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Welcome to the r/Psychology Research Thread!

Need participants? Looking for constructive criticism? In addition to the weekly discussion thread, the mods have instituted this thread for a surveys.

General submission rules are suspended in this thread, but all top-level comments must link to a survey and follow the formatting rules outlined below. Removal of content is still at the discretion of the moderators. Reddiquette applies. Personal attacks, racism, sexism, etc. will be removed. Repeated violations may result in a ban. This thread will occasionally be refreshed.

In addition to posting here, we recommend you post your surveys to r/samplesize and join the discussion at r/surveyresearch.

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Top-level comments in this thread should be formatted like the following example (similar to r/samplesize):

[Tag] Description (Demographic) Link
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Any further information-a description of the survey, request for critiques, etc.-should be placed in the next paragraph of the same top-level comment.

RESULTS

Results should be posted as a direct reply to the corresponding top-level comment, with the same formatting as the original survey.

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ex. [Results] GPA and Reddit use (US, College Students, 18+) Link

[Tags] include:

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(Demographics) include:

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r/psychology • u/dingenium • 3d ago

Weekly Discussion Thread Weekly Discussion Thread

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Welcome to the r/psychology discussion thread!

Discussion threads will be "refreshed" each week (i.e., a new discussion thread will be posted for each week). Feel free to ask the community questions, comment on the state of the subreddit, or post content that would otherwise be disallowed.

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r/psychology • u/FreeHugs23 • 16h ago

Neuroscientists Identify Brain Mechanisms That May Explain Why Some Childhood Trauma Survivors Struggle to Anticipate and Look Forward to Positive Experiences.

psypost.org

1.0k Upvotes

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r/psychology • u/scientificamerican • 4h ago

We’re addicted to social media. How do we get sober?

scientificamerican.com

99 Upvotes

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r/psychology • u/Doug24 • 4h ago

Children who later develop psychosis tend to have slightly smaller heads, study finds

psypost.org

70 Upvotes

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r/psychology • u/mvea • 15h ago

Teenage boys who follow prominent online personalities associated with the “manosphere”, like Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson, are more likely to support traditional beliefs about manhood, such as the idea that men should hide their emotions, remain dominant, and reject anything considered feminine.

psypost.org

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r/psychology • u/mvea • 1d ago

About 1 in 4 people with depression may have a ‘body clock’ type, like being stuck in permanent jet lag: late sleepers, tired mornings, worse in certain seasons. Across 11,380 people, this group got less benefit and more side effects from antidepressants, so light therapy or melatonin may help more.

sciencealert.com

1.7k Upvotes

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r/psychology • u/FreeHugs23 • 15h ago

Bad apple effect: study shows how people are influenced by rule-breaking of others. Research shows how seeing bigger violations by others can lead people to increase their own rule-breaking

theguardian.com

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r/psychology • u/Anxious-Traffic-9548 • 21h ago

Learned Helplessness: how the original original theory got it backwards.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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"The mechanism of learned helplessness is now very well-charted biologically and the original theory got it backwards. Passivity in response to shock is not learned. It is the default, unlearned response to prolonged aversive events and it is mediated by the serotonergic activity of the dorsal raphe nucleus, which in turn inhibits escape. This passivity can be overcome by learning control, with the activity of the medial prefrontal cortex, which subserves the detection of control leading to the automatic inhibition of the dorsal raphe nucleus. So animals learn that they can control aversive events, but the passive failure to learn to escape is an unlearned reaction to prolonged aversive stimulation."

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r/psychology • u/MajesticCounter4174 • 6h ago

When fools have greater influence than liars: testing the insidious bullshit hypothesis with the illusory truth effect

link.springer.com

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r/psychology • u/mvea • 17h ago

Study on ~2,000 US adults during the 2024 election found that political anger does not automatically translate to voting; instead, it depends on efficacy, or the belief people can influence a political outcome

msutoday.msu.edu

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r/psychology • u/mvea • 17h ago

Most people don’t weigh every detail when choosing a candidate or policy. In a new PNAS study of 3,762 US adults, about half picked based on the one feature that mattered most to them, and up to 76% switched how they decided depending on the issue, whether immigration, candidates or climate change.

psypost.org

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r/psychology • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago

College students who use more cannabis are less willing to share it, and less likely to use it with friends. Findings suggest that heavier cannabis use tends to go hand in hand with valuing the drug more and consuming it in less social settings.

psypost.org

915 Upvotes

219 comments

r/psychology • u/mvea • 1d ago

Telling people online they eat meat because they don't care about the planet mostly makes them defensive, not ready to change. Saying they just don't know how to cook plant-based meals got less pushback. And a private DM from a stranger made people even angrier than the same comment posted publicly.

psypost.org

241 Upvotes

163 comments

r/psychology • u/shinybrighthings • 7h ago

Impact of socioeconomic factors and birth-related conditions on autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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r/psychology • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago

A bigger paycheck tends to come with personality changes. Findings also indicate that this relationship goes both ways, with shifts in personality traits predicting future changes in pay.

psypost.org

1.1k Upvotes

41 comments

r/psychology • u/Deep-Owl-1890 • 1d ago

Scientists Find a Way to Fight Alzheimer’s Brain Damage Without Removing Toxic Tau

goodandbadpeople.com

163 Upvotes

3 comments

r/psychology • u/mvea • 1d ago

After a weekend caring for a realistic robot baby at home, childless couples' testosterone dropped around 10% when they looked after it together, in men and women alike. On the first day there was no change. Those least at ease with babies had no drop at first but the biggest drop after the weekend.

psypost.org

73 Upvotes

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r/psychology • u/works-in-progress • 2d ago

Were our ancestors mostly peaceful, with a few psychopaths doing most of the killing? A review of hunter-gatherer data finds prehistoric violence was ~4x lower than Steven Pinker estimated, and heavily concentrated in a handful of individuals

worksinprogress.co

1.2k Upvotes

140 comments

r/psychology • u/FreeHugs23 • 2d ago

People who are more considerate of others show less “me first” bias in quick decisions. Specifically, they showed a smaller tendency to identify their own belongings faster and more accurately than objects belonging to a friend.

psypost.org

226 Upvotes

2 comments

r/psychology • u/mvea • 2d ago

New eye-tracking study finds men spend longer looking at attractive faces only if they're the sex they're attracted to, but women look longer at attractive faces of both men and women. And being in a long-term relationship didn't stop people from lingering on good-looking faces either.

psypost.org

591 Upvotes

65 comments

r/psychology • u/mvea • 2d ago

People who scored higher on an intelligence test rated their own looks slightly lower, while optimistic, emotionally stable, and college-educated adults rated themselves better-looking. Researchers suggest smarter people may just be more realistic about their appearance (two studies, 1,000+ adults).

psypost.org

401 Upvotes

48 comments

r/psychology • u/mvea • 2d ago

Anxiety may have different genetic roots in men and women: a study of 455,000+ people found 21 anxiety-linked gene variants in women but only 5 in men, with just one shared. Women's genes tied to smell and stress sensitivity, men's to how the body handles fat, and women's risk overlapped with ADHD.

psypost.org

214 Upvotes

4 comments

r/psychology • u/Dorian182 • 3d ago

Owners who spend more time close to their cats tend to have more positive moods

phys.org

919 Upvotes

13 comments

r/psychology • u/Tricky-Breakfast-604 • 2d ago

Mind-blowing Alzheimer’s breakthrough: Two hours of sleep restored without clearing brain plaques Scientists have uncovered an unexpected culprit behind sleep loss in Alzheimer’s disease: overactive immune cells in the brain. By temporarily removing these cells

sciencedaily.com

143 Upvotes

8 comments

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