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Reflecting on choices we did make and those we could have made is very common. In a recent study in Science Advances, researchers used a reinforcement learning paradigm together with computational modeling to study the processes underlying the value update of unchosen actions.
Humans are highly social beings who are interested in what others are saying, thinking, and doing. A recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that we can easily tell whether a person’s pattern of attention is natural or artificially manipulated.
For some individuals, daily changes in positive and negative emotions corresponds to fluctuations in overall life satisfaction. A new study in Psychology and Aging suggests that the expanding reach of negative emotions is greater for younger than older adults.
How do sociocultural differences in the home and school contexts of immigrant children influence their self-regulation? A recent study in Child Development suggests the answer may depend on how you measure it.
A recent study in Cognition provides evidence for phenomenal consciousness without knowledge thereof, by virtue of a sound detection and discrimination paradigm.
New research demonstrates AI, in the form of natural language models, can identify social norm violations in text and correctly distinguish the specific violated norm. This shows AI’s potential to recognize tricky social faux pas and support cross-cultural interactions.
When bilinguals perform a memory task in their second rather than their first language they are less likely to confuse lures for real memories or to agree with false information shared by another eye-witness, reports a study in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
A new study in Nature shows psychedelics’ ability to reopen a critical period of development in mice. This shared property across psychedelic drugs was proportional to the duration of acute subjective effects of the drugs in humans.
Long-term social isolation can negatively impact health. Recent work in Psychological Science suggests that even a few hours of isolation may have negative consequences by disrupting internal regulatory mechanisms.
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.
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.
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.
