Meditate for marathons.
Outside reports on a study that finds meditation can have a profound effect not only on your mental wellbeing, but also on your physical endurance […]
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Social media makes you weird.
Or at least, to be a little closer to what this Current Opinion in Psychology study is really saying, social media creates a false sense […]
Roll D20 for catharsis, with a plus-2 closure bonus.
Ars Technica writes on the psychology of the tabletop, with initial research showing promise for using role-playing games like D&D for group therapy: “It seems […]
Look into a dog’s eyes and your brains can synchronize.
Science Alert explains the allure of the puppy-dog eyes with Chinese research demonstrating brainwaves suddenly syncing up between humans and dogs when they look into […]
Cats will play fetch too.
The Conversation extends the dog-owner’s friendly game of fetch to feline friends who, researchers have found, can also enjoy bringing back toys that are thrown […]
Being a night owl is a mental-health risk.
I can’t tell if this is either totally obvious or the gravest of insults … or, more likely, both… but Stanford researchers have found that […]
Exercise slows down your perception of time.
Science Alert brings us (well, those of us who are working out) one step closer to moving like the wind through a world of living […]
Bumblebees teach each other.
Nature shares a study that found that bumblebees somehow communicate the solutions to complex puzzles to each other, something that only humans were thought to […]
Say it to me deeply.
Science Daily reports on research into the psychological effects of the pitch of people’s voices. It’s fairly well known that people find men’s voices more […]
Secretly sick.
University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Reporting and Policy (CIDRAP) has some scientific findings from colleagues at U Michigan that will surprise no one […]
MDMA against white supremacy.
BBC reports on a simple pharmaceutical study at the University of Chicago – about the mechanism by which MDMA increased “the pleasantness of social touch” […]
Nature‘s endorsement didn’t help Biden – it only hurt Nature (and scientists in general).
Nature honestly (and slightly brutally) examines its own shortcomings as a political advocate in a study that found the scientific journal’s 2020 endorsement of Joe […]
A mother’s diet can affect children’s – and grandchildren’s – behavior.
The Scientist reports on mice fed a high-fat diet, whose children and grandchildren still felt the effects in social behavior and overall health: High-fat diets […]
An end to nightmares
Science News reveals a new therapy based on memory exercises that shows promise in totally doing away with nightmare disorder: Frequent, terrifying dreams disturb sleep […]
Boys (and men) are more socially isolated than girls (and women), study finds.
PsyPost reports on a study of social isolation – “the objective state of having limited social relationships or contact with others” – that found the […]