Category: People

Brain scans show how sleep loss can make intrusive thoughts harder to suppress

A controlled brain-imaging study found that total sleep deprivation weakened prefrontal control of unwanted memories...

People kept using teaching shortcuts after they stopped working

Three experiments found that adults use both learner-sensitive reasoning and simpler teaching heuristics, with shortcuts...

External reminders made memory traces fade like deliberate forgetting in brain scans

Brain imaging suggests that information assigned to an external reminder loses its neural representation in...

Single-camera jump analysis cut distance prediction error by about 40% across 204 participants

A phase-aware computer-vision system analysed standing long jumps from one side-view camera, reducing mean distance-prediction...

More screen time predicted less shared reading and vice versa in 2,164 young children

A three-wave study of 2,164 children in Taiwan found a reciprocal relationship between screen exposure...

Emotional intelligence was linked to stronger career calling in 529 police cadets

A study of 529 Chinese police cadets found that emotional intelligence was associated with a...

High-risk psychological profile was linked to 35% sport dropout among adolescent athletes

A 12-month study of 864 competitive adolescent athletes found dropout rates of 8.6%, 19.4% and...

Self-serving interpretations spread more easily than prosocial ones across nine experiments

Across nine preregistered experiments involving 8,769 adults, selfish and prosocial choices were linked to different...

Obsessive-compulsive symptoms were linked to sleep problems in 9,418 first-year students

A study of 9,418 first-year university students found obsessive-compulsive symptoms were associated with sleep disturbance,...

Nearly 30% of early-career researchers report elevated psychological distress

A meta-analysis covering 138,446 early-career researchers found roughly three in ten met thresholds for elevated...

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