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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Journal of Sex Research found that in 571 German women, arousal to an aggressive written sexual narrative was better explained by sex drive, rape myth acceptance, and prior violent pornography exposure than by evolutionary life-history m…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in European Journal of Social Psychology found that adding flattering Nazi-era propaganda images to atrocity photographs reduced several immediate negative emotions in German viewers across the combined evidence, even though the clearest gu…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Journal of Applied Social Psychology found that women with strong feminist identification criticized idealized beauty images more sharply, but that critique did not protect their momentary body satisfaction after seeing the images. Key F…
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