Lauraa King News Today

It is well established that a sense of purpose is necessary for psychological health, and in turn, for human adaptation and survival. Human evolution depends on our motivation and our will to survive; our feeling that life always remains worth the effort. In an edition of the American Psychologist (“Life is Pretty Meaningful”), Samantha J. Heintzelman and Laura A. King took note of a uniquely obvious and easily overlooked paradox …

Supporters of Democratic candidates tend to be less cognitively rigid and more interpersonally warm than Trump supporters, according to new research published in the Journal of Social and Political Psychology. This was found to be true even for supporters of left-wing Democratic candidates such as Bernie Sanders, suggesting that extreme liberals and extreme conservatives do not share similar psychological dispositions. ...

One third of Americans still think Biden’s victory in 2020 was illegitimate. What gives?