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Mane Kara-Yakoubian

@maneyakoubian

PhD candidate in clinical psychology @TorontoMet | researching judgment & decision-making | writing for @PsyPost | ✨ stupid little dreamer ✨

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Individuals with lower levels of emotional stability or extraversion were more likely to compare themselves to others or to their past selves in these same traits. psypost.org/older-adults-r…

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Yes, ADHD typically gets better with age. There’s a huge difference between a 12 year old with ADHD and a 25 year old with ADHD. Even antisocial personality disorder typically remits by a person’s 60s. Why don’t people like to talk about maturity?

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Men and women performed equally on spatial tests, but women underestimated their abilities, especially on mental rotation, while men’s self-ratings matched their scores. The data support female humility but not male hubris. psypost.org/women-underest…

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Women reported more jealously than men when their partner gave money to another woman, suggesting heightened sensitivity to potential resource diversion. psypost.org/scientists-use…

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“What women can do that men can’t is smell how genetically close a potential romantic partner’s MHC genes are to their own. If it’s too close, they won’t like the smell of that man because it’s suggestive of inbreeding which is more costly for women.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mod…

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Although older women were not rated more negatively than older men, the drop in positivity from youth to old age was steeper for women. As well, for traits like competence & agency, older women were viewed less favorably than other groups. psypost.org/new-research-r…

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Disorders that are classified as neurodevelopmental—such as ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyscalculia, intellectual disability, and stuttering—showed significantly higher rates of non-right-handedness compared to non-neurodevelopmental disorders. psypost.org/non-right-hand…

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A new study finds that nostalgic memories become more bittersweet over time. Positive feelings fade, negative ones like regret and loneliness grow—though gratitude remains stable. psypost.org/new-study-find…

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Absolute chaos and zero chill: family and friends from five countries flying in for your wedding and all landing in your parents’ living room ✨Thriving ✨

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Children & teens who recalled fewer specific memories were more likely to develop depression later, even when early symptoms were accounted for. psypost.org/reduced-memory…

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Psychologists have identified a personality trait they call the Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood. It reflects a chronic sense of being wronged, and includes four key components: Need for recognition; moral elitism; lack of empathy; and rumination [Link below.]

Psychologists have identified a personality trait they call the Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood. It reflects a chronic sense of being wronged, and includes four key components: Need for recognition; moral elitism; lack of empathy; and rumination

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Altogether, the findings across the three experiments suggest that attentional disengagement from threat is not inherently impaired in anxious individuals. psypost.org/anxious-minds-…

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Participants fearful of spiders significantly overestimated the size of spiders compared to butterflies, despite the actual spiders being smaller. On average, they rated spiders as 1.17 times larger than butterflies and 1.80 times larger than wasps. psypost.org/spider-fear-in…

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In women, early-life scarcity indirectly predicted openness to sugar relationships via faster life history strategies; this pathway was not observed in men. psypost.org/openness-to-su…