A recent University of Konstanz study evaluated political manifestos in twelve democratic OECD countries over a period of 50 years (1970-2020). Key findings: Even left-wing parties react – if at all – to inequality in their election programmes only when the current state changes, but not to long-standing inequalities. Increases in the income share of the highest-income percentage of the population also remain without consequences.

Researchers from the University of Southampton have found that people with emotional insecurities are more affected than others when their partners choose their phone over them.

Psychotherapy leads to measurable changes in brain structure. Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the University of Münster have demonstrated this for the first time in a study in “Translational Psychiatry” by using cognitive behavioural therapy. The team analysed the brains of 30 patients suffering from acute depression. After therapy, most of them showed changes in areas responsible for processing emotions. The observed effects are similar to those already known from studies on medication.

University of Texas at Arlington researcher Kathleen Preble is expanding her human trafficking research from Missouri to Texas, aiming to create a blueprint other states can use to address this growing problem.