This Comment advocates promoting children’s psychological agency to building climate resilience. This approach includes physical and digital climate learning, engaging families, educators, and communities to empower children and provide emotional support. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Self-report questionnaires are vital in psychology, yet how the brain generates these responses is unknown. We found that items assessing the same trait produced similar activation patterns specifically in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Rather than restructuring native sound category mappings, this EEG study shows that listeners recalibrate the functional relevance of sounds that violate long-term expectations, achieving rapid adaptation while preserving long-term stability. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Reviewing the psychology of poverty, this Perspective argues that variability in conformism, present orientation, personal agency and social vigilance alters responses to default options, self-regulation devices, information campaigns and social norms. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Call for papers!

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. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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. @ryanapanela.bsky.social @bjherrmann.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

An interesting contribution in the Journal of Informetrics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...; transparent peer review is associated with higher scores for information content

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) go.nature.com/44SdJjA

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. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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. @karlodoroc.bsky.social @carstenmurawski.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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. @anne-schacht.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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. @sarahvahed.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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. @lironamihai.bsky.social @hilaman.bsky.social @yaelha.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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. @benjwagner.bsky.social @stefankiebel.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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A new Behind the Paper post by Liron Amihai, Yael Hanein & Hila Man about their recent study in the journal communities.springernature.com/posts/your-f...

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. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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. @yyangteoh.bsky.social @cendripetalfrce.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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. @violapriesemann.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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.

Holiday stress isn’t just about the turkey 🦃—when parents feel burned out during the holidays, their genuine emotional expression drops. www.nature.com/articles/s44... @juliareiter.bsky.social

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. @todorova.bsky.social @clauslamm.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Happy to finally see this paper (w/ @cendripetalfrce.bsky.social) out now @commspsychol.nature.com We built a computational framework to show people flexibly balance communicative benefits against social costs when deciding whether and how to express their emotions. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Dynamic patterns of infants’ behaviour (n = 185) during environmental interactions were investigated using time-series clustering and dynamical systems modelling, revealing an aspect of learning that reduces individual differences. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

In more than 10,000 U.S. youth aged 10–15, early-life adversity was observed to intensify the coupling between waist-to-height ratio and internalizing problems, while protective family and community environments mitigated this effect. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Using free association and natural language methods, we show that individuals with higher subjective well-being generate thoughts semantically closer to 'friend' but not to 'money,' highlighting the value of social relationships in happiness. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

White Americans’ mental images of those who never had an abortion, those who had an abortion for medical reasons & those who had an abortion for non-medical reasons differ in the degree to which they resemble the stereotypes of White Americans, wealth, and femininity. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Sleep involves dynamic changes in brain activity that unfold over time, reflected in the brain's aperiodic EEG patterns. Incorporating the spectral 'knee' reveals stage-specific shifts in neural processing timescales. @mosameen.bsky.social @tomdonoghue.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Twenty experiments show that hypothetical scenarios correctly estimated whether or not behavioral nudges would encourage behaviors in five field settings, but unreliably estimated the size of those effects. @cfcamerer.bsky.social @linneagandhi.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A large-scale resampling exercise in the Confidence Database was done to study the reliability of (between and within individuals) confidence estimates. Results show that these measures reach a reliability plateau after roughly 50 trials. @mael-lebreton.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Human relational learning is winner-biased: we update our beliefs about winners more than losers. A study of transitive inference uses computational modelling to show this bias hinders flexibility. @tgham.bsky.social @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Contrasting previous offline results, in 5 online studies, motivated empathy interventions for intergroup contexts failed to increase empathy or prosociality with outgroup members. @alexandertagesson.bsky.social @philipparnamets.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Choice, reproducibility, and reporting of stats is critical & an editorial focus at the journal. It's also pretty hard & starts long before a paper is submitted. We hope this piece will aid researchers in the task @dsquintana.bsky.social @annalschubert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Integrating cognitive neuroscience and clinical perspectives on metacognitive mechanisms in psychopathology Review by Tricia X. F. Seow, Lena Jelinek, Steffen Moritz & Tobias U. Hauser Web: go.nature.com/49KJb6D PDF: rdcu.be/ePzMT

Important points 👇 We strongly encourage ORCIDs & mandate them for corresponding authors. It adds admin 🫠, but it benefits especially people who a) have frequent names, b) use a moniker that is a transcription of their names in Roman letters, c) do not have English institutional websites.

Pro-environmental actions often require effort. Participants were less motivated to help the climate than a food charity, but two interventions removed this bias. Computational modelling linked climate motivation with pro-environmental traits. @drjocutler.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍 doi.org/10.1038/s442... There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation? Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵

Three independent experiments establish a direct link between the perceived colours of afterimages and their physiological origin. Afterimages are not colour-opponent but cluster at cone photoreceptor sensitivity peaks. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

This study examined whether behavioral memory updating can reduce fear in adolescents with and without chronic pain. While self-reported fear did not differ, neural data revealed distinct vmPFC-amygdala connectivity supporting memory updating. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Analyzing experience sampling data from 408 adolescents, this study shows that the emotion regulation strategies reappraisal, reflection, social sharing, & expressive suppression are related to momentary self-esteem level & variability. @larissa-wieczorek.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Longitudinal study shows loneliness is associated with distinct patterns of social connection and personal agency. Four prototypes identified across waves predict loneliness levels, with transitions among them associated with loneliness changes. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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