A series of psychoacoustic and neuroimaging studies reveal the effect that the sound of Aztec skull whistles has on modern listeners; the sound, which is perceived as a mixture of voice-like, scream-like, and technological, triggers affective processing.

Across two studies using desktop VR, curiosity determined how much humans explored and how well the hand-drawn spatial maps they acquired corresponded to the rooms

When asked to judge if a chase was present in a visual display of moving discs, people with higher paranoia and teleological thinking were more likely to perceive a chase in its absence. They were also worse at detecting the chaser and the chased, yet highly confident when there was no chase.

White Americans who feel they are in “last place” – falling behind the perceived status of most white, Black, Asian, and Latinx Americans – express the most support for alt-right ideology and politics.

Online support groups for people with a chronic condition may positively impact social welleing, behaviour, and adjustment, but they may negatively influence anxiety and distress. The effects on physical health and quality of life are inconclusive.

Using a confidence-accuracy dissociation paradigm, the study finds that multisensory integration follows subjective confidence instead of objective accuracy. Further modeling suggests shared computations between confidence and multisensory integration

A series of three studies provide evidence in infants for function application, the essence of compositionality, emerging before and outside the development of compositional language.

Autistic people’s experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic revealed they deeply missed not only their close connections but also their weaker contacts with acquaintances and strangers, suggesting a rethinking about Autistic sociality.

Across ten studies, spiritual boredom occurred at significant levels, driven by feeling over- or underchallenged and perceiving little meaning in spiritual practice. Furthermore, spiritual boredom was associated with reduced motivation for spiritual practice.

“Parsing heterogeneity in the developmental timing of adversity exposure and neural discrimination between threat and safety yields distinct profiles that provide insight into individual variation in risk for and resilience against anxiety.

Virtual contact between U.S. non-Muslim and Muslim students from MENA and SE Asia regions demonstrates that online interactions can effectively reduce prejudice and dehumanization, offering a scalable solution for improving intergroup relations.

How do threat, reward, and active avoidance intersect? This Perspective proposes the existence of a toggle switch that allows the organism to change, responding from threat to active avoidance.

Using data from healthcare professionals making multiple effortful medical judgments over time, no credible evidence for decision fatigue was found.