As digital media becomes an increasingly integral component of daily life, concerns about the links between screen use and children’s psychological we…

Music holds a unique capacity to involuntarily and rapidly evoke autobiographical memories (AMs), yet the source of its cueing ability is unspecified. It is also unclear how well music continues to...

Self-compassion is a robust predictor of well-being, but its facilitators in everyday life remain surprisingly understudied. Drawing on social cogniti…

People perceived as boring are often socially excluded, yet the psychological basis of this stereotyping remains understudied. This study examined how…

This work shows how humans infer others’ confidence from their observed behaviour and prior beliefs about the agents’ accuracy. As a result, they overestimate the confidence of AI agents compared to o...

Although artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly smart, its wisdom has not kept pace. In this opinion article, we examine what is known a…

Measuring community belonging is of interest to community organizations and practitioners, yet few tools exist. Here we validate a novel measure of community belonging: the Where I Belong Survey – Youth/Adult Version (WIBS). In Study 1, the ...

Across two experiments (N = 121, 121) we examined whether the anticipation of metacognitive judgments in the form of experience sampling probes of mind-wandering influenced attentional engagement. Par...

In the past decade, technology-assisted interventions for mental health have been growing. To appropriately design technologies to support mental health, such as social robots, a crucial step involves...

When researchers consider the relation between continuous predictors (e.g., perceived threat) and binary outcomes (e.g., being stopped by police), they typicall...

From a theoretical standpoint, findings suggest the important role of parental reflective functioning and youth mentalizing for models of social development. In terms of methodological implications, task and self-report of youth mentalizing were related but differentially predicted peer problems. Pr …

Probability matching and statistical naïveté - Volume 20

Reading is influenced by genes and environments throughout life. Using a U.S. twin sample (N = 1086; 564 Male: 522 Female; Age M = 7.46 years, SD = 1.57, with 90% self-reported as White, 8% Black, ...

Six University of Waterloo researchers are being recognized as Royal Society of Canada (RSC) fellows and a member of the RSC College. “I am thrilled to congratulate Waterloo's new RSC Fellows and new ...