psychology

A study of over 7,700 employees found that fully remote workers reported the highest well-being levels, suggesting that remote work arrangements can enhance employee satisfaction and challenge common assumptions about disconnection.

This paper explores if large language models exhibit human-like temporal illusions by testing them on a narrative benchmark, finding that LLMs often choose scenarios consistent with psychology literature rather than mimicking human perception.

The article discusses Julian Jaynes' theory that human consciousness is a recent development, emerging around 3,000 years ago due to a shift in brain integration, supported by historical and neurological evidence.

The essay applies the concept of activation energy from chemistry to explain initial barriers in contexts like physics, neuroscience, and personal relationships, emphasizing the importance of low energy for sustaining actions.

This paper investigates whether small foundation models fine-tuned on human behavioral data can serve as cognitive proxies, finding that scale matters little in-distribution but larger models generalize better out-of-distribution.

This paper studies how LLM agents' personalities evolve after major life events, using Big Five traits and introducing a benchmark called BFI-Adapt to evaluate the fidelity of event-induced personality changes across 14 models.

This paper trains 14 small language models (135M to 14B parameters) on Psych-101, a dataset of 10.7 million trial-level human choices, finding that small models suffice for in-distribution matching while larger models generalize better out-of-distribution. Diagnostics show that masking stimuli and feedback destroys most learned information, indicating choice history alone is insufficient.

A scientific study analyzing whether galahs (Eolophus roseicapilla) experience positive affect after flying, exploring the emotional experience of flight in birds.

An article examining evidence that the Dunning-Kruger effect may be a statistical artifact rather than a real psychological bias, discussing criticisms and David Dunning's response.

This study tests whether unexpected events, such as a person dressed as Batman on public transport, increase prosocial behavior like offering a seat to a pregnant woman, drawing on mindfulness and behavioral disruption theories.

Astronauts returning from six-month ISS missions report a persistent 'observer sensation'—feeling detached from their own lives as if watching from outside—weeks after landing, a perceptual aftereffect of neurological adaptation to microgravity.

A Tsinghua University study led by Prof. Chen Runsen links interoception with self-harm and suicide risk, highlighting body trust as a protective factor for risk assessment and intervention.

This 2018 research article from PMC explores the neuroscientific and psychological reasons why humans experience pleasure from music.

This research paper investigates how AI advice reduces people's willingness to express uncertainty, even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized, altering metacognitive thresholds.

The Psychology of Software Teams by Cat Hicks offers an evidence-based guide to improving developer productivity and team culture, challenging traditional metrics and emphasizing social learning and psychological safety.

This paper proposes that the iterative loop of human-AI agent interaction (request, response, appraisal, revision) is a high-frequency neuroplastic training environment that can reinforce negative psychological patterns through repetition, and suggests it can be leveraged for beneficial cognitive training.

BBC reports on a test and research into training people to spot AI-generated deepfake faces by focusing on perceptual qualities like symmetry, proportionality, and expressiveness, using StyleGAN3.

This paper introduces psychological competence as a missing dimension in AI evaluation, proposing a conceptual framework to assess how AI systems support user cognition, emotional interpretation, and decision-making in human-facing roles.

Discusses the psychological barrier to viewing aging as a solvable problem rather than a natural inevitability, referencing Aubrey de Grey's concept of the 'pro-aging trance'.

The article examines the link between working memory and consciousness, discussing how working memory's limitations and the 'doorway effect' might contribute to our conscious experience.