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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.
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.
People align their attitudes with their network’s in an online context. Further, attitude expressors are active agents in the construction of identity, expressing attitudes performatively to construct and consolidate identities.
In the McGurk effect, seeing the talker’s face changes perception of auditory speech. Repeatedly experiencing the effect produces long-lasting changes in auditory perception, so that the McGurk fusion percept is evoked even without seeing the face.
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.
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.
An E-contact experiment between different Afghan ethnic groups resulted in reduced intergroup prejudice and anxiety when facilitated by a conversational agent. This agent increased participant engagement compared to the control group without such an agent.
Poorer human lie detection is associated with a greater reliance on one’s own honesty, whereas greater use of statistical cues that indicate the probability of a lie improved lie detection.
Proliferation and variability of psychological measures are part of the scientific process. While sometimes an indication of questionable research practices, there are also benign reasons for measurement proliferation and the community’s response must take both aspects into account.
A double-blind placebo-controlled oxytocin self-administration study in which male and female players of an economic game modelling intergroup conflict had their testosterone levels monitored, revealed that interactions between oxytocin and testosterone vary by sex.
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.