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Tracking behaviour in a virtual reality setting allows segmenting and tracking encoding, visual search, working memory usage, and decision-making separately and reveals distinct effects of distraction on these subprocesses.
Communications Psychology celebrates the publication of the journal’s first two Stage-2 Registered Reports. We encourage researchers regardless of career stage to consider the format and highlight some considerations for PhD students and early career researchers.
This Registered Report replicates the finding that not checking the personal cost of helping signals trustworthiness. However, in a third-party punishment setup, avoidance of cost-checking only increased trustworthiness in those who also do not punish.
Players in the ultimatum game who deliberately choose to be ignorant about whether they received an unfair offer are more likely to accept unfair offers than participants who actively choose to know.
Using participants’ self-experienced emotions as ground truth, emotional states were more often categorized correctly using descriptive words analyzed with natural language processing as compared to traditional rating scales.
Positive and negative reciprocity, and costly punishment play, a role in cooperation networks. Members of rural Colombian communities show a strong tendency to punish others perceived as selfish and allocate resources to those perceived as generous.
Israeli and US American respondents who hold zero-sum beliefs about politics were less willing to engage in cross-partisan discussions in the run up to the 2022 election for the Knesset (Israel) and the 2022 Mid Term U.S. elections (USA).
Across four experiments, participants chose to spend more time with partners who made fair offers; likewise, a poor social environment and low opportunity-costs led participants to stay with partners.
Written descriptions and neural activity indicate that lonelier individuals’ semantic and neural representations of contemporary cultural figures depart more from the group-consensus when compared to less lonely individuals.
Group polarization, a result of social interaction, can underpin political polarization—the division of society into groups. While intergroup conflict and hostility are possible outcomes of polarization, polarization as a mobilizing force for collective action can benefit marginalized groups.
Perceiving outgroup members as holding different schematic understandings of the concept of America as compared to most other people is associated with greater dehumanization of outgroup members
This Perspective calls for a reform of the criminal justice system in the US. Psychological and neuroscientific research should inform regulations around pollution and toxins, policies for solitary confinement, and the framework for the admissibility of legal insanity defense.
Nocebo hyperalgesia can be socially transmitted through a chain of observers. Differences in interpersonal physiological and psychological synchrony predicted subsequent socially-acquired pain.
Applying contrast enhancement principles, established within the visual and auditory domain, to thermosensation, reveals that larger temporal contrasts increase the probability of experiencing thermal nociceptive illusions.
This Perspective argues for a revised mechanism for the functional role of alpha oscillations. While alpha oscillations reflect inhibition, they are controlled by an indirect mechanism governed by the load of goal-relevant information.
Individuals seldom reach out to old friends with whom they have lost touch. Interventions focused on changing attitudes were ineffective, but practicing reaching out to current friends first successfully encouraged people to reach out to old friends.
Analysis of different operationalizations shows that many scientific results may be an artifact of the operationalization process. A culture of multi-operationalization may be needed for psychological research to develop valid knowledge.
Seven to 12 year-old children showed greater performance gains on a motor sequence task across post-learning resting periods than adolescents, young adults and older adults, suggesting a developmental advantage in offline motor memory consolidation.