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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Instantaneous Conventions: The Emergence of Flexible Communicative Signals Jennifer Misyak, Takao Noguchi, and Nick Chater Humans are often able to communicate even when they don't share the same language. How is this possible? Participants played a partner-based computer game in which bananas and scorpions were hidden in boxes. The goal of the game was to collect as many bananas as possible, but only one player could see inside the boxes and the other player was the only one who could "choose" the boxes. Players communicated nonverbally using a limited number of white tiles.
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Preschoolers’ Expectations Shape How They Interpret Speech
When someone misspeaks or forgets a word, we use our past experience with language to hear what we expect them to say — research suggests 4- and 5-year-old children show this adaptive ability to the same degree that adults do.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Clinical Psychological Science: The Vicissitudes of Positive Autobiographical Recollection as an Emotion Regulation Strategy in Depression Aliza Werner-Seidler, Laura Tan, and Tim Dalgleish In this study, the authors examined whether the concordance or discrepancy of a memory with the person's current self impacts the effect of that memory on mood. Depressed and never-depressed British participants rated their mood; never-depressed participants then watched a video designed to induce a sad mood, whereas depressed participants watched a neutral movie.
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Scientists Explore How Nutrition May Feed Mental Health
A special section in Clinical Psychological Science highlights the different approaches that psychology researchers are taking to understand the many ways in which nutrition and mental health intersect.
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Do You See the Forest or the Tree? Neural Gain and Breadth Versus Focus in Perceptual Processing Eran Eldar, Yael Niv, and Jonathan D. Cohen How is the balance between focus and breadth determined during perceptual processing? The authors hypothesized that this balance is determined by neural gain such that high gain leads to perceptual processing being dominated by the most salient signal (focus), whereas low gain results in weak and strong inputs producing more equal neural activity (breadth).
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$384,961.42 for a House? When Precise Bids Work and When They Backfire
Making a very precise offer for a car or a house may hurt your chances of success if you’re negotiating with someone who has expertise in that area, a series of studies shows.
