experimental-and-cognitive-psychology

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…

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…

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…

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

When we really love someone, we notice we don't really need to forgive. We take what they do as an opening to dialogue and try to work things out.

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

Standard economic theory, built exclusively on instrumental rationality (means-end calculation for material efficiency), cannot explain the explosive growth of the digital social economy nor resolve the persistent Solow paradox: massivecomputing & AI investments have failed to deliver corresponding productivity gains; to address this, we develop a new ontological foundation for economics based on…

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.

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.

This paper takes the Turing computability boundary as a meta-axiom and constructs a unified dynamic general equilibrium framework of human-machine symbiosis. We first provide a rigorous mathematical definition of the Universal Turing Machine (UTM) using the standard seven-tuple structure, establish its equivalence to recursive functions and finite formal axiomatic systems, and prove that all cont…

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence have reignited two fundamental questions: what constitutes the irreplaceable core of human economic capacity, and what anchors economic value when automated systems can perform most routine cognitive and physical tasks. Canonical task-based models, relying on ad-hoc ex-post classifications of routine versus non-routine work, cannot explain the observed 15…

The "Solow Paradox of the AI Era"—exponential computing power growth amid slowing global productivity—remains unexplained by standard growth frameworks, which uniformly treat AI as an advanced production tool and implicitly assume formalized computation can replicate all human economic capabilities. We argue this assumption is fundamentally flawed: all digital systems are trapped in the "Turing C…

The average person works 80,000 hours over the course of their career. Ideally, that time should be fulfilling, well-paid, and spent doing things that make the world a better place. Of course that’s much, much easier said than done. In an increasingly fragile job market made still more fraught by AI, there’s no longer such […]