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Cats Take ‘If I Fits I Sits’ Seriously, Even If The Space Is Just An Illusion
If you've spent any time around cats, you've probably noticed that they love to curl up in small, cozy boxes. What you may not know is that they'll also go sit inside the two-dimensional outline of a square box on the floor. What's more, a new study has found that pet cats will also spontaneously sit inside an optical illusion that merely looks like a square. Believed to be the first of its kind, the study enlisted volunteers to observe cats in their homes, a strategy to avoid what has historically been the main impediment to studying feline cognition in the lab — cats' notoriously uncooperative nature. "Cats are funny, cats are weird and quirky, and we love them for it.
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on COVID-19 prevention, state of mind, learning about images, judged emotions, the fetal origins of psychological development, emotional memories, privacy in a digital world, parent education, and shared reality.
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May/June Observer
From our homes and neighborhoods to the world beyond, the environment and human behavior are mutually and inextricably dependent on each other. These five articles investigate.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on saliency effects in visual working memory, collective action and radicalization, retrospective assessment of quality of parenting, body ownership and motor functioning in stroke patients, age-related changes in spatial navigation, jealousy in dogs, trust and academic cheating, and aging and prosocial motivation.
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Million-Dollar Missed Opportunities? Tips for Getting Education Research Funding From NSF and IES
Proposals related to education are often reviewed by interdisciplinary panels that consist of a mix of scientists and educators.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Misreading Human Emotion
At a remote outpost in the mountainous highlands of Papua New Guinea, a young American psychologist named Paul Ekman arrived with a collection of flash cards and a new theory. It was 1967, and Ekman had heard that the Fore people of Okapa were so isolated from the wider world that they would be his ideal test subjects. Like Western researchers before him, Ekman had come to Papua New Guinea to extract data from the indigenous community. He was gathering evidence to bolster a controversial hypothesis: that all humans exhibit a small number of universal emotions, or affects, that are innate and the same all over the world.
