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Tests for consciousness in humans and beyond Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Tim Bayne, Anil K. Seth, Marcello Massimini, Joshua Shepherd, Axel Cleeremans, Stephen M. Fleming, Rafael Malach, Jason B. Mattingley, David K. Menon, Adrian M. Owen, Megan A.K. Peters, Adeel Razi, Liad Mudrik
Which systems/organisms are conscious? New tests for consciousness (‘C-tests’) are urgently needed. There is persisting uncertainty about when consciousness arises in human development, when it is lost due to neurological disorders and brain injury, and how it is distributed in nonhuman species. This need is amplified by recent and rapid developments in artificial intelligence (AI), neural organoids
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How pledges reduce dishonesty: The role of involvement and identification Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Eyal Peer, Nina Mazar, Yuval Feldman, Dan Ariely
Authorities and managers often rely on individuals and businesses' self-reports and employ various forms of honesty declarations to ensure that those individuals and businesses do not over-claim payments, benefits, or other resources. While previous work has found that honesty pledges have the potential to decrease dishonesty, effects have been mixed. We argue that understanding and predicting when
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The influence of dominance and prestige on children's resource allocation: What if they coexist? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Xuran Zhang, Xia Zhang, Ranzhi Yang, Yanfang Li
The antagonistic relation between the two ways of reaching the top, i.e., dominance and prestige, has generally been accepted in recent decades. People perceive dominance as a “negative” trait that reduces the quantity of resources that should be allocated to individuals who exhibit such a trait. In contrast, prestige is viewed as a “positive” trait, that increases the appropriate amount of resources
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Social uncertainty in the digital world Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Amanda M. Ferguson, Georgia Turner, Amy Orben
The social world is inherently uncertain. We present a computational framework for thinking about how increasingly popular online environments modulate the social uncertainty we experience, depending on the type of social inferences we make. This framework draws on Bayesian inference, which involves combining multiple informational sources to update our beliefs.
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From task structures to world models: what do LLMs know? Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Ilker Yildirim, L.A. Paul
In what sense does a large language model (LLM) have knowledge? We answer by granting LLMs ‘instrumental knowledge’: knowledge gained by using next-word generation as an instrument. We then ask how instrumental knowledge is related to the ordinary, ‘worldly knowledge’ exhibited by humans, and explore this question in terms of the degree to which instrumental knowledge can be said to incorporate the
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Coupled sleep rhythms for memory consolidation Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 B, e, r, n, h, a, r, d, , P, ., , S, t, a, r, e, s, i, n, a
How do passing moments turn into lasting memories? Sheltered from external tasks and distractions, sleep constitutes an optimal state for the brain to reprocess and consolidate previous experiences. Recent work suggests that consolidation is governed by the intricate interaction of slow oscillations (SOs), spindles, and ripples – electrophysiological sleep rhythms that orchestrate neuronal processing
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(Not) showing you feel good, can be bad: The consequences of breaking expressivity norms for positive emotions Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Kunalan Manokara, Alisa Balabanova, Mirna Đurić, Agneta H. Fischer, Disa A. Sauter
Are there optimal levels of showing one feels good? Examining four positive emotions (), we demonstrate in two pre-registered experiments ( = 901) that even for pleasant feelings, showing too much – or too little – can lead to negative social consequences. Expressers who downplay their gratitude, and to a lesser degree interest, are deprived of social contact and power. Restrained displays of feeling
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The computational structure of consummatory anhedonia Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Anna F. Hall, Michael Browning, Quentin J.M. Huys
Anhedonia is a reduction in enjoyment, motivation, or interest. It is common across mental health disorders and a harbinger of poor treatment outcomes. The enjoyment aspect, termed ‘consummatory anhedonia’, in particular poses fundamental questions about how the brain constructs rewards: what processes determine how intensely a reward is experienced? Here, we outline limitations of existing computational
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Communication increases collaborative corruption Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Mathilde H. Tønnesen, Christian T. Elbæk, Stefan Pfattheicher, Panagiotis Mitkidis
Despite being a pivotal aspect of human cooperation, only a few studies within the field of collaborative dishonesty have included communication between participants, and none have yet experimentally compared this to non-communicative contexts. As a result, the impact of communication on unethical collaborations remains unclear. To address this gap, we conducted two well-powered studies ( = 1187),
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Effort-based decision making in joint action: Evidence of a sense of fairness Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Marcell Székely, Stephen Butterfill, John Michael
As humans, we are unique with respect to the flexibility and scope of our cooperative behavior. In recent years, considerable research has been devoted to investigating the psychological mechanisms which support this. One key finding is that people frequently calibrate their effort level to match a cooperation partner's effort costs - although little is known about exactly why they do so. We hypothesized
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How is helping behavior regulated in the brain? Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Meng Zhang, Guohua Chen, Rongfeng K. Hu
In humans and other animals, individuals can actively respond to the specific needs of others. However, the neural circuits supporting helping behaviors are underspecified. In recent work, identified a new role for the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in the encoding and regulation of targeted helping behavior (allolicking) in mice.
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Curiosity and the dynamics of optimal exploration Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Francesco Poli, Jill X. O’Reilly, Rogier B. Mars, Sabine Hunnius
What drives our curiosity remains an elusive and hotly debated issue, with multiple hypotheses proposed but a cohesive account yet to be established. This review discusses traditional and emergent theories that frame curiosity as a desire to know and a drive to learn, respectively. We adopt a model-based approach that maps the temporal dynamics of various factors underlying curiosity-based exploration
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Common and distinct neural mechanisms of attention Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Ruobing Xia, Xiaomo Chen, Tatiana A. Engel, Tirin Moore
Despite a constant deluge of sensory stimulation, only a fraction of it is used to guide behavior. This selective processing is generally referred to as attention, and much research has focused on the neural mechanisms controlling it. Recently, research has broadened to include more ways by which different species selectively process sensory information, whether due to the sensory input itself or to
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The neurobiology of interoception and affect Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 M.J. Feldman, E. Bliss-Moreau, K.A. Lindquist
Scholars have argued for centuries that affective states involve interoception, or representations of the state of the body. Yet, we lack a mechanistic understanding of how signals from the body are transduced, transmitted, compressed, and integrated by the brains of humans to produce affective states. We suggest that to understand how the body contributes to affect, we first need to understand information
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The effect of irrelevant pairings on evaluative responses Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Tal Moran
Pairing a neutral object with a valenced stimulus often results in the former acquiring the valence of the latter (i.e., the Evaluative Conditioning [EC] effect). However, the pairing of an object with an affective stimulus is not always indicative of valence similarity. Three preregistered experiments (total = 1052) explored EC effects when people were explicitly informed that pairings do not reflect
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Improving intergroup relations with meta-perception correction interventions Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Samantha L. Moore-Berg, Boaz Hameiri
We explore meta-perceptions (i.e., what we think others think about reality), their impact on intergroup conflict, and the interventions correcting these often-erroneous perceptions. We introduce a two (direct or indirect) by two (with or without framing) framework classifying these interventions, and we critically assess the benefits and constraints of these approaches.
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Rationality, preferences, and emotions with biological constraints: it all starts from our senses Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Rafael Polanía, Denis Burdakov, Todd A. Hare
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Simplifying social learning Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Leor M. Hackel, David A. Kalkstein, Peter Mende-Siedlecki
Social learning is complex, but people often seem to navigate social environments with ease. This ability creates a puzzle for traditional accounts of reinforcement learning (RL) that assume people negotiate a tradeoff between easy-but-simple behavior (model-free learning) and complex-but-difficult behavior (e.g., model-based learning). We offer a theoretical framework for resolving this puzzle: although
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Subscription and Copyright Information Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-06
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The neurodevelopmental origins of seeing social interactions Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Emalie McMahon, Leyla Isik
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Dynamic indirect reciprocity: The influence of personal reputation and group reputation on cooperative behavior in nested social dilemmas Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Xiaoming Wang, Fancong Kong, Hongjin Zhu, Yinyan Chen
The indirect reciprocity theory suggested that the cues of reputational consequences determine the scope of indirect reciprocity and influence whether individuals decide to interact with others regardless of group identity. However, in more complex intergroup environments, there is no clear answer as to how indirect reciprocity guides intergroup cooperation. Based on this, the study used Intergroup
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Neurodevelopmental and evolutionary origins of processing social interactions Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Tobias Grossmann
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Representational structures as a unifying framework for attention Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Angus F. Chapman, Viola S. Störmer
Our visual system consciously processes only a subset of the incoming information. Selective attention allows us to prioritize relevant inputs, and can be allocated to features, locations, and objects. Recent advances in feature-based attention suggest that several selection principles are shared across these domains and that many differences between the effects of attention on perceptual processing
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Participant diversity is necessary to advance brain aging research Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Gagan S. Wig, Sarah Klausner, Micaela Y. Chan, Cameron Sullins, Anirudh Rayanki, Maya Seale
An absence of population-representative participant samples has limited research in healthy brain aging. We highlight examples of what can be gained by enrolling more diverse participant cohorts, and propose recommendations for specific reforms, both in terms of how researchers accomplish this goal and how institutions support and benchmark these efforts.
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A synergetic turn in cognitive neuroscience of brain diseases Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Agustin Ibanez, Morten L. Kringelbach, Gustavo Deco
Despite significant improvements in our understanding of brain diseases, many barriers remain. Cognitive neuroscience faces four major challenges: complex structure–function associations; disease phenotype heterogeneity; the lack of transdiagnostic models; and oversimplified cognitive approaches restricted to the laboratory. Here, we propose a synergetics framework that can help to perform the necessary
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Moral thin-slicing: Forming moral impressions from a brief glance Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Julian De Freitas, Alon Hafri
Despite the modern rarity with which people are visual witness to moral transgressions involving physical harm, such transgressions are more accessible than ever thanks to their availability on social media and in the news. On one hand, the literature suggests that people form fast moral impressions once they already know what has transpired (i.e., who did what to whom, and whether there was harm involved)
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Studying large language models as compression algorithms for human culture Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Nicholas Buttrick
Large language models (LLMs) extract and reproduce the statistical regularities in their training data. Researchers can use these models to study the conceptual relationships encoded in this training data (i.e., the open internet), providing a remarkable opportunity to understand the cultural distinctions embedded within much of recorded human communication.
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Moral violations that target more valued victims elicit more anger, but not necessarily more disgust Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Lei Fan, Catherine Molho, Tom R. Kupfer, Joshua M. Tybur
The same moral violation can give rise to different emotional and behavioral responses in different individuals. The mechanisms that give rise to such differences – and the functions that those mechanisms serve – are unclear. Previous work suggests that people experience greater anger toward violations that target themselves or kin than those that target others, whereas they experience greater disgust
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Choosing not to get anchored: A choice mindset reduces the anchoring bias Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Krishna Savani, Monica Wadhwa
In negotiations, first offers serve as potent anchors. After receiving a first offer, although people clearly have a choice about what amount to counteroffer, they often fail to adjust away from the first offer. We identify a simple nudge, a reminder that people have a choice, that can reduce the anchoring bias. We argue that a choice nudge leads people to think of more potential counteroffers that
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Information decomposition and the informational architecture of the brain Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Andrea I. Luppi, Fernando E. Rosas, Pedro A.M. Mediano, David K. Menon, Emmanuel A. Stamatakis
To explain how the brain orchestrates information-processing for cognition, we must understand information itself. Importantly, information is not a monolithic entity. Information decomposition techniques provide a way to split information into its constituent elements: unique, redundant, and synergistic information. We review how disentangling synergistic and redundant interactions is redefining our
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Political reinforcement learners Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Lion Schulz, Rahul Bhui
Politics can seem home to the most calculating and yet least rational elements of humanity. How might we systematically characterize this spectrum of political cognition? Here, we propose reinforcement learning (RL) as a unified framework to dissect the political mind. RL describes how agents algorithmically navigate complex and uncertain domains like politics. Through this computational lens, we outline
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Towards an AI policy framework in scholarly publishing Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Zhicheng Lin
The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in academic research raises pressing ethical concerns. I examine major publishing policies in science and medicine, uncovering inconsistencies and limitations in guiding AI usage. To encourage responsible AI integration while upholding transparency, I propose an enabling framework with author and reviewer policy templates.
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Socioeconomic disparities harm social cognition Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Sol Fittipaldi, Joaquín Migeot, Agustin Ibanez
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Advisory Board and Contents Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-02
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Subscription and Copyright Information Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-02
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Self-serving bias in moral character evaluations Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Andrew J. Vonasch, Bradley A. Tookey
Are people self-serving when moralizing personality traits? Past research has used cross sectional methods incapable of establishing causality, but the present research used experimental methods to test this. Indeed, two experiments ( = 669) show that people self-servingly inflate the moral value of randomly assigned personality traits they believe they possess, and even judge other people who share
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Nostalgia assuages spatial anxiety Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Alice Oliver, Tim Wildschut, Constantine Sedikides, Matthew O. Parker, Antony P. Wood, Edward S. Redhead
According to the regulatory model of nostalgia, the emotion is triggered by adverse psychological and physical experiences. Nostalgia, in turn, serves to counter those negative states. We extend this model to encompass spatial anxiety, that is, apprehension and disorientation during environmental navigation. In Experiment 1, we induced spatial anxiety by training participants to navigate a route in
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In praise of empathic AI Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Michael Inzlicht, C. Daryl Cameron, Jason D’Cruz, Paul Bloom
In this article we investigate the societal implications of empathic artificial intelligence (AI), asking how its seemingly empathic expressions make people feel. We highlight AI’s unique ability to simulate empathy without the same biases that afflict humans. While acknowledging serious pitfalls, we propose that AI expressions of empathy could improve human welfare.
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The effect of practice on automatic evaluation: A registered replication Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Anat Shechter, Mayan Navon, Yoav Bar-Anan
A basic idea in cognitive science is that practicing a response can lead to the automatic activation of the response. Fazio, Sanbonmatsu, Powell, and Kardes (1986) tested that idea on the automatic activation of attitudes. In the experiment that Fazio et al. conducted, participants (N = 18) repeatedly categorized eight nouns as good/bad and eight nouns (the control words) as having one syllable or
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Trait inferences from the “big two” produce gendered expectations of facial features Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Hayley A. Liebenow, Kathryn L. Boucher, Brittany S. Cassidy
Prescriptive stereotypes based on, respectively, agency and communality reflect how people expect men and women to behave. Deviating from such prescriptions limits opportunities for men and women in ways that reinforce traditional gender roles. In the current work, we examine whether people have expectations of gendered facial features based on agentic and communal descriptions of targets and if these
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Lower social class, better social skills? A registered report testing diverging predictions from the rank and cultural approaches to social class Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Holly R. Engstrom, Kristin Laurin
Are people with lower socioeconomic status (SES) better than those with higher SES at empathic accuracy, or recognizing others' thoughts and feelings? Two psychological approaches to the study of SES say they are, but emphasize different reasons. The rank approach argues that because individuals with lower SES experience low rank, they feel less in control and more threatened by others, so it is more
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The threat of powerlessness: Consequences for affect and (social) cognition Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Robin Willardt, Petra C. Schmid
Throughout history, powerlessness has been associated with phenomena such as heightened conspiracy beliefs and perceived ingroup homogeneity and commitment, as well as increased conviction about one's own opinions and worldview. The goals of the present research were to examine whether such links are causal and to gain an understanding of the underlying mechanism. We hypothesized that the experience
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Power can increase but also decrease cheating depending on what thoughts are validated Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Grigorios Lamprinakos, David Santos, Maria Stavraki, Pablo Briñol, Solon Magrizos, Richard E. Petty
Prior research has shown that power is associated with cheating. In the present research, we showcase that higher power can increase but also decrease cheating, depending on the thoughts validated by the feelings of power. In two experiments, participants were first asked to generate either positive or negative thoughts about cheating. Following this manipulation of thought direction, participants
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Hazardous machinery: The assignment of agency and blame to robots versus non-autonomous machines Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Rael J. Dawtry, Mitchell J. Callan
Autonomous robots increasingly perform functions that are potentially hazardous and could cause injury to people (e.g., autonomous driving). When this happens, questions will arise regarding responsibility, although autonomy complicates this issue – insofar as robots seem to control their own behaviour, where would blame be assigned? Across three experiments, we examined whether robots involved in
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From self to ingroup reclaiming of homophobic epithets: A replication and extension of Galinsky et al.'s (2013) model of reappropriation Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Mauro Bianchi, Andrea Carnaghi, Fabio Fasoli, Patrice Rusconi, Carlo Fantoni
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Responsibility gaps and self-interest bias: People attribute moral responsibility to AI for their own but not others' transgressions Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Mengchen Dong, Bocian Konrad
In the last decade, the ambiguity and difficulty of responsibility attribution to AI and human stakeholders (i.e., responsibility gaps) has been increasingly relevant and discussed in extreme cases (e.g., autonomous weapons). On top of related philosophical debates, the current research provides empirical evidence on the importance of bridging responsibility gaps from a psychological and motivational
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What makes us “we”? The positivity bias in essentialist beliefs about group attributes Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Kaiyuan Chen, Michael A. Hogg
Psychological essentialism refers to the tendency to view entities as having enduring properties that make them what they are (i.e., essences). Emerging research suggests people possess a positivity bias in essentialism (PBE), a preference to view positively (vs. negatively) evaluated attributes as the essences of an entity. Four experiments (total N = 1020) tested group attributes' association (ingroup
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We know what attention is! Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Wayne Wu
Attention is one of the most thoroughly investigated psychological phenomena, yet skepticism about attention is widespread: we do not know what it is, it is too many things, there is no such thing. The deficiencies highlighted are not about experimental work but the adequacy of the scientific theory of attention. Combining common scientific claims about attention into a single theory leads to internal
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An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Ronald Sladky, Dominic Kargl, Wulf Haubensak, Claus Lamm
The amygdala is a heterogeneous network of subcortical nuclei with central importance in cognitive and clinical neuroscience. Various experimental designs in human psychology and animal model research have mapped multiple conceptual frameworks (e.g., valence/salience and decision making) to ever more refined amygdala circuitry. However, these predominantly bottom up-driven accounts often rely on interpretations
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Why birds are smart Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Onur Güntürkün, Roland Pusch, Jonas Rose
Many cognitive neuroscientists believe that both a large brain and an isocortex are crucial for complex cognition. Yet corvids and parrots possess non-cortical brains of just 1–25 g, and these birds exhibit cognitive abilities comparable with those of great apes such as chimpanzees, which have brains of about 400 g. This opinion explores how this cognitive equivalence is possible. We propose four features
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Feeling known predicts relationship satisfaction Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Juliana Schroeder, Ayelet Fishbach
Two forms of subjective relationship knowledge—the belief that one is known and knows one's partner—have separately been shown to positively predict relationship satisfaction, but which is more important for relational wellbeing? Seven studies show that believing one is known by their partner (i.e., “feeling known”) predicts relationship satisfaction more than believing that one knows their partner
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Conflict, cooperation, and institutional choice Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Shuxian Jin, Simon Columbus, Paul A.M. van Lange, Daniel Balliet
Social situations may vary in the severity of conflict between self-interest and collective welfare, and thereby pose collective action problems that might require different institutional solutions. The present study examines the effect of conflict of interests on beliefs, norms, cooperation, and choice of sanctioning institutions in social dilemmas across two experiments (total N = 1304). In each
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Organizing for misconduct: A social network lens on collective corporate corruption Research in Organizational Behavior Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Brandy Aven, Alessandro Iorio
Studying corporate misconduct requires understanding how individuals coordinate in illegal activities while maintaining secrecy. Drawing on social network theory and analysis, we develop a systematic framework to explain how social relationships and their structures, as well as individuals’ cognitive perceptions of those structures, affect how individuals engage in collective corporate corruption.
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Facial first impressions following a prison sentence: Negative shift in trait ratings but the same underlying structure Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (IF 3.532) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Coral M. Coutts, Christopher A. Longmore, Mila Mileva
The first impressions we form of unfamiliar others can often guide many important decisions such as whether someone is guilty of a crime or the severity of their sentence, even in the presence of more relevant information. While most of the current work in this context has focused on their impact during trial proceedings and sentencing, little is known about the potential impact of first impressions
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A Carnegie plus Self-enhancement (CSE) model of organizational decision making under ambiguity Research in Organizational Behavior Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Pino G. Audia, Sebastien Brion
Although ambiguity is a pervasive feature of organizations, its influence on organizational decision making is often overlooked. We aim to advance understanding of decision making under ambiguity in organizations by combining insights from organizational research within the Carnegie perspective with psychological research on fundamental human motives. We propose the Carnegie plus Self-Enhancement (CSE)
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Mechanisms for survival: vagal control of goal-directed behavior Trends Cogn. Sci. (IF 19.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Vanessa Teckentrup, Nils B. Kroemer
Survival is a fundamental physiological drive, and neural circuits have evolved to prioritize actions that meet the energy demands of the body. This fine-tuning of goal-directed actions based on metabolic states ('allostasis') is deeply rooted in our brain, and hindbrain nuclei orchestrate the vital communication between the brain and body through the vagus nerve. Despite mounting evidence for vagal
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Aid utility theory: A new way of thinking about and tackling aid utilization neglect Research in Organizational Behavior Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Samantha Kassirer, Maryam Kouchaki
In order for the assistance we extend to others to be maximally effective—whether interpersonally or institutionally—we need both givers to extend the help and recipients to utilize the assistance made available to them. Although much organizational behavior research has explored ways to increase prosocial behavior and charitable giving, comparatively little organizational scholarship has explored