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

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.

Emotional meaning should be studied through language. Language may capture emotional meaning by identifying the concerns that are put in focus within a given situation, the perspective from which the situation is viewed, and the dimensions by which the situation or event is evaluated.

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).

Adolescents’ choices are influenced 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 susceptibility to social influence.

A large multi-lab replication study confirms that rhythmic sounds can entrain perceptual performance, while revealing substantial inter-individual variability.

This study shows that, following social isolation, adolescents show increased sensitivity to rewards during effort-based decision making and reward learning. Access to virtual social interactions during isolation partially remediates these effects.

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.

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

A mini meta-analysis finds loneliness is linked to distorted expectations of emotion transitions, including atypical models, reduced accuracy, perceived volatility in others, and an anti-positivity bias in expectations for the self.

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.

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.