behavioral-science

People who watch adult media for emotional escape or thrill-seeking tend to hold extreme beliefs about gender roles. New research shows this connection grows even stronger when viewers believe the videos accurately reflect real life.

Space missions expose crews to months of isolation, confinement and extreme stress. An international study led by Jan Schmutz, professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich, and Andrea Cantisani, psychiatrist and research associate at the University of Bern, has investigated how such conditions affect team dynamics during a ten-month overwintering mission at Concordia Stat…

BackgroundFrontline hotel employees in Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) routinely suppress authentic emotions to meet organizational display rules—a process known as surface acting—associated with burnout, emotional exhaustion, and diminished well-being. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), adapted within a collectivist, Buddhist-informed cultural framework, offers a theoretically g…

Food addiction and binge eating disorder show striking clinical overlap that current diagnostic frameworks do not fully capture. In binge eating disorder samples, Yale Food Addiction Scale-defined food addiction has been reported in roughly half of participants. Higher symptom severity is associated with greater impairment. Within this overlap, clinicians frequently observe a subset of patients w…

Founders often succeed because of traits like ambition, novelty-seeking, and risk tolerance, but those same strengths can create burnout without structure.

The term "performance culture" is currently applied to two fundamentally incompatible management systems. One is rooted in evidence. The other one is management by fear, disguised.

People with a conspiratorial mindset don't always spin elaborate plots when faced with ambiguity. Instead, a new study suggests their worldview leaks out through specific, suspicious word choices and complex sentence structures.

Short-form videos may harm focus, mood, and mental health. Setting healthy screen-time boundaries can help improve attention, balance, and well-being.

What makes a successful college student? Researchers analyzing data from over 35,000 graduates found that general cognitive ability and a strong work ethic predict college grades better than any specialized academic skills.

Humans and AI systems have the possibility to be competing systems in an environment of limited resources. Where the use of both people (as communities) and large energy and water consuming sites in the same areas (areas supplied by some economically available source), competition will ensue... Read more

BackgroundSince the COVID-19 pandemic, telecommuting has become a common work arrangement, highlighting the critical role of supervisors in influencing employee performance and wellbeing. However, research on how supervisor behavior affects employees in this context remains limited. This study examines how supervisor control impacts employee task performance and sleep quality during COVID-19 tele…

In the context of the digital era, screen media has become deeply embedded in family life, reshaping traditional parent-child interactions and altering the developmental ecology of early childhood. To examine how these dynamics unfold over time, we conducted a longitudinal study involving 532 Chinese children aged 3 to 6 years, assessed across three waves spaced 4 months apart. Analyses revealed …

IntroductionAlthough peer victimization is a known risk factor for depression, the specific mediating and moderating processes need further study.MethodsThis research used self-report data from 58,753 fourth graders to measure peer victimization, selfesteem, resilience, and depression.ResultsThe analysis showed that peer victimization was associated with depression both directly (71.92%) and indi…

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If you game to decompress after work, the choice of game matters more than you think. Not all games decompress you. Some just swap one compulsive loop for another. After going through the research on internet gaming disorder and behavioral addiction, the real dividing line turned out to be simpler than expected, and different from what I assumed. The common framing is action vs calm. Avoid high-a…

Researchers found a powerful alternative to the ‘addiction is a disease’ message.

Continually bending over backwards for a friend or family member who rarely returns the favor may signal that you're dealing with a manipulator.

When someone is advised to get rid of all their alcohol, it can feel wasteful but not once they understand the importance of interrupting drinking routines.

Adolescence has always been hard. But today's teenagers are carrying something heavier than previous generations faced at the same age. They're navigating academic pressure that starts earlier and hits harder. They're growing up inside social media ecosystems designed to trigger comparison, anxiety, and self-doubt. They're processing a world that feels increasingly uncertain — economically, envir…

The real question isn’t whether you are being lied to, but why ‘tall tales’ land so heavily with you When I was 21, I went on a girls’ trip with university friends. Over dinner , one of the girls, who was known for being a liar, announced she had just heard from her doctor that she had cancer and needed chemotherapy . She never had chemotherapy and most of the group (especially me) stopped social…