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Science Rewind: Revisiting Three of Our Favorite Early Stories
As Under the Cortex enters its second year, we decided to comb through the archive and revisit three exciting stories from our early days.
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New Content from Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on a replication of a study on spontaneous verbal rehearsal in memory, generalizable effects of feedback across college classes, Bayesian model-averaged meta-analysis, views of replication, model evaluation, chow replications influence future citation patterns, and data visualization (with tutorials).
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Sex, Drugs, and Genes: Moral Attitudes Share a Genetic Basis
By studying both identical and fraternal twins, researchers suggest that largely the same heredity factors that influence openness to casual sex also influence a person’s moral views toward recreational drug use.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on maternal depression and its outcomes, COVID-19 and well-being, dissociative amnesia, emotion preferences and anxiety, children’s aggressive behavior, mental health during COVID-19, the use of digital technologies for emotion regulation, and parental training.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on optimism prescriptions, mental logout and social media, stress and cognitive effort, perceptual decision-making, the ego-depletion effect, the effect of replications on citations, scientific consensus and false beliefs, and anterograde amnesia.
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Mindfulness Meditation can Make Some Americans More Selfish and Less Generous
When Japanese chef Yoshihiro Murata travels, he brings water with him from Japan. He says this is the only way to make truly authentic dashi, the flavorful broth essential to Japanese cuisine. There’s science to back him up: water in Japan is notably softer – which means it has fewer dissolved minerals – than in many other parts of the world. So when Americas enjoy Japanese food, they arguably aren’t getting quite the real thing. This phenomenon isn’t limited to food. Taking something out of its geographic or cultural context often changes the thing itself.
