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Across 12 EU nations (N = 19,735), short prebunking videos targeting scapegoating, decontextualization, and discrediting improved older adults’ ability to discern manipulation and make wiser sharing decisions about election misinformation.

Analyzing more than 100k human ratings, we show that ambiguity resolution relies on high-level visual features. After disambiguation, the visual system shifts from top-down processing to bottom-up matching.

Across replication studies (N = 3659) cultural tightness-looseness moderates group diversity and group morality perceptions. Group diversity increased perceived group morality in loose cultural contexts, but the effect attenuated when the cultures were tight.

Using a preregistered, triplearm, single-session design, this study evaluates the mechanisms underlying alpha upregulation through EEG neurofeedback. Alpha power was non-specifically increased, pointing to spontaneous repetition-related brain dynamics.

This study analyzes sequential human reaching movements to find kinematic evidence of their hierarchical control. The model-based analyses are based on comparing state-of-the-art optimal control models with or without a hierarchy of controllers.

Alexithymia modulates thought-emotion dynamics in daily life. Using multi-dimensional experience sampling, the findings show that links between thought and affect vary with alexithymia, revealing how trait differences modulate cognition-emotion interactions.

Theories and evidence on cultural variation in norm strength suggest social norm interventions should vary by cultural tightness. In a 42-country experiment, findings indicate that climate norm interventions are not consistently stronger in tighter cultures.

An intensive longitudinal randomized-control trial tested habit degradation strategies and reward for unhealthy snacking habits. Habit strength declined, with steeper early reductions in intervention groups than control and with no evidence of differences by strategy or reward.

Do adverse life events occur by chance? In two national panel studies covering over two decades, adverse life events show non-random co-occurrence and self-reinforcing accumulation, rather than arising from “bad luck” alone.

Large-scale computational analysis across Reddit comments and news articles finds partisan language to be less affectively divided over political issues than identity labels, suggesting meaningful affective alignment on contentious issues despite partisan animosity.

Across 44 countries, dysfunctional and disruptive economic, political, governmental, and social conditions were associated with stronger perceptions of a polarized societal climate. Perceptions of anomie in society may partially explain these links.

Tracking multiple moving locations can be facilitated by an encapsulating illusory contour connecting all relevant locations. The ongoing EEG-signal can be used to decode topological transitions within this morphing illusory contour during tracking.

AI’s greatest strength—removing friction from work and relationships—is also a liability. Prioritizing outcome over process, it eliminates desirable difficulties that drive growth. By subtracting effort from life, AI risks removing the struggles that teach us, the loneliness that connects us, and the labor that makes life meaningful.

The rush to study generative AI is producing a feedback loop of topical and methodological convergence, flattening scientific imagination and crowding out the pluralism needed to keep research adaptive, resilient, and intellectually generative.

The experience sampling method (ESM) collects real-time reports of people’s feelings, actions, and surroundings, and originally included both numerical and open-ended responses. Whereas most studies today focus only on the numbers, we argue that open-ended responses should be collected and analyzed again, because they are essential for understanding what the numbers mean and for capturing context and the temporal order of experiences.

Environmental scientists’ activism – especially civil disobedience – leads to modest declines in their perceived competence and a subtle withdrawal from the scientists’ cause.

Mind wandering is typically measured using rare, disruptive thought probes. This study shows that trial-by-trial fluctuations in attentional states can be inferred from behavior alone using a biased perceptual task and computational modeling.

This study tests how meaning shapes gaze in picture stories. Viewers fixate earlier and more on semantically informative objects in coherent image sequences, an effect captured by a language-model–based semantic saliency rather than visual salience.

Three studies of EU, UK, and US elections show that self-serving bias moderates the relationship between future thinking and remembering. Event memories and memories for pre-election expectations are shaped by having won or lost the election.