traits. To be included, studies had to examine adult participants, measure the Big Five traits using a validated questionnaire, and assess nightmare frequency or distress. Studies without full text, non-English publications, conference abstracts, and studies using alternative personality frameworks were excluded.
Ten studies met the inclusion criteria, all of which were rated as having a low risk of bias using the Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal Tool. Participant samples varied widely, including university students and general population adults, with sample sizes ranging from 117 to 2,492 individuals. Most studies used the NEO-FFI or BFI to measure personality traits and relied on either single-item or short-form scales to assess nightmare frequency and distress.
Due to differences in available data, the authors were able to conduct meta-analyses only for nightmare frequency in relation to openness (reflective of traits like imagination and creativity) and neuroticism (tendency to experience more frequent and intense negative emotions). Nightmare distress could not be meta-analyzed due to inconsistent reporting formats and insufficient correlational data.
The meta-analysis revealed a small but significant association between openness and nightmare frequency (Fischer’s z = .06). This suggests that while individuals high in openness may experience slightly more nightmares, the effect is minimal and likely not clinically meaningful. The result was consistent across different statistical models, including sensitivity analyses with and without regression-based data.
In contrast, the association between neuroticism and nightmare frequency was stronger (z = .30), indicating a small-to-moderate effect. People higher in neuroticism were significantly more likely to report frequent nightmares. Importantly, this result remained robust even when the authors excluded studies that reported only regression-based estimates, although the strength of the association did decrease slightly when such studies were included.
These findings underscore neuroticism as an important personality-based risk factor for frequent nightmares, highlighting the role of emotional instability in sleep-related distress.
One limitation is the small number of eligible studies, which limited the scope of meta-analyses and prevented analysis of other traits like agreeableness, conscientiousness, and extraversion.
The research, “Nightmares and the Big Five Personality Traits: A Systematic Review and Three-Level Meta-Analysis,” was authored by Aurore Roland and Zosia Goossens.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/neuroticism-is-linked-to-more-frequent-nightmares-in-adults/
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