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14-Jul-2025

Feeling more extroverted? Study finds you may have learned how to handle daily stress better

Michigan State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study led by Michigan State University found that as people get better at handling stress on a daily basis, they also become more extroverted, agreeable and open to new experiences over a nearly 20-year period. Likewise, the worse they manage daily stressors, the more introverted, unfriendly and closed off from new experiences they become.

Journal: Psychology and Aging

14-Jul-2025

Study finds political instability, environmental conditions, and social inequality accelerate aging

Trinity College Dublin
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New study redefines healthy aging as an environmental, social, and political phenomenon, and calls on public health strategies to expand beyond lifestyle prescriptions to address structural inequalities and governance deficits.

Journal: Nature Medicine

14-Jul-2025

In a competitive world, mean leaders look smart

American Psychological Association
Peer-Reviewed Publication

People who view the world as a savage social jungle are more likely to admire antagonistic leaders, praising their competence, while those who see the social world as cooperative and benign might just call those leaders clueless, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

Journal: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

14-Jul-2025

New study highlights how perceived economic inequality undermines individual well-being across 71 countries

Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research published in Social Psychological and Personality Science shows that awareness of economic disparity affects happiness, meaning, harmony and spiritual well-being.

Journal: Social Psychological and Personality Science

14-Jul-2025

One in four Spaniards allocates most of their income to housing

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Reports and Proceedings

A total of 40% of Spanish tenants spend more than 30% of their income on housing, surpassing the threshold that defines households as excessively overburdened in this area.

14-Jul-2025

What fuels preschool teacher development: lessons from China, Japan, and the United States

Keio University Global Research Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Preschool teachers shape young children’s development, but how their expertise evolves remains less understood. Using video-cued ethnographic interviews, a researcher studied 112 preschool educators across Japan, China, and the United States to explore what drives professional growth. The study revealed cultural differences in mentoring, collaboration, and motivation. These findings led to a new framework for understanding how early childhood teachers change, offering insight into improving teacher development across diverse educational systems.

Journal: Comparative Education

14-Jul-2025

ERC funding to understand tumor evolution to defeat cancer

Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)
Grant and Award Announcement

Xavier Rovira, principal investigator at IBEC, has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant. These prestigious grants are awarded by the European Research Council to explore the commercial and social potential of research projects carried out at European institutions. Rovira's project seeks to develop the EVOaware platform, which is designed to address tumour resistance to therapies and accelerate the discovery and development of new cancer treatments.

Funder: European Research Council