Self-promotional language may attract readers but is discouraged in Communications Psychology. Because style matters in fostering credibility.

Psychology is committed to the principle of nonmaleficence. This Comment argues that psychology as a discipline and psychological associations as its representatives should uphold their ethical responsibility

Practical guidelines for transparent statistical reporting in quantitative psychology are presented, covering key decisions from study planning through results reporting across frequentist, Bayesian, and sequential frameworks. Resources include the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology (TSRP) Checklist as well as specific R packages, functions, and side-by-side comparisons of insufficient versus best-practice reporting.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Behavioural policies succeed on average but yield highly heterogeneous outcomes. 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.

Applying a multivariate analysis to quantify how emotions spread in YouTube live chats, this study shows that peer interactions drive emotional expression up to four times more than video content, with positivity spreading faster but negativity lasting longer.

This study finds that acute stress alone has a surprisingly limited effect on decision-making, irrespective of the decision’s complexity. However, on decisions with experienced time pressure, acute stress significantly reduced decision quality.

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.

A multilevel meta-analysis (N = 6570) 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.

This citizen science, 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.