Adding socioeconomic background to EEG brain recordings slightly improved how well a deep-learning model sorted 127 US university students by ADHD screening status. Accuracy rose on all 4 brain-recording tasks, but the gain was not statistically significant on any of them.1 Research Highlights About 9 in 10 classified correctly from EEG alone: tested on students …
Chinese college freshmen from homes with stricter parenting and more family conflict sensed more anxiety in their parents about their education, according to a 2026 survey of 646 students. Higher resilience was linked to sensing less of it, and strict parenting showed the strongest link of all.1 Research Highlights Family conflict and resilience pulled in …
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 universities in China. Students with stronger AI literacy reported less dependence once other factors were taken into account.1 Research Highlights Stress had the strongest …
College 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, in a 2026 survey of 486 undergraduates in China.1 Research Highlights Less self-directed studying: a more adaptive-feeling AI environment at the start of the semester was …
College students who saw the rules on AI use as unclear, AI cheating as easy to get away with, and school guidance as thin reported more AI-assisted cheating, according to a 2026 survey of 863 undergraduates in Vietnam.1 Academic pressure, the usual suspect, did not show the expected link. Research Highlights Unclear rules went with …
University students who used an AI chatbot for 12 weeks ended with anxiety scores about 2 points lower than students in weekly group therapy, in a randomized trial of 977 students in Israel.1 The gap was still there 3 months later. But it came less from the chatbot users improving a lot than from anxiety …
Low-burden digital phenotyping is appealing because college students already leave daily traces in phones, messages, sleep logs, and voice samples. In Henry et al.’s 120-student study, positive emoji use was the clearest signal compared with GPS and complex voice biomarkers: higher positive emoji use tracked lower depression and anxiety, while speech rate and sleep added …