Early parenting is associated with the development of neural reward responsiveness from childhood through adolescence - Communications Psychology

Reward responsiveness plays an important role in promoting health in youth. We examined neural reward response from childhood through adolescence. Lower positive parenting and higher negative parentin...

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Orienting selective attention within long-term contextual memories - Communications Psychology

We show that valid spatial cues directing internal attention during long-term memory retrieval boost recall, while invalid cues incur costs. Our work offers a flexible experimental framework to study ...

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Understanding large language models demands distinguishing human projection from machine cognition - Communications Psychology

This Perspective proposes machine experientialism, positing that LLMs build their own form of understanding from training corpora.

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A comparative multi-method re-analysis of the longitudinal evidence for causal intergroup contact effects on attitudes - Communications Psychology

Re-analysis of 31 published longitudinal datasets shows that intergroup contact improves outgroup attitudes only in traditional CLPM models. Recent alternatives (FF-CLPM, RI-CLPM) find no signifi...

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Decision reversals in sequential decision-making - Communications Psychology

People often make sequences of decisions to reach a goal. In such situations, when decisions can be undone, people act faster and undo to correct errors. Undoing is driven by both retrospective and pr...

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Context in memory is reconstructed based on retrieval questions - Communications Psychology

This series of experiments shows that context in memory is reconstructed rather than encoded. When recognition pertained to background scenes in the context reinstatement paradigm, objects acted as co...

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Masked attribution-based probing of strategies as a computational framework to align human, non-human primate, and model explanations - Communications Psychology

This study introduces MAPS, a framework for testing whether artificial neural network explanations capture the visual information used by humans and non-human primates during object recognition, linki...

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Childhood neglect, abuse, and their combination are differentially associated with specific emotion regulation and mental health issues - Communications Psychology

thanks the anonymous reviewers for their contribution to the peer review of this work. Primary Handling Editors: Jennifer Bellingtier. A peer review file is available.

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Working memory constraints on replanning following distraction - Communications Psychology

Using a Snake-inspired working memory task, this study shows that people dynamically reprioritize memorized goals after distraction, demonstrating how working memory supports flexible planning in dyna...

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Spontaneous thought dynamics as a signature of positive and negative affectivity - Communications Psychology

Density Map-Based Predictive Modeling (DMPM) quantifies spontaneous thought dynamics in valence–selfrelevance–time space to predict positive and negative affectivity across independent datasets, linki...

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Greater bullying and social exclusion are linked to higher internalising symptoms from ages 10 to 21 - Communications Psychology

This study used latent growth models on UK cohort data to examine age-specific sensitivity between internalising symptoms and adverse social experiences. Sensitivity to bullying varied across ages 10 ...

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Robust evidence for theta-band rhythmicity in behavior across two dense-sampling datasets - Communications Psychology

This study asks whether cognition unfolds rhythmically. Across two dense-sampling datasets, autoregressive modelling reveals reliable theta-band rhythms in behavior, but no consistent difficulty-relat...

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Antagonism shapes social maps in the human brain - Communications Psychology

Comparing brain representations before and after drama viewing with functional MRI and representational similarity analysis, this study shows that antagonistic interpersonal relationships shape neural...

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A systematic review and meta-analysis of the mental health correlates of swiping-based dating app use - Communications Psychology

A systematic review and meta-analysis of 27 studies assessed mental health both overall and across specific psychological domains, showing that associations with swiping-based dating app use vary subs...

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Language markers of student beliefs signal college success - Communications Psychology

This study applies natural language processing to 25,000 pre-college essays to detect two beliefs about belonging: simple optimism predicts worse first-year outcomes, while a process-oriented view pre...

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Neural responses to conflicting self- and partner-directed feedback correlate with trait emotion regulation and daily support - Communications Psychology

This study suggests that self-focused information may dampen emotional and neural responses to partner feedback, that emotion regulation may moderate this effect, and that neural responses during the ...

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Emergence of collective mental time travel pathways upon remembering consequential elections - Communications Psychology

Collective mental time travel pathways link past and future representations following consequential events like the 2023 Turkish elections. These links can be sociopolitically sensitive and are relate...

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Teams perform worse when newcomers hold critical information than when original group members do - Communications Psychology

Using a group decision-making task, this study shows that teams perform worse when newcomers hold critical information. Newcomers in this position showed weaker linguistic coordination and more task c...

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Problematic Internet Use

With this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Nature Communications, Communications Psychology and Scientific Reports invite submissions from across ...

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Auditory perceptual maps in humans and mice share common structures and predict perceptual decisions in discrimination learning - Communications Psychology

How individual perceptual maps shape behavior remains unclear. The current study compares task-naïve and task-based auditory maps in humans and mice, finding congruent perceptual structures across con...

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Cross-cultural evidence for positive control and mind-mindedness as buffers for parental distress - Communications Psychology

Across England, Hong Kong and Mainland China (N = 849) parental distress is linked to child internalizing problems. Yet protective factors differ across contexts, as this link is attenuated by po...

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Early detection of distinct language development in infants of mothers with severe mental illness using fNIRS - Communications Psychology

Brain responses to voice differ at 9 months in infants born to mothers with severe mental illness. Socioeconomic status also relates to how infants process sounds, suggesting multiple early factors as...

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Why sycophantic LLMs may imperil interactive norms between humans - Communications Psychology

In Human-LLMs interaction, LLMs offer sycophantic responses regardless of human communication style. This Perspective proposes that interacting with LLMs may be detrimental to the norms of human-human...

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Personal time helps parents feel better and recover from stress

Personal time can be an important resource that helps parents manage stress, regulate emotions and maintain their health while meeting the demands of family life.

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Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Human Behaviour

Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Human Behaviour Organisation: Nature Portfolio Location: Shanghai, Milan or Pune – hybrid working model Closing date: 10th July 2026 About Springer Nature...

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Real-time cognitive-affective dynamics of failure feedback in a technology-based learning task - Communications Psychology

This study examines how automated failure feedback influences performance in a technology-based learning task. Trial level analyses show that effectiveness depends on feedback design and learners...

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Consciously detecting and recognizing a past visual word after its sensory trace is gone - Communications Psychology

This series of studies shows that conscious detection and recognition of a word can be triggered retrospectively, even after its visual features are masked. This suggests that conscious access may be ...

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Sensory processing sensitivity is associated with state-dependent stabilization of perceptual organization in auditory streaming - Communications Psychology

Using continuous reports during auditory streaming, this study shows that higher sensory processing sensitivity is linked to stronger maintenance of perceptual organization, suggesting trait-related m...

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What 5000 babies can tell us about developing minds and how to study them - Communications Psychology

A decade of ManyBabies research, testing thousands of babies across hundreds of labs, has shown that some, but not all findings in infant research replicate well. Collectively, these projects have sho...

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Higher mindfulness and lower self-absorption predict greater compassion within romantic relationships - Communications Psychology

This daily diary study investigates mindfulness, self-absorption, and compassion in romantic relationships. Greater mindfulness is linked to higher compassion, an association that is mediated by reduc...

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