Previous research has proposed that financial resources influence cognitive performance, though subsequent studies have questioned the magnitude and even the existence of this effect. To clarify...

Cognitive conflict is often viewed as detrimental to performance, effortful, and emotionally aversive. However, when successfully resolved, it can also stimulate cognitive flexibility and adaptation,...

Based on the test difficulty account, we manipulated the attribute categories of Implicit Association Tests (IATs), using either Bivalent (e.g., good/bad) or Univalent (e.g., good/very good) evalua...

The present preregistered experiment tests the effectiveness of two intervention measures for reducing myside bias. Myside bias in argument evaluation was assessed 1) immediately after the interven...

Self-control is essential for managing actions, yet its exertion is perceived as effortful. Performing a task may require effort not only because of its inherent difficulty but also due to its...

Motivated reasoning denotes the phenomenon that individuals are more likely to arrive at conclusions that they want to arrive at. Properly understanding this phenomenon requires at least three...

Improving intertemporal decision-making is essential for reducing relapse in individuals with substance misuse. This study investigated how similarity and positivity cognition interact to shape...

Hindsight bias is the phenomenon that after learning facts about previously judged objects people tend to recall their previous judgments of the objects as closer to the facts than they actually...

A growing body of research has been dedicated to investigating anxiety in relation to medical procedures, as this anxiety disorder is among the most prevalent and has a substantial impact on quality...

This research investigates how perceived economic scarcity is associated with heightened sensitivity to economic inequality-related cues. Across three preregistered studies, participants completed a...

Everyday language use occurs within rich and varied contexts. In communicative settings, one’s conversational partner and physical context can shape both what one chooses to speak about, and the...

An elevated feeling of power has repeatedly been shown to lead to superior goal pursuit and attainment due to increased goal-directed attention allocation. In the wake of this research, powerlessness...

Assessing family functioning can offer therapeutically useful insights to guide case formulation and interventions in psychotherapy. This is the first exploration of the SCORE-15 in a help-seeking...

What can feelings tell us about human behavior that we cannot know from directly observable states alone? From a reinforcement learning perspective, adaptive behavior is calibrated based on deviati...

Generalised anxiety disorder is a prevalent condition linked to the presence of cognitive biases, including attention bias. Attention bias is the tendency to attend preferentially to threat-related...

Schizophrenic patients struggle with figurative language, interpreting non-literal expressions in a literal way. This tendency, called concretism, is considered a schizophrenia core symptom. Despite...

Interest in emotional variability as an interindividual difference is growing. Yet, basic features of the construct, such as whether it can be measured reliably and whether interindividual differen...

This study presents a close replication of the “conspiracy-theory-as-social-stigma” hypothesis originally tested by Lantian et al. (2018), extending the paradigm to the context of the COVID-19...