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• 12% of U.S. LGBTQ Youth Attempted Suicide Last Year, Survey Finds

  02-05-2024 10:41 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: CBS News - U.S. NewsMore than 1 in 10 young people in the U.S. who identify as LGBTQ attempted suicide in 2023, according to a new survey. The survey, conducted by the Trevor Project, included responses from 18,000 people aged 13 to 24, according to a news release announcing the findings. More than a third of LGBTQ young people, or 39%, seriously considered suicide in the past year, the survey found. That number was even higher for transgender and nonbinary youth,...
  
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• Government Tells Schools in England Not to Teach About Gender Identity

  16-05-2024 09:37 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: BBC News - UK PoliticsSchools in England should not teach about gender identity, according to new draft guidance from government officials. Government sources told BBC News on Wednesday about plans to ban sex education for under-nines, as well as teaching about gender identity. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the new guidance would ensure children were not "exposed to disturbing content," but teachers have said there is no evidence of a widespread problem.
  
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• Climate Change May Worsen Stroke, Migraine, Alzheimer's

  16-05-2024 09:37 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsClimate change is likely to make brain conditions like stroke, migraine, Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy and multiple sclerosis even worse, a new review warns. The potential effects of a changing climate is likely to be substantial on a range of neurological conditions, researchers report Wednesday in The Lancet Neurology journal. For the review, researchers analyzed data from 332 studies published between 1968 and 2023.
  
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• Gov. Ron Desantis Signs Law Erasing Climate Change From Florida Policy

  16-05-2024 09:36 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsWith summer's extreme heat and this year's hurricane season rolling into Florida next month, Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation Wednesday that will erase the words "climate change" from state statutes effective July 1. The new law aims to ensure the availability of "energy for the state in a manner that promotes the health and welfare of the public and economic growth," according to the Florida House of Representatives legislative analysis.
  
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• Cognitive Decline Rates Higher Among Older Native Americans

  16-05-2024 09:36 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsHigh rates of blood vessel-damaging conditions like hypertension or diabetes may be driving up rates of cognitive decline and dementia among older American Indians, new research suggests. The study, based on data from nearly 400 participants followed more than 30 years, found that 54% of American Indians ages 72 to 95 had some form of impairment in their thinking and/or memory skills. The report appeared Wednesday in the journal Alzheimer's &..
  
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• 90% of Floridians Believe Climate Change Is Happening

  16-05-2024 09:36 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Science Daily - Top SocietyThe latest "Florida Climate Resilience Survey" found that 90% of Floridians believe that climate change is happening. Belief in human-caused climate change has surged among Florida Independents while slipping to 40% among Republicans, down from 45% last fall. The survey also found that 68% of respondents want state government to do more about climate change, and 69% want the federal government to do more.
  
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• AI, algorithms and apps: can dating be boiled down to a science? – podcast

  16-05-2024 06:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Last week the founder of the dating app Bumble forecasted a near future dating landscape where AI ‘dating concierges’ filter out prospective partners for us. But does AI, or even science, really understand what makes two people compatible? Madeleine Finlay speaks to Amie Gordon, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, to find out what we know about why two people go the distance, and why she’s designing her own dating app to learn more.Clips: BloombergR
  
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• Orange County Faces Mental Health Issues: My Psychiatrist Opens New Office in Lake Nona During Mental Health Awareness Month

  15-05-2024 09:00 via pr.com
  
  My Psychiatrist Opening New Office in Lake Nona During Mental Health Awareness Month [PR.com]
  
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• One bad rumour can affect how children view each other, study finds

  15-05-2024 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Seven-year-olds trusted good gossip if it came from multiple sources but the bad only had to be heard onceIn the ruthless world of the primary school playground, one bad rumour is enough to make children wary of another, new research suggests.Psychologists who studied gossip in seven-year-olds found that the children trusted good rumours when they came from several sources, but could be swayed by bad rumours they heard only once. Continue reading...
  
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• Celebrate, remember and reframe: the therapy sessions healing South Africa’s women

  14-05-2024 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As the trauma of apartheid, crime and violence continue to ripple through society, a counselling initiative by Tree of Life creator Ncazelo Ncube-Mlilois helping ease the painRed curtains and ceiling drapes create a pink-tinged glow inside the run-down community centre, an hour south of Johannesburg, where Palesa Hlohlolo tells her neighbours about her experiences of domestic violence.“I’m not a punching bag and I’ll never be one. For anyone,” she says, grabbing a tissue
  
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• OpenAI Launches GPT-o, With New Humanlike Capabilities

  13-05-2024 17:53 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: U.S. News and World ReportOpenAI's latest update to its artificial intelligence model can mimic emotional human speech and even detect people's moods. The effect conjures up images of the 2013 Spike Jonze movie "Her," in which a man falls in love with an artificially intelligent operating system, leading to some complications. The new system, dubbed GPT-4o (the o is short for "omni"), works faster than previous GPTs and can reason across text, audio, and video in real...
  
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• Illness Took Away Her Voice. AI Cloned a Replica She Carries in Her Phone

  13-05-2024 17:52 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: U.S. News and World ReportThe voice Alexis "Lexi" Bogan had before last summer was exuberant. The 21-year-old loved to belt out Taylor Swift ballads in the car and debate politics with friends over a backyard fire pit. In high school, she was a soprano in the chorus. Then, in August, doctors removed a life-threatening brain tumor, and her voice was gone. But last month, she got it back—not her original voice, but a clone generated by artificial intelligence.
  
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• Internet use is associated with greater wellbeing, global study finds

  13-05-2024 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Researcher cautions against ‘one-size-fits-all solutions’ amid growing debate over impact, particularly on young peopleSpending time online is often portrayed as something to avoid, but research suggests internet use is associated with greater wellbeing in people around the world.The potential impact on wellbeing of the internet, and social media in particular, has become a matter of intense debate. “Our analysis is the first to test whether or not internet access, mobile inter
  
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• If a chronic health condition is making you feel guilty for not being ‘perfect’, try some self-compassion | Gaynor Parkin and Amanda Wallis

  12-05-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Ask yourself how you would respond if your best friend were in the same situation. You wouldn’t think any worse of her, would you?The modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their work“I was so looking forward to the night out and celebrating with my friends. The restaurant reassured me over and over the food was gluten free, and then came back to say the noodles weren’t after I’d already eaten some! I was really freaked out;
  
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• If a chronic health condition is making you feel guilty for not being ‘perfect’, try some self-compassion | Gaynor Parkin

  12-05-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Ask yourself how you would respond if your best friend were in the same situation. You wouldn’t think any worse of her, would you?The modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their work“I was so looking forward to the night out and celebrating with my friends. The restaurant reassured me over and over the food was gluten free, and then came back to say the noodles weren’t after I’d already eaten some! I was really freaked out;
  
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• ‘Money pervades everything’: the psychotherapist delving into our deep anxiety about finances

  12-05-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Do you find it hard to budget or, conversely, difficult to spend? Vicky Reynal reveals what our financial choices reveal about our psyches – and what can be done to ease our money worriesI am a generous tipper. I’ve always thought, to the extent that I have thought about it at all, that this is a positive trait. Recently, however, I’ve begun to wonder. Is it normal to feel a deep sense of anxiety after ordering a takeaway pizza, then realising there is no change in the house? D
  
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• The rage epidemic: is our modern world fuelling aggression?

  12-05-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  After the video of Peter Abbott screaming road-rage abuse through a car window went viral, we ask what’s behind the fury so many feel – and expressLast week a video showing 60-year-old Peter Abbott screaming abuse at TV producer Samantha Isaacs gained a viral audience, after Abbott was found guilty at Poole magistrates court of “using threatening words or behaviour to cause alarm, distress or fear of violence”.In the phone-filmed video, Abbott is seen snarling and shoutin
  
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• I’m worried my new partner won’t love who I really am | Ask Philippa

  12-05-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Try to steer your focus to what you want rather than what you think you should beThe question At 36, I find myself in a stable phase of life, contrasting my earlier years of nomadic renting and dead-end jobs as an artist, a passion I’ve abandoned. My dog is my sole source of joy, yet even that pleasure feels dulled lately. I struggle to feel real or connected, lacking focus and interest. Despite overcoming anorexia and surviving a long, violent relationship, I still battle the emotional bl
  
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• I’m worried my new partner won’t love who I really am

  12-05-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Try to steer your focus to what you want rather than what you think you should beThe question At 36, I find myself in a stable phase of life, contrasting my earlier years of nomadic renting and dead-end jobs as an artist, a passion I’ve abandoned. My dog is my sole source of joy, yet even that pleasure feels dulled lately. I struggle to feel real or connected, lacking focus and interest. Despite overcoming anorexia and surviving a long, violent relationship, I still battle the emotional bl
  
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• Scientists Unveil Most Detailed Map of the Human Brain Ever Created

  11-05-2024 19:11 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthOver the past decade, Harvard researchers have been feeding a 1-cubic-millimeter piece of human brain into a $6 million device that slices it into impossibly thin slivers. Then, using images of those slivers taken by electron microscopy, they have painstakingly created the most-detailed digital map, or "connectome," of the human brain ever created. On Thursday, the results were published in the prestigious journal Science.
  
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• How a 1973 Missouri Law Makes It Hard for Pregnant Women to Divorce

  11-05-2024 19:11 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Canadian Broadcasting Company - Top Stories NewsIf a pregnant woman in Missouri tries to file for divorce today, she will probably be told by her attorney to "come back when she's not pregnant," says Democratic lawmaker Ashley Aune, who is fighting to remove a 1973 law that forces women to disclose their pregnancy status while filing for divorce—something advocates say is harming women experiencing domestic violence. "If you can keep a woman pregnant, you can keep her married," exp
  
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• AI Knowledge Gets Your Foot in the Door, Study Finds

  11-05-2024 19:11 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Science Daily - Top SocietyEmployers are more likely to offer job interviews and higher salaries to graduates with knowledge of artificial intelligence, according to a study in the journal Oxford Economic Papers. Researchers sent thousands of job applications—some reporting completion of an "AI in Business" module and others not—to hundreds of UK companies. More than 50% of those with AI knowledge were invited for an interview, compared with approximately 30% of those...
  
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• AI Deadbots Spur Call for Safeguards to Prevent Unwanted "Hauntings"

  11-05-2024 19:11 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Science Daily - Top Society"Deadbots" or "Griefbots" are AI chatbots that simulate the language patterns and personality traits of the dead using the digital footprints they leave behind. Some companies are already offering these services. Yet experts warn that without design safety standards, artificial intelligence that allows users to hold text and voice conversations with lost loved ones runs the risk of causing psychological harm and even digitally "haunting" those...
  
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• Eating Disorders Common in People with Type 1 Diabetes

  11-05-2024 17:52 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: U.S. News and World ReportOne in every four people age 16 or older with type 1 diabetes may be struggling with an eating disorder, a new review of data on the subject finds. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disorder in which the body attacks its own insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, making a person reliant on injected insulin. The study, based on data from 45 studies involving nearly 11,600 people, was published in the April issue of Eating Disorders.
  
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• AI Systems Are Already Skilled at Deceiving and Manipulating Humans

  11-05-2024 17:52 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Science Daily - Top SocietyMany artificial intelligence (AI) systems have already learned how to deceive humans, even systems that have been trained to be helpful and honest. In a review article publishing in the journal Patterns on May 10, researchers describe the risks of deception by AI systems and call for governments to develop strong regulations to address this issue as soon as possible.
  
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• Tiktok to Automatically Label AI Content Made Outside the Platform

  11-05-2024 16:54 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsTikTok launched a program to automatically label content created with artificial intelligence that is generated outside of the platform. In a statement Thursday, TikTok said it was expanding automatic labeling, already in place for content created with its own AI tools. "AI enables incredible creative opportunities," the company said, "but can confuse or mislead viewers if they don't know the content was AI-generated. Labeling helps make that...
  
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• The First National Summit to End Stigma Around Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders: June 24-26, 2024

  10-05-2024 18:55 via pr.com
  
  Taking place at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah, this three-day event will focus on research, program initiatives, metrics, policies and case studies that address stigma in rural communities, children, youth and families, the media and news, the criminal justice system, faith-based communities, the workplace, marginalized communities, and underserved populations. [PR.com]
  
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• How can we explain conspiracy theorists? We have some theories | Letters

  10-05-2024 17:59 via theguardian.com
  
  George Monbiot’s conversation with Jason Liosatos got Patrick Cosgrove and Alison Carter thinkingLike George Monbiot, I am puzzled by the contradiction of likeable, otherwise rational people who promote conspiracy fantasies (‘You’re going to call me a Holocaust denier now, are you?’: George Monbiot comes face to face with his local conspiracy theorist, 4 May). George’s explanation that they lack rigour in trying to make sense of the world is a good one, but on its o
  
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• Biden Says U.S. Won't Supply Arms for Israel to Attack Rafah

  10-05-2024 08:53 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google NewsPresident Joe Biden said Wednesday that he would not supply offensive weapons that Israel could use in an all-out assault on Rafah—the last major Hamas stronghold in Gaza—over concern for the well-being of the more than 1 million civilians sheltering there. Biden affirmed that the U.S. was still committed to Israel's defense, but warned that if Israel goes into Rafah, "we're not going to supply the weapons and artillery shells used."
  
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• Liberals and Conservatives Are United on Taking Climate Action

  10-05-2024 07:59 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Science Daily - Top SocietyThe division between liberals and conservatives on both climate-change beliefs and related policy support is long-standing. However, the results of a newly released global experiment show that despite these differences, the two camps actually align when it comes to taking certain actions to combat climate change. The findings, based on an experiment involving 50,000 participants across 60 countries, appear in the journal Nature Communications.
  
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