5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (840+ words) People experiencing symptoms of depression often view social situations differently than others. A recent study found that individuals with depressive symptoms are more likely to perceive unfair financial offers as fair, but only if they consider themselves to have a…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (767+ words) Researchers Tianxin Shu and Delong Zhang from South China Normal University, along with their colleagues, designed an experiment to explore this phenomenon. They aimed to see if artificial neural units would naturally respond to varying degrees of facial beauty. The…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (391+ words) A new study of 1,050 German students reveals that higher intelligence accelerates the development of metacognitive knowledge in math. While girls also outpaced boys, initial math skills and motivation did not affect how quickly this knowledge grew....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (691+ words) Artificial intelligence companions that mimic emotional intelligence can improve a user’s personal mental health but may simultaneously damage their real-world relationships. These divergent effects become even stronger when users interact with chatbots through augmented reality features rather than basic text....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (314+ words) People expected others to use AI-assisted communication tools more often than they would use them themselves, according to a study published in the British Journal of Psychology. The research also discovered that people viewed openly disclosed AI use more favorably…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (869+ words) Over the last few years, tools that generate human-like text have become wildly popular. ChatGPT reached one million users within a week of its launch and currently boasts over 180 million active users. People use the program for everything from writing…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (676+ words) Self-reports can be subject to self-perception biases. People might overestimate their abilities, a phenomenon psychologists refer to as the Dunning-Kruger effect. They might also provide answers they think the researchers want to hear. To address this gap, Sternberg previously developed…...

3+ week, 10+ hour ago   (248+ words) The global shortage of accessible mental health care has led experts to consider technology as a possible bridge. According to global health estimates cited by the study authors, hundreds of millions of individuals live with mental health conditions, yet structural…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (753+ words) One basic form of this coordination is majority-following, a mechanism where individuals simply adopt the most popular opinion around them. When individuals prefer the majority view, they can spontaneously reach a consensus even without objective information about which choice is…...