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Spontaneous eye-blink rate, prefrontal haemodynamic responses and cognitive flexibility are measured in 113 children aged 35–80 months. With age, prefrontal activation shifts towards a right-dorsal pattern and performance improves; a higher blink rate accompanies both, marking it as a candidate indicator of executive function development.

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly entering education, framed as a tool for efficiency and personalization. This Perspective argues that this framing of GenAI obscures a deeper transformation.

We train a recurrent neural network to synchronize its output with a metronome across a range of tempos using reinforcement learning. The most effective reinforcement scheme also reproduces key features of human synchronization behavior.

Using generative AI in science necessitates that institutions and researchers practice epistemic reflexivity to protect intellectual diversity and resist the threat of scientific monoculture. We argue that researchers and institutions can position generative AI both as a tool for epistemic reflexivity and as an object that must be examined reflexively.

In this study, pupil dilation is related to latent variables of belief updating (surprisal, information gain) from an auditory change-point task across the spatial and temporal domain. The results suggest arousal to modulate belief updating on an automatic perceptual level across the tested domains.

Combining eye-movement, body-kinematics, heart-rate, and individual-characteristic data with machine learning, this study shows that coordination during dynamic motor interaction reflects how similarly partners predict their own actions.

Using a self-paced reading paradigm, we show that, from just the mention of a role, people build rapid expectations about how other people will act, what they know, and whether they can be interchangeable with others in the same role.

The paper introduces a model for item- and person-specific affect dynamics that improves cross-study comparability when item sets only partly overlap, demonstrated in a reanalysis of five intensive longitudinal datasets.

This study found adults believed transgender youth develop gender identity later relative to cisgender youth. This belief was linked to support for gender autonomy-limiting policies. An intervention regarding gender development reduced this belief, and increased support for gender autonomy.

This study examines how spontaneous drifts in listening relate to EEG responses to continuous speech, using encoding models of semantic and contextual representations. It finds that neural markers of prediction, surprisal, and word meaning persist when the mind wanders away from speech contents, even as perceptual responses weaken.

This preregistered RCT (N = 558 U.S. adults) tested perspective-taking on a divisive environmental education topic. Affirming either arguments or intentions of the opposing side built common ground and improved relations; the former twice as effective.

In a preregistered, doubleblind randomized pilot study in Brazil, a game-based social-cognitive intervention improved preschool children’s emotion labeling, recognition, and emotion situation knowledge, supporting peer games for early social-emotional development.

Surveys are compromised not only by bots, but also by the use of AI by genuine human survey respondents. How can researchers ensure that surveys reflect public opinion rather than recycled or programmed content?

The valence of client and therapist language was associated with changes in clients’ depression and anxiety symptoms across messaging based psychotherapeutic exchanges, showing how affective and linguistic measures can track therapeutic progress.

Using LLMs, this study mapped contamination-related obsessive compulsive symptom triggers in 1’495 individuals. Distinct trigger categories across ecological domains and varying intensity were identified, providing a foundation for future translational research.

Using a large-scale dataset linking U.S. policy documents to cited social science papers, this study traces psychology’s policy uptake from 2000–2022 and identifies the paper features, topics, and policy issues most associated with use

Two studies show that laypeople uniquely rate personality traits as being more stable across the lifespan than 20+ other individual differences, despite the traits having similar and often even larger empirical lifespan changes than those variables

How do children build comprehensive models of the world? Across two experiments with 5- to 9-year-olds in the United States and France, marking items as special or useful shifted children’s curiosity from wanting to learn about kinds to individuals, with select consequences for learning.