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<td><a href="http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=188518&url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-elections-artificial-intelligence-9.7021876?cmp=rss" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;">AI Chatbots Can Influence Some Voters to Change Their Mind</a>
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<p><div><p>Source: <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/" rel="tag" target="_blank">Canadian Broadcasting Company - Canadian News</a></p>Talking with an AI chatbot can convince people to change their votes and could affect the outcome of future elections, according to a new study. The study, which included 1,530 Canadians, also found that the chatbots had more success convincing Canadians to switch their votes than it did with Americans. Generative AI is "more persuasive than traditional forms of political persuasion," said Cornell professor Gordon Pennycook, one of the study's...</div><h6></h6><br><a href="https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage" target="_blank"><img title="Brought to you by Social Psychology Network" alt="Brought to you by SocialPsychology Network" src="https://www.socialpsychology.org/images/rss-footer-large.png" border="0" width="400" height="45"></a><br><br></p>
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<td><a href="http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=188521&url=https://www.psypost.org/not-all-psychopathic-traits-are-equal-when-it-comes-to-sexual-aggression/" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;">Not All Psychopathic Traits Are Equal When It Comes to Sexual Aggression</a>
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<p><div><p>Source: <a href="https://www.psypost.org/" rel="tag" target="_blank">PsyPost</a></p>A new study provides a comprehensive look at the link between psychopathy and sexual aggression. By aggregating data from over 100 separate samples, the researchers found that psychopathy is generally associated with sexually aggressive behavior, but the connection varies depending on the type of aggression and personality traits involved. These findings help clarify which aspects of the psychopathic personality are most dangerous regarding...</div><h6></h6><br><a href="https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage" target="_blank"><img title="Brought to you by Social Psychology Network" alt="Brought to you by SocialPsychology Network" src="https://www.socialpsychology.org/images/rss-footer-large.png" border="0" width="400" height="45"></a><br><br></p>
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<td><a href="http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=188517&url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251221043231.htm" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;">Global Warming Could Trigger the Next Ice Age</a>
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<p><div><p>Source: <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/" rel="tag" target="_blank">Science Daily - Top News</a></p>Scientists have uncovered a gap in Earth's carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice age. As the planet warms, nutrient-rich runoff could fuel plankton growth that buries huge amounts of carbon in the ocean. In low-oxygen conditions, this process can spiral out of control, cooling Earth far beyond its original state. While this cooling won't save us from modern climate change, it may explain Earth's most extreme...</div><h6></h6><br><a href="https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage" target="_blank"><img title="Brought to you by Social Psychology Network" alt="Brought to you by SocialPsychology Network" src="https://www.socialpsychology.org/images/rss-footer-large.png" border="0" width="400" height="45"></a><br><br></p>
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<td><a href="http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=188519&url=https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/12/22/nx-s1-5644745/serious-mental-illness-psychosis-psychiatric-hospital-schizophrenia-crime-prison-ohio" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;">How Systemic Failures Turn U.S. State Mental Hospitals Into Prisons</a>
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<p><div><p>Source: <a href="https://www.npr.org" rel="tag" target="_blank">NPR </a></p>Tyeesha Ferguson fears her 28-year-old son will kill or be killed. "That's what I'm trying to avoid," said Ferguson, who still calls him her baby. She remembers a boy who dressed himself in three-piece suits, donated his allowance, and graduated high school at 16 with an academic scholarship and plans to join the military or start a business. Instead, Ferguson watched as her once bright-eyed, handsome son sank into disheveled psychosis.</div><h6></h6><br><a href="https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage" target="_blank"><img title="Brought to you by Social Psychology Network" alt="Brought to you by SocialPsychology Network" src="https://www.socialpsychology.org/images/rss-footer-large.png" border="0" width="400" height="45"></a><br><br></p>
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<td><a href="http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=188488&url=https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-may-upend-online-studies-critical-social-science" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;">AI May Upend Online Studies Critical to Behavioral Science</a>
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<p><div><p>Source: <a href="https://www.science.org/" rel="tag" target="_blank">Science</a></p>The development of artificial intelligence may spell the end of a tool social scientists have come to rely on: online studies. Researchers who use surveys, games, and other online methods to gather data from large numbers of people have spent years refining methods to weed out unwanted responses, but recent studies have shown that AI agents can evade detection by intentionally making errors, feigning ignorance, and using humanlike mouse...</div><h6></h6><br><a href="https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage" target="_blank"><img title="Brought to you by Social Psychology Network" alt="Brought to you by SocialPsychology Network" src="https://www.socialpsychology.org/images/rss-footer-large.png" border="0" width="400" height="45"></a><br><br></p>
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<td><a href="http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=188483&url=https://www.dw.com/en/can-santa-claus-survive-in-a-melting-world/a-75229759?maca=en-rss-en-top-1022-rdf" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;">Can Santa Claus Survive in a Melting World?</a>
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<p><div><p>Source: <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097" rel="tag" target="_blank">DW- top stories</a></p>The link between snow and Christmas has spread around the world, helped by colonialism and capitalism. Even in places like New Zealand, where the holiday falls in the summer and is often celebrated with barbecues on the beach, homes are festooned with fake Christmas trees, inflatable plastic snowmen, and reindeer. As climate change warms the planet, however, and snowy winters become less common in Europe and elsewhere, Santa is facing new...</div><h6></h6><br><a href="https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage" target="_blank"><img title="Brought to you by Social Psychology Network" alt="Brought to you by SocialPsychology Network" src="https://www.socialpsychology.org/images/rss-footer-large.png" border="0" width="400" height="45"></a><br><br></p>
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<td><a href="http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=188499&url=https://www.psypost.org/harvard-scientist-reveals-a-surprising-split-in-psychological-well-being-between-the-sexes/" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;">Study Finds Sex Differences in Psychological Well-Being</a>
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<p><div><p>Source: <a href="https://www.psypost.org/" rel="tag" target="_blank">PsyPost</a></p>A new analysis of global data reveals that while men score higher on a majority of specific well-being metrics, women tend to report higher overall life satisfaction. These findings, based on nearly 400,000 people across 142 countries, suggest that females often fare better on social relationship indicators, which appear to carry significant weight in subjective assessments of a good life. The results were published in The Journal of Positive...</div><h6></h6><br><a href="https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage" target="_blank"><img title="Brought to you by Social Psychology Network" alt="Brought to you by SocialPsychology Network" src="https://www.socialpsychology.org/images/rss-footer-large.png" border="0" width="400" height="45"></a><br><br></p>
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<td><a href="http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=188508&url=https://www.psypost.org/outrage-at-individual-bigotry-may-undermine-support-for-systemic-racial-justice/" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;">Outrage at Single Acts of Racism May Lower Support for Systemic Change</a>
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<p><div><p>Source: <a href="https://www.psypost.org/" rel="tag" target="_blank">PsyPost</a></p>Recent research suggests that for some White Americans, expressing anger at individual acts of racism may decrease their motivation to support broader systemic change. The study indicates that voicing outrage at a specific bigot may alleviate feelings of guilt associated with racial privilege, thereby reducing the drive to take further reparative action. These findings were published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.</div><h6></h6><br><a href="https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage" target="_blank"><img title="Brought to you by Social Psychology Network" alt="Brought to you by SocialPsychology Network" src="https://www.socialpsychology.org/images/rss-footer-large.png" border="0" width="400" height="45"></a><br><br></p>
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<td><a href="http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=188460&url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/dec/18/how-climate-breakdown-is-putting-the-worlds-food-in-peril-in-maps-and-charts" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;">In Maps and Charts: How Climate Change Imperils Global Food Supply</a>
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<p><div><p>Source: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis" rel="tag" target="_blank">The Guardian - Climate Crisis</a></p>Experts have warned that the world's ability to feed itself is under threat from extreme weather caused by climate change. Although crop yields have increased enormously over the past few decades, crop yield rates are flattening, prompting warnings of efficiency hitting its limits. Even worse, more than 600 million people worldwide are projected to face food insecurity by 2030. For a global view of the problem, see these maps and charts.</div><h6></h6><br><a href="https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage" target="_blank"><img title="Brought to you by Social Psychology Network" alt="Brought to you by SocialPsychology Network" src="https://www.socialpsychology.org/images/rss-footer-large.png" border="0" width="400" height="45"></a><br><br></p>
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<td><a href="http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=188472&url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-administration-seeks-to-cut-off-access-to-transgender-health-care-for-u-s-children" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;">Trump Administration Seeks to Ban Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth</a>
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<p><div><p>Source: <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/" rel="tag" target="_blank">PBS News Hour</a></p>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday unveiled a series of actions designed to block access to gender-affirming care for minors. The proposals—the most sweeping moves the Trump administration has taken so far to restrict the use of hormone therapy and surgical interventions to help transgender children—include cutting off federal Medicaid and Medicare funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to children.</div><h6></h6><br><a href="https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage" target="_blank"><img title="Brought to you by Social Psychology Network" alt="Brought to you by SocialPsychology Network" src="https://www.socialpsychology.org/images/rss-footer-large.png" border="0" width="400" height="45"></a><br><br></p>
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<p><div><p>Source: <a href="https://www.psychologicalscience.org/" rel="tag" target="_blank">Association for Psychological Science</a></p>Publish or perish. This phrase is often cited by scientists as their motivation to submit a steady flow of papers to academic journals. But how valuable is research if the findings are not significant? And what effect will those papers have on the reputation of their authors? Even though studies with nonsignificant findings are often welcomed by journal editors, scientists are often hesitant to submit them, which can lead to serious publication...</div><h6></h6><br><a href="https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage" target="_blank"><img title="Brought to you by Social Psychology Network" alt="Brought to you by SocialPsychology Network" src="https://www.socialpsychology.org/images/rss-footer-large.png" border="0" width="400" height="45"></a><br><br></p>
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<p><div><p>Source: <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/" rel="tag" target="_blank">Science Daily - Top Health</a></p>Spending a few hours a week helping others may slow the aging of the brain, according to a study that followed more than 30,000 U.S. adults for two decades. Researchers found that cognitive decline was reduced by both formal volunteering and informal acts, such as helping neighbors or relatives. The benefits were cumulative over time with sustained engagement, and were significant even after controlling for wealth, physical and mental health,...</div><h6></h6><br><a href="https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage" target="_blank"><img title="Brought to you by Social Psychology Network" alt="Brought to you by SocialPsychology Network" src="https://www.socialpsychology.org/images/rss-footer-large.png" border="0" width="400" height="45"></a><br><br></p>
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