AI use in psychotherapy creates new opportunities, but also real risks
Artificial intelligence is already used in psychotherapy in the form of therapeutic chatbots. This provides many opportunities, but also creates risks, including offering harmful advice or causing emotional dependence of the patient on the digital therapist, according to Marcin Rządeczka, an expert from the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University.
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Study: Emotional problems linked to binge eating and food addiction
Over 20 percent of people surveyed by the University of Silesia researchers declared that they had experienced problems related to binge eating or food addiction. People combining both disorders showed the highest level of emotional problems, depression, anxiety, symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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Study: Of many current crises, economic crisis particularly affects young people
The economic crisis is felt the most by young Poles - the stress associated with it affects the majority of students surveyed by psychologists from the Jagiellonian University. As many as 65 percent of young people are struggling with the effects of cumulative stress resulting from many crises occurring at the same time.
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Study: SSRI antidepressants do not dull romantic love
People who taka SSRI antidepressants experience romantic love in the same way as other people, an international study has found. These results may convince people who have previously avoided pharmacotherapy to seek help for depression.
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Does history of epidemics influence contemporary social behaviour?
The history of epidemics can influence contemporary social behaviour, such as the use of protective masks, according to researchers who surveyed thousands of birders from 53 countries and analysed historical prevalence of infectious diseases, as well as contemporary indicators of pandemic policies in different countries.
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Study: 65% of teenagers almost never part with their smartphones
96% of teenagers use smartphones, 93% own them, and 65% almost never part with them, according to the study 'Mobile devices in learning and teaching'. Students use smartphones for entertainment, to develop interests, for homework and during classes.
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Psychologist: Language you use can influence your decisions
A decision made based on data presented in a learned foreign language may be different than if you made it based on data in your native language. Language changes the intensity of felt emotions, and it affects the ability to analyse problems and choose solutions, according to research by Rafał Muda, PhD.
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Why do people spread disinformation? Researchers analyse importance of motivations related to need for power
People strongly driven by the need for power are more likely to share posts on social media, including disinformation. Power itself, like the need to gain prestige and recognition, is not associated with the frequency of spreading false information, according to research involving Professor Małgorzata Kossowska from the Jagiellonian University.
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Study: Compensations for passengers reduce average EU flight delays
Thanks to the introduction of passenger compensation, average flight delays in the EU have been reduced by almost 5 minutes. This is only seemingly little - in the entire EU over a year, this means a time saving equal to about ten thousand years, according to analyses by a researcher from the Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
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Analysis/ Copy and paste from ChatGPT in top-shelf scientific publications
Certain awkward phrases characteristic of ChatGPT appear in peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals, according to the analysis conducted by Artur Strzelecki, PhD, a professor at the University of Economics in Katowice. According to the researcher, this may undermine trust in the process of preparing scientific content.
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