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How does a sense of agency emerge via learning of a new motor skill? Results show that as participants learn a structural action– outcome mapping, agency judgements shift from temporal reliance to prediction matching based on learning. nature.com/articles/s4427…

This study tested for associations between prenatal care experiences and parents’ perceptions of their child. Provider statements influence perceptions of the child prior to birth and correlate with how parents view their infants at 18 months. nature.com/articles/s4427…

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Humour production during play with peers is associated with social understanding skills in middle childhood. Children’s humour production is also explained by the behaviour of their play partner. nature.com/articles/s4427…

"Whether a study belongs in Communications Psychology does not depend on the type of data that are used; but on whether the data are of high quality, appropriately analyzed, and can answer the psychological research question." nature.com/articles/s4427…

Item-level similarity guides implicit feature identification learning and learning dynamically updates the existing item similarity representations. These results carry important implications for understanding how we access and build knowledge. nature.com/articles/s4427…

Empathic stress has been shown to occur between strangers, romantic partners & in mother child dyads. This study attempts to elucidate the link between facial mimicry & the transmission of psychosocial stress from parents onto their adolescent children. nature.com/articles/s4427…

Choice bias - the tendency to prefer one option over another for no apparent reason - is stable for 22 months in perceptual tasks. While feedback can induce choice bias, its effect diminishes within weeks, suggesting a different mechanism. Lior Lebovich🎗️🇮🇱🧡 nature.com/articles/s4427…

Using explicit measures of subjective experience and a Bayesian ordinal modeling framework, this study shows that confidence reports in perceptual decisions are influenced by nonperceptual biases. nature.com/articles/s4427…

Six Large Language Models outperformed humans on five ability emotional intelligence tests. ChatGPT-4 also successfully generated new test items for each test, with the AI-created versions showing psychometric properties similar to the originals. nature.com/articles/s4427…

A computational model with a task-invariant and reliable Bayesian prior best fit choices in two different tasks where participants chose whether to actively avoid negative outcomes. This conceptualization aligns with a Bayesian view of helplessness. nature.com/articles/s4427…

Context is critical for learning yet poorly defined. Using extinction learning in pigeons, the paper shows that context is not given but learned. Small cues can trigger renewal, challenging classical views of context as passive background.Juan Peschken nature.com/articles/s4427…

Attribution of distinct mental features to AI relate to trust in advice. Mental states related to intelligence positively predict trust; attributions of experience correlate negatively w/ advice-taking. Clara Colombatto Jonathan Birch nature.com/articles/s4427…

A latent class analysis of loneliness patterns over 18 years found consistent associations with physical and mental health-related quality of life in middle-aged and older women. Neta Hagani Katherine Owen Philip Clare Melody Ding nature.com/articles/s4427…

This study demonstrates that semantic priming can either increase or decrease perception of the Kanizsa illusion. The results support cognitive penetrability, demonstrating top-down influences on illusory perceptual experience. Liad Mudrik Amir Tal nature.com/articles/s4427…

Using electrical recordings taken from the surface of the brain, researchers decode what words neurosurgical patients are saying and show that the brain plans words in a different order than they are ultimately spoken. adam morgan (same handle at oo-blay eye-skay) Adeen Flinker 🇮🇱🇺🇦🎗️ nature.com/articles/s4427…

Results from three studies that examined 1,918 U.S. adults show that financial exploitation risk is heightened by a complex interplay of sociodemographic, health, cognitive, and psychosocial vulnerabilities. nature.com/articles/s4427…

Two experimental studies using the intergenerational sustainable dilemma game found that people made more sustainable choices when future beneficiaries were ingroup members, and less when they were outgroup members. Hirotaka Imada nature.com/articles/s4427…

Computational modeling revealed that individuals with methamphetamine use disorder show reduced information-seeking and slower belief updating when trying to maximize long-term reward. Carter Goldman Toru TAKAHASHI (髙橋徹) @torutakahashi.bsky.social Ryan Smith (@rssmith.bsky.social) nature.com/articles/s4427…

Using a sequential decision making task and cognitive modelling, this study shows that human decisions are best explained by a combination of repetition bias and goal directed reward-based behavior. nature.com/articles/s4427…