A meta-analysis of 154 studies with 10,189 participants found meditation, mindfulness, relaxation and yoga cut anger and aggression (g = -0.63), while arousing activities like punching bags or running had no overall effect and jogging increased anger.
Students who just missed Indiana's third-grade reading cutoff and repeated the year scored over half a standard deviation higher in reading and math in fourth grade, with a reading gain of about 0.2 SD still visible in seventh grade and no sign of extra discipline or absences.
Studying 220,992 forecasts by 1,392 U.S. analysts, researchers found that those near company headquarters, peers and investors lost accuracy after COVID lockdowns forced remote work, especially star analysts; the edge returned once offices reopened.
In three experiments with 1,880 Germans and Americans, left-leaning people judged a report claiming liberals out-think conservatives as more valid than the identical report about White and Black people. White US conservatives showed the mirror image; Black conservatives showed no preference.
In two US studies, Republicans rated meat as tastier and ate it more often, while Democrats rated plant protein foods higher. Plant-based endorsements from a participant's own party leaders barely helped and even made a beef and pork meatball taste worse.
A global simulation finds tropical seaweed farms could be scaled up to the equivalent of 45% of human food demand in 9 to 14 months after a nuclear war, and growth increases with the severity of the war as cooling stirs up ocean nutrients.
Among 1,009 Americans with chronic pain, congregational support and religious coping narrowed the gap in pain interference between the least and most educated by 36% and 49%, supporting the deprivation compensation hypothesis.
In a preregistered study of 804 people, the currently religious scored highest on right-wing authoritarianism, while those who had left religion scored highest on left-wing authoritarianism.
Using US survey data from 1972 to 2021, researchers found that rising polarization comes from people within each generation sorting by party, while Millennials are among the least polarized cohorts and Boomers the most sorted.
In nationally representative US data, where Christians placed Jesus on the left-right scale was best predicted by their own ideology and their views on Christian nationalism, not by religiosity. Non-Christians showed nearly identical patterns.