Adobe Stock

Childhood experiences change the way we help family and strangers, study finds

People who experienced adversity in childhood are more likely to help strangers but less likely to support close family members, while trust in others in adulthood is primarily shaped by positive early experiences, according to a study by researchers from the University of Warsaw.

  • Adobe Stock
    Human

    Online drug trade shifts to messaging apps, exposing prevention gaps, Polish study finds

    Drug trafficking is increasingly moving to instant messaging platforms and online environments, creating new risks that current addiction prevention strategies fail to address, according to research led by Piotr Siuda of Kazimierz Wielki University.

  • Adobe Stock
    Human

    Post-game depression: New study reveals emotional toll of finishing video games

    Post-game depression (P-GD) is a type of grief resembling parting with a loved one or the end of an important life stage, and fans of role-playing games are most susceptible, according to researchers who developed the first tool to measure this phenomenon.

  • Adobe Stock
    Human

    Russian disinformation aims to destroy trust in the state, says Polish academic

    Russian disinformation campaigns are designed to weaken societies by destroying public trust in their own states and institutions, according to a researcher from the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn.

  • Fot. Adobe Stock
    Health

    Body fat influences voice pitch and loudness, Polish study shows

    Body fat affects the human voice, making women’s voices louder and giving men’s voices a “brighter” tone, according to research by Polish anthropologist Łukasz Pawelec, PhD, of the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences.

  • 14.05.2025 PAP/Łukasz Gągulski
    Human

    Playing chess can improve self-awareness and life skills, study shows

    Playing chess can help develop self-awareness and even change life patterns, research focused on how female students applied lessons from chess to understanding their own behaviours has shown.

  • Adobe Stock
    Human

    Russia uses disinformation to target Eastern Europe, Poland at risk, expert warns

    Russia is waging a “new Cold War” in the information space, using disinformation to influence public opinion in Eastern Europe and potentially target Poland, a leading expert at Poland’s University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn said.

  • Adobe Stock
    Human

    Children score higher on grammar tests in face-to-face settings than online, researchers find

    Children performing grammar tests achieve higher average scores when assessed face-to-face than when tested online, according to analyses by the Language and Humour Research Team at the Institute of Psychology of the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw.

  • Adobe Stock
    Human

    Consumer culture pushes teenagers toward materialism and worsens mental health, psychologist warns

    Teenagers are growing up in a consumer culture that promotes material success as the main path to happiness, which may harm their well-being, says psychologist Anna Maria Zawadzka from University of Gdańsk.

  • Adobe Stock
    Human

    Polish study finds infant speech development closely linked to whole-body movement

    Speech development in the first year of life is closely linked to movements of the entire body, and infants’ first sounds are almost always accompanied by intense limb activity, according to researchers from the BabyLab team at the Institute of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Most Popular

  • Adobe Stock

    AI censorship affects accuracy, warns Bielik co-creator

  • Polish archaeologists discover remains of ancient ship graveyard

  • Childhood experiences change the way we help family and strangers, study finds

  • Post-game depression: New study reveals emotional toll of finishing video games

  • MicroRNA gene mutations disrupt cellular regulation, study shows

Recommended

Adobe Stock

Childhood experiences change the way we help family and strangers, study finds

People who experienced adversity in childhood are more likely to help strangers but less likely to support close family members, while trust in others in adulthood is primarily shaped by positive early experiences, according to a study by researchers from the University of Warsaw.