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Analyzing 12,000 metaphors of AI from a year-long U.S. survey, this study introduces a scalable framework for quantitatively analyzing implicit perceptions from open-ended language and shows that Americans increasingly view AI as warm and human-like.

LLM agents can now pass as human participants, threatening the validity of online social science. We urge a shift from ad-hoc checks to multi-layered, adaptive defenses, borrowing from internet anti-bot practice, and call for cooperation across researchers, platforms, and institutions, to guard against this challenge.

People are unaware of inequalities in Asian subgroup representation in STEM and base their perceptions on group typicality beliefs. Interventions informing about Asian STEM representation increase support for data disaggregation of Asian subgroups.

Three experiments show that people continue to rely on the content of deepfake videos when making moral judgements, despite prior warnings that the videos were fake, underscoring the limitations of AI transparency.

This Registered Report examines how forgetting affects the language through which memories are communicated. Even though the probability of recalling memories declines over time, the content of recalled memories is mostly preserved.

Lonelier individuals are less willing to trust partners even when they cooperate highly, due to reduced reliance on expectations of their reciprocity. Their willingness to trust is even lower when they also report high levels of paranoia.

Model-based analyses of children’s speech reveal how, as language experience increases, the information in sequences and the relations between categories reorganize in ways that maintain entropy levels across the developing grammatical system.

Pareto analysis of data from more than 400,000 people links human values to tradeoffs between three adaptive tasks, providing insight into individual differences in social and psychological constructs.

EEG was used to examine how listeners adapt to accented speech. Rather than restructuring native sound category mappings, listeners recalibrate the functional relevance of acoustic dimensions of sounds that violate long-term expectations, achieving rapid adaptation while preserving long-term stability.

Helping decisions across 100 real-life scenarios were modeled as a socioemotional cost-benefit tradeoff combined with an individual helping bias. Model parameters varied systematically with empathy, agreeableness, and punishment sensitivity.

Self-report questionnaires are vital in psychology, yet how the brain generates these responses is unknown. We found that items assessing the same trait produced similar activation patterns specifically in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC).

In daily life, light exposure influences cognitive performance in 58 UK adults: brighter, more stable days are linked to better vigilance, memory, and visual search, while recent bright light reduces sleepiness and reaction times.

This study provides evidence that bottom-up rhythmic features interact with top-down metric structures in a way that shapes the pleasurable urge to move to music.

A battery of bedside tests was designed to test split-brain patients across multiple functional domains. While full callosotomy introduced disconnection syndromes across all domains, even minimal callosal remnants enabled fully integrated behavior.

Large language models automate event segmentation and recall scoring with human-level accuracy. LLMs identify event boundaries more consistently than humans themselves, while semantic embeddings enable scalable memory assessments, advancing AI-driven cognitive research.

Does trust in science drive intentions for health-related behaviour? Across four studies employing an experimental manipulation of trust in science, no evidence emerged to support a causal link between the two.

Does mode of contact influence older adults’ verbal expression of emotion? Both in-person and phone contact were associated with communicating positive emotions, but only in-person contact was associated with communicating negative emotions.

Using a within-subjects experimental design, children’s early STEM behaviours during solitary play with loose parts (e.g., acorn, cardboard) were examined with findings indicating that play with loose parts offers strong potential for STEM exploration and learning.

This Comment advocates promoting children’s psychological agency to building climate resilience. This approach includes physical and digital climate learning, engaging families, educators, and communities to empower children and provide emotional support.

Behavioural policies succeed on average but yield highly heterogeneous outcomes. Reviewing the psychology of poverty, this Perspective argues that variability in conformism, present orientation, personal agency and social vigilance alters responses to default options, self-regulation devices, information campaigns and social norms.