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Across four experiments, participants chose to spend more time with partners who made fair offers; likewise, a poor social environment and low opportunity-costs led participants to stay with partners.
Written descriptions and neural activity indicate that lonelier individuals’ semantic and neural representations of contemporary cultural figures depart more from the group-consensus when compared to less lonely individuals.
Perceiving outgroup members as holding different schematic understandings of the concept of America as compared to most other people is associated with greater dehumanization of outgroup members
Nocebo hyperalgesia can be socially transmitted through a chain of observers. Differences in interpersonal physiological and psychological synchrony predicted subsequent socially-acquired pain.
Applying contrast enhancement principles, established within the visual and auditory domain, to thermosensation, reveals that larger temporal contrasts increase the probability of experiencing thermal nociceptive illusions.
Individuals seldom reach out to old friends with whom they have lost touch. Interventions focused on changing attitudes were ineffective, but practicing reaching out to current friends first successfully encouraged people to reach out to old friends.
Seven to 12 year-old children showed greater performance gains on a motor sequence task across post-learning resting periods than adolescents, young adults and older adults, suggesting a developmental advantage in offline motor memory consolidation.
People align their attitudes with their network’s in an online context. Further, attitude expressors are active agents in the construction of identity, expressing attitudes performatively to construct and consolidate identities.
In the McGurk effect, seeing the talker’s face changes perception of auditory speech. Repeatedly experiencing the effect produces long-lasting changes in auditory perception, so that the McGurk fusion percept is evoked even without seeing the face.
Across five studies of 3,726 participants, walking in nature (study 1) and viewing images of nature (studies 2-5) led to significantly more healthy food choices and fewer unhealthy food choices compared to urban settings.
How should the mind allocate resources to make good decisions? In the online metacognitive control of decisions model, subjective decision confidence is used as the benefit term of the resource allocation problem to optimize the processing of decision-relevant information.
An E-contact experiment between different Afghan ethnic groups resulted in reduced intergroup prejudice and anxiety when facilitated by a conversational agent. This agent increased participant engagement compared to the control group without such an agent.
Poorer human lie detection is associated with a greater reliance on one’s own honesty, whereas greater use of statistical cues that indicate the probability of a lie improved lie detection.
A double-blind placebo-controlled oxytocin self-administration study in which male and female players of an economic game modelling intergroup conflict had their testosterone levels monitored, revealed that interactions between oxytocin and testosterone vary by sex.
Reliability of biomarkers is key to their relevance. Out-of-sample generalizability of brain-behavior associations in attention problems and aggression/rule-breaking within the ABCD dataset is high, but generalization to Generation R Study data is limited.
Data obtained from a 7-day experience sampling method in a sample of US American users of Twitter (now X) shows short term relationships between Twitter use and wellbeing, sense of belonging, and experienced outrage.
In a minimal group design in which players can zap each other, human participants showed intergroup bias, as participants were more likely to zap outgroup players and less likely to learn about outgroup players’ individual positive behaviours.