General Psychology

ADHD symptoms have a direct relationship with disordered eating behaviors including binge eating and restrictive eating, according to a new study published in Frontiers in Psychiatry. In the study, researchers in the United Kingdom looked at whether people with ADHD tend to engage in both disinhibited (binge) eating on one hand, and restrictive eating on…

Here’s a trait you don’t necessarily want in your boss, or in any leader for that matter: high levels of narcissism. According to a team of researchers in the Netherlands, narcissistic leaders are those who tend to be “self-absorbed and hold beliefs of entitlement and superiority.” The researchers add that these leaders’ “aggressive tendencies in…

Even for young children, behaving in ways that don’t conform to traditional gender roles can result in a “backlash” of judgment from others. That’s the conclusion of a study published this month by researchers at Skidmore College. In the study, the researchers created a series of vignettes describing young boys and girls engaging in behaviors…

It’s well known by now that a lack of sleep can interfere with learning and memory. What’s relatively less studied is how sleep deprivation affects the memories we form of our personal experiences. Recently, a group of researchers from Iran and Germany delved into this question. In their study, they turned to a sample of…

The people around us influence how we see the world, so perhaps it’s not so surprising that who our neighbors are plays a role in determining how we interact with society. New research published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggests that living in a more ethnically diverse environment makes people more disposed toward…

Riding your bike to work will put you in better shape and help protect the environment. Apparently, it’ll also make you a little paranoid. That’s according to a new paper titled State Paranoia and Urban Cycling from researchers in London. The idea for the study came from something psychologists already know about paranoia: that there…

Your life story is unique, and how you use it might be a matter of individual preference too. Different people use their autobiographical memories in different ways, and a person’s age, gender and personality can all influence what they choose to do with their life story. A recent study from researchers in Croatia confirmed this…

Is flouting social rules more forgivable if it’s done as a genuine accident than if it’s intentional? Depends who you ask, apparently. In particular, whether people have higher or lower levels of social anxiety seems to influence how they perceive unintentional social mistakes compared with intentional violations of social norms. If you believe that intentionally…

How British teenagers feel about young people seeking asylum depends in part on how happy they currently feel, according to a new study from researchers at University of Surrey, University of Birmingham and Oxford University. In the study, researchers divided 219 adolescents between the ages of 16 and 21 into three groups. One group participated…

Creativity can be thought of as a process of breaking down walls between different ideas. Now, a team of researchers in China and the United States have taken that metaphor to entirely new levels by showing that breaking down walls in virtual reality can make people more creative in real life. In their experiment, the…