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In this study, pupil dilation is related to latent variables of belief updating (surprisal, information gain) from an auditory change-point task across the spatial and temporal domain. The results suggest arousal to modulate belief updating on an automatic perceptual level across the tested domains.

Combining eye-movement, body-kinematics, heart-rate, and individual-characteristic data with machine learning, this study shows that coordination during dynamic motor interaction reflects how similarly partners predict their own actions.

Using a self-paced reading paradigm, we show that, from just the mention of a role, people build rapid expectations about how other people will act, what they know, and whether they can be interchangeable with others in the same role.

The paper introduces a model for item- and person-specific affect dynamics that improves cross-study comparability when item sets only partly overlap, demonstrated in a reanalysis of five intensive longitudinal datasets.

This study found adults believed transgender youth develop gender identity later relative to cisgender youth. This belief was linked to support for gender autonomy-limiting policies. An intervention regarding gender development reduced this belief, and increased support for gender autonomy.

This study examines how spontaneous drifts in listening relate to EEG responses to continuous speech, using encoding models of semantic and contextual representations. It finds that neural markers of prediction, surprisal, and word meaning persist when the mind wanders away from speech contents, even as perceptual responses weaken.

This preregistered RCT (N = 558 U.S. adults) tested perspective-taking on a divisive environmental education topic. Affirming either arguments or intentions of the opposing side built common ground and improved relations; the former twice as effective.

In a preregistered, doubleblind randomized pilot study in Brazil, a game-based social-cognitive intervention improved preschool children’s emotion labeling, recognition, and emotion situation knowledge, supporting peer games for early social-emotional development.

Surveys are compromised not only by bots, but also by the use of AI by genuine human survey respondents. How can researchers ensure that surveys reflect public opinion rather than recycled or programmed content?

The valence of client and therapist language was associated with changes in clients’ depression and anxiety symptoms across messaging based psychotherapeutic exchanges, showing how affective and linguistic measures can track therapeutic progress.

Using LLMs, this study mapped contamination-related obsessive compulsive symptom triggers in 1’495 individuals. Distinct trigger categories across ecological domains and varying intensity were identified, providing a foundation for future translational research.

Using a large-scale dataset linking U.S. policy documents to cited social science papers, this study traces psychology’s policy uptake from 2000–2022 and identifies the paper features, topics, and policy issues most associated with use

Two studies show that laypeople uniquely rate personality traits as being more stable across the lifespan than 20+ other individual differences, despite the traits having similar and often even larger empirical lifespan changes than those variables

How do children build comprehensive models of the world? Across two experiments with 5- to 9-year-olds in the United States and France, marking items as special or useful shifted children’s curiosity from wanting to learn about kinds to individuals, with select consequences for learning.

How individuals learn to assign value to cues and actions may help explain how eating behaviours emerge. This study investigated whether reinforcement learning biases are associated with food cravings, consumption, and approach tendencies in daily life.

Reward responsiveness plays an important role in promoting health in youth. We examined neural reward response from childhood through adolescence. Lower positive parenting and higher negative parenting predicted a reduced reward response over time.

We show that valid spatial cues directing internal attention during long-term memory retrieval boost recall, while invalid cues incur costs. Our work offers a flexible experimental framework to study selective attention in long-term memory.

This Perspective proposes machine experientialism, positing that LLMs build their own form of understanding from training corpora.

Re-analysis of 31 published longitudinal datasets shows that intergroup contact improves outgroup attitudes only in traditional CLPM models. Recent alternatives (FF-CLPM, RI-CLPM) find no significant longitudinal effects and thus questionable evidence for longitudinal contact effects on attitudes.

People often make sequences of decisions to reach a goal. In such situations, when decisions can be undone, people act faster and undo to correct errors. Undoing is driven by both retrospective and prospective uncertainty.