You can finally convince someone they're wrong about a fact, but that doesn't mean they'll ever trust the person who corrected them.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Apr 6
American politics isn’t a two-team game; it’s actually one big group on the right versus two totally different groups on the left.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Apr 3
Stopping to reflect on AI tutor feedback actually makes you learn slower than just powering through more practice iterations.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Apr 1
Suicide rates actually decrease when the general death rate in a society rises.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Apr 1
A mother’s brain becomes significantly less responsive to her own child's face by the time they reach toddlerhood.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Apr 1
Humans have a hardwired 'bug' that makes them assume a smart AI is also a moral one.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Apr 1
Living in a polluted area doesn’t actually make people less happy; the link is entirely explained by family background.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Apr 1
Giving an AI a human-like voice makes women more likely to believe the sexist stereotypes the AI repeats.
Practical Magic psyarxiv | Apr 1
To get people to take action on climate change, you have to make them feel positive and negative emotions at the same time.
Practical Magic psyarxiv | Apr 1
Just watching two other people make eye contact triggers a physical stress response in your own body.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Apr 1
Empathetic messages are actually perceived as less sincere when they are spoken aloud rather than sent as a text.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Apr 1
A foundational finding in psychology—that 7-month-old babies can learn abstract language rules—failed to replicate in a massive study of over 800 infants.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Apr 1
Sleep deprivation doesn't just make you more suggestible; it specifically targets and breaks down your most confident beliefs.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Apr 1
When you make a mistake about which of your acquaintances are friends with each other, you aren't actually wrong—you're likely just six months early.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Apr 1
Common neuroscience tests used to study memory in mice might actually just be measuring how well a mouse can point its body in a certain direction.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Apr 1
Thinking about an alternative way to solve a puzzle can trick your brain into 'remembering' that you actually performed the path you rejected.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Mar 31
A 'fixed mindset' is only psychologically damaging if you have low self-esteem; for those with high self-confidence, it actually increases feelings of pride.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 31
Growing a natural beard makes you just as difficult for others to recognize as wearing a surgical mask.
Practical Magic psyarxiv | Mar 31
When people lose access to specialized mental health AI, they are twice as likely to use a generic chatbot like ChatGPT than to seek help from a human professional.
Practical Magic psyarxiv | Mar 31
The way you type and the music you listen to on your phone can predict your politics better than your age or your paycheck.
Practical Magic psyarxiv | Mar 30
Talking to a stranger is like a secret dance: first you start acting like them, then you slowly pull away to be yourself again.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Mar 30
Humans have a 'breaking point' where if things get too confusing, we stop being curious and start actively hiding from new info.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 30
You're way more likely to trust a person who’s wrong in the same way you are than someone who actually tells you the truth.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 27
The second someone asks, 'Did you see that?' they’ve already messed up your memory of what actually happened.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 27
Your view of the world is biased by more than just your own eyes—it's actually influenced by what the people you’re watching are seeing.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 26
Fake 'crocodile tears' are actually way more dramatic, loud, and over-the-top than real crying.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Mar 26
Giving biased people more time to think doesn't make them right; it just makes them more sure of their wrong answers.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 26
If you're already stressed out, treating an AI like it’s 'human' actually makes your anxiety worse.
Practical Magic psyarxiv | Mar 26
Being 'hangry' makes you crave junk food, but surprisingly, it doesn't make you any less patient with your money or your friends.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 26
Whether you feel in control of your own life actually depends a lot on whether your political party is winning or losing.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Mar 26
Even as you forget the details, your brain forces your memories into a 'movie' structure with a clear climax and ending.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Mar 26
If you're convinced your personality is 'born, not made,' your genes actually end up having a way bigger impact on who you become.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 25
People will actually change their moral compass to match whatever an AI says, even if they swear they don’t trust its advice.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Mar 25
Humans have this weird habit of assuming that if an AI is smart, it must also be a 'good person' with good intentions.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Mar 25
Elite athletes don't usually smile when they win—they celebrate with pure aggression, like shouting and clenching their fists.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Mar 25
Going on a digital detox will definitely make you feel better, but it won't actually help you get more work done or focus any better.
Practical Magic psyarxiv | Mar 25
If you're scared of spiders, your brain actually tricks your eyes into thinking things are walking toward you instead of away.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Mar 25
Adopting strict political views actually makes you see everyone as more threatening, rather than the other way around.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 25
People tend to protect the person who made a crime possible if someone else was the one who actually did it.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 24
To actually debunk fake news, you should show the fake AI image again while you're correcting it.
Practical Magic psyarxiv | Mar 24
AI can predict how New Yorker stories and psych case studies end with 85% accuracy using a few simple rules.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 24
Families of autistic kids actually bounced back mentally faster during wartime than families without autistic kids.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Mar 24
Your ability to 'see' things in your mind didn't evolve from your eyes—it came from your gut and inner organs.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Mar 24
It’s weirdly harder to guess how two people will move together than it is to predict what one person will do alone.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 23
The language you speak acts like a built-in stopwatch, deciding exactly when you’ll notice a mistake in the real world.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Mar 23
We’ve been obsessed with harmony for centuries, but it turns out how evenly notes are spaced is what actually makes a chord sound beautiful.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 23
AI is now so good at faking being human in psych tests that even the pros can't tell them apart from real people.
Practical Magic psyarxiv | Mar 20
If you want people to think something deserves rights, give it eyes—we care way more about whether it can 'see' than if it's actually 'thinking.'
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 20
A massive study of chess games found zero proof that women play worse against men, debunking an old theory.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 19
Giving AI chatbots human faces actually makes people more likely to believe the sexist things the AI says.
Practical Magic psyarxiv | Mar 19
Kids as young as five actually prefer people who break unfair rules over those who follow them.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Mar 19
Your risk of having a drinking problem is heavily linked to your spouse’s DNA, not just your own.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Mar 19
Looking at 15 years of search data, it turns out Ramadan significantly boosts the mental health of entire countries.
Practical Magic psyarxiv | Mar 19
People in psych studies often answer surveys in a 'trance' and forget what they said just seconds later.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 19
Comparing yourself to others can kill the joy of making money, but it doesn't really matter when you're losing it.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Mar 19
High heels only make women look better until they start walking—then the benefit disappears unless they're pros.
Practical Magic psyarxiv | Mar 19
When it comes to tough moral calls, groups are way more likely to break the rules for the "greater good" than a person acting alone.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 18
Successful social media stars actually have facial structures that are systematically different from the rest of us.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Mar 18
That old scientific link between your finger length and who you're into? It pretty much disappears once you clear out the biased data.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 18
A massive 84% of teens are venting to AI for emotional support, and many say it’s actually better than talking to a human.
Practical Magic psyarxiv | Mar 18
Even five-year-olds think it’s cooler to break an unfair rule than to follow it.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 18
If you're trying to win an argument with someone who's tired, just keep talking—how long you speak matters way more than what you're actually saying.
Practical Magic psyarxiv | Mar 17
All those counting games parents play at home don't really help a kid's math future; it's mostly just about the parents' own math skills.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 17
For bisexual men, getting flak from the gay community actually leads to better mental health because it pushes them to be more open about who they are.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Mar 17
Your brain can actually be trained to process 'mixed signals' faster than clear ones, which flips a 100-year-old psychology rule on its head.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 17
Weirdly enough, people would rather listen to an advisor who's usually 'right,' even if following their advice actually makes things worse for them.
Practical Magic psyarxiv | Mar 16
Meditation and sleep studies suggest being 'awake' isn't an on-off switch—there are these weird 'gaps' where you're neither conscious nor unconscious.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 16
People using AI for therapy are starting to see it as less of a tool and more like a 'small God' or a spiritual guide.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Mar 16
If you talk about "maintaining" the world instead of "changing" it, the political fight over climate change mostly disappears.
Practical Magic psyarxiv | Mar 13
It turns out men and women are actually equally good at showing and reading emotions—the "emotional woman" stereotype is a total myth.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 13
By the time kids are five, they’ve already decided that "bad" people don't deserve to be treated with basic kindness.
Nature Is Weird psyarxiv | Mar 13
People in rich countries think their neighbors are less honest than they actually are, while people in poor countries have way too much faith in theirs.
Paradigm Challenge psyarxiv | Mar 13