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"Study links climate anxiety to social media use"
#Climate #ClimateChange #SocialMedia

Study links climate anxiety to social media use
A new University at Buffalo-led study suggests greater social media use is linked to emotional distress caused by the perceived threats of climate change.

Woohoo just got my Covid vaccine at CVS in Pasadena! A little bit of anxiety weight has lifted

Woohoo just got my Covid vaccine at CVS in Pasadena! A little bit of anxiety weight has lifted

A Democratic Sweep -- Riding on the public's pervasive economic anxiety and its substantial ... (Harold Meyerson/American Prospect)
https://prospect.org/2025/11/05/democratic-sweep-2025-election/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p176#a251105p176

Well, Hello Anxiety With Dr Jodi Richardson
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

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A software security review on Uganda's Mobile Money Services: Dr. Jim Spire's tweets sentiment analysis
Nsengiyumva Wilberforce
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03545 https://…

A software security review on Uganda's Mobile Money Services: Dr. Jim Spire's tweets sentiment analysis
The proliferation of mobile money in Uganda has been a cornerstone of financial inclusion, yet its security mechanisms remain a critical concern. This study investigates a significant public response to perceived security failures: the #StopAirtelThefty Twitter campaign of August 2025 Sparked by an incident publicized by Dr. Jim Spire Ssentongo where a phone thief accessed a victim's account, withdrew funds, and procured a loan, the campaign revealed deep seated public anxiety over the safety o…

MIRAGE: Patient-Specific Mixed Reality Coaching for MRI via Depth-Only Markerless Registration and Immersive VR
Daniel Brooks, Emily Carter, Hu Guo, Rajesh Nair
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01743

MIRAGE: Patient-Specific Mixed Reality Coaching for MRI via Depth-Only Markerless Registration and Immersive VR
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an indispensable diagnostic tool, yet the confined bore and acoustic noise can evoke considerable anxiety and claustrophobic reactions. High anxiety leads to motion artifacts, incomplete scans and reliance on pharmacological sedation. MIRAGE (Mixed Reality Anxiety Guidance Environment) harnesses the latest mixed reality (MR) hardware to prepare patients for MRI through immersive virtual reality (VR) and markerless augmented reality (AR) registration. In this …

Inferring Effects of Major Events through Discontinuity Forecasting of Population Anxiety
Siddharth Mangalik, Ojas Deshpande, Adithya V. Ganesan, Sean A. P. Clouston, H. Andrew Schwartz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21722

Inferring Effects of Major Events through Discontinuity Forecasting of Population Anxiety
Estimating community-specific mental health effects of local events is vital for public health policy. While forecasting mental health scores alone offers limited insights into the impact of events on community well-being, quasi-experimental designs like the Longitudinal Regression Discontinuity Design (LRDD) from econometrics help researchers derive more effects that are more likely to be causal from observational data. LRDDs aim to extrapolate the size of changes in an outcome (e.g. a discont…

Trump policies spur economic anxiety in US Republican heartland: ‘Tariffs are affecting everything’ | Trump administration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/02/trump-economic-agenda-republican-heartland-tariffs

Did you know playing Tetris can help with PTSD, panic attacks and anxiety? Like as it can help immediately within minutes.
Get yourself an old Game Boy Advance SP or a modern Game Boy-emulating handheld console and keep it around.

🚬 Loneliness and anxiety fuel smartphone and social media addiction in 'night owls,' new study finds
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-loneliness-anxiety-fuel-smartphone-social.html

Loneliness and anxiety fuel smartphone and social media addiction in 'night owls,' new study finds
Young adult "night owls" (or "evening types"—those who prefer to stay up late) are significantly more at risk of developing problematic relationships with smartphones and social media, according to a new study.

One of the more depressing things I’ve read lately:
«The timeline is no longer a source of information or social presence, but more of a mood-regulation device, endlessly replenishing itself with just enough novelty to suppress the anxiety of stopping. Scrolling has become a form of ambient dissociation, half-conscious, half-compulsive, closer to scratching an itch than seeking anything in particular. People know the feed is fake, they just don’t care.»
The Last Days Of Social Me…

The Last Days Of Social Media
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.

Just posting this excellent quote which has no bearing on recent or current events in any way shape or form .
#ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles

Les organisations scientifiques tirent la sonnette d'alarme sur la relation directe entre la dépendance aux écrans et l'anxiété, la dépression et, dans les cas les plus extrêmes, les tendances suicidaires.
https://en…

Portable Silent Room: Exploring VR Design for Anxiety and Emotion Regulation for Neurodivergent Women and Non-Binary Individuals
Kinga Skiers, Yun Suen Pai, Marina Nakagawa, Kouta Minamizawa, Giulia Barbareschi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18591

Portable Silent Room: Exploring VR Design for Anxiety and Emotion Regulation for Neurodivergent Women and Non-Binary Individuals
Neurodivergent individuals, particularly those with Autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), frequently experience anxiety, panic attacks, meltdowns, and emotional dysregulation due to societal pressures and inadequate accommodations. These challenges are especially pronounced for neurodivergent women and non-binary individuals navigating intersecting barriers of neurological differences and gender expectations. This research investigates virtual reality (VR) as a portable sa…

14 years ago – my first experience with #EV range anxiety (it all turned out fine). I can't remember when I last had it; it must have been years ago.

BOYS CLUB EP. 3 "ANXIETY HELPLINE"
#comedy #trans

AI in Mental Health: Emotional and Sentiment Analysis of Large Language Models' Responses to Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Queries
Arya VarastehNezhad, Reza Tavasoli, Soroush Elyasi, MohammadHossein LotfiNia, Hamed Farbeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11285

AI in Mental Health: Emotional and Sentiment Analysis of Large Language Models' Responses to Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Queries
Depression, anxiety, and stress are widespread mental health concerns that increasingly drive individuals to seek information from Large Language Models (LLMs). This study investigates how eight LLMs (Claude Sonnet, Copilot, Gemini Pro, GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, Llama, Mixtral, and Perplexity) reply to twenty pragmatic questions about depression, anxiety, and stress when those questions are framed for six user profiles (baseline, woman, man, young, old, and university student). The models generated …

Der konkrete Erziehungsstil der Eltern ist für das spätere Leben der Kinder kaum relevant, solange drei Dinge gegeben sind:
1. Unbedingte Wärme und Zuwendung,
2. kulturelle Impulse und
3. eine gewisse Struktur mit konkreten Zielen.
Ansonsten tun Kinder halt das, was ihnen ihre Eltern vorleben.

The One Big Thing You Can Do for Your Kids
The research shows that you probably have less effect on your kids than you think—with one major exception: Your love will make them happy.

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this book "Surviving Climate Anxiety" came across my feed recently and piqued my interest - has anyone read it? thoughts?

After around a month of commuting with bikes, around 2.5 hours in the morning and another 3 hours in the late afternoon, I feel something different with me.
The symptom of social anxiety is at its lowest. Yes, I still experience social anxiety here and now. But only for those with real threat potentials.
Generally I feel good communicating with people.
Secondly, my ADHD symptom is also at its lowest. I can do anything I need to do easily. There is almost no procrastination …

love when a trans woman's completely culturally disconnected from cis women due to muh anxiety or whatever, yet inevitably pushed with the same tides due to being a woman in the same circumstances, so she winds up repeating mainstream instagram feminist platitudes as if they were fresh, but with the word "trans" tacked on for no reason. "if you're a trans woman you need to learn how to trust your gut feeling on things"

WatchAnxiety: A Transfer Learning Approach for State Anxiety Prediction from Smartwatch Data
Md Sabbir Ahmed, Noah French, Mark Rucker, Zhiyuan Wang, Taylor Myers-Brower, Kaitlyn Petz, Mehdi Boukhechba, Bethany A. Teachman, Laura E. Barnes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13725

WatchAnxiety: A Transfer Learning Approach for State Anxiety Prediction from Smartwatch Data
Social anxiety is a common mental health condition linked to significant challenges in academic, social, and occupational functioning. A core feature is elevated momentary (state) anxiety in social situations, yet little prior work has measured or predicted fluctuations in this anxiety throughout the day. Capturing these intra-day dynamics is critical for designing real-time, personalized interventions such as Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs). To address this gap, we conducted a stu…

Analyzing BEV Suitability and Charging Strategies Using Italian Driving Data
Homa Jamalof, Luca Vassio, Danilo Giordano, Marco Mellia, Claudio De Tommasi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26262

Analyzing BEV Suitability and Charging Strategies Using Italian Driving Data
Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) are rapidly evolving from a niche alternative to an established option for private transportation, often replacing Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles. Despite growing interest, significant barriers remain, including range anxiety, the inconvenience associated with public charging stations, and higher costs. This study analyses extensive telemetry data collected from 10,441 users using ICE vehicles in an Italian province to assess the potential for switchi…

A Spatio-Temporal Feature Fusion EEG Virtual Channel Signal Generation Network and Its Application in Anxiety Assessment
Shangqing Yuan, Wenshuang Zhai, Shengwen Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19334

A Spatio-Temporal Feature Fusion EEG Virtual Channel Signal Generation Network and Its Application in Anxiety Assessment
To address the issue of limited channels and insufficient information collection in portable EEG devices, this study explores an EEG virtual channel signal generation network using a novel spatio-temporal feature fusion strategy. Based on the EEG signals from four frontal lobe channels, the network aims to generate virtual channel EEG signals for other 13 important brain regions. The architecture of the network is a two-dimensional convolutional neural network and it includes a parallel module …

Republicans grapple with voter frustration over rising health care premiums
https://ground.news/article/republicans-grapple-with-voter-frustration-over-rising-health-care-premiums_dc41a0
Hold the line, Dems!

Republicans grapple with voter frustration over rising health care premiums
By Sarah Ferris, Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Anxiety is rising among congressional Republicans that their party has no plan to address a critical health care deadline this fall that will result in spiking costs for millions of Americans – the issue at the heart of the deepening government shutdown crisis. And some of those GOP members are offering a stark warning to their own leaders: Doing nothing could cost them their full control of Congress in ne…

It turns out that this new era of the Internet (or more precisely, late stage capitalism) causes me so much anxiety that I end up being away from social networks for months in a row...
But I'm kinda sad for being away from the Fediverse as well, as it's usually a source of inspiration for me.

Johnson tries to tamp down House GOP shutdown anxiety (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/16/congress/gop-shutdown-anxiety-grows-00612834
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p170#a251016p170

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Anxiety after some people spread fake #AI images of African tigers and leopards roaming the streets of a South Indian city.
And we haven't even begun to scratch the surface of the real #danger AI poses. It will soon get very bad and out of control. 😨
#AI_images

For electric vehicle drivers: Locate charging points along routes, with estimates for charging times and range to avoid range anxiety.
🌤️ Weather-Based Route Adjustments
Retrieve real-time weather data to reroute around rain or snow, ensuring safer and more efficient drives.
🏔️ Terrain-Optimized Adventures
Plan off-road or hiking trips with elevation profiles and campground data to identify suitable paths for rugged vehicles.
💨 Air Quality-Driven Routing

Squirrels at War: Herbicide
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** That night, in my new room, I had a different version of my repeating anxiety dream. Instead of the Iskan ripping a giant hole in the hull of the Magic…

hot take: a big reason for the collective anxiety around free-threading is the result of decades of copium where we assured each other that it's good, actually, that #Python has a bad threading story, because threads are dAnGeRoUs and our feeble minds need protection

I thought I would get an orange pro, but now I am thinking “Miguel you are a stylish person, you need the air” but a voice inside me says “you need as many camera lenses as Apple can put in there”
The next 35 hours will be packed with anxiety.

"Can I Decorate My Teeth With Diamonds?": Exploring Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives on Using VR to Reduce Children's Dental Anxiety
Yaxuan Mao, Yanheng Li, Duo Gong, Pengcheng An, Yuhan Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10019

"Can I Decorate My Teeth With Diamonds?": Exploring Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives on Using VR to Reduce Children's Dental Anxiety
Dental anxiety is prevalent among children, often leading to missed treatment and potential negative effects on their mental well-being. While several interventions (e.g., pharmacological and psychotherapeutic techniques) have been introduced for anxiety alleviation, the recently emerged virtual reality (VR) technology, with its immersive and playful nature, opened new opportunities for complementing and enhancing the therapeutic effects of existing interventions. In this light, we conducted a …

Sadly, though, it’s only for pets 8kg and under. I have a very laconic, but nonetheless very anxiety-prone #MaineCoon cross who’d still need to fly as cargo. 😿
#cats h…

A recent study found nearly four in five children aged under 12 in the UK experience ecoanxiety,
fear of the state of the climate in the future
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/greenpeace-children-homes-b2690913.h…

Eco-anxiety rife among children as 78% found to be worried about climate change
As Children’s Mental Health Week kicks off, Greenpeace has released guidance on having conversations with young people about the climate crisis.

A day after Russian attack, Poland shows unity, but also anxiety: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/11/a-day-after-russian-attack.html

A profile of 6-year-old Ramp, which has grown to a $22.5B valuation as it expanded beyond corporate cards to tools for expense reporting, bill payment, and more (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/article/ramp-american-express-corp…

Ramp is taking aim at American Express by upending corporate credit cards. Can the $22.5 billion startup live up to the hype?
With $1 billion in revenue, Ramp has grown at hyperspeed amid the AI boom and corner-office financial anxiety.

Außerdem:
#GiveMeAFuckinBreak

Tactile Comfort: Lowering Heart Rate Through Interactions
Morten Roed Frederiksen, Kasper St{\o}y, Maja Matari\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04372 https://

Tactile Comfort: Lowering Heart Rate Through Interactions
Children diagnosed with anxiety disorders are taught a range of strategies to navigate situations of heightened anxiety. Techniques such as deep breathing and repetition of mantras are commonly employed, as they are known to be calming and reduce elevated heart rates. Although these strategies are often effective, their successful application relies on prior training of the children for successful use when faced with challenging situations. This paper investigates a pocket-sized companion robot…

A look at visual-effects studio Mofac, which is part of a wider rush in South Korea's film industry to integrate AI as it struggles with weak box office returns (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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AraHealthQA 2025 Shared Task Description Paper
Hassan Alhuzali, Farah Shamout, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Chaimae Abouzahir, Mouath Abu-Daoud, Ashwag Alasmari, Walid Al-Eisawi, Renad Al-Monef, Ali Alqahtani, Lama Ayash, Nizar Habash, Leen Kharouf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20047

AraHealthQA 2025 Shared Task Description Paper
We introduce {AraHealthQA 2025}, the {Comprehensive Arabic Health Question Answering Shared Task}, held in conjunction with {ArabicNLP 2025} (co-located with EMNLP 2025). This shared task addresses the paucity of high-quality Arabic medical QA resources by offering two complementary tracks: {MentalQA}, focusing on Arabic mental health Q\&A (e.g., anxiety, depression, stigma reduction), and {MedArabiQ}, covering broader medical domains such as internal medicine, pediatrics, and clinical decision…

US Migrant Raid Jolts South Korea, Stirs Investor Anxiety (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-07/us-migrant-raid-jolts-south-korea-stirs-investor-anxiety
http://www.memeorandum.com/250907/p79#a250907p79

The “sticker range” advertised on the lot for our new 2019 Hyundai Kona EV was 420km.
The battery was replaced under recall at around 40,000km in 2022 a couple months before we went on an epic 12,000km Pacific-Atlantic-Pacifc cross Canada adventure.
Fast forward to today. The car is at 226,000km and I am headed 225km down to Victoria to bring my wife home from the Airport.
Car is ready. 100% charge. 468km on the rangeOmeter. That is city driving so I don’t expect to get that range at highway speeds. I’ll top it up in Sydney before heading home. This was always our main criteria. Can we drive to Victoria comfortably.
Yep. No problem. Even 200,000km later!
Range anxiety is a myth foisted on you by the oil industry. They are gas lighting the world into believing we are the problem, evs are the problem, electric systems are the problem.
They are the problem. Them. Not us. Them. They need to end.
#ev #hyundai #endfossilfuels #rangeanxiety

TL;DR: what if instead of denying the harms of fascism, we denied its suppressive threats of punishment
Many of us have really sharpened our denial skills since the advent of the ongoing pandemic (perhaps you even hesitated at the word "ongoing" there and thought "maybe I won't read this one, it seems like it'll be tiresome"). I don't say this as a preface to a fiery condemnation or a plea to "sanity" or a bunch of evidence of how bad things are, because I too have honed my denial skills in these recent years, and I feel like talking about that development.
Denial comes in many forms, including strategic information avoidance ("I don't have time to look that up right now", "I keep forgetting to look into that", "well this author made a tiny mistake, so I'll click away and read something else", "I'm so tired of hearing about this, let me scroll farther", etc.) strategic dismissal ("look, there's a bit of uncertainty here, I should ignore this", "this doesn't line up perfectly with my anecdotal experience, it must be completely wrong", etc.) and strategic forgetting ("I don't remember what that one study said exactly; it was painful to think about", "I forgot exactly what my friend was saying when we got into that argument", etc.). It's in fact a kind of skill that you can get better at, along with the complementary skill of compartmentalization. It can of course be incredibly harmful, and a huge genre of fables exists precisely to highlight its harms, but it also has some short-term psychological benefits, chiefly in the form of muting anxiety. This is not an endorsement of denial (the harms can be catastrophic), but I want to acknowledge that there *are* short-term benefits. Via compartmentalization, it's even possible to be honest with ourselves about some of our own denials without giving them up immediately.
But as I said earlier, I'm not here to talk you out of your denials. Instead, given that we are so good at denial now, I'm here to ask you to be strategic about it. In particular, we live in a world awash with propaganda/advertising that serves both political and commercial ends. Why not use some of our denial skills to counteract that?
For example, I know quite a few people in complete denial of our current political situation, but those who aren't (including myself) often express consternation about just how many people in the country are supporting literal fascism. Of course, logically that appearance of widespread support is going to be partly a lie, given how much our public media is beholden to the fascists or outright in their side. Finding better facts on the true level of support is hard, but in the meantime, why not be in denial about the "fact" that Trump has widespread popular support?
To give another example: advertisers constantly barrage us with messages about our bodies and weight, trying to keep us insecure (and thus in the mood to spend money to "fix" the problem). For sure cutting through that bullshit by reading about body positivity etc. is a better solution, but in the meantime, why not be in denial about there being anything wrong with your body?
This kind of intentional denial certainly has its own risks (our bodies do actually need regular maintenance, for example, so complete denial on that front is risky) but there's definitely a whole lot of misinformation out there that it would be better to ignore. To the extent such denial expands to a more general denial of underlying problems, this idea of intentional denial is probably just bad. But I sure wish that in a world where people (including myself) routinely deny significant widespread dangers like COVID-19's long-term risks or the ongoing harms of escalating fascism, they'd at least also deny some of the propaganda keeping them unhappy and passive. Instead of being in denial about US-run concentration camps, why not be in denial that the state will be able to punish you for resisting them?

Towards Embodied Conversational Agents for Reducing Oral Exam Anxiety in Extended Reality
Jens Grubert, Yvonne Sedelmaier, Dieter Landes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11412 https:/…

Towards Embodied Conversational Agents for Reducing Oral Exam Anxiety in Extended Reality
Oral examinations are a prevalent but psychologically demanding form of assessment in higher education. Many students experience intense anxiety, which can impair cognitive performance and hinder academic success. This position paper explores the potential of embodied conversational agents (ECAs) in extended reality (XR) environments to support students preparing for oral exams. We propose a system concept that integrates photorealistic ECAs with real-time capable large language models (LLMs) t…

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Finished “I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom” by Jason Pargin. A Lyft driver is asked by a woman to drive her and a mysterious box across the country for $200k. The rules are that he cannot look inside, nor ask about the contents. Everything comes undone along the way in a mostly fun, pulpy thriller kind of way.
Some dark satire about anxiety, the web, social media, public discourse, incels, etc.
3.5/5 stars, rounded up to 4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Dynamic Latent Class Structural Equation Modeling: A Hands-On Tutorial for Modeling Intensive Longitudinal Data
Roberto Faleh, Sofia Morelli, Vivato Andriamiarana, Zachary J. Roman, Christoph Fl\"uckiger, Holger Brandt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12983

Dynamic Latent Class Structural Equation Modeling: A Hands-On Tutorial for Modeling Intensive Longitudinal Data
In this tutorial, we provide a hands-on guideline on how to implement complex Dynamic Latent Class Structural Equation Models (DLCSEM) in the Bayesian software JAGS. We provide building blocks starting with simple Confirmatory Factor and Time Series analysis, and then extend these blocks to Multilevel Models and Dynamic Structural Equation Models (DSEM). Leading through the tutorial is an example from clinical psychology using data on a generalized anxiety treatment that includes scales on anxi…

👾 Reverse-engineering Roadsearch Plus, or, roadgeeking with an 8-bit CPU
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/08/make-your-apple-ii-or-commodore-64.html
#computing

Reverse-engineering Roadsearch Plus, or, roadgeeking with an 8-bit CPU
Sorry, Doc Brown: we still needed roads in 1985. That meant paper atlases and misfolded roadmaps and a lot of stereotypical male anxiety a...

🔥 Action is the antidote to anxiety.
Every effort counts. Every voice matters.
#ClimateAction #ActOnClimate https://

Eleven Madison Park,
the elegant, internationally acclaimed Manhattan restaurant
whose climate-minded move to an all-vegan menu four and a half years ago was hailed as both brilliantand baffling,
-- is bringing back meat.
Its chef, Daniel Humm, said in an interview that he wanted to draw more diners to the restaurant,
“I very much believed in the all-in approach, but I didn’t realize that we would exclude people,” he said. “I have some anxiety that people are goi…

Meat Is Back at Eleven Madison Park, After 4 Vegan Years
The Manhattan restaurant drew global praise and skepticism with its climate-minded, all-plant menu. Now its chef wants to be more welcoming — and popular.

Excessive Screen Time is Associated with Mental Health Problems and ADHD in US Children and Adolescents: Physical Activity and Sleep as Parallel Mediators
Ying Dai, Na Ouyang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10062

Excessive Screen Time is Associated with Mental Health Problems and ADHD in US Children and Adolescents: Physical Activity and Sleep as Parallel Mediators
To examine associations between screen time and anxiety, depression, behavior or conduct problems, and ADHD among children and adolescents during the pandemic, and to assess whether physical activity, sleep duration, and bedtime regularity mediate these associations. Data from 50231 US children and adolescents aged 6 to 17 years in the 2020 to 2021 National Survey of Childrens Health were analyzed. Exact natural effect models and structural equation modeling assessed mediation by physical activ…

Inducing State Anxiety in LLM Agents Reproduces Human-Like Biases in Consumer Decision-Making
Ziv Ben-Zion, Zohar Elyoseph, Tobias Spiller, Teddy Lazebnik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06222

Inducing State Anxiety in LLM Agents Reproduces Human-Like Biases in Consumer Decision-Making
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving from text generators to autonomous agents, raising urgent questions about their reliability in real-world contexts. Stress and anxiety are well known to bias human decision-making, particularly in consumer choices. Here, we tested whether LLM agents exhibit analogous vulnerabilities. Three advanced models (ChatGPT-5, Gemini 2.5, Claude 3.5-Sonnet) performed a grocery shopping task under budget constraints (24, 54, 108 USD), before and after expo…

EmoHeal: An End-to-End System for Personalized Therapeutic Music Retrieval from Fine-grained Emotions
Xinchen Wan, Jinhua Liang, Huan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15986 http…

EmoHeal: An End-to-End System for Personalized Therapeutic Music Retrieval from Fine-grained Emotions
Existing digital mental wellness tools often overlook the nuanced emotional states underlying everyday challenges. For example, pre-sleep anxiety affects more than 1.5 billion people worldwide, yet current approaches remain largely static and "one-size-fits-all", failing to adapt to individual needs. In this work, we present EmoHeal, an end-to-end system that delivers personalized, three-stage supportive narratives. EmoHeal detects 27 fine-grained emotions from user text with a fine-tuned XLM-R…

😅 Wearable sweat sensor can detect responses to physical, emotional and pharmacological stress
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-wearable-sensor-responses-physical-emotional.html

Wearable sweat sensor can detect responses to physical, emotional and pharmacological stress
Most people are well aware of the effects of chronic stress in the modern world. While some stress can be a good thing, like the type of stress your body feels during an intense workout, prolonged or chronic stress can lead to a myriad of health problems, including anxiety, heart disease, and inflammation. And, at a larger scale, the high prevalence of chronic stress in the population increases the burden on public health systems.

Gauging the Competition: Understanding Social Comparison and Anxiety through Eye-tracking in Virtual Reality Group Interview
Shi-Ting Ni, Kairong Fang, Yuyang Wang, Pan Hui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12590

Gauging the Competition: Understanding Social Comparison and Anxiety through Eye-tracking in Virtual Reality Group Interview
Virtual Reality (VR) is a promising tool for interview training, yet the psychological dynamics of group interviews, such as social comparison, remain underexplored. We investigate this phenomenon by developing an immersive VR group interview system and conducting an eye-tracking study with 73 participants. We manipulated peer performance using ambiguous behavioral cues (e.g., hand-raising) and objective information (public test scores) to measure their effect on participants' attention and sel…

Beyond Motion Artifacts: Optimizing PPG Preprocessing for Accurate Pulse Rate Variability Estimation
Yuna Watanabe (Northeastern University), Natasha Yamane (Northeastern University), Aarti Sathyanarayana (Northeastern University), Varun Mishra (Northeastern University), Matthew S. Goodwin (Northeastern University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/25…

Beyond Motion Artifacts: Optimizing PPG Preprocessing for Accurate Pulse Rate Variability Estimation
Wearable physiological monitors are ubiquitous, and photoplethysmography (PPG) is the standard low-cost sensor for measuring cardiac activity. Metrics such as inter-beat interval (IBI) and pulse-rate variability (PRV) -- core markers of stress, anxiety, and other mental-health outcomes -- are routinely extracted from PPG, yet preprocessing remains non-standardized. Prior work has focused on removing motion artifacts; however, our preliminary analysis reveals sizeable beat-detection errors even …

Crosslisted article(s) found for econ.GN. https://arxiv.org/list/econ.GN/new
[1/1]:
- Inducing State Anxiety in LLM Agents Reproduces Human-Like Biases in Consumer Decision-Making
Ziv Ben-Zion, Zohar Elyoseph, Tobias Spiller, Teddy Lazebnik

Hoaxes Target Black Colleges, Shutting Classes as Anxiety Mounts in U.S. (Jonathan Wolfe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/us/false-threats-target-hbcus-forcing-closures.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lU8.ACZl.yj1qk330mHPv&smid=url-share
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Position: The Pitfalls of Over-Alignment: Overly Caution Health-Related Responses From LLMs are Unethical and Dangerous
Wenqi Marshall Guo, Yiyang Du, Heidi J. S. Tworek, Shan Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08833

Position: The Pitfalls of Over-Alignment: Overly Caution Health-Related Responses From LLMs are Unethical and Dangerous
Large Language Models (LLMs) are usually aligned with "human values/preferences" to prevent harmful output. Discussions around the alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) generally focus on preventing harmful outputs. However, in this paper, we argue that in health-related queries, over-alignment-leading to overly cautious responses-can itself be harmful, especially for people with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This is not only unethical but also dangerous to the user, both…

💪 The Anxiety Plaguing Male Fiction Writers
http://www.vulture.com/article/jordan-castro-muscle-man-review.html
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Men Don’t Read Fiction Anymore: How Male Writers Respond
A recent batch of books including Jordan Castro’s ‘Muscle Man’; Sebastian Castillo’s ‘Fresh, Life’; and Tony Tulathimutte’s ‘Rejection’ try to speak to the disaffected male reader.

Immersive Mixed Reality Simulator for CT Scan Preparation: Enhancing Patient Emotional and Physical Readiness
Alex Smith, Priya Patel, Hu Guo, Marco Ruiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03526

Immersive Mixed Reality Simulator for CT Scan Preparation: Enhancing Patient Emotional and Physical Readiness
First-time patients undergoing diagnostic computed tomography (CT) scans often experience significant anxiety and uncertainty, which can negatively impact scan results and patient well-being. We present an immersive mixed reality (MR) simulator designed to prepare adult patients for their first CT scan, aiming to improve both emotional and physical preparedness. In this paper, we review existing methods for reducing scan-related anxiety -- from educational materials to virtual reality exposure …