Psychology

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  1. Artificial Intelligence

    Struggling with a hard life choice? AI future selves have tips

    A chat with aged avatars of future selves can guide people paralyzed by tough decisions. The question is what information to feed the bots.

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  2. Psychology

    Neuroscientists left the lab to study memory loss. The results were surprising

    Using smartphone-based tools, researchers find that older adults’ recollections of past events may remain more intact than previously thought.

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  3. Science & Society

    Remote workers feel isolated. Back-to-office mandates are not a fix

    Making social connection part of job design, whether people work remotely, hybrid or in-person, is key to supporting employees‘ well-being.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    More young people are looking to AI chatbots for mental health help

    A new survey estimates 8 million young people use AI chatbots for help when stressed, angry or sad, an increase from 2024.

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  5. Psychology

    Yawning is contagious — even in the womb

    Rather than catching a yawn on sight, muscles squeezing the uterus could be the trigger for a fetus to catch a yawn from its mother.

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  6. Neuroscience

    25 people learned to fly with virtual wings. Here’s how the brain changed

    A new study shows learning to fly in virtual reality with virtual wings can reshape the brain, making it treat wings more like body parts.

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  7. Neuroscience

    Imagination is not just replaying what we see and hear

    The findings differ from prior work, showing it's tough to disentangle how similarly our brains register imagined thoughts and real sensations.

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  8. Science & Society

    Snippets of hair may expose chronic stress in war refugees

    Cortisol in hair shows sharper differences in chronic stress among Ukraine war refugees than standard questionnaires.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    When our minds wander to the body, it may affect mental health

    People’s minds sometimes wander to their bodily sensations, which may reduce symptoms of depression and ADHD, a new study suggests.

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