cognitive-psychology

Personal Perspective: What if trust issues are not really about other people, but about losing trust in yourself in relationships?

Adolescents who display ADHD-like difficulties but remain undiagnosed occupy a diagnostic borderland in which medical, social, and institutional expectations collide. In the Swedish context, where rates of diagnosed ADHD have risen sharply, this constitutes an understudied and increasingly marginalized group. Drawing on Mead’s concepts of the I and the Me, the study explores how ten Swedish adole…

IntroductionSensory processing abnormalities represent a high-impact clinical feature in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Sensory alterations can be classified by modality and behavioral responses to stimuli. The literature presents conflicting results regarding the association between the sensory profile and other clinical elements. Therefore, this study aimed to characterize the…

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…

A nationwide survey reveals that eating meals at irregular times is tied to a higher likelihood of depression. Dietary diversity can cushion this effect, while regularly skipping breakfast amplifies the connection between sporadic eating schedules and low mood.

Scientific Reports, Published online: 25 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-47785-z Modulations of the P3b effect as a function of bilingual language experience

My findings provide behavioral validation for the framework’s central claims: that emotional operators vary in activation strength, that entanglement constrains psychological agility, and that individuals exhibit predictable scaling patterns based on their operator architecture. This document does not try to convince you to take the Core Emotion Framework (CEF) as granted empirical approved, but …

Psychologist, Jeremy Dean, PhD is the founder and author of PsyBlog. He holds a doctorate in psychology from University College London and two other advanced degrees in psychology. He has been writing about scientific research on PsyBlog since 2004. View all posts by Dr Jeremy Dean

Your brain isn't recording reality. It's predicting it. Understanding that one shift explains why psychedelics heal, why therapy matters, and why resistance isn't what we think.

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.

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.

The rapid emergence of AI-driven "grief-tech" has fundamentally disrupted the human experience of mourning, transforming the ontological and psychological dimensions of loss. Using the Black Mirror episode "Be Right Back" as a cultural and philosophical harbinger, this paper critically examines the existential implications of digital resurrection through algorithmic simulacra, or Griefbots. Movin…

In the age of AI, instant answers to our questions are readily available. But columnist Helen Thomson finds that continuing to encourage those delicious flashes of insight that come from your own thoughts may be beneficial both for your everyday life and your long-term brain health

A psychologist wades into controversial territory in this counterintuitive study of nature, nurture and gender According to the evolutionary psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams, almost everyone gets sex wrong. Traditionalists tend to exaggerate the natural differences between men and women. Progressives tend to minimise them, and to assume that nurture and socialisation play a decisive role. He w…

IntroductionAesthetic perception is a cross-modal phenomenon that integrates sensory, emotional, and cognitive processes. While traditionally focused on visual arts and music, recent research has extended this framework to phonaesthetics, which explores affective judgments of language sounds. This study investigates the intersection of musicality and phonaesthetic judgments, particularly focusing…

Although the concept of a two-person psychology as an encompassing perspective is not new, the role of the psychoanalytic dyad, or the analytic third, within the analytic process requires further research. Do analytic dyads (or thirds) create meaning and thus contribute to the process? If so, how can this be observed? Assuming the analytic frame is inhabited by the patient, the analyst, and the a…

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…

The Core Emotion Framework (CEF) is a structural constructivist model of human affect that proposes ten irreducible psychological operators distributed across a tripartite Head–Heart–Gut architecture. This paper outlines a comprehensive clinical translation strategy designed to empirically validate the CEF as a transdiagnostic model of emotional regulation and psychopathology. Drawing on contempo…

Food insecurity among adults in Tasmania was strongly associated with lower diet satisfaction and poorer self-rated mental and physical health, with diet dissatisfaction showing the strongest link. The findings suggest that food insecurity limits not only nutrition, but also food choice, agency, wellbeing, and equitable access to acceptable, affordable, and culturally appropriate diets.

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