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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.
Corrective comments posted by social media users that suggested a news story was incorrect reduced accuracy perceptions and engagement with the news posts. These corrective comments had similar effects regardless of the truthfulness of the original post.
Analysing geo-tagged Twitter data from 2010-2020, this study shows that media reports of police brutality affect public sentiment towards police in the US, while there is no statistically significant evidence that reports of local crime has similar effects.
People learn to exert more control after conflict detection, when stimuli associated with conflict are selectively reinforced, providing evidence for reinforcement learning of abstract cognitive control adaptations.
A large-scale longitudinal study analysing Ukraine-based Twitter (now X) accounts’ language use prior and during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, shows a behavioural shift away from Russian language to Ukrainian language.
A ten-minute, unmoderated chat discussion between pairs of matched Labour and Conservative party voters is followed by increased out-partisan sympathy and lasting willingness to engage in discussion.
Visual working memory models combining deep neural network features with the Target Confusability Competition model capture human memory errors on GAN-generated scenes. Layers from the DNN architectures reproduce set-size effects and response bias curves in orientation and colour.
Speech and music processing appear to involve partially distinct rhythmic timing mechanisms. A perception and a synchronization task show distinct optimal temporal rates for perception and production of music and speech.
Replicating a finding previously established in German-speaking and English-speaking cohorts, Norwegian-speaking participants likewise form a bimodal distribution of high synchronizers and low synchronizers.
When people take false news for true, they are often aware that they might be wrong. Here, Democrats and older adults were better at telling true from false news than Republicans and younger adults, but all partisan and age groups had good insight into their abilities.
Individuals vary in how often they detect changes in the emotions of others and in whether these emotional events align with what other people perceive. We find that more complex emotion vocabulary and knowledge of emotion predict this complex skill, based on a newly developed emotion segmentation paradigm.
When judging the pleasantness of a physical touch experienced by someone else, mothers are more likely to ascribe their personal feelings of pleasantness to their own children as compared to the children of others.