A research team led by Professor Hitoshi Yamamoto of Rissho University experimentally examined how people evaluate others when the public reputation of the person involved in an interaction conflicts with their own personal experience with that person. The study was published in the international journal Evolution and Human Behavior on September 14, 2026.

A randomized controlled trial of rural Lebanese women found that three months of Transcendental Meditation practice significantly increased happiness, resilience and self-efficacy while reducing perceived stress, according to research published in the peer-reviewed journal Women's Health. 

Researchers from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, assessed the ethics of large language model-generated advice for modifying built environments to support health. In the first study of its kind, researchers evaluated 180 ChatGPT responses across six health pathways, neighborhood income contexts, and budget conditions using four ethical criteria. ChatGPT consistently avoided harmful recommendations and rarely gave lower-income neighborhoods weaker proposals, but showed less consistent community participation and oversight, particularly under constraints.