Persuasion

Behavioral nudges, such as text message reminders and vaccine information videos, can improve COVID-19 vaccination rates.

Nature

Young heterosexual women, when viewing a photo of a man alone and a photo of the same man holding a cat, rated the man holding the cat as less dateable.

MDPI
CNN

Persuasion

In a study of older white men living with HIV, experiencing HIV-related stigma was linked to worse cognitive performance and greater anxiety.

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JAIDS

Reading social media posts in a more emotional state of mind can make people more likely to believe untrue news posts.

People can often tell if a speaker is smiling from their tone of voice alone. This knowledge can be used to improve communication over the phone and radio and make synthetic speech sound more human.

In an online survey, Americans were more hesitant to receive the COVID-19 vaccine when they were told that it was rapidly developed, but less hesitant when told that the vaccines had gone through standard rigorous testing.

Frontiers in Public Health

In the two month period around the US' withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, Twitter bots were responsible for about 25% of tweets about climate change, and were more likely than human users to tweet about climate denial research.

Having a competent supervisor was more predictive of job satisfaction among workers than worker education, tenure, industry, or earnings.

People who received more Instagram “likes” than expected reported less loneliness but more negative feelings such as being upset, hostile, ashamed, nervous, and afraid. These feelings may trigger more like-seeking to reduce dissatisfaction.

Personality and Individual Differences

Fifth graders and high school students who read the Harry Potter books and identified with Harry Potter held more accepting views towards marginalized groups.

Journal of Applied Social Psychology