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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.

Support for moderate climate activists’ benefits from the rise of radicals as moderates are perceived reasonable in comparison — but only when they clearly distance themselves. These ‘radical flank effects’ are attenuated if moderates endorse radicals.

A 3-wave study of 1427 climate-action supporters tests predictors of conventional versus radical climate activism. Radical intentions were rare and linked most strongly to youth, personality and collective victimhood rather than ideology or efficacy.

This study shows that past experiences alter the basic processing of visual input, demonstrating that learning alters attentional processing in a similar way to what has previously been shown with endogenous and exogenous attention.

Using repeated autobiographical recall, this study shows that internal thoughts and feelings are less stable over time than externally oriented details, yet their retention and stability contribute to the perceived importance of personal memories.

Economic inequality is on the rise, and children will bear its burden. Yet children’s perspectives are rarely considered. We urgently need interdisciplinary research to better understand how inequality gets into children’s heads and under their skins, and to inform policies that center children’s lived experiences.

Using eye-gaze methods, this research investigated infants’ ability to make moral character inferences. For a wide range of moral roles, infants could use an agent’s past moral behavior to revise their expectations for future moral behavior.

Higher cognitive ability is often linked to lower risk aversion and greater patience. Using polygenic scores and experimental data, this study shows that associations between cognitive related genetic variation and economic preferences vary by childhood environment.

A preregistered systematic review, meta-analysis, and multiverse meta-analysis of 32 RCTs (5704 patients) shows that psychosocial interventions consistently prolong cancer survival and clarifies sources of prior inconsistent findings.

Anxiety is associated with increased generalisation of threat to similar stimuli. This paper used computational modelling to dissociate perceptual mistakes from value generalisation and links stronger value-transfer to trait anxiety.

A Youth Peacebuilding Beliefs Scale (YPBS) is a novel tool to assess youth peacebuilding across different levels of the social ecology. It was developed through mixed-methods research with 2,970 youth across four countries