A quick round-up of some summer content in our pages (just one page, really, it's the internet).

This study shows that foundational architectures in machine learning, sequence-to-sequence models with attention, mirror mechanisms of human memory. They can serve as alternative models, capturing behavior and aiding performance understanding. @qionng https://t.co/jew4TRlX37

Behind the Paper: https://t.co/wytsn39OjO

A survey across 90 societies reveals that variation and change in everyday norms are explained by a single value dimension: the priority societies place on individualizing versus binding moral concerns. https://t.co/kKXiHzVxgN

Why do many citizens of Western Europe appear complacent about their societies’ democratic backsliding? One explanation is the effect of personal experience on risk perception: a stable democratic past lulls humans into a false sense of security. https://t.co/jPlXQnphOP

What happens when rewards do not reflect ability? Two behavioral studies suggest that rewards can impact how we evaluate our own ability, above and beyond the impact of actual performance. @jeanluo19 @pmendesiedlecki @leorhackel https://t.co/f3RYNFyYnH

Decisions and confidence ratings are crucial to metacognition research. This Registered Report finds that the order in which first and second order ratings are collected has little effect on metacognitive efficiency. @quined_quales @kazuhi_s_ https://t.co/q0njeqQ2jv

A study in @CommsPsychol shows that people tend to give more additive advice than subtractive when supporting those with mental health issues. This bias contributes to a feeling of being overwhelmed in self-management. https://t.co/4JwjxdhH9r

People and LLMs evaluate deliberative reasoning more favorably than intuitive thinking—even when both yield accurate results. This preference appears to be intuitive and has implications for how we assess others’ and AI advise. @wimdeneys @mts_raoelison https://t.co/5Fu55YWLgd

This Registered Report finds that an implicit measure of subjective agency – intentional binding, where the perceived time of an action is biased toward that of its consequence – is altered when the consequence is masked from conscious awareness. https://t.co/jmTyNoJDUh

With machine learning, this study showed that predictors from 51 theoretical models of delusions explain only 31% of the variance in persecutory beliefs, pointing to gaps in understanding the specific aetiology of delusions. https://t.co/0bnLXvSwry

Using virtual reality to simulate physical risk, we show that over time risk taking escalates while emotional responses to risk habituate. The greater the emotional habituation, the steeper the risk escalation. https://t.co/pNoKuDIsWJ

Research Highlight: A large multi-lab replication study confirms that rhythmic sounds can entrain perceptual performance, while revealing substantial inter-individual variability. https://t.co/uxFAXn9HLx

Adolescents’ choices are influenced by others. A social risky choice experiment and Bayesian modelling reveal that age differences in internal uncertainty, being unsure how to choose, relate to differences in the susceptibility to social influence. https://t.co/oaDqTBio58

Following social isolation, adolescents show increased sensitivity to rewards during effort-based decision making and reward learning. @livia_tomova @emilyanntowner @lei_zhang_lz @KirstenThomas64 @sjblakemore @StePalminteri https://t.co/55bOE12iup

New Collection and Call for paper: https://t.co/M5Tuw6WeNW

Across a four-week ecological momentary assessment with university students, between-subject and reciprocal within-subject associations between self-esteem and burnout symptoms occurred, which were partly mediated by repetitive negative thinking. https://t.co/GzRQdwW1mX

A new Comment in Communications Psychology argues that to abide by psychology's principle of nonmaleficence, psychologists and psychological associations should embrace universal allyship in global crises. https://t.co/BIiIBpYlHD

And finally, a multi-experiment study that shows that humans and bots tend to give mental health advice that would add to the to-do list of people seeking help, rather than suggesting they step back and do less. https://t.co/yWIJ0H6NQG

This Perspective highlights three features of language - attention, construal, and appraisal and explains how they contribute to meaning-making. https://t.co/dYHCBy4f10

We also published this Comment, which argues that instead of focusing on people who fall prey to misinformation, we should conceptualize disinformation as acts of aggression and focus on perpetrators. https://t.co/afluHJo1n5