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College students who felt more academic stress and trusted AI more reported leaning harder on generative AI for their writing, according to a 2026 survey of 229 journalism students at 2 univ…
Read articleA 2026 theory paper proposes that Chinese university students giving presentations in English handle their nerves better when the classroom builds their confidence. It is a framework with no…
Read articleIn a 2026 interview study involving 6 adults with long-term chronic pain in Quebec, participants said their deepest suffering came less from how much they hurt than from what pain did to the…
Read articleChinese teens aged 10 to 15 who trusted the people around them less had more depressive symptoms 2 years later, in a 2026 study that followed 971 teens. Frequent arguments with parents and l…
Read articleAdvice on how parents and schools should guide children’s use of AI tools like ChatGPT is running well ahead of the evidence. A 2026 review found that only 8 of 46 studies it drew on include…
Read articleHope, fear and anger were each linked to more political activity among Black women in 2 large US surveys, and which emotion mattered depended on what the women were feeling about.1 No single…
Read articleCollege students who saw their AI learning tools as highly adaptive reported less enjoyment, more anxiety and more boredom during the semester, and weaker study self-management by its end, i…
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