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December 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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This study provides evidence that bottom-up rhythmic features interact with top-down metric structures in a way that shapes the pleasurable urge to move to music.
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4/4 and more, rhythmic complexity more strongly predicts groove in common meters - Communications Psychology
This study provides evidence that bottom-up rhythmic features interact with top-down metric structures in a way that shapes the pleasurable urge to move to music.
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December 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Large language models automate event segmentation & recall scoring with human-level accuracy. LLMs identify event boundaries more consistently than humans, while semantic embeddings enable scalable memory assessments.
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Event segmentation applications in large language model enabled automated recall assessments - Communications Psychology
Large language models automate event segmentation and recall scoring with human-level accuracy. LLMs identify event boundaries more consistently than humans themselves, while semantic embeddings enabl...
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December 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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An interesting contribution in the Journal of Informetrics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...; transparent peer review is associated with higher scores for information content
Published peer review reports have higher informative content than unpublished reports
Although publishing peer review reports increases editorial transparency, little is known about the differences in terms of information content, reada…
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December 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Read the "Behind the paper" story on Vahed, S. & Sanfey, A.G. Large-scale community study reveals information sampling drives fairness decisions. Communications Psychology 3, 178 (2025)

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What Bringing the Lab to the Public Taught Us About Fairness
'Behind the Paper' on a citizen science, lab-in-the-field study capturing >18,672 decisions about fairness from volunteer members of the public (Vahed, S. & Sanfey, A.G. Large-scale community study re...
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December 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Using a within-subjects experimental design, children’s early STEM behaviours during solitary play with loose parts (e.g., acorn, cardboard) were examined with findings indicating that play with loose parts offers strong potential for STEM exploration and learning.
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Loose parts play encourages spontaneous science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) behaviours - Communications Psychology
Using a within-subjects experimental design, children’s early STEM behaviours during solitary play with loose parts (e.g., acorn, cardboard) were examined with findings indicating that play with loose...
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December 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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A multilevel meta-analysis (N = 6,570) revealed that boredom is generally linked to lower arousal. However, heterogeneity in effect sizes rather characterized boredom as a variable arousal state and could be explained by a range of moderators.
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A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis of the relationship between boredom and arousal - Communications Psychology
A multilevel meta-analysis (N = 6570) revealed that boredom is generally linked to lower arousal. However, heterogeneity in effect sizes rather characterized boredom as a variable arousal state and co...
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December 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Does mode of contact influence older adults’ verbal expression of emotion? Both in-person and phone contact were associated with communicating positive emotions, but only in-person contact was associated with communicating negative emotions.
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December 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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This study finds that acute stress has a limited effect on decision-making, irrespective of the decision’s complexity. However, on decisions with experienced time pressure, acute stress reduced decision quality.
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Acute stress impairs decision-making at varying levels of decision complexity - Communications Psychology
This study finds that acute stress alone has a surprisingly limited effect on decision-making, irrespective of the decision’s complexity. However, on decisions with experienced time pressure, acute st...
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December 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Using facial EMG and humor ratings, this study shows how suppression, reappraisal, and distraction differentially affect laughter-related expressions of amusement in solitary versus social settings.
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Laughter regulation in solitary and social contexts varies across emotion regulation strategies - Communications Psychology
Using facial EMG and humor ratings, this study shows how suppression, reappraisal, and distraction differentially affect laughter-related expressions of amusement in solitary versus social settings.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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This lab-in-the-field study embedded a classic economic task, the Ultimatum Game, in a museum, capturing <18,672 decisions about fairness from volunteer members of the public, revealing that information sampling shapes responses to unfairness.
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Large-scale community study reveals information sampling drives fairness decisions - Communications Psychology
This citizen science, lab-in-the-field study embedded a classic economic task, the Ultimatum Game, in a museum, capturing &gt;18,672 decisions about fairness from volunteer members of the public, reve...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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In a high-psychopathy community sample, steeper social discounting partly accounted for antisocial behavior. These findings indicate that psychopathy involves a systematic devaluation of others’ outcomes.
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Adults with more severe psychopathy in the community show increased social discounting - Communications Psychology
In a high-psychopathy community sample, steeper social discounting partly accounted for antisocial behavior. These findings indicate that psychopathy involves a systematic devaluation of others’ outco...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Using EMG to measure dyads, this study shows that facial mimicry predicts preference better than expressions alone. Facial mimicry plays a role in everyday preferences during social interactions.
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Facial mimicry predicts preference - Communications Psychology
Using wearable EMG to measure participant dyads, we show that facial mimicry predicts preference better than expressions alone. This study demonstrates the central role facial mimicry plays in shaping...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Decision biases previously attributed to value normalization are better explained by action repetition. Repeating an action biases choice preference even when options are encountered in new contexts.
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Action repetition biases choice in context-dependent decision-making - Communications Psychology
This study shows that decision biases previously attributed to value normalization (e.g. relative value learning or range normalization) are better explained by action repetition. Repeating an action ...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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December 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Your Face Reveals What You Like: How Mimicry Predicts Preferences
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December 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Cognitive performance is a common concern among cancer survivors. Comparing survivors to controls on objective tasks in daily life, survivors had better average scores but showed greater fluctuations.
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Ecological momentary assessments of cognitive performance are more variable in breast cancer survivors - Communications Psychology
Cognitive performance is a common concern among cancer survivors. Comparing survivors to controls on objective tasks in daily life, survivors had better average scores but showed greater fluctuations.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Process models of personality development propose that personality states precede trait change, yet evidence
across the lifespan is limited. This multimethod study shows
similar changes in personality states and traits in younger and
older adults.
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Personality intervention affects emotional stability and extraversion similarly in older and younger adults - Communications Psychology
Process models of personality development propose that personality states precede trait change, yet evidence across the lifespan is limited. This multimethod study shows similar changes in personality...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Computational modelling reveals that people flexibly regulate their emotion expressions by balancing their value as a communicative signal against the potential social costs they incur.
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Value computations underpin flexible emotion expression - Communications Psychology
People do not always express the emotions they feel truthfully. Computational modelling reveals that people flexibly regulate their emotion expressions by balancing their value as a communicative sign...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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This study shows that human pairs adopt stable cooperative, competitive, or mixed strategies. A computational model predicts dyadic choices and links these strategies to interaction dynamics, payoffs, and cost of cooperation.
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Continuous dynamics of cooperation and competition in social decision-making - Communications Psychology
Using a continuous social foraging game, this study shows that human pairs adopt stable cooperative, competitive, or mixed strategies. A computational model predicts dyadic choices and links these str...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Combining data from post-disaster field experiments in Japan and the Philippines, the study shows that disaster exposure heightens present bias, which explains variance in increases in smoking, drinking, and BMI among survivors.
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Unhealthy behaviours in disaster survivors are associated with scarcity and present bias - Communications Psychology
Combining data from post-disaster field experiments in Japan and the Philippines, the study shows that disaster exposure heightens present bias, which explains variance in increases in smoking, drinki...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Consciousness and how it can/should/mustn't be researched is a contentious topic, as are different takes on theories of consciousness.
Two complementary Comments published today put forward views on what use theories can be to better understand consciousness.
November 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Holiday stress isn’t just about the turkey 🦃—when parents feel burned out during the holidays, their genuine emotional expression drops.
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Higher momentary parental burnout predicts lower subsequent emotional expression in parents during the festive season - Communications Psychology
Using a 35-day experience sampling study with 293 parents, this research explores dynamic links between parental burnout and genuine emotional expression during the holiday season, uncovering unidirec...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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People are less willing to incur time and effort costs for the environment than for themselves, with computational modeling revealing nonlinear discounting of time and effort linked to support for costly climate policies.
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Effort and time costs influence motivational asymmetries in self-benefitting vs pro-environmental decisions - Communications Psychology
People are less willing to incur time and effort costs for the environment than for themselves, with computational modeling revealing nonlinear discounting of time and effort linked to support for cos...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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High-quality listening behaviors (e.g., follow-up questions) are linked to behavioral and self-reported markers of social connection in conversations between strangers and may account for the effectiveness of a social connectedness intervention.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM