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• Graduates Are Booing Pep Talks on AI at College Commencements

  19-05-2026 12:41 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: U.S. News and World ReportAs artificial intelligence casts a shadow over career prospects, it is becoming an unwelcome subject at this season's college commencements. At several campuses, graduates have booed speakers the topic turned to AI. Said one student: "We as students are discouraged from using it and penalized for using it. And then to have our speaker be the champion of AI is just like, OK? Why?" About 70% of college students see AI as a threat to their job...
  
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• Psychology Doctoral Training Can Open Doors to Many Careers

  03-06-2026 08:33 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: APA MonitorPeople with doctoral degrees in psychology engage in a wide variety of occupations. In a recent analysis of data collected by the American Psychological Association, about 36% of psychology doctorate holders worked in health services, 17% were research/applied psychologists, 15% were professors, 4% were social workers or counselors, and 27% worked in 38 other occupations, including special education teacher, statistician, and various leadership...
  
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• Navigating GLP-1 Use in Therapy

  03-06-2026 08:32 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: APA MonitorGlucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist medications, which include the drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, have been used to treat diabetes since 2005. But the drugs gained prominence when the FDA approved their use for weight loss, and celebrities from Oprah Winfrey to Elon Musk started touting them. As of November 2025, 18% of U.S. adults had taken a GLP-1 and 12% reported current use. Despite the benefits of GLP-1s, however, they also come...
  
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• Bringing Psychological Expertise Into AI Development

  03-06-2026 08:32 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: APA MonitorWhen a well-known tech company spent a huge amount of money trying and failing to build an unbiased AI-powered résumé-screening system, its developers discovered what a century of industrial and organizational psychology research could have predicted from the start: Removing demographic markers like names from résumés isn't enough to eliminate discriminatory bias. The lesson? AI development should bring psychology expertise into the process...
  
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• Behavioral Treatments for Tourette’s Disorder and Tics

  03-06-2026 08:32 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: APA MonitorChronic tic disorders are marked by repetitive, uncontrolled movements or vocalizations that can range from mild to disruptive and are sometimes painful. Although tics are neurobiological in origin, the treatment for tics and Tourette's disorder—a condition marked by both vocal and motor tics—is typically behavioral. Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT) is recommended as the first-line treatment by the American Academy of...
  
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• Trans Military Ban Unconstitutional, U.S. Appeals Court Rules

  02-06-2026 18:58 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: CBS News - U.S. NewsA divided federal appeals court ruled Monday that the Trump administration's policy banning transgender individuals from serving in the military likely violates the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection. A panel of three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found that the ban rolled out by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth last year was driven by animus toward transgender people.
  
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• "AI Personal Computers" Expected to Debut This Fall

  02-06-2026 18:58 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Canadian Broadcasting Company - Top Stories NewsNvidia has unveiled a powerful chip that would bring advanced artificial intelligence functions into laptops and desktop computers, with new personal computer models from brands including Microsoft and Dell set to roll out later this year. Nvidia is the world's most highly valued company—ahead of Apple, Google's parent Alphabet, and Microsoft—and said at an event Monday that it aimed to create AI PCs that can listen, look, and c
  
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• Mexican State Uses AI Law to Arrest Online Critics

  02-06-2026 18:57 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Canadian Broadcasting Company - World NewsAuthorities in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí recently arrested two people linked to a Facebook page critical of the local government under a new AI law that human rights groups warn is being used to curb political dissent. San Luis Potosí's Attorney General's Office released a statement May 22 saying the women had been arrested over content suspected of harming "the image, honour, public reputation and moral integrity" of an.
  
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• Ghana Approves Law Criminalizing LGBTQ+ Activities, Advocacy

  30-05-2026 10:30 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: DW- top storiesGhana's parliament passed a bill Friday imposing prison terms of up to 10 years for individuals who promote, sponsor, or advocate LGBTQ acts and banning the funding of LGBTQ groups and activities. The human sexual rights and family values bill is expected to be signed into law by President John Dramani Mahama and would also impose three-year prison terms for individuals engaging in LGBTQ acts. Human rights advocates have condemned the...
  
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• French Parliament Votes to Repeal Slavery-Era Black Code

  30-05-2026 10:30 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: PBS News HourFor nearly two centuries after France abolished slavery, the colonial-era law that classified humans as property has remained quietly on the books. On Thursday, the lower house of parliament voted 254-0 to adopt a bill repealing Code Noir, or Black Code—the 1685 decree King Louis XIV signed to govern slaves across France's colonies. The law turned human beings into "movable property," allowing them to be worked, beaten, sold, raped, and murdered.
  
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• Canada Continuing Genocide Against Indigenous Peoples, Tribunal Says

  30-05-2026 10:29 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Canadian Broadcasting Company - Canadian NewsAn international tribunal has ruled that Canada's current policies constitute an ongoing genocide against Indigenous Peoples. Seven judges of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal—an international court of opinion that investigates human rights violations—issued the interim ruling on Friday. Throughout the proceedings, witnesses detailed the devastating, multi-generational consequences of forced family separation and cultural destruction
  
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• ICE Detainees Dying by Suicide at "Alarming" Rate, Investigation Finds

  27-05-2026 11:13 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: PBS News HourA new investigation has found that at least 10 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees have died by suicide since President Donald Trump took office in January 2025—a pace that far exceeds the growth in the detainee population. Since October, seven suicides have occurred, the most for any fiscal year in the agency's history. Although Trump has called ICE detainees the "worst of the worst," 7 of the 10 had no record of violent...
  
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• Air Pollution Exposure Linked to Memory Decline in Older Adults

  27-05-2026 10:38 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: PsyPostA recent study provides evidence that long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution may negatively affect specific types of memory in older adults. The research suggests that breathing polluted air over the course of more than a decade tends to harm semantic memory, which is the brain's ability to recall general knowledge and facts. These findings may help explain why there are racial disparities in dementia risk in the United States.
  
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• Research Gap Found on the Psychology of Nuclear War Risk

  27-05-2026 10:37 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Association for Psychological ScienceAfter Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, public health researcher Abanoub Riad noticed that a spike of anxieties over nuclear war spread across much of eastern Europe. When Riad and his colleagues looked for studies on the topic, however, they found a significant gap in psychology research on nuclear war and mental health. Many studies were done in the 1980s, but hardly any were published in the past decade. Why is that?
  
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• Justice Department Sues University of California Over Alleged Antisemitism

  27-05-2026 10:37 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsFederal prosecutors are suing the University of California, alleging civil rights violations were committed in connection with pro-Palestinian campus protests—the latest lawsuit by the Trump administration, which has targeted universities over issues from anti-Semitism to their hiring practices. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, focuses on an encampment erected on the UCLA campus in April 2024 as protests erupted across the U.S. against Israel's wa
  
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• 77 Indigenous Women in Quebec Forcibly Sterilized, Says Report

  27-05-2026 10:37 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Canadian Broadcasting Company - Canadian NewsNearly four years after finding that at least 22 Indigenous women underwent forced sterilization in Quebec from 1980 to 2019, researchers now say the number is much higher. The total number of documented cases has risen to 77, with the most recent case occurring within the past 5 years. According to the report, the youngest victim was 15 at the time, the oldest was 40, and many women first learned they were sterilized years after the fact.
  
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• Alabama Republicans Seek to Use Prior Map, Despite Racial Bias Ruling

  27-05-2026 10:36 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: PBS News HourAlabama Republicans asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to let them use a map that favors their party in this year's elections, despite a lower court's ruling that the map intentionally discriminates against Black people. Republican leaders filed an emergency appeal with the justices a day after the lower court refused to let the state use a map it adopted three years ago that has a Black majority in just one of its seven congressional districts.
  
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• Some Therapists Are Using AI to Take Notes, But Many Patients Are Wary

  26-05-2026 09:29 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: NPRAcross the U.S., a growing number of therapists are experimenting with artificial intelligence tools that record sessions, generate transcripts, and draft clinical notes. Software companies say these tools can save hours of administrative work each week. Yet patients are often uncomfortable using AI for mental health care, with a national survey by YouGov finding only 11% of Americans saying they would be open to using it, and just 8% saying...
  
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• Five Ways Pope Leo Says AI Could Warp Humanity

  26-05-2026 09:29 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthPope Leo XIV is warning that the artificial intelligence race could become a new Tower of Babel—a dazzling human achievement that concentrates power, weakens truth and turns people into data points. In his first encyclical document, signed on May 15, 2026, and released yesterday, Pope Leo warned that AI may: (1) erode human judgment, (2) simulate care without relationship, (3) deepen inequality, (4) destabilize democracy, and (5) make war easier.
  
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• Pope Leo XIV Makes Historic Apology for Vatican's Role in Slavery

  25-05-2026 16:57 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: PBS News HourPope Leo XIV made a historic apology Monday for the Vatican's role in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the papal record a "wound in Christian memory." Past popes have apologized for Christians' involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, but no pope had ever publicly acknowledged—much less apologized for—the role that past popes played in giving kings and queens explicit authority to enslave...
  
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• Tribunal Begins Probe of Missing Native Children and Unmarked Burials

  25-05-2026 16:56 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Canadian Broadcasting Company - Canadian NewsOn Monday, the Permanent People's Tribunal began a week-long investigation into missing Indigenous children and unmarked burials associated with residential schools. The tribunal will hear from expert witnesses and examine evidence regarding Canada's responsibility for the residential school system and the human rights violations associated with it. The indictment calls upon Canada to answer for the policies and practices of its residential...
  
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• Pope Says AI Must Be "Disarmed" to Prevent Domination and Death

  25-05-2026 16:56 via socialpsychology.org
  Source:Al JazeeraPope Leo XIV has called for the "disarming" of artificial intelligence, warning that "new forms of slavery" are tied to its rise. The Catholic leader warned Monday against a race driven by "the desire to secure geopolitical or commercial dominance." These concerns were presented in his first encyclical, titled "Magnifica Humanitas" (Magnificent Humanity). Encyclicals are one of the highest forms of teaching from a pope to the church's 1.4...
  
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• Hidden Femicide Risk Grows in Afghanistan

  25-05-2026 16:56 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: DW- top storiesThe severe humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, where nearly half of the population requires assistance, has pushed many families into survival mode. Hunger, joblessness, and collapsing services have taken a toll while wide-ranging restrictions imposed by the Taliban since its return to power in 2021 have narrowed women's options in work, education, and mobility—making violence against women harder to escape, more difficult to report, and...
  
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• Study Maps 350,000 Relationship Stories and Finds a Style AI Misses

  25-05-2026 16:41 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: PsyPostWhen people share emotional stories, the intensity of their feelings does not always match the length or detail of their words. A recent study published in PLOS One suggests that the gap between what people express and how much they say is a deliberate communication strategy rather than an error. These findings provide evidence that humans use a wide range of expressive styles that artificial intelligence currently struggles to replicate.
  
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• 51 Nations Armed Israel During Gaza War, Investigation Finds

  25-05-2026 16:41 via socialpsychology.org
  Source:Al JazeeraAn investigation by Al Jazeera has found that military-related goods from at least 51 countries and self-governing territories were shipped to Israel after the International Court of Justice warned in 2024 of a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza. Based on an analysis of Israeli import data between 2022 and 2025, and supported by customs records, the probe found military supply chains linked to countries across Europe, Asia, North America, and...
  
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• What's at Steak: Myths About Meat Eating and Masculinity

  23-05-2026 10:08 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: The Guardian - Climate CrisisBeing a carnivore is often seen as an expression of manhood, but eating too much meat risks chronic disease. Eating meat has also been linked to certain cancers, and meat production contributes about an eighth of all human-made climate pollution. Moreover, a French study last year found a 26% emissions disparity between men and women with respect to eating and driving habits, suggesting that men who care about climate change need to eat less...
  
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• Colorado High Court Orders Children's Hospital to Resume Gender Care

  23-05-2026 10:08 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: PBS News HourThe Colorado Supreme Court has ordered Colorado's largest provider of gender-affirming care for young people to resume medical treatments like puberty blockers and hormone therapy despite risking the loss of federal funding. The parents of four transgender girls sued the hospital, alleging that the hospital was violating the state's antidiscrimination law by refusing to provide treatment to transgender children with gender dysphoria.
  
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• How One Oregon City Has Raised a Billion Dollars for Climate Change

  23-05-2026 09:49 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: NPRIn the last seven years, the city of Portland, Oregon, has built a community solar project to reduce emissions and lower energy bills for low-income families and has distributed more than 20,000 free air conditioners to help vulnerable households prepare for heat waves. These projects were paid through an innovative billion-dollar social and climate justice fund aimed at helping vulnerable residents adapt to climate change while also reducing...
  
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• U.S. Border Wall Desecrates Sacred Sites, Indigenous Leaders Say

  23-05-2026 09:37 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: PBS News HourIndigenous leaders say that in the Trump administration's rush to build border walls, contractors are desecrating Native American sacred places and cultural sites at an unprecedented pace, more than 170 years after the international boundary split the territories of dozens of tribes. The White House has devoted $46 billion to wall construction, which has ramped up along the 1,954-mile border even as illegal crossings have fallen to historic lows.
  
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• U.N. Adopts Resolution Supporting International Court's Climate Ruling

  23-05-2026 08:37 via socialpsychology.org
  Source:Al JazeeraThe United Nations General Assembly voted Wednesday to support a landmark ruling from the International Court of Justice, which found that states have a legal responsibility to act to prevent the climate crisis from worsening. More than two-thirds of U.N. member states, 141, voted in favor of the measure, with 28 abstaining and 8 voting no. The nations voting against the measure were Belarus, Iran, Israel, Liberia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the...
  
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