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...

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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...

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

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/...

Analysing self-promotional language in Abstracts, this study finds that its use is associated with more citations & online attention. Promotional language predicted a larger gender gap with male (1st or last) authors receiving more citations, views, & media attention. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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This study highlights the interplay of psychopathology, diminished inhibitory control, and addictive behaviours associated with negative consequences. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Numerical cognition in birds Review by L. Regolin, M. Loconsole, O. Rosa-Salva, K. Brosche, M. Macchinizzi, A. Felisatti & R. Rugani Web: go.nature.com/4lVxb5K PDF: rdcu.be/eyEEM

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Voluntary spatial attention – but not temporal attention – enhances the temporal resolution of vision under uncertainty, despite the deployment of a synergistic spatiotemporal mechanism of selective attention involving posterior oscillations. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Widespread belief in unfounded conspiracy theories is a risk. Yet, academics also mustn’t commit the reverse error, in adopting a Protective Conspiracy Framing and labelling credible theories and proposals conspiracies when these would deserve scientific scrutiny. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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www.nature.com/articles/s44... Widespread belief in unfounded conspiracy theories is a risk. However, academics also mustn’t make the reverse mistake to adopt a Protective Conspiracy Framing, i.e. labelling credible theories and proposals conspiracies when these would deserve scientific scrutiny.

A study in Communications Psychology examines how cognitive aging relates to hearing impairment and distinct profiles of social isolation and loneliness, highlighting differences in memory and executive function trajectories. go.nature.com/4mgqSJO 🧪

Five studies, including experiments and experience-sampling, show effortful leisure feels more meaningful than less effortful leisure while maintaining enjoyment. Results suggest effortful leisure can bolster purpose as work hours decline. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

This study disentangled loss avoidance from loss aversion, across 7 experiments using social dilemmas with gains and losses. People increased or decreased their cooperation to avoid losses. There was no consistent evidence for loss aversion. @bjks.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Are you a researcher with experience in epidemiology (incl. social epi.), public health and/or biomarker research focused on human aging, geriatric medicine, gerontology and/or age-related diseases? Our colleagues at Nature Aging are hiring a new Associate or Senior Editor!

This study shows that conservatives and liberals divergently evaluate stereotype portrayals of race and gender, displaying both consistency and variability in their preference for stereotypes depicted by racial minority or white male and female models. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A randomized control trial in Singapore finds that private and public pledges reduced kids’ shower times, countering a boomerang effect from a 5-min goal. Both pledges boosted motivation, saving water and promoting lasting conservation habits. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Using computational modeling of behavioral data, this study demonstrate that preferences involved in creative thinking are stable across three domains of creativity @gino-battistello.bsky.social @sarah-moreno.bsky.social @emmavolle.bsky.social @lopezpersem.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

This study shows that rising political polarization is linked to an increase in distorted language patterns—commonly associated with anxiety and depression—highlighting a link between political expression and cognitively distorted thinking @andy-edinger.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

High social aloofness was linked to reduced exploration, lower decision noise, and high choice stickiness in a bandit task. These effects reflect habitual and outcome-driven behaviours, linking social disengagement to nonsocial decision flexibility. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Explicitly presenting a range (e.g. 0–60 km/h) instead of a single limit (e.g. 60 km/h)—the ‘Range Nudge’—acts as an additional anchor to enhance adherence. Seven experiments showed reduced speeding and increased handwashing time. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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 considered proactive intergroup aggression. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Using longitudinal SHARE data, this study examines how cognitive aging relates to hearing impairment and distinct profiles of social isolation and loneliness, highlighting differences in memory and executive function trajectories. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Using a gamified punishment task, this study identifies specific learning and decision-making deficits that drive robust, consequential differences in choice within an international population sample across a 6-month interval. @philjrdb.bsky.social @gavan.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A new Research Highlight in Communications Psychology: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

How can language be used to study, in detail and high dimension, the processes by which people understand and experience their emotions? We have some proposals: rdcu.be/eu6ZR

This resource presents a tool to use multimodal transformers to generate reliable, context-sensitive concreteness ratings for single words and multi-word expressions across languages. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Call for papers: The editors at Communications Psychology, @natcomms.nature.com, and Scientific Reports invite manuscripts that highlight recent progress in Comparative Psychology. www.nature.com/collections/...

Using naturalistic videos and free-text responses, this study compares latent and network models of social inference. Sparse networks capture richer, dynamic, and culturally diverse inference patterns than traditional low-dimensional structures. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Emotional meaning should be studied through language. Language can capture emotional meaning by identifying the concerns that are brought into focus within a given situation, the perspective from which a situation is viewed, and the dimensions by which it is evaluated. www.nature.com/articles/s44...