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Psychology Looking Forward

Communications Psychology is a selective open-access, peer-reviewed journal publishing research, reviews and commentary across all areas of psychological research.

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  • We are inviting submissions of research articles across all areas of psychology and closely neighbouring fields. Click the link above to find out more about the journal.

  • The Editors at Communications Psychology and Nature Communications invite submissions of direct replication and generalization studies in psychology. These may come from any subdiscipline of psychology, and be submitted as standard research Articles or Registered Reports.

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  • Across three preregistered experiments, stimulus-level reward affects response and decision strategies in an episodic memory task.

    • Juliane Nagel
    • David Philip Morgan
    • Gordon Benedikt Feld
    ArticleOpen Access
  • The terminology used in discussions on mental state attribution is extensive and lacks consistency. In the current paper, experts from various disciplines collaborate to introduce a shared set of concepts and make recommendations regarding future use.

    • François Quesque
    • Ian Apperly
    • Marcel Brass
    CommentOpen Access
  • A Bayesian model incorporating representational splitting explains better memory performance in blocked compared to interleaved learning contexts.

    • Andre O. Beukers
    • Silvy H. P. Collin
    • Kenneth A. Norman
    ArticleOpen Access
  • Across five studies of 3,726 participants, walking in nature (study 1) and viewing images of nature (studies 2-5) led to significantly more healthy food choices and fewer unhealthy food choices compared to urban settings.

    • Maria Langlois
    • Pierre Chandon
    ArticleOpen Access
  • How should the mind allocate resources to make good decisions? In the online metacognitive control of decisions model, subjective decision confidence is used as the benefit term of the resource allocation problem to optimize the processing of decision-relevant information.

    • Juliette Bénon
    • Douglas Lee
    • Jean Daunizeau
    ArticleOpen Access
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