A new study suggests that adults experienced few changes in "Big Five" personality traits as a result of the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. Angelina Sutin of Florida State University College of Medicine ...
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Eating disorders have the highest mortality rates of any mental illness. They don't discriminate, affecting people of all ethnicities, sexualities, gender identities, ages and backgrounds. However, one group is disproportionately ...
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Everyone who uses a smartphone unavoidably generates masses of digital data that are accessible to others, and these data provide clues to the user's personality. Psychologists at LMU are studying how revealing these clues ...
Jul 17, 2020
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As states struggle to get the COVID-19 balance right—between eased restrictions and rising infection rates—it falls to individuals to abide by mask-wearing rules and to maintain six feet of distance between themselves ...
Jul 16, 2020
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Whether you decided to engage in social distancing in the early stages of COVID-19 depended on how much information your working memory could hold.
Jul 11, 2020
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People differ substantially in how much they're affected by experiences in their lives. Some people seem to be more affected by daily stress, or the loss of someone close to them. On the other hand, some people seem to get ...
Jun 10, 2020
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Men and women who identify as gay/lesbian or bisexual tend to show different personality traits to those who identify as straight, particularly among younger adults. This is according to new research, published in the Journal ...
Jun 9, 2020
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A study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society examined five personality traits—neuroticism, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and openness—and their links to pre-dementia conditions ...
Jun 3, 2020
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Some people are more sensitive than others—and around half of these differences can be attributed to our genes, new research has found.
Jun 2, 2020
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Much has been written on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on negative emotions, such as rising anxiety and the loneliness of self-isolation.
May 14, 2020
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