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• Spouses Share Psychiatric Diagnoses Above Chance Levels, Study Finds

  25-12-2025 06:51 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: PsyPostThe concept of romantic partners sharing a psychiatric diagnosis is not new. Indeed, between 1964 and 1985 several studies that explored the role of psychiatric diagnoses in romantic choices. However, large cross-cultural investigations have been noticeable absent. Now, a study of more than 6 million people in three countries, published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, has found robust evidence of spouses sharing the same psychiatric...
  
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• How Much of Project 2025 Has the White House Achieved This Year?

  25-12-2025 06:51 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: PBS News HourBefore he was elected president in 2024, Donald Trump said that he had nothing to do with Project 2025, a Christian-nationalist blueprint to remake the U.S. federal government. As this year draws to a close, advocacy organizations, labor unions, and a crowd-sourced effort estimate that his administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in the document's 920 pages, including many related to race, gender, equity, and diversity.
  
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• Revisited: is curiosity the key to ageing well? – podcast

  25-12-2025 06:00
  Psychologists have typically believed that we become less curious as we age, but recent research has shown curiosity actually becomes more targeted and specific in our later years. In this episode from September, Madeleine Finlay hears from Dr Mary Whatley, an assistant professor of psychology at Western Carolina University, and Dr Matthias Gruber of Cardiff University’s Brain Research Imaging Centre to find out why we change in this way, and how maintaining broad curiosity into older age
  
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