Psychology class: stories for study

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Social Influence

Israel grapples with ‘Eichmann’ dilemma over Hamas attack trials

World heading for hot 2024 after records ‘shattered’ in 2023, says WMO

The west’s handling of the pandemic beat its own expectations

Troops condemn Israeli army actions in Gaza

Memory

Multi-tasking: how to survive in the 21st century

‘My memory is fine’: Joe Biden rages as age question resurfaces

Attachment

Time off for new fathers raises bias awareness

America’s childcare system is broken

Psychopathology

Self-diagnosis ads on TikTok blur mental health fears with reality

Suppressing negative thoughts good for mental health, UK researchers find

AI-designed drug to enter human clinical trial for first time

Your wellbeing plans don’t work

I’d never stuck with therapy. Then I tried psychoanalysis

Approaches to Psychology

Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman dies, aged 90

Researchers hunt for new dementia detection methods

Biopsychology

New studies find benefits in very early drug treatment of Alzheimer’s

UK biotech group raises £48mn for Alzheimer’s research

Spa wars – the race to be the best retreat in the world

Relationships

Divorce: do the numbers still add up?

Cognition and Development

US seeks up to 50-year sentence for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried

‘Grief tech’ avatars aim to take the sting out of death

AI forces a rethink on executive MBA teaching

Schizophrenia

Indivior aims to move primary listing from London to New York

I’d never stuck with therapy. Then I tried psychoanalysis

Eating Behaviour

Behold the Ozempic effect on business

Stress

The bottle and the blues: how different generations respond to stress

Swiss bank regulator steps down citing toll from ‘permanent stress’

Aggression

Ecuador arrests 6,000 people in month-long gang crackdown

Forensic psychology

Shoplifting, self-checkout and the limits of AI

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud

Violence in Argentina’s drug capital tests Javier Milei’s small-state vision

Gender

We must mind the maths gap for women

Gender theorist Judith Butler: ‘What are they frightened of exactly?’