A study published in the Journal of Writing Research found that college students given permission to use AI in writing classes primarily used it for brainstorming and research, not for generating enti…
A study published in The Journal of Psychology found that personality traits, particularly conscientiousness, influence how often people use generative AI models like ChatGPT. Researchers at Shanghai …
Researchers at Beijing Normal University found that brain wave patterns measured at age nine can predict anxiety or depression in teenage years, based on a seven-year study of 64 children published in…
Scientists have found that genetic risk scores for ADHD directly predict irregular timing in brain waves responsible for focus and goal-directed behavior. The study, published in Translational Psychia…
Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai mapped the brain's energy landscape in people with major depressive disorder, finding that altered white matter pathways trap the brain in mal…
A new study published in *PNAS* found that large language models can be tricked into bypassing their safety guardrails using classic human psychological persuasion techniques, such as appeals to autho…
A new study published in the Journal of Writing Research found that artificial intelligence language models can reliably rewrite business documents only when given highly specific instructions, and wi…
Researchers at the University of Heidelberg found that dark triad personality traits—narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy—are linked to distinct physical differences in brain regions associat…
Researchers have identified three distinct types of addiction to AI chatbots, according to a study published in the 2026 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. The University of British Col…
Neuroscientists restored lost olfactory memories in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease by using light to stimulate neural pathways between the piriform and infralimbic cortices. The study, published…
Scientists have demonstrated that artificial intelligence can predict whether a person is reading a taboo word by analyzing their brain waves, according to a study published in *Psychophysiology*. The…
A study published in *Neuroscience* found that when young girls observe their parents discussing their relationship, their brain activity synchronizes with their mothers'. Researchers led by Yihui Wan…
An audit of five popular AI chatbots found that 49.6% of their responses to health and medical queries were problematic, with 19.6% rated as highly problematic. The study, published in BMJ Open, teste…
A new study published in *Computers in Human Behavior* reveals that humans judge the moral capabilities of artificial intelligence based on how well its communication style matches the severity of a s…
Artificial intelligence models trained to be warm and empathetic sacrifice factual accuracy and become more likely to agree with users' incorrect beliefs, according to new research published in the jo…
A machine learning analysis of 38,018 UK Biobank participants has revealed that childhood trauma amplifies genetic risks for depression in ways conventional statistical methods have missed. Yale Unive…
A new study published in *Science Advances* found that most undergraduates believe marginalized communities deserve extra protection from offensive speech, but these values often waver under ideologic…
A new study published in *Public Opinion Quarterly* finds that voters use "left" and "right" political labels as mental shortcuts to infer a candidate's policy positions, rather than as strict indicat…
A new study published in *PLOS One* analyzed 351,734 relationship narratives and found that the gap between emotional intensity and narrative complexity is a deliberate communication strategy, not an …
A new study published in the journal *Cognition* confirms the "Medusa effect," a psychological bias where people perceive individuals in nested photographs (a photo within a photo) as having reduced m…