"The study found that 65% of daily behaviors were habitually initiated, meaning people were prompted to do them out of routine rather than making a conscious decision."

#habits #psychology

📊 New research flips the script on pandemic fears: toddlers exposed to COVID actually showed fewer behavioral problems — especially in families with lower maternal education.

Read the full story 🔗 www.news-medical.net/news/2025091...

#COVID19 #toddlers #childhealth #behavior #research 🧒🧠

More screen time may increase the risk of social and emotional problems in children, and kids in distress might turn to screens as a way to cope, a new meta-analysis suggests.

#psychology #parenting #devpsyc #psychscisky

"New research suggests that while general curiosity tends to decline with age, specific curiosity, or “state curiosity”, actually increases later in life, potentially protecting against cognitive decline."

neurosciencenews.com/curiosity-co...

#neuroscience #brain #aging

"Because we place such an enormous pressure on ourselves to come across as “perfect,” we’re increasingly expecting perfection from others as well."

#relationships #psychology #dating

"Fear of being cringe (or even cringe by association) can subconsciously insert itself into our decision-making about who to date, how to behave, and how we express ourselves. In short, cringe has become a social trap that is very hard to escape."

#dating #psychology #relationships

"Automating these tasks deprives us of the opportunity to practise those skills ourselves, weakening the neural architecture that supports them. Outsourcing cognitive effort atrophies neural pathways."

#cognition #intelligence #ai #neuroscience #psychology

Just how good are different psychotherapies for common mental health problems? buff.ly/mCsqDUx

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"Csikszentmihalyi [...] would agree that the future of creativity is not more and faster outputs, but more meaningful ones. The future of creativity won’t belong to those who generate the most, the fastest. It will belong to those who make things that matter."

#psychology #creativity #art #AI

Why do people react so differently to being left out? 💔

Check out my #scicomm article for @psyche.co on how #ostracism affects us and what drives our varied responses: reaching out, backing out, or lashing out.

Read here: psyche.co/ideas/why-be...

#SocialPsyc #PsychSciSky

"Modern technology interacts with human psychology to create a funhouse mirror version of social norms. [...] Norms generated on social media often tend to be more extreme than offline norms which can create false perceptions of norms–known as pluralistic ignorance."

#psychology #socialpsychology

New research reveals how oxytocin profoundly influences social behavior and emotional responses in the brain. Animal models have shown how this hormone impacts social fear and how chronic stress or early life experiences shape behavioral patterns.

#psychology #neuroscience

Dien Ho argues that our improved understanding of placebos means that doctors should now harness their power in treatment.

#placeboeffect #medicine #psychology