Applications are invited for a 3-year, full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London.This position is funded by an ESRC resear...

Research on the psychology of apologising finds that certain word choices are more convincing because of their mental cost

Given ongoing debates about the nature and consequences of religious belief, effective procedures for experimentally controlling such beliefs are highly desirable. To date, however, there are few r...

To perceive speech listeners must decide how to prioritize information from multiple acoustic dimensions. Over the course of language learning, indivi…

Trust perception in Syrian refugee children

Most people believe that biodiversity loss is human-caused, yet they may not realize how many others share this belief. Such collective misperceptions…

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Alice M. Gregory, Partha Kar; Smartphone-Free Childhood? Monitoring the Implications of Initiatives to Remove Smartphones on Children With Type 1 Diabetes,

Objectives Patients' expectations for antibiotics are among the strongest predictors of clinicians' decisions to overprescribe antibiotics. In this registered report, we used a signal detection theo...

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From Dissertation to Career: Profs. Serbic and Bourne’s New Book Supports Psychology Students at Every Stage

It’s good that we’re taking sleep more seriously than we used to, but the messaging about its importance has gone too far

‘Loneliness’ refers to the perceived social isolation triggered by unsatisfying relationships. Most research and interventions have framed it as an individual problem rather than a broader social issue rooted in the (infra)structures of our societies. Here, we synthesize the neurocomputational evidence on the cognitive processes underpinning loneliness and the psychological and behavioral effects of the social environment and, in particular, community identification on feelings of loneliness. We propose that community-based interventions might effectively tackle loneliness by creating the preconditions that can prevent the emergence and reinforcement of the cognitive biases that foster maladaptive behavioral and reasoning patterns in lonely individuals. Finally, we discuss how future work can better design and tailor social interventions to reduce loneliness and improve mental health in general.