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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"How disconfirmatory evidence shapes confidence in decision-making"! Now out in @commspsychol.nature.com w @annikaboldt.bsky.social & Yishu Sun Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Thread ↓↓↓ #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence #Metacognition #Confidence

Re-analyzing 9 datasets and a new experiment, this study shows that confidence relies on evidence conflicting with one’s choice. This effect reflects heightened sensitivity near decision boundaries during judgement. @annikaboldt.bsky.social @kobedesender.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Large-scale similarity ratings of 768 short action videos uncover 28 interpretable dimensions—such as interaction, sport, and craft—offering a framework to quantify and compare human actions. @martinhebart.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Hope has the capacity to be a powerful driving force for adaptation. Hope can, in theory, spur adaptation to climate change in situations where individuals and collectives identify adaptation goals and pathways. Effective collective adaptation can reinforce hope. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The official 2026 Psychology and Brain meeting website is now online! Save the date: June 4 – 6, 2026 in Heidelberg, Germany More information to follow shortly on the website. We already have some awesome keynotes lined up. pug2026.org @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @igor-dgps.bsky.social

This study shows that foundational architectures in machine learning, sequence-to-sequence models with attention, mirror mechanisms of human memory. They can serve as alternative models, capturing behavior and aiding performance understanding. @qiongzhang.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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A survey across 90 societies reveals that variation and change in everyday norms are explained by a single value dimension: the priority societies place on individualizing versus binding moral concerns. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Why do many citizens of Western Europe appear complacent about their societies’ democratic backsliding? One explanation is the effect of personal experience on risk perception: a stable democratic past lulls humans into a false sense of security. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

People often receive rewards for good performance, but what happens when rewards do not reflect ability? Two behavioral studies suggest that rewards can impact how we evaluate our own ability, above and beyond the impact of actual performance. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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

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

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

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

🚨 Out now in @commspsychol.nature.com 🚨 doi.org/10.1038/s442... 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.

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

Research Highlight: A large multi-lab replication study confirms that rhythmic sounds can entrain perceptual performance, while revealing substantial inter-individual variability. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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

Following social isolation, adolescents show increased sensitivity to rewards during effort-based decision making and reward learning. @livia-tomova.bsky.social @sjblakemore.bsky.social @emilyanntowner.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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

Our colleagues in the human behaviour team at @natcomms.nature.com are hiring a computational social scientist! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

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

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Self-promotional language may attract readers but is discouraged in Communications Psychology. Because style matters in fostering credibility. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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

Attentional prioritization and testing in working memory not only effect immediate memory recall but can also enhance long-term memory and its underlying neural representation. @sabomelinda.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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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 involve doing less (e.g., quit junk food). @bomtarry.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

EEG shows illusory faces in objects initially resemble real faces then shift to object-like representations, with task demands determining which identity guides behavior. @amandakrobinson.bsky.social @jesstaubert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Speech auditory-motor adaptation to a formant-shift perturbation and de-adaptation after the perturbation is removed both depend more on total amount of time spent in the corresponding environment than on the number of practice trials. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

People learn from rewards differently when outcomes are shared with others. Learning slows when receiving smaller reward shares, and social stereotypes about partners further impair learning with cognitive demands. @hamhuang.bsky.social @annajenkins.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Identity fusion has traditionally been associated with intergroup violence. However, across two studies we show that fusion can predict increased willingness to trust and cooperate with outgroups, if contextual perceptions are positive. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Using VR, EEG, and contrastive learning, this study found that subjective awe is better predicted by behavioral and neural representations of mixed feelings than by those of purely positive or negative ones, challenging a univalent viewpoint of awe. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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

Network analysis of 317 family members of veterans and first responders reveals six distinct mental health symptom communities, with strong negative emotions and uncontrollable worry as central modes of psychological distress. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

New call for papers: gender equity in academia and research. Read more about the Collection and discover its content here: www.nature.com/collections/...