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Firm Foundations
What are the most replicated findings in psychological science? Researchers offer their picks.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring categorical coding of object features, making moral judgments in a foreign language, and the role of self-control in the magnitude effect.
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Your Hands May Reveal the Struggle to Maintain Self-Control
Watching people’s hands as they choose between long-term and short-term options offers a new approach to studying self-control.
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Adults with Autism Make More Consistent Choices
People with autism spectrum conditions are often less sensitive to contextual information in perceptual tasks, but this may lead to more consistent choices in high-level decision-making tasks.
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Sequential Options Prompt Future Thinking, Boost Patience
Framing choices in terms of a sequence of events can help us exercise patience by prompting us to imagine the future.
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The Role of Psychological Science in Studying Research Misconduct
An investigator with the US government’s Office of Research Integrity talks to the Observer about the role that behavioral science can play in understanding the root causes of transgressions in public health research.
