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Psychological Science, Volume 37, Issue 8, Page 527-539, August 2026. Empowering people to navigate online information competently is essential to complement systemic content moderation and platform regulation. A nationally representative randomized controlled study among adults in Germany (N =2,666) compared two media-...

Psychological Science, Volume 37, Issue 8, Page 540-556, August 2026. Researchers have long debated whether self-esteem is associated with aggression. In this preregistered research, we tested the effects of self-esteem on aggression by using statistical models that control for unmeasured time-invariant confounders. Data ...

Psychological Science, Volume 37, Issue 8, Page 557-571, August 2026. We present the results of a replication of Study 2 from Ariely and Wertenbroch on the role of deadlines in mitigating procrastination. We show that our results do not replicate those of the original article. In our replication, with adult participants ...

Psychological Science, Volume 37, Issue 8, Page 586-599, August 2026. The numerous executive orders directed at transgender youth in the weeks following the 2025 U.S. presidential inauguration were likely a signal to these youth—and their parents—that the federal government no longer supported them. Using a longitudinal ...

Psychological Science, Volume 37, Issue 8, Page 572-585, August 2026. How essential is a sense of significance for motivation—the feeling that our efforts matter beyond the trivial or momentary? Four studies (N= 604, children aged 4–9 years of age and 582 adults) show that no amount of significance is too small to matter, ...

Psychological Science, Ahead of Print. This study examined cognitive and experiential patterns in the trauma narratives of 42 survivors (74% women;Mage= 42.1) of the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting, the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. We conducted a codebook thematic ...

Psychological Science, Ahead of Print. People in romantic relationships often report higher life satisfaction than single individuals. We propose that this life-satisfaction gap reflects, in part, alignment with the prevailing norm of being in a relationship. In a preregistered study with a ...

Psychological Science, Ahead of Print. False memory can arise from semantically or perceptually similar experiences, as demonstrated in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm. Although semantic and phonological DRM tasks yield parallel false-recognition patterns, researchers have argued ...

Psychological Science, Ahead of Print. Evaluating sources is an essential skill in our misinformation-riddled media environment. However, previous studies suggest that people tend not to engage with source information during reading, and very little research exists on how source credibility ...

Psychological Science, Ahead of Print. Reward- and punishment-associated (i.e., Pavlovian) cues can trigger specific responses that interfere with learning appropriate actions. Prior work has shown that reward impedes the learning of “no-go” responses, and punishment impedes the learning of “...

Psychological Science, Ahead of Print. Nedergaard and Lupyan (2024) presented four studies aimed at validating anendophasia (i.e., experiencing no inner speech).1However, Lind (2025) held that no one, including Nedergaard and Lupyan, has demonstrated that anendophasia exists. In both articles,...

Psychological Science, Ahead of Print. Sexism is a pervasive and persistent problem. In their 2022 article “The ‘Equal-Opportunity Jerk’ Defense: Rudeness Can Obfuscate Gender Bias” (Psychological Science, Vol. 33, pp. 397–411), Belmi et al. argued that sexism can be obfuscated and go ...

Cases of Political Prisoners Sentenced to Death in Iran Case No. 9  |  Case ID: IRN-DP-1404-009  |  Last reviewed: 29 August 2026 Hamidreza and Abdolreza Fathi, brothers from Marvdasht, were arrested during the nationwide protests of December 2025 and January 2026 and sentenced to death by Branch One of the Revolutionary Court in Shiraz. The […]

Inefficient economic policies, rampant inflation, and the consequences of regional escalation have exposed Iranian society to an unprecedented livelihood crisis. Analysts note that this crisis carries the inherent potential to spark a new wave of widespread protests across diverse social strata. Faced with this prospect, the ruling apparatus—instead of rectifying livelihood budget deficits and reforming […]

Who Does the Islamic Republic of Iran Execute? Reports confirm the execution of Majid Adineh, a protester detained during the nationwide demonstrations of January 2026 in Mohammadshahr, Karaj. He was executed on August 23, 2026 -under charges of “operational actions benefiting the Zionist regime, the United States, and hostile groups” pursuant to Article 1 of […]

Cases of Political Prisoners Sentenced to Death in Iran Case No. 8  |  Case ID: IRN-DP-1404-008  |  Last reviewed: 8 December 2025 Ehsan Faridi, born in 2003–2004 and a manufacturing engineering student in Tabriz, was arrested on 18 June 2024 when he attended the Tabriz Prosecutor’s Office. Branch 3 of the Tabriz Revolutionary Court sentenced […]

An assessment of judicial procedures and received reports indicates that the state-sponsored suppression and arbitrary deprivation of life regarding protesters detained during the nationwide demonstrations of January 2026 have moved into detention centers and Revolutionary Courts. Contrary to the assumption that repression has subsided, evidence demonstrates the ongoing issuance and execution of death sentences through […]

Coinciding with the start of the 135th week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign, resisting prisoners in 61 different prisons across the country, including the newly joined “Noor” Prison in Mazandaran Province, have once again gone on a protest hunger strike. This coordinated action has taken place in response to the escalation of the […]

Labour Exploitation, Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation Marking 23 August, International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition On the night of 22–23 August 1791, enslaved people rose up in Saint-Domingue, present-day Haiti, in an event that became a turning point in the historic struggle against the slave trade. UNESCO designated […]

Warning: This report contains descriptions of torture, physical and sexual violence, medical neglect, death threats, and the execution of mock hangings. To protect the prisoner and their family, their identity, as well as the exact time and location of detention, are withheld. This report is compiled based on the direct testimony of this prisoner regarding […]

Reports received from Evin, Greater Tehran (Fashafuyeh), Qezel Hesar, Dastgerd (Isfahan), Karaj Central, Malayer, and Gonbad-e Kavus prisons demonstrate a severe deterioration of living standards, medical neglect, and non-compliance with prisoner detention regulations. Collectively, these conditions jeopardize the health and lives of prisoners and may constitute “gradual state murder” and the gradual deprivation of the […]

Cases of Political Prisoners Sentenced to Death in Iran Case No. 7  |  Case ID: IRN-DP-1404-007  |  Last reviewed: 17 August 2026 Arghavan Fallahi, a 25-year-old political prisoner, was arrested in Parand Township on 25 January 2025 and transferred to Ward 209 of Evin Prison. She was held for months in solitary confinement and, according […]