In an era of data-driven decision-making, where behavioral research spans multiple fields, sample characteristics remain a key methodological concern for both researchers and the public. This paper ex...

Emotional similarity in romantic couples has mostly been studied by examining whether emotional valence of both partners covaries over time, yielding one similarity score per couple. However, emotiona...

Ample recent research on situation construal has enriched our understanding of how individuals perceive a wider range of everyday situations. Although deception is known to be a prevalent everyday beh...

Affordable housing and sustainable living have become increasingly important issues for Western developed countries in recent years. In response, the tiny house movement has been gaining popularity in...

The concealed information test (CIT) detects familiar “probe” items embedded in a stream of unfamiliar “irrelevant” items. Participants respond as if all items are unfamiliar, creating a response conf...

Mediation analysis has been widely used in social psychology to investigate the mechanisms linking independent and dependent variables. However, conducting a proper mediation analysis is challenging, ...

People often think they are less biased, more rational, and less likely to conform than their peers. Research by Pronin et al. (2007, Study 2; N = 40) found that students evaluated themselves as less ...

Heterogeneity in population effect sizes has often been suggested as impairing replication success. The validity of this line of argumentation rests on the assumption that reported heterogeneity estim...

To maintain relationship satisfaction, partners in romantic relationships need to regulate closeness discrepancies – states where they feel either not close enough (closeness frustration) or too close...

While input frequency effects are ubiquitous in child language acquisition, few, if any, studies have investigated whether such effects are observed for possession marking (e.g., the girl’s brother). ...

The effort heuristic suggests that perceived effort enhances evaluations of products and artworks. While well-documented for human creators, it remains unclear whether this principle extends to artifi...

Researchers sometimes use profile correlations to quantify how similar partners’ personality profiles are across multiple dimensions, arguing that these correlations capture a holistic ‘shape’ similar...

Psychologists should analyze their data well rather than badly, but how do we know whether they are actually good at analyzing data in the real world? Currently, there is a dearth of empirically groun...

Communicating group commitment is critical for identifying reliable cooperative partners, and this assortment has been theorized to be facilitated by attaching costs to commitment signals. However, it...

People use reasons to justify engaging in desirable behaviors. To tap such reasoning, two questionnaires were recently developed: one assessed justifications in gambling behavior, and one assessed per...

In order to explore how language planning influences memory, we investigated how lexical, conceptual, and perceptual properties of items affected accurate and false memory to picture lures of various ...

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), affecting approximately 6-8% of children, emerges in childhood and presents challenges to the lives of individuals into their adult lives. However, the lived exp...

The effort heuristic suggests that perceived effort enhances evaluations of products and artworks. While well-documented for human creators, it remains unclear whether this principle extends to artifi...

What makes mental images high in detail? Drawing on Construal Level Theory (CLT) and Reality Monitoring Theory (RMT), we consider in six studies (N = 1,660) the effect of psychological distance on the...

Research has shown that a simple procedure called seeding can improve estimation accuracy for real-world quantities. However, this effect has only been demonstrated in controlled experimental studies....

Obesity is a pressing global concern, prompting the implementation of comprehensive lifestyle modifications to aid weight reduction and management. Despite the efficacy of various interventions in ini...

Recent studies using the variable choice paradigm for a word-association learning task suggest that reward prediction errors (RPEs) enhance one-shot declarative learning. However, these studies may co...

Research shows that individuals regulate their emotions using various strategies, depending on the specific context. To develop a deeper understanding of regulatory processes, it is crucial to underst...

There is a long and successful tradition of incorporating games into cognitive ability assessment, with recent research exploring the potential of online games as engaging and valid measures of cognit...

Open data has been promoted as a tool to improve the transparency, robustness, and efficiency of scientific research. However, the perspectives of participant communities, particularly those who are m...

We explore how habitual players of violent video games (VVGs) form perceptions of researchers and engage with further scientific literature on this topic when exposed to studies linking VVGs to increa...

Zero-sum beliefs—the conviction that one party’s gains inherently imply another’s losses—enhance societal polarization and impede cooperation. While prior work links perceived economic inequality to z...

Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a lifelong condition characterized by difficulties in recognizing faces despite intact vision and intelligence. The 20-Item Prosopagnosia Index (PI20) is a widely u...

In the Think/No-Think (TNT) task, the effect of memory suppression on later recall is typically assessed by the difference in total recall score between No-Think and baseline words, termed suppression...

When a major new crisis breaks out—like a global pandemic or an economic collapse—what happens to our worries about other everyday risks? Historically, there have been two competing psychological t…

Interpersonal communication often involves conversational remembering in which an individual describes their autobiographical experiences to a conversation partner. In two studies, we aimed to examine...

Frank and Gilovich (1988) [FG] showed that National Football League (NFL) and National Hockey League (NHL) teams wearing black uniforms were penalized to a greater extent than teams not wearing black ...

Moral foundations theory (MFT) posits cross-cultural regularities in moral values. Its primary measure, the Moral Foundations Questionnaire-1 (MFQ-1), has faced persistent questions about structural v...

Whenever bilinguals produce language, both languages are activated and compete to some degree. Language control is the process used to minimize this cross-language interference and facilitate the sele...

Nudges, defined as decisional context designs such as information presentation and structure (Münscher et al., 2016), are increasingly utilized to encourage mental health behaviors. We conducted a pre...

Collabra: Psychology, the official journal of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, is a mission-driven Open Access (OA) journal from the University of California Press that sha…

Executive functions (EFs) are essential for children’s development and school success, yet the efficacy of EF interventions with respect to their far-transfer effects on untrained domains to regulatio...

AI companies often anthropomorphize their products with the aim of increasing user engagement and trust. What downstream consequences result from such anthropomorphism? One possibility is a deflection...

Past research has demonstrated that children consider many cues when deciding from whom to learn. In the present study, we evaluated whether children consider the cue of explicit interpersonal disagre...

Collabra: Psychology, the official journal of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, is a mission-driven Open Access (OA) journal from the University of California Press that sha…

Basic personality models, such as the HEXACO framework, are intended to cover the personality space exhaustively. However, it is debated whether the dispositional proneness to psychotic-like experienc...

Reward is a fundamental concept in psychological research and is mostly applied in the context of learning and motivation. Various reward types (e.g., money and snacks) are used in psychological exper...

The question why segments of Western populations reject scientific evidence has occupied researchers for some time. While most studies examine reasons for domain-specific science denial (e.g., climate...