Attentional prioritization and testing in working memory not only effect immediate memory recall but can also enhance long-term memory and its underlying neural representation. @schneiderd85 @SaboMelinda .

Eight experimental and naturalistic studies show that people (and chatbots) tend to give advice to improve mental health that involve us doing more (e.g., take up yoga) and they neglect solutions that involve doing less (e.g., quit junk food). @BomTarry .

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EEG shows illusory faces in objects initially resemble real faces then shift to object-like representations, with task demands determining which identity guides behavior. @amandarob10 @jesstaubert .

Speech auditory-motor adaptation to a formant-shift perturbation and de-adaptation after the perturbation is removed both depend more on total amount of time spent in the corresponding environment than on the number of practice trials.

People learn from rewards differently when outcomes are shared with others. Learning slows when receiving smaller reward shares, and social stereotypes about partners further impair learning when cognitive demands are low. @Huang_Ham .

Identity fusion has traditionally been associated with intergroup violence. However, across two studies we show that fusion can predict increased willingness to trust and cooperate with outgroups, if contextual perceptions are positive. @JackWKlein .

Using VR, EEG, and contrastive learning, this study found that subjective awe is better predicted by behavioral and neural representations of mixed feelings than by those of purely positive or negative ones, challenging a univalent viewpoint of awe.

Anticipatory eye movements during repeated movie viewing reveal when and what is remembered. Gaze patterns correlate with explicit reports, offering a method to detect memory for events. @LabNir @FlavioSchmidig @YaminEtAl @omerxsharon @CharanRanganath.

Network analysis of 317 family members of veterans and first responders reveals six distinct mental health symptom communities, with strong negative emotions and uncontrollable worry as central modes of psychological distress. @OlegMedved61092 .

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Use of self-promotional language in Abstracts is associated with more citations & online attention. Promotional language predicted a larger gender gap with male (1st or last) authors receiving more citations, views, & media attention.

This study highlights the interplay of psychopathology, diminished inhibitory control, and addictive behaviours associated with negative consequences.

Voluntary spatial attention – but not temporal attention – enhances the temporal resolution of vision under uncertainty, despite the deployment of a synergistic spatiotemporal mechanism of selective attention involving posterior oscillations.

Widespread belief in unfounded conspiracy theories is a risk. Yet, academics mustn’t make the reverse error, in adopting a Protective Conspiracy Framing & labelling credible theories and proposals conspiracies when these would deserve scientific scrutiny.

Five studies, including experiments and experience-sampling, show effortful leisure feels more meaningful than less effortful leisure while maintaining enjoyment. Results suggest effortful leisure can bolster purpose as work hours decline.

This study disentangled loss avoidance from loss aversion, across 7 experiments using social dilemmas with gains and losses. People increased/decreased their cooperation to avoid losses. There was no consistent evidence for loss aversion. @christophwkorn .

This study shows that conservatives and liberals divergently evaluate stereotype portrayals of race and gender, displaying consistency and variability in their preference for stereotypes of racial minority or white male and female models. @elizabethjiang .

A randomized control trial in Singapore finds that private and public pledges reduced kids’ shower times, countering a boomerang effect from a 5-min goal. Both pledges boosted motivation, saving water & promoting conservation habits. @JeevatheHuman .

Using computational modeling of behavioral data, this study demonstrate that preferences involved in creative thinking are stable across three domains of creativity.