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Modelling of three patch foraging experiments in humans and rats suggests that stochastic choice can account for variability in stay-or-leave choices. Stochastic choices can make a forager’s variability independent of rewards in the environment.

This study investigates the dynamic interplay between habitual and goal-directed control. Using RL and drift-diffusion modelling, we show that these systems interact in a context-dependent manner: habits facilitate aligned goals but cause interference during conflicts.

In a longitudinal study, three profiles of parental self- and child-focused reappraisal and rumination were identified that are associated with parental exhaustion, children’s internalizing problems, and parent–child relationship closeness.

Advice improves decisions, yet its use is suboptimal. Combining experiments and Bayesian modeling, this study identifies egocentric discounting and a failure to apply global traits to trial level choices as key causes. Suboptimality peaks with high-quality advisers and varies widely across individuals.

Measuring synchrony between two brains during live social interaction versus passive viewing of the same event shows greater interbrain synchrony during live than represented experiences, both shaped by the behavioral coordination between partners.

This study separates trait and state reading enjoyment, showing that both are associated with comprehension and willingness to wait to learn more about the text, but with distinct links to eye-movement behaviour.

Gender stereotypes contribute to gender disparities. We find that children enter school expecting teachers to hold gender stereotypes and view acting on these beliefs as acceptable, highlighting a potential early obstacle to educational equity.

This study addresses discrepancies in prevalence estimates of nonordinary experiences. It validates descriptive, non-judgmental items, identifies factors influencing prevalence, and estimates relative rates (total N = 11,628) to inform future consciousness research.

This study examined what information people may consider before a choice by asking them to repeatedly generate its possible outcomes. Participants overgenerated rare events and avoided direct repetitions, suggesting biases in what comes to mind.

Across two online experiments (N = 200), we show that people freely choose to engage in cognitive conflict (Simon and Stroop tasks) without external rewards. Perceived as effortful yet enjoyable, cognitive conflict acts as an intrinsic reward.

This systematic review and meta-analysis found that functional behaviours and interaction experiences with intelligent agents can resemble those with humans, whereas social attributions and prosocial/moral concerns lag in human-agent interactions.

Reinforcement learning models often ignore affect’s well-established role in shaping behavior. This study shows evidence that affective valence serves as a computational signal that tracks learning in both social and non-social domains alongside reward.

Does the interdisciplinary direction imply the erosion of psychology’s disciplinary foundations, or can the field sustain its identity while expanding its conceptual and methodological boundaries?

Individual traits and experiences jointly shape dream content. By analyzing the semantic structure of thousands of reports, we reveal systematic patterns showing how dreams reflect personality, sleep quality, and external stressors.

Across four experiments, this study shows that motivation biases where people look and how they respond to ambiguous stimuli, but not how they perceive them, challenging the notion of motivated perception.

This work shows how humans infer others’ confidence from their observed behaviour and prior beliefs about the agents’ accuracy. As a result, they overestimate the confidence of AI agents compared to other humans, even when behaviour is identical—an illusion of AI confidence.

This twin study investigated sources behind missing data in infant brain and behaviour research. Genetic and shared environmental influences were substantial, highlighting the need for improved procedures to reduce data loss.

Zheng et al. show that confidence (Type-2) judgments feature the same magnitude of computational noise as perceptual (Type-1) judgments, with important implications for the debate on whether Type-1 and Type-2 decisions are made by separate systems. DR: @dobyrahnev.bsky.social KX: @kaixue98.bsky.social

Brain rhythms may provide temporal windows for the allocation of peaks in perceptual efficiency, even if efficiency itself is not rhythmic. A reanalysis of public datasets shows rhythmicity in temporal priming supporting this view.

This study investigates how the newborn brain processes songs compared to its two components, speech and hummed melody. Newborns’ responses to speech and song were stronger in the right temporoparietal regions than activation triggered by humming.