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Are working memory representations that are no longer relevant actively deleted? A new study in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics suggests that this isn’t the case: irrelevant memoranda linger on, especially when people create an imaginary combination of items they encounter.
Research on topics such as child sexual abuse can be emotionally demanding in ways that surpass many other lines of work. There are ways to prepare and protect researchers before and during these projects.
Does endorsing one conspiratorial belief make you more likely to endorse a second, incompatible, conspiracy? A recent study in Psychological Science suggests that past work identifying this pattern may actually be driven by those who reject both.
When information is spatiotemporally integrated along motion trajectories, visual integration lasts longer with increased processing load. The number of visual elements does not appear to play a role for visual integration.
Using a vast dataset of object ratings, a new study in Science Advances sheds light on the question what makes objects memorable. The answer to what role typicality plays turns out to be complex.
Generalization behaviours in fear conditioning can arise as a result of a range of mechanisms, including differences in learning, perception, and similarity-based generalization propensity.
The aim of Communications Psychology is to promote open research across all areas of psychology. We are looking forward to working with researchers to publish high-quality research; to offer the community an accessible platform for review and debate; and to shape our practices to serve a field embracing open science.
Older adults’ memory for the spatial locations of everyday objects shows impairment compared to younger adults when objects are presented to their upper, versus lower, visual fields.
Korbmacher and colleagues from the FORRT project discuss how the last decade can be seen as a credibility revolution for psychological science, benefitting from structural, procedural and community-driven changes.
The Person Perception from Voices model (PPV) provides a unified account of person perception beyond identity recognition, incorporating perception of other person characteristics or personae.
