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A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Opole in Poland examined the relationship between minority stress and activism in lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals. The study found that LGB activists, lesbians, and gays experienced higher levels of sexual minority negative events compared to those not involved in activism and bisexual individuals. Attitudes towards LGBT+ activism were weakly and positively correlated with sexual minority negative events and expectation of rejection, while negatively correlated with internalized homophobia. The researchers concluded that prevention and intervention programs should focus on reducing minority stress, particularly negative events and rejection, and called for collaboration between politicians, lawyers, social workers, and psychologists to combat homophobia and stigmatization. [Extracted from the article]

A recent report from Uniwersytet Szczecinski in Poland highlights the lack of research on aesthetic needs in the field of psychology. The researchers aimed to develop a scale for measuring the intensity of aesthetic needs and verified its structure, psychometric properties, and criterion-related validity with three independent samples. The results indicated a three-factor structure: the need to aestheticize everyday life, the need for contact with aesthetic creations, and the need to aestheticize the built and natural environments. The researchers concluded that this scale could be useful in studying individual differences and the psychology of aesthetics. [Extracted from the article]

A recent study conducted by Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Poland examined fake news on Polish-language internet media in order to identify the thematic categories most vulnerable to disinformation in the country. The study analyzed 192 examples of fake news from 2019 and identified several thematic categories, including political and economic, social, gossip/rumor, extreme, pseudo-scientific, worldview, historical, and commercial. The research found that content related to the government, Catholic Church, and LGBT issues dominated the Polish context, and health-based fake news, particularly anti-vaccination content, had a lasting impact globally. The study calls for action to prevent the spread of fake news. [Extracted from the article]