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DATE: December 13, 2024 at 10:38PM
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When we're told something repeatedly, we internalize that information, and it becomes part of who we are. For some of us, this is a huge problem. Here's why—and what to do about harmful self-beliefs, writes @ifoundmo t.co/WdklrV7rYv

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A question: Can anyone recommend any good, academic works that analyze "moral panics" through the ages?

From the "Witchcraft Panics" of early modern Europe to the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s to the modern anti-trans panic and TERF movement - I could use some good scholarly analysis of their psychology and how they propagate.

I eventually want to write a book about witch tales from German folklore, and it may be useful to compare the witchcraft panics of the past with more modern variants - so that I can show that while the context changes, the basic phenomenon is still with us.

"We are the envy of North America. We are the envy of the world,""

"We are a threat to the U.S.': Ford suggests reason for Trump's proposed tariffs"

I think Doug Ford needs a psychiatrist, seriously, I am NOT being sarcastic or joking.
I can't believe he said this . Doug Ford is once again displaying his inflated ego and how his imagination runs wild.

#News #DougFord #Ontario #Canada #Trump #Politics #Psychology #onpo

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Toronto · 'We are a threat to the U.S.': Ford suggests reason for Trump's proposed tariffsPremier Doug Ford is touting the strength of Ontario’s manufacturing sector, suggesting that U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s promised tariffs may have something to do with him seeing the province as a “threat.”

DATE: December 10, 2024 at 03:00PM
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In an exclusive video interview with Psychiatric Times, Romina Mizrahi, MD, and M. Belen Blasco, MD, discuss the clinical relevance of their findings on synaptic dysfunction in psychosis they presented at @ACNPorg
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Psychiatric Times · Synaptic Dysfunction in Psychosis Explored at ACNP MeetingBy Heidi Anne Duerr, MPH

Today I learned about the seven types of rest that we need:

1. Physical rest
2. Mental rest
3. Sensory rest
4. Emotional rest
5. Physical rest
6. Creative rest
7. Spiritual rest

Here's hoping you get the type of rest you need today.

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Psychology TodayThe 7 Kinds of Rest You Actually NeedSocial, emotional, sensory, and more.

The Internet is amazing. How else could I find out that Beat poet Allen Ginsberg took this photo in 1953 with my dad in the background, and it ended up in National Gallery of Art's collection?

You should have seen my dad's eyes pop when I showed it to him: "Where did you find this??"

Being near someone who fidgets can be distressing for those who get annoyed by it. New research explores misokinesia, an aversion to repetitive body movements, its impact on daily life, relationships, and mental well-being. Read about it at NeuroScience.com:

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Neuroscience News · Why Fidgeting Bothers Some People - Neuroscience NewsNeuroscience News provides research news for neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI, brain science, mental health, robotics and cognitive sciences.

"A small percentage of users generate the majority of content, and their posts tend to be extreme, polarizing, or highly emotional. Meanwhile, the majority of people who ‘lurk’ on the internet either do not post or post moderate opinions far more infrequently; thus, extreme opinions are overrepresented in the online space."

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The Social Identity & Morality Lab · How Social Media Warps Your RealityBy Social Identity & Morality Lab

DATE: December 07, 2024 at 02:00PM
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TITLE: It’s not digital illiteracy: Here’s why older adults are drawn to dubious news

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A recent study published in Public Opinion Quarterly challenges the prevailing belief that digital illiteracy is the primary factor behind older adults interaction with unreliable online sources. The new findings provide evidence that while older adults are more likely than younger cohorts to engage with unreliable new sources, their susceptibility does not stem from an inability to identify false content. Instead, heightened partisan bias and entrenched political identities appear to drive their engagement.

The internet’s role in spreading misinformation has sparked global concerns, particularly regarding older adults’ engagement with unreliable content. Past research identified older Americans as disproportionately responsible for sharing dubious news, raising alarms about their vulnerability to online misinformation. Previous explanations often pointed to digital illiteracy, cognitive decline, or social isolation among older adults as key factors.

However, evidence has remained inconsistent. While older adults consume and share more dubious news, they often outperform younger individuals in discerning false headlines in controlled experiments. To reconcile these conflicting findings, researchers designed a study that integrates survey data and real-world digital behavior to better understand the drivers of older adults’ engagement with unreliable news.

“Others have documented that exposure to and engagement with untrustworthy news sources increase with age, and I think it is important to understand the information environments of older adults, an increasingly powerful and important segment of society,” said study author Ben Lyons, an assistant professor of communication at the University of Utah.

The research utilized three nationally representative panel surveys of nearly 10,000 Americans, conducted around the 2018 midterm elections. These surveys were paired with digital trace data, which captured participants’ actual online behavior, including visits to websites categorized as reliable, false, or hyperpartisan. This method allowed the researchers to assess both participants’ ability to discern false information in controlled settings and their real-world engagement with low-quality news sources.

Survey tasks asked participants to evaluate the accuracy of various news headlines, which included false, mainstream, and hyperpartisan stories. False headlines were those that had been thoroughly fact-checked and found to be untrue. Hyperpartisan headlines, while based on factual events, were presented in a highly slanted and misleading manner.

The study also included a digital literacy intervention: participants were shown brief tips on how to identify false news, and their discernment skills were evaluated before and after this training. In addition to examining digital literacy, the researchers analyzed political variables, such as participants’ partisan identities, levels of political interest, and degree of affective polarization (a strong emotional preference for one’s political party and aversion to the opposition).

The findings revealed a clear age-related difference in engagement with dubious news. Older adults were more likely to visit dubious websites and engage with hyperpartisan content. However, their engagement was not linked to an inability to identify false news. In fact, survey results showed that older adults were often better than younger participants at discerning the accuracy of both false and mainstream news headlines. This challenges the common assumption that digital illiteracy among older Americans is the primary reason for their higher interaction with unreliable news. Furthermore, the digital literacy intervention had similar effects across all age groups, suggesting that older adults are not uniquely deficient in this area.

Instead, the researchers identified partisan bias as a key factor driving older adults’ engagement with dubious news. Older participants displayed stronger partisan leanings and were more likely to view headlines aligned with their political beliefs as accurate. The researchers argued that this heightened partisan bias stems from entrenched political identities, which tend to become more calcified with age.

“Older adults do share more misinformation online, but this is not because they lack digital literacy or other skills,” Lyons told PsyPost. “Instead, older adults have stronger partisan attachments, which lead them to share more dubious news that denigrates their political opponents. Interventions aimed at tackling misinformation among this age group need to take that into account.”

A particularly important discovery was the role of hyperpartisan news in this dynamic. While most previous research on misinformation focused on entirely false headlines, this study highlighted how hyperpartisan content—stories that are technically true but presented in a highly biased way—drives much of the engagement among older adults. By distinguishing between false and hyperpartisan news, the researchers were able to reconcile the apparent discrepancy between survey results (which show strong discernment skills among older adults) and digital trace data (which show high engagement with dubious news).

“Initially, I discovered a disconnect between engagement with misinformation, which older adults do at higher rates, and apparent belief in it, which does not seem to increase with age,” Lyons explained. “I wanted to understand the reason for this disjuncture.”

“I then realized that we were studying these two questions in fairly different ways. In surveys, researchers typically expose respondents to false news that is balanced in its partisan slant, with an equal number of items congenial to Republicans and Democrats, for instance. However, when we measure exposure or engagement in the wild, we measure behavior that is based on the actual supply of untrustworthy news outlets, which tends to be skewed far to the right.”

“Further, when we assess susceptibility to false news in surveys, we tend to use stories verified to be false,” Lyons continued. “In the wild, we tend to measure exposure or engagement based on lists of sources that tend to be unreliable but surely publish many stories that are not completely fabricated. I found in this data that accounting for these disparities can help explain the disjuncture in outcomes. It appears that older consumers’ engagement with dubious news is sincere, stemming from news judgments made through a strong partisan perceptual screen.”

Despite its robust methodology, the study has limitations. It focuses exclusively on political news, leaving unanswered questions about engagement with misinformation on non-political topics. Additionally, the findings are limited to the United States, though similar patterns may exist in other countries with polarized political climates.

Lyons is expanding this line of research into a book project that will explore these dynamics further, with the goal of informing public policy on misinformation interventions tailored to older audiences.

“I’m currently working on a book project on the topic,” he explained. “In this work, I plan to comprehensively unravel this puzzle through replications and extensions of the current findings. My goal for this project is to not only make a meaningful contribution to theoretical discussions surrounding misinformation and older adults but to shape public policy on this issue as well, using this project’s findings as an opportunity to discuss approaches to age-specific misinformation interventions.”

The study, “Partisanship and older Americans’ engagement with dubious political news,” was authored by Benjamin Lyons, Jacob M. Montgomery, and Jason Reifler.

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PsyPost · It’s not digital illiteracy: Here’s why older adults are drawn to dubious newsBy Eric W. Dolan

DATE: December 07, 2024 at 05:04AM
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75 Years of #LeadGasoline Caused 150 Million #MentalHealth Disorders, Study Finds
#GenX bears an extra burden of conditions such as #depression, #anxiety, #ADHD and neurotic behavior because of the #leadedgasoline they were exposed to as #children, according to a study in peer-reviewed Journal of Child #Psychology and #Psychiatry. Leaded gas was banned in the #UnitedStates in 1996, but the study said years of exposure during development made them particularly vulnerable.
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USA TODAY · Leaded gas created a mental health crisis for this generationBy , USA TODAY

DATE: December 06, 2024 at 11:21AM
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TITLE: New brain mapping technique reveals insights into the brain's higher functions

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A new way of mapping activity and connections between different regions of the brain has revealed fresh insights into how higher order functions like language, thought and attention, are organized.

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DATE: December 06, 2024 at 02:00PM
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TITLE: Non-Verbal Boy Bakes Dozens of Christmas Pies to Replace Michelin-Star Chef’s Stolen Holiday Batch

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When a Michelin-starred chef in England had over 2,000 Christmas pies stolen on their way to a Christmas fair, an unlikely baker stepped in to help. The story comes from the country’s northeast, where an award-winning Christmas market called the St. Nicolas Fair in the city of York, was set to feature 2,500 pies baked […]

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Good News Network · Non-Verbal Boy Bakes Dozens of Christmas Pies to Replace Michelin-Star Chef's Stolen Holiday BatchThe van transporting the pies to the event was stolen, driven off, and abandoned, while the pies inside perished.

DATE: December 06, 2024 at 09:02AM
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TITLE: Visionary Fuels First Car Powered By Seaweed Piling Up on Beaches That Reduces Tourism

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A woman from Trinidad and Tobago has created a startup that’s turning heaps of smelly seaweed and other waste from the island’s rum distilleries into a new, low-emission fuel for cars. Along with members of her team, she is working on creating the first product under the brand name Rum and Sargassum—a mixture that produces […]

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Good News Network · Visionary Fuels First Car Powered By Seaweed Piling Up on Beaches That Reduces TourismMillions of dollars are spent by Barbados' beach resorts every year to remove sargassum seaweed that piles up on the beaches.

Doctors issue damning assessment of Australia's 'nightmare' mental health system
By Paige Cockburn

The Australian Medical Association is ringing the alarm on the state of the nation’s mental health system as workforce shortages in the field of psychiatry leave vulnerable patients in limbo.

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ABC News · Mental health system a 'nightmare' for vulnerable Australians and needs urgent fixes, AMA warnsBy Paige Cockburn

Truly, not all heroes wear capes. New Scientist have taken one for the team and read psychologist-turned-Youtuber Jordan Peterson's new book, "We Who Wrestle With God." The TL;DR: It's marketed as being about how ancient myths and legends may offer life lessons, but it's actually all about the Bible and how it's “the foundation of the West, plain and simple.” (The ancient Greeks and Romans, the Norse, and many Arabic scholars would like a word.) And where Peterson tries to link his ideas to human biology, it all goes to pot. In one section, Peterson claims that pregnant and nursing women manifest "increased dependency" and therefore cannot compete with men for status. "At this point we exercised our emergent authority and stopped reading," the New Scientist team say.

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New ScientistUnpacking the new Jordan Peterson book – with much exhaustionFeedback takes one for the team and dips into the psychologist-turned-Youtuber's new tome, We Who Wrestle With God – only to quibble with the human biology it contains