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Replicating a finding previously established in German-speaking and English-speaking cohorts, Norwegian-speaking participants likewise form a bimodal distribution of high synchronizers and low synchronizers.
When people take false news for true, they are often aware that they might be wrong. Here, Democrats and older adults were better at telling true from false news than Republicans and younger adults, but all partisan and age groups had good insight into their abilities.
Individuals vary in how often they detect changes in the emotions of others and in whether these emotional events align with what other people perceive. We find that more complex emotion vocabulary and knowledge of emotion predict this complex skill, based on a newly developed emotion segmentation paradigm.
When judging the pleasantness of a physical touch experienced by someone else, mothers are more likely to ascribe their personal feelings of pleasantness to their own children as compared to the children of others.
Across 34 countries, fear of disease and empathic concern encouraged adherence to COVID19 preventive measures. When trust in government is high, the link is weaker between preventive behaviour and fear but stronger between preventive behavior and empathic concern.
Spatial information is a primary organizing pillar of visual working memory and guides behaviour even when object locations are irrelevant and temporal information should be prioritized.
People are more adept at deriving and retaining associative inferences when the source of the information is a member of one’s own ingroup, potentially contributing to the spread of biased beliefs.
Across four studies with US American participants, hostility in tone of messages that rebut science denialism had small or trivial effects on their persuasiveness but was to the detriment of the perceived competence of the source.
Analysis of two longitudinal datasets from the USA and the Netherlands shows that people who hold extreme views are more likely to change these views than those who hold moderate views. The direction of change is towards moderation.
Across a sample of 1,600 individuals spanning 6 to 59 years of age, common saliency models of visual attention predict women’s and young adult’s fixations better than the gaze behaviour of other groups.
When people receive advice written by large language models, they downrate the competence of the source when they know the source isn’t human. Their preference to receive advice by large language models increases with positive experience.
Across two experiments, exposure to a brief informative video on Japanese American incarceration and subsequent reparations led to greater support among Asian Americans for the payment of reparations to Black Americans.
Native English and Spanish speakers performed significantly better than chance when identifying the meanings of unfamiliar foreign language words, suggesting that the sound of words holds some association with their meaning across languages.
Leveraging on large-scale data collection through a smartphone app, Donegan et al show that the association between model-based planning and compulsivity can be estimated with as few as 25 trials
Durability of information in human working memory across time intervals can be better explained by attractor dynamics that incorporate activity-dependent plasticity. Discrete attractor dynamics are less suited to model working memory when modeling the working memory time course.
While committing to honesty via oath decreased dishonest behavior in 7 studies across the US, UK, and Mexico, Zickfeld et al found no evidence that the potential to benefit a partner increases dishonesty.
Directed forgetting can be used to disrupt emotional memories. In a fear conditioning paradigm, participants had poorer recognition and recall, and developed lower physiological responses to images paired with an electric shock when instructed to forget them.
Analysis of 39201 cries from 24 infants shows that cries provide reliable information about age and identity. Meanwhile, neither adults nor an algorithm trained on the parental action that stopped the cry can reliably classify the causes of cries.
People’s use of linguistic agency is indicative of their personal sense of agency. Lack of control over one’s actions, low social rank as well as depression are associated with higher use of passive voice.
People become more efficient at detecting a visual target over time due to optimized oculomotor scanning strategies. This contradicts the theory that visual search learning is supported by long-term memory about specific target-contexts bindings.