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Decision-making styles during stressful scenarios: The role of anxiety in COVID-19 pandemic

… In this study, we investigate whether Trait Anxiety moderates the impact of Post-Traumatic Stress (PTS) symptoms reported during COVID-19 pandemic on decision-making styles. … Through moderation analysis, we observed that experiencing PTS is associated with a higher tendency to biased/heuristic decision-making processes. … … Subjects with higher Trait Anxiety reported lower tendency to appeal

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Impulsivity, suicidal thoughts, psychological distress, and religiosity in adolescents and young adults

Impulsivity is associated with suicidal acts and ideation, whereas higher religious commitment has been identified as a potential protective factor linked to lower suicidal ideation. … … Non-planning impulsivity (predictor) was inversely associated with religious commitment (r = −0.33, p < 0.01), and religious commitment (mediator) was inversely related to suicidal ideation (outcome) (r = −0.32, p < 0.01). These findings remained statistically

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Paranoid Vladimir Putin staying in bunker because he ‘fears for his life’ and has been living in ‘information cocoon’

Vladimir Putin is “pathologically afraid for his life” and has spent the last few years living in an “information cocoon”, a former protection officer of the president who defected from Russia has said.

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