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Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Aug 28

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

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 13h

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.
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The order of task decisions and confidence ratings has little effect on metacognition - Communications Psychology

Decisions and confidence ratings are crucial to metacognition research. A concern is whether the order in which first and second order ratings are collected may affect results. This Registered Report finds order has little effect on metacognitive efficiency.

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 1d

People and LLMs evaluate deliberative reasoning more favorably than intuitive thinking—even when both yield accurate results. This preference appears to be intuitive itself and has implications for how we assess others’ and AI advise.
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Humans and LLMs rate deliberation as superior to intuition on complex reasoning tasks - Communications Psychology

People and LLMs evaluate deliberative reasoning more favorably than intuitive thinking—even when both yield accurate results. This preference appears to be intuitive itself and has implications for how we assess others’ and AI advise.

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 6d

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.
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Intentional binding effect depends on conscious access to the sensory consequences of action - Communications Psychology

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.

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 7d

With machine learning, this study showed that predictors from 51 theoretical models of delusions explain only 31% of the variance in persecutory beliefs, raising questions about current theories and pointing to gaps in understanding the specific aetiology of delusions.
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Using machine learning to predict persecutory beliefs based on aetiological models of delusions identified in a systematic literature search - Communications Psychology

Using machine learning, this study revealed that predictors from 51 theoretical models of delusions explain only 31% of the variance in persecutory beliefs, raising questions about current theories and pointing to gaps in understanding the specific aetiology of delusions.

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Julian Matthews @quining.bsky.social · 8d

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Our #RegisteredReport tested whether the order of task decisions and confidence ratings bias #metacognition.

Some said decisions → confidence enhances metacognition. If true, decades of findings will be affected.

A picture of our paper's abstract and title: The order of task decisions and confidence ratings has little effect on metacognition.

Task decisions and confidence ratings are fundamental measures in metacognition research, but using these reports requires collecting them in some order. Only three orders exist and are used in an ad hoc manner across studies. Evidence suggests that when task decisions precede confidence, this report order can enhance metacognition. If verified, this effect pervades studies of metacognition and will lead the synthesis of this literature to invalid conclusions. In this Registered Report, we tested the effect of report order across popular domains of metacognition and probed two factors that may underlie why order effects have been observed in past studies: report time and motor preparation. We examined these effects in a perception experiment (n = 75) and memory experiment (n = 50), controlling task accuracy and learning. Our registered analyses found little effect of report order on metacognitive efficiency, even when timing and motor preparation were experimentally controlled. Our findings suggest the order of task decisions and confidence ratings has little effect on metacognition, and need not constrain secondary analysis or experimental design.

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 8d

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.
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Escalating risk-taking is linked to emotional habituation - Communications Psychology

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.

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 9d

Research Highlight: A large multi-lab replication study confirms that rhythmic sounds can entrain perceptual performance, while revealing substantial inter-individual variability.
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Neuroscience: large-scale evidence for perceptual entrainment to auditory rhythms - Communications Psychology

A large multi-lab replication study confirms that rhythmic sounds can entrain perceptual performance, while revealing substantial inter-individual variability.

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 9d

Adolescents’ choices are affected 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.
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Internal uncertainty impacts social information use in risky choice across adolescence - Communications Psychology

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 susceptibility to social influence.

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Sep 8

Following social isolation, adolescents show increased sensitivity to rewards during effort-based decision making and reward learning.
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Acute isolation is associated with increased reward seeking and reward learning in human adolescents - Communications Psychology

This study shows that, following social isolation, adolescents show increased sensitivity to rewards during effort-based decision making and reward learning. Access to virtual social interactions duri...

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Aliénor Lavergne @alielave.bsky.social · Sep 5

Happy #5thanniversary @commsearth.nature.com 🎉

To celebrate, we curated a Collection of front-half pieces with Highlights and Viewpoints from in-house and external editors, Q&A from key authors and reviewers, etc

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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · Sep 4

5️⃣🎂🎉In September 2025, Communications Earth & Environment celebrates its fifth anniversary. To mark this milestone, we are pleased to present a curated collection showing the continued growth of Communications Earth & Environment over the past five years.

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5th anniversary collection

To celebrate Communications Earth & Environment's 5th anniversary, we present a curated collection that exemplifies our mission and the journal’s evolution, ...

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Sep 2

New Collection and call for paper:

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Stress and Health

With this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Communications Psychology and Nature Communications invite manuscripts that highlight recent developments ...

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Sep 1

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.
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Repetitive negative thinking mediates the relationship between self-esteem and burnout in an ecological momentary assessment study - Communications Psychology

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 pa...

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Aug 29

Our colleagues in the human behaviour team at @natcomms.nature.com are hiring a computational social scientist!
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Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Communications (Computational Social Science)

Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Communications (Computational Social Science) Location: New York, Madrid or Shanghai Closing date: September 12th, 2025 About Springer Nature Springer Nature ...

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Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Aug 29

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.
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Psychology should move from selective allyship to empowered actions to tackle global crises - Communications Psychology

Psychology is committed to the principle of nonmaleficence. This Comment argues that psychology as a discipline and psychological associations as its representatives should uphold their ethical respon...

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Aug 28

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.

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Aug 28

This Perspective highlights three features of language - attention, construal, and appraisal and explains how they contribute to meaning-making.

The construction of emotional meaning in language - Communications Psychology

Emotional meaning should be studied through language. Language may capture emotional meaning by identifying the concerns that are put in focus within a given situation, the perspective from which the ...

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Aug 28

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.

Fake news, real war - Communications Psychology

Misinformation is often framed as a cognitive failure, focusing on the vulnerabilities of those who believe it. But misinformation often stems from deliberate disinformation campaigns—which should be ...

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Aug 28

Finally, a Comment we published argues that instead of focusing on people who fall prey to misinformation, we should reconceptualise disinformation as deliberate acts of aggression and focus on the perpetrators.

Fake news, real war - Communications Psychology

Misinformation is often framed as a cognitive failure, focusing on the vulnerabilities of those who believe it. But misinformation often stems from deliberate disinformation campaigns—which should be ...

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Aug 28

And we highlight a multi-study project that shows that humans and AI overlook subtractive solutions, recommending people with mental health concerns add to their list of tasks, rather than stepping back.

People overlook subtractive solutions to mental health problems - Communications Psychology

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...

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Aug 28

We also published this thought-provoking Perspective explaining how language features convey attention, construal, and appraisal in meaning making

The construction of emotional meaning in language - Communications Psychology

Emotional meaning should be studied through language. Language may capture emotional meaning by identifying the concerns that are put in focus within a given situation, the perspective from which the situation is viewed, and the dimensions by which the situation or event is evaluated.

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Aug 28

In a new Editorial, we explain why novelty claims and manuscripts containing praise of the work itself are discouraged. Even at the cost of limiting buzz.

Credible is in - Communications Psychology

Self-promotional language may attract readers but is discouraged in Communications Psychology. Because style matters in fostering credibility.

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Aug 28

Our cover image highlights a study that shows what anticipatory gaze reveals about memory.

Anticipatory eye gaze as a marker of memory - Communications Psychology

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 without verbal...

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Aug 28

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

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Aug 28

Self-promotional language may attract readers but is discouraged in Communications Psychology. Because style matters in fostering credibility.
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Credible is in - Communications Psychology

Self-promotional language may attract readers but is discouraged in Communications Psychology. Because style matters in fostering credibility.

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Aug 28

Using longitudinal data from the National Study of Daily Experiences, results indicate perceived control is a psychosocial correlate of stressor resolution and an important appraisal resource for daily stress processes across the adult lifespan.
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Daily association between perceived control and resolution of daily stressors strengthens across a decade of adulthood - Communications Psychology

Using longitudinal data from the National Study of Daily Experiences, results indicate perceived control is a psychosocial correlate of stressor resolution and an important appraisal resource for dail...