Hope, 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 “angry” pattern described how they got involved. Research Highlights 3 emotions, 3 different patterns: in surveys of 2,141 (2016) and 2,228 (2020) …
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 …
Among Swedish memory-clinic patients without dementia, more stressful life events were linked to a spinal-fluid sign of Alzheimer’s amyloid buildup, but only in people with moderate-to-high insomnia symptoms, according to a 2026 study.1 Research Highlights Stress and insomnia worked together: in 103 patients with spinal-fluid tests, lifetime stressful events and insomnia symptoms interacted in relation …
About 9 in 10 children referred for ADHD or autism had elevated symptoms in at least 2 of 4 areas — ADHD, autism, defiance and learning problems — and the same overlap showed up in ordinary community children at lower rates, according to a 2026 Pennsylvania study based on mothers’ ratings.1 Research Highlights Overlap was …
University students with subthreshold depression, meaning real depressive symptoms that fall short of a major depression diagnosis, had stronger connections in 3 cingulate brain circuits and slightly higher levels of 3 inflammatory proteins than healthy students, according to a 2026 brain-imaging study from China.1 Research Highlights Stronger cingulate connections: resting brain scans of 126 students …
Among 296 Norwegian university students, believing worry is uncontrollable and dangerous was strongly linked to neuroticism: the tendency to feel anxious, sad, irritable and easily stressed. This link remained after accounting for the other 4 major personality traits in a 2026 study.1 An exploratory model drew an arrow from worry beliefs to neuroticism, but the …
In a 2026 survey of 420 middle school students in eastern China, more physically active teens reported more cognitive reappraisal (reframing stressful situations), better stress-management habits and better health-related quality of life.1 Research Highlights Activity linked to quality of life through coping scores: the researchers’ model combined proposed links through reframing stressful situations and stress-management …