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Swearing boosts performance by helping people feel focused, disinhibited, study finds

Changing even a few words can increase how open people feel toward opposing political arguments, study says

The accelerating climate crisis is reshaping not only the physical world but also the psychological landscapes in which individuals and communities attempt to live, learn and adapt.1 2 However, a paucity of psychiatric studies on mental disorders associated with climate change is evident, highlighting a need for climate–mental health research and policy that is contextually grounded, culturally inclusive and scientifically robust.3 4 The collection of articles featured in this special collection illuminates this rapidly evolving terrain from multiple vantage points—educational, cultural, clinical, methodological and epidemiological—revealing a shared urgency. Across school systems in the Global North, climate change education remains an underdeveloped domain despite young people expressing high levels of concern about the future. Mottishaw and MacQuarrie remind us that preparing youth for a destabilised climate requires more than scientific literacy: it demands recognising and constructively engaging with the complex emotional responses...

Psychological Science, Volume 36, Issue 12, Page 887-898, December 2025. Childhood language interventions appear promising for improving children’s lives and yielding economic returns. However, few studies have evaluated long-term effects of these interventions. Our study did this using a large, cluster-randomized trial of a ...

Psychological Science, Volume 36, Issue 12, Page 930-940, December 2025. To navigate the world, our minds must represent not only how things are now (perception) but also how they are about to be (prediction). However, perception and prediction blur together for objects in motion, a classic finding known as “representational ...

Psychological Science, Volume 36, Issue 12, Page 913-929, December 2025. Across five studies and one supplementary study (five preregistered;N= 3,215 adults), we found that men, more than women, avoided shared experiences (e.g., going to the movies, sharing food) with individuals of the same gender. Furthermore, persistent ...

Psychological Science, Volume 36, Issue 12, Page 899-912, December 2025. Can nonnative English accents become barriers to garnering attention in public discourse? The current study examined this question. Analyzing 5,367 TED Talks through computational methodologies such as voice recognition, natural language processing, and ...

Psychological Science, Volume 36, Issue 12, Page 941-951, December 2025. A fundamental underlying question about the nature of overconfidence has continued to be subject to scholarly dispute: Is overconfidence a genuine psychological trait? To advance this contested research topic, we engaged in an adversarial collaboration in ...

Psychological Science, Ahead of Print. Context drives our interpretations of music as surprising, frightening, or awe-inspiring. However, it remains unclear how formal musical training affects our ability to hierarchically integrate complex tonal information to efficiently predict, remember, ...

Psychological Science, Ahead of Print. Americans readily identify with class labels, such asworking classandmiddle class. In turn, these identities affect their social affiliations, cultural values, and physical health. Despite theoretical predictions that class identity can change, little ...

Psychological Science, Ahead of Print. An inherent feature of any choice is the set size from which that choice is made (i.e., the number of available options in a choice set). Choice set size impacts the likelihood of landing on a more preferred option: Larger sets are more likely to contain ...

Psychological Science, Ahead of Print. People overaccept information that supports their identity and underaccept information that opposes their identity—a phenomenon known aspartisan bias. Although partisan-bias effects in judgments of misinformation are robust and pervasive, there is ...

As the regime’s killing machine accelerates following recent suppression orders, a harrowing video smuggled out of Iran on January 10 reveals the true scale of the carnage. In the footage from the Kahrizak Medical Examiner’s Office, the citizen journalist reports seeing approximately 2,000 bodies on the ground awaiting identification. Amidst this slaughter, the case of […]

The nationwide uprising of the Iranian people, which began on December 28, 2025, has reached a critical turning point in terms of the scale of suppression and a massacre at the end of its second week. 3,000 protesters killed

On the twelfth day of the nationwide uprising in January 2026, the Islamic Republic regime has initiated a new phase of confrontation against the collective will of the Iranian people through a combination of “Digital Terrorism” and an “Explicit Order for Suppression.” Ali Khamenei’s speech yesterday in Qom was not a religious oration but an […]

Secret Detention Centers: The Gray Zone of Crimes Against Humanity

Gender-Based Violence and Structural Discrimination against Women in Iran (2025) From Prisons and Executions to Society This section constitutes the fourth part of the annual report on human rights violations in Iran in 2025. Previous sections examined, first, the violation of the right to life and the unprecedented increase in executions, followed by the systematic […]

While the nationwide uprising of January 2026 has shaken the foundations of the ruling power and the people are loudly demanding fundamental change, the Islamic Republic regime not only refuses to stop the killings but has also accelerated the execution machine

As the nationwide uprising in Iran enters its second week in January 2026, evidence and official positions from the highest ranks of the Islamic Republic indicate the preparation for an "organized massacre" and show trials. These developments are reminiscent of the "Death Fatwas" following minutes-long trials during the summer of 1988.

Key Developments in Universities According to field reports from Simay-e-Azadi TV (Days 1 to 4 of the uprising): In the early days, student protests began at major universities in Tehran. Students at the University of Tehran, Sharif University of Technology, and Polytechnic (Amirkabir) held gatherings on campus to declare their support for the popular uprising. […]

In 2025 Iran prisons saw punitive transfers, white torture, medical denial, forced labor, and family pressure; a systemic pattern of repression.

The “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign has continued into its 102nd week as the year 2026 begins, with prisoners in 55 prisons across the country launching a hunger strike. According to the campaign’s statement, the Iranian government executed over 2,200 people in 2025, at least 19 of whom were political and ideological prisoners. Since the […]