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).

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; likewise, effective collective adaptation can reinforce hope.

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 memory models, capturing behavior and aiding performance understanding.

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.

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.

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.

Decisions and confidence ratings are crucial to metacognition research. A concern is whether the order in which first and second order ratings are collected may affect results. This Registered Report finds order has little effect on metacognitive efficiency.

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.

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.

Using machine learning, this study revealed 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.