psychology – Kettinki

2026-09-16 @ 10.07.04 ∈ In English

Children trust what they hear over what they see, study finds - Durham University

The study found that when children are shown someone expressing one emotion through their body language while making a sound that conveys a different emotion, they overwhelmingly trust the sound they hear.  Adults, however, are much more likely to rely on visual information such as body language, or show no clear preference between the two. 

2026-06-10 @ 18.13.40 ∈ In English

People have an inherent preference for counterclockwise motion, study reveals

[The vast majority of people studied preferred counterclockwise turning. Culture or gender made little difference.] Only age showed a noticeable but small change, in that younger people followed this pattern more strongly.

2026-06-10 @ 12.08.07 ∈ In English

Gleam-glum effect reveals emotional word cues in children as young as five

Overwhelmingly, study participants paired the made-up words with "ee" sounds with the pictures showing happy animals, and the made-up words with "uh" sounds with the pictures showing unhappy animals.

2026-05-08 @ 18.49.45 ∈ In English

Sharper brains switch to a 'not what you know, but who you know' mindset online and on social media, study shows

Rather than encoding information itself, individuals increasingly track who possesses the information. It indicates that people engage with and use the social network like an external hard drive for the brain.

2026-04-17 @ 9.58.07 ∈ In English

Gifted men exhibit lower levels of conservatism compared to their average-intelligence counterparts, finds study

[Recent] research reveals a significant gender-specific distinction: Intellectually gifted men tend to be less conservative than men of average intellectual [ability—a difference not observed among women.]

2025-12-11 @ 17.25.51 ∈ In English

Personal risk tolerance has sweeping implications for how societies evolve

[When] wealth buffers are low and the stakes are high, that increases the degree to which risk tolerance is passed down from one generation to the next, so a distaste for risk—and therefore change—is likely to persist long-term.

2025-10-17 @ 15.21.06 ∈ In English

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Misophonia: having strong negative reactions to certain sounds is linked to mental inflexibility

The researchers found that the severity of someone’s misophonia was associated with their ability to accurately respond to emotional tasks. More severe misophonia was associated with worse accuracy on these tasks, suggesting reduced mental flexibility when dealing with emotional stimuli. [People] with more severe misophonia also showed a stronger tendency to ruminate.

2025-10-14 @ 19.20.14 ∈ In English

Thermal cameras read stress on my face

Because this technique is non-invasive and measures a physical response, it could also be useful to monitor stress in babies or in people who can't communicate.

2025-09-26 @ 11.03.44 ∈ In English

New research reveals women outperform men on intelligence, competitiveness and literacy

When confidence was explicitly measured and incentivized, women consistently outperformed men. In the task measuring intelligence, they allocated their belief tokens in a way that achieved higher earnings efficiency than men, meaning they earned closer to the maximum possible expected reward[.]

2025-09-13 @ 14.19.59 ∈ In English

Many lonely people would prefer a robot over human interaction

"We found that lonely customers with a reduced need for interaction with other humans are more likely to use service robots as a means of avoiding human contact and conserving emotional resources."