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Using a group decision-making task, this study shows that teams perform worse when newcomers hold critical information. Newcomers in this position showed weaker linguistic coordination and more task conflict, and prestige-based status did not offset these effects.

How individual perceptual maps shape behavior remains unclear. The current study compares task-naïve and task-based auditory maps in humans and mice, finding congruent perceptual structures across conditions and species, guiding perceptual learning.

Across England, Hong Kong and Mainland China (N = 849) parental distress is linked to child internalizing problems. Yet protective factors differ across contexts, as this link is attenuated by positive control in China, but by mindmindedness in England.

In Human-LLMs interaction, LLMs offer sycophantic responses regardless of human communication style. This Perspective proposes that interacting with LLMs may be detrimental to the norms of human-human interaction.

Brain responses to voice differ at 9 months in infants born to mothers with severe mental illness. Socioeconomic status also relates to how infants process sounds, suggesting multiple early factors associated with language development.

This study examines how automated failure feedback influences performance in a technology-based learning task. Trial level analyses show that effectiveness depends on feedback design and learners’ situational emotional and cognitive characteristics.

This series of studies shows that conscious detection and recognition of a word can be triggered retrospectively, even after its visual features are masked. This suggests that conscious access may be largely independent of early sensory processing.

Using continuous reports during auditory streaming, this study shows that higher sensory processing sensitivity is linked to stronger maintenance of perceptual organization, suggesting trait-related modulation of auditory scene analysis.

A decade of ManyBabies research, testing thousands of babies across hundreds of labs, has shown that some, but not all findings in infant research replicate well. Collectively, these projects have shown that current methods carry limitations that larger samples alone cannot resolve. Here three lessons that point toward a more reliable, inclusive developmental science are presented.

This daily diary study investigates mindfulness, self-absorption, and compassion in romantic relationships. Greater mindfulness is linked to higher compassion, an association that is mediated by reduced self-absorption.

Using computational modeling, this study shows that causal attributions are associated with how people form ability beliefs. Lower self-esteem and higher depressive symptoms were linked to stronger negative learning biases, while low self-esteem predicted reduced self-serving attributions.

This study shows that greater similarity in recalled content was associated with stronger shared activation patterns at encoding and retrieval in prefrontal and temporal cortices.

What type of online content is the most important to remove to prevent the spread of false beliefs? Four experiments reveal a misalignment between effective moderation practices and lay intuitions about what content is the most important to remove.

Across three experiments, memory performance for short versus long videos was compared. Findings indicate that while short videos enhance bottom-up attentional capture, they impair top-down processing critical for deep learning and long-term memory, leading to reduced neural synchrony and poorer memory performance.

Occupational training is a core aspect of many careers, and relevant assessments are a necessity. Here, among flight students in the US Navy, it is shown that experience playing action video games is linked to screening assessments for flight training.

Using a longitudinal cohort, this study models generalized trust from ages 13–24 and test sociodemographic, family, and peer-level predictors. Trust declines in midadolescence, partly recovers, and shows widening inequalities linked to disadvantaged backgrounds and peer victimization.

This Perspective puts forward the view that social cohesion in crises depends on how much people depend on each other and the government, the (un)equality of these dependencies, and whether people’s interests conflict or align.

This Perspective offers a conceptual framework for response quality issues in multi-item surveys and how to handle these. It distinguishes between (1) response styles, (2) insufficient effort responding, and (3) response manipulation.

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.