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  • [New] Five Top Citizen Science projects were approved for funding in 2025: For two years, citizens will be working together with research teams on topics ranging from health sciences, psychology, and biology to linguistics and digital media. Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
  • [New] Happify has earned its place among the leading mental health and wellness platforms in 2026 for turning positive psychology and cognitive-behavioral therapy into engaging, interactive activities. Clustox Blog
  • [New] Researchers at Microsoft and CAS Institute of Software recently devised an approach that could improve interactions between LLMs and human users, allowing them to respond to emotion-laced, psychology-based prompts fed to them by human users. Tech Xplore
  • The promise of integrated deterrence-combining technology and partners - and even signs that the Kremlin wants to de-escalate may not be enough to overcome human psychology and fear of future losses. / Ukraine CSIS
  • One form of direct care in forensic psychology is making court-related risk assessments such as the risk of spousal or sexual violence, mental health evaluation, or mental capacity assessment that might be taken into consideration by judges when they make legal decisions. The Straits Times
  • From voice assistants like Siri to natural language processors, AI technologies use cultural biases and modern psychology to fit specific characteristics of how users perceive and navigate the external world, thereby projecting the illusion of intelligence. Oxford Scholarship Online
  • Machine learning is exceptionally good at learning how to exploit human psychology because the internet provides a vast and fast feedback loop to learn what will reinforce and or break beliefs by demographic cohorts. Enterprise AI
  • Schools' limited access to professional help, such as speech and language therapists or educational psychology services, could be leading to more AP referrals and potentially more permanent exclusions. Tes Magazine
  • The Ukrainian Eurointegration Platform will support displaced Ukrainians, focussing on women and young people, and operate as a platform to develop their expertise in a number of areas including sociology, applied linguistics, psychology, entrepreneurship, innovation, tech and smart urbanism. Loughborough University
  • Psychology Cares is exploring project finance opportunities for an innovative mental health care and neuroscience R&D centre in Pakistan. Silta Finance
  • Over the past decade, forensic psychiatry and psychology have relied heavily on structured professional judgement tools to assess the risk of individuals resorting to extreme forms of violence. Frontiers
  • SRM leaders will be looking to non-conventional methods such as behavioral psychology and nudge theory to reduce the likelihood of human actions causing breaches. Reflectiz
  • Translating concepts from clinical psychology such as risk factors, long used to assess likelihood of symptom reoccurrence and/or relapse as well as dangerousness, may be combined with techniques from digital phenotyping and cyber threat intelligence analysis to develop digital phenotypes of MCA. Army University Press
  • For psychology to become inclusive of samples across the world and attuned to culture and cultural change, researchers from different countries will benefit from collaborating, something globalization has made easier than ever before. PubMed Central (PMC)
  • Maybe human psychology is flexible enough that a world of plenty and little or no work could be regarded as a boon rather than a devastation. Gulf Times

Last updated: 26 December 2025



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