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Psychology In The News | Treating Voice Spasms
Researchers have discovered a potential new treatment for laryngeal dystonia (LD), a neurological condition that causes voice spasms and makes speech sound strained and hoarse. The study,...
Psychology In The News | Is Smoking Here to Stay?
The glamourisation of smoking is making an unexpected comeback in popular culture, with celebrities leading the charge. From Charli XCX's lyrics about cigarettes and Bic lighters to Rosalia's...
Psychology In The News | Mapping Insect Brains
Scientists have achieved a groundbreaking milestone in neuroscience by mapping the entire brain of a fruit fly, identifying the position, shape, and connections of 130,000 neurons and 50 million...
Psychology In The News | Plasticity in Pregnancy
Recent research reveals that the human brain undergoes significant changes throughout pregnancy, marking a critical transition in preparation for motherhood. This groundbreaking study provides the...
Psychology In The News | Social Media and Boredom
In our hyper-connected world, smartphones offer endless entertainment at our fingertips. Yet, a recent study by Tam and Inzlicht (2024) suggests that rapidly switching between online video content...
Psychology In The News | The Dark Side of Fame
In recent months, rising pop star Chappell Roan has been making headlines not just for her chart-topping success, but for her outspoken stance against toxic fan behaviour. Roan's experience...
Psychology In The News | Orangutans Mirroring Humans
Dublin Zoo recently embarked on a ground-breaking initiative to help Mujur, a 19-year-old orangutan, learn to breastfeed her newborn. After two unsuccessful pregnancies where Mujur failed to...
Psychology In The News | New Options for OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a complex and often misunderstood condition affecting 1-3% of people worldwide. Recent research has shed new light on its underlying mechanisms, involving a...
Psychology In The News | Why Do Hens Blush?
A study conducted by French researchers at the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment has discovered that female chickens can blush when scared or excited, and fluff...
Psychology In The News | Gay Conversion Therapy in Italy
In June 2024, the BBC reported the case of Rosario Lonegro, a 20-year-old aspiring priest in Sicily, who was subjected to conversion therapy in 2017 after falling in love with a man at his college....
Psychology In The News | The Changing Face of Dating
Language and the Dating Scene In the digital age, dating apps have revolutionised how people connect, introducing a new lexicon of acronyms that can be both helpful and bewildering. Gone are the...
Research by the UCL Institute of Sport, Exercise, and Health challenges long-held assumptions about women's abilities during menstruation. Published in Neuropsychologia, the research involved 241...
Recent research conducted in Australia has uncovered a surprising connection between room architecture and academic performance. The study, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology,...
Psychology In The News | Cry Baby
New research has cast doubt on the idea that the reason for a baby's cry can be determined just from the sound. Recently published research found that neither artificial intelligence algorithms nor...
Psychology In The News | Curing Phobias May Help Others
Newly released research has found that exposure therapy for a specific phobia, such as a fear of spiders, could also help reduce other unrelated phobias like a fear of heights. This surprising...
Psychology In The News | The Art of the Assist
In the fast-paced world of football, split-second decisions can make or break a game. Knowing when to pass the ball and when to hold back requires a combination of perceptual and cognitive...
Research published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood has linked excessive internet usage, inadequate sleep, and lack of exercise to an increased risk of truancy and illness-related school...
Psychology In The News | The Costs of Smoking
New research shows that the increasing cost of cigarettes in England is becoming a major factor in encouraging smokers to try and stop smoking. A monthly survey of nearly 6,000 people in England...
You may well be looking forward to a summer of sport with Euro ’24, the Olympics, and the Paralympics all taking place this year. Watching sports, particularly in large gatherings, goes beyond mere...
Psychology In The News: Smartphones and Infants
You may have studied the still-face paradigm as part of your learning about the Attachment topic. The still-face paradigm is designed to study the effects of disrupted interaction on infant...
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