Communications Psychology

nature.comYoung children prefer to learn from and befriend strivers rather than endowed individuals - Communications PsychologyAcross two studies, 5- to 9-year-old children selected between a striver and an endowed informant when making epistemic and social decisions. This study found that children preferred the striver as a ...

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nature.comTask-specific theta enhancement and domain-general alpha/beta suppression as oscillatory signatures of cognitive flexibility - Communications PsychologyUsing time-frequency analysis and latent change structural equation modeling on cued-task switching data, we show that parietal alpha/beta suppression indexes cognitive flexibility with stronger suppr...

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New research Article in Communications Psychology: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

nature.comSPREAD, a framework and open-source R toolbox to quantify behavioural contagion - Communications PsychologyThe SPREAD framework provides a conceptual and statistical framework to quantify behavioural contagion. It is implemented as an open-source R toolbox.

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nature.comA graph theory approach to chart the architecture of dream and mind-wandering reports - Communications PsychologyThis study applies graph theory analysis to a large dataset of dream and mind wandering reports. It repoerts distinct narrative structures, stable individual patterns and relationships between lower l...

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nature.comPrior preferences interfere with the associative learning of food values - Communications PsychologyCommunications Psychology - Prior preferences interfere with the associative learning of food values

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nature.comAnxiety state-related task disengagement varies with trait anxiety - Communications PsychologyCommunications Psychology - Anxiety state-related task disengagement varies with trait anxiety

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nature.comNatural and engineered safe reinforcement learning - Communications PsychologyCommunications Psychology - Natural and engineered safe reinforcement learning

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nature.comLittle evidence for cultural differences in automatic imitation - Communications PsychologyThis study investigates whether automatic imitation differs across representative samples from 22 culturally diverse nations. We find no credible evidence for cultural differences, supporting the idea...

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nature.comDaily anger and sadness undermine relationship satisfaction after a stroke with spousal post-stroke intimacy as a protective factor - Communications PsychologyCommunications Psychology - Daily anger and sadness undermine relationship satisfaction after a stroke with spousal post-stroke intimacy as a protective factor

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Happy to share that our paper "Trait-relevant movies amplify neuroticism-associated brain responses" has just been published in @commspsychol.nature.com 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

nature.comTrait-relevant movies amplify neuroticism-associated brain responses - Communications PsychologyCommunications Psychology - Trait-relevant movies amplify neuroticism-associated brain responses

nature.comMapping the methodological landscape of social media detox intervention through a scoping review of evidence relevant to social media restriction policies - Communications PsychologyCommunications Psychology - Mapping the methodological landscape of social media detox intervention through a scoping review of evidence relevant to social media restriction policies

A new research Article in the journal by Elombe Calvert and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press)

nature.comInfants’ facial input from 6 to 17 months rarely includes hypothesized expressive emotion prototypes - Communications PsychologyCommunications Psychology - Infants’ facial input from 6 to 17 months rarely includes hypothesized expressive emotion prototypes

A new research Article in the journal by Katie Hoemann and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press) @katiehoemann.bsky.social

nature.comNew mothers and fathers show distinct emotion dynamics across maternity and paternity leave - Communications PsychologyCommunications Psychology - New mothers and fathers show distinct emotion dynamics across maternity and paternity leave

A new research Article in the journal by Christopher Martin Mikkelsen Cox and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press) @chrismmcox.bsky.social

nature.comDynamics of emotion-transition networks link brain network variability and affective symptoms - Communications PsychologyThis study investigates the dynamic organization and temporal transitions of daily emotional states and examines their neural correlates using brain imaging data. It shows that reduced tendency to mai...

A new research Article in the journal by Li Geng and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press)

nature.comFatigue and processing speed predict subsequent fatigue override, evidence from a coordinated analysis of six EMA studies - Communications PsychologyThis study analyzes six intensive longitudinal studies with 1,088 participants to test whether fatigue and processing speed predict people’s ability to override fatigue in daily life. Greater-than-usu...

A new research Article in the journal by Raymond Hernandez and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press)

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Our colleagues at Nature Communications are looking to hire a social scientist to work on the Human Behaviour team: The location is Berlin, Shanghai, or Pune, in a hybrid working model. springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

nature.comReinforcement-trained recurrent networks reproduce human beat-synchronization dynamics - Communications PsychologyWe train a recurrent neural network to synchronize its output with a metronome across a range of tempos using reinforcement learning. The most effective reinforcement scheme also reproduces key featur...

A new research Article in the journal by Yassaman Ommi and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... @joncannon-neuro.bsky.social

nature.comCharacterizing the behavioral subtypes of phobic avoidance - Communications PsychologyCommunications Psychology - Characterizing the behavioral subtypes of phobic avoidance

A new research Article in the journal by Sergio Frumento and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... @sergiofrumento.bsky.social

nature.comVisual features explain dynamic aesthetic experiences across distinct movie content - Communications PsychologyCommunications Psychology - Visual features explain dynamic aesthetic experiences across distinct movie content

A new research Article in the journal by Mustafa Alperen Ekinci and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... @alpekinci.bsky.social

nature.comEpistemic reflexivity for AI-augmented research - Communications PsychologyUsing generative AI in science necessitates that institutions and researchers practice epistemic reflexivity to protect intellectual diversity and resist the threat of scientific monoculture. We argue...

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nature.comEducating minds with generative AI - Communications PsychologyGenerative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly entering education, framed as a tool for efficiency and personalization. This Perspective argues that this framing of GenAI obscures a deeper tran...

14 Sept

A new Perspective in the journal by Laura Desiree Di Paolo and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

nature.comPupil dilation indicates arousal-related mediation of perceptual belief updating across auditory domains - Communications PsychologyIn 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 sug...

A new research Article in the journal by Roman Fleischmann and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

nature.comSuccessful coordination emerges from aligned self-predictions in a dynamic motor interaction - Communications PsychologyCombining eye-movement, body-kinematics, heart-rate, and individual-characteristic data with machine learning, this study shows that coordination during dynamic motor interaction reflects how similarl...

A new research Article in the journal by Prasetia Utama Putra & Fumihiro Kano: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

nature.comPeople use roles to quickly predict how others will act, what they know, and when they can be replaced - Communications PsychologyUsing 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 interchange...

A new research Article in the journal by Aaron Baker and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press) @aajbaker.bsky.social @yarrowdunham.bsky.social @julianje.bsky.social

nature.comImproving the comparability of momentary affect assessments and accounting for item-specific effects in within-person affect dynamics - Communications PsychologyThe 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 lo...

A new research Article in the journal by Tobias Koch and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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nature.comHigh-level prediction of continuous speech during mind-wandering - Communications PsychologyThis 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 ...

18 Aug

A new research Article in the journal by Gal R. Chen and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press) @galchen.bsky.social @deouell.bsky.social

nature.comCommunicating social perspective taking creates common ground and improves relational perceptions - Communications PsychologyThis 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 an...

18 Aug

A new research Article in the journal by Li Li Hwangpo and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press) @li-li-1.bsky.social

nature.comA game-based intervention promotes social-cognitive development in early childhood in urban poverty contexts in Brazil - Communications PsychologyIn a preregistered, doubleblind randomized pilot study in Brazil, a game-based social-cognitive intervention improved preschool children’s emotion labeling, recognition, and emotion situation knowledg...

18 Aug

A new research Article in the journal by Nara C. Andrade and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press)

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nature.comIdentifying generative AI use among genuine responders in online survey research - Communications PsychologySurveys 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 programm...

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nature.comThe valence of client and therapist language reflects symptom changes in messaging-based psychotherapy - Communications PsychologyThe 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 lingu...

A new research Article in the journal by Henna I. Vartiainen and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press) @hennavartiainen.bsky.social @eriknook.bsky.social

nature.comLeveraging large language models to map triggers of contamination-related obsessive-compulsive symptoms - Communications PsychologyUsing LLMs, this study mapped contamination-related obsessive compulsive symptom triggers in 1’495 individuals. Distinct trigger categories across ecological domains and varying intensity were identif...

A new research Article in the journal by Dorothée Bentz and Dirk U. Wulff: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press) @dirkwulff.bsky.social

nature.comPsychological research is increasingly cited in U.S. policy documents especially for education, health and social justice issues - Communications PsychologyUsing 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 pol...

A new research Article in the journal by Chen-Wei Yu and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press)

nature.comPersonality traits are less stable than people think - Communications PsychologyTwo 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...

A new research Article in the journal by Amanda J. Wright and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press) @ajwright.bsky.social @mdkraemer.bsky.social @peterhaehner.bsky.social @chopwood.bsky.social @wiebkeb.bsky.social

nature.comChildren shift their curiosity from kinds to individuals when items are special or useful - Communications PsychologyHow 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 ...

A new Registered Report in the journal by Cristina-Ioana Galusca and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press)

nature.comThe role of affective learning biases in daily food behaviour - Communications PsychologyHow 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...

A new Registered Report in the journal by Malika Tapparel and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press)

nature.comEarly parenting is associated with the development of neural reward responsiveness from childhood through adolescence - Communications PsychologyReward 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 parentin...

A new research Article in the journal by Kaylin E. Hill and colleagues (in Press): www.nature.com/articles/s44... @kaylinhill.bsky.social

nature.comOrienting selective attention within long-term contextual memories - Communications PsychologyWe 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 ...

A new research Article in the journal by Melinda Sabo and colleagues (in Press): www.nature.com/articles/s44... @sabomelinda.bsky.social @william-nm.bsky.social @kianobre.bsky.social @norarouast.bsky.social

nature.comUnderstanding large language models demands distinguishing human projection from machine cognition - Communications PsychologyThis Perspective proposes machine experientialism, positing that LLMs build their own form of understanding from training corpora.

A new Perspective in the journal by Lingyu Li and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... @lingyuli.bsky.social

nature.comA comparative multi-method re-analysis of the longitudinal evidence for causal intergroup contact effects on attitudes - Communications PsychologyRe-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 signifi...

A new research Article in the journal by Maria-Therese Friehs and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

nature.comDecision reversals in sequential decision-making - Communications PsychologyPeople 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 pr...

A new research Article in the journal by Sherry Dongqi Bao and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press) @sherrydongqi.bsky.social @weijima.bsky.social

nature.comContext in memory is reconstructed based on retrieval questions - Communications PsychologyThis series of experiments shows that context in memory is reconstructed rather than encoded. When recognition pertained to background scenes in the context reinstatement paradigm, objects acted as co...

A new research Article in the journal by Jeremy Gardette and Christine Bastin: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press)

nature.comMasked attribution-based probing of strategies as a computational framework to align human, non-human primate, and model explanations - Communications PsychologyThis study introduces MAPS, a framework for testing whether artificial neural network explanations capture the visual information used by humans and non-human primates during object recognition, linki...

A new research Article in the journal by Sabine Muzellec and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press) @sabinemuzellec.bsky.social

nature.comChildhood neglect, abuse, and their combination are differentially associated with specific emotion regulation and mental health issues - Communications Psychologythanks the anonymous reviewers for their contribution to the peer review of this work. Primary Handling Editors: Jennifer Bellingtier. A peer review file is available.

A new research Article in the journal by Karyn Doba and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press)

nature.comWorking memory constraints on replanning following distraction - Communications PsychologyUsing a Snake-inspired working memory task, this study shows that people dynamically reprioritize memorized goals after distraction, demonstrating how working memory supports flexible planning in dyna...

A new research Article in the journal by Ziyao Zhang and Jarrod A. Lewis-Peacock: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press) @bulezz.bsky.social