Stimuli that reliably predict reward can increase their capacity to capture attention. This Value-Modulated Attentional Capture (VMAC) is typically viewed…

Consciousness needs a subject - Volume 49

When I was a postdoctoral researcher, I spent several years teaching at an interdisciplinary research institute in Vienna, Austria. There, my main course sought to train master’s students—mostly biolo...

A finales de julio, un incidente de ciberseguridad protagonizado por modelos de inteligencia artificial proporcionó todos los ingredientes necesarios para construir una de esas narrativas que alimenta...

We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...

Madrid, 31 de julio de 2026. Desde la Conferencia de Rectores y Rectoras de las Universidades Españolas (CRUE) queremos expresar nuestra gran preocupación por la incertidumbre innecesariamente generad...

Multisite collaborations are becoming increasingly common in psychological science, offering a powerful opportunity for testing effects across diverse samples. However, leading such projects can…

Preliminary study shows older people who avoided food four hours before bed did better in problem solving tests

Humans adapt learning rates on both a fast and a slow time scale, and the central orbitofrontal cortex may represent the slow time scale.

A central challenge in consciousness research is determining whether people truly experience a stimulus. Here, the authors show that context biases traditional detection measures, whereas continuous r...

We are very pleased to announce the 2026 Awards Winners for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the fi…

Empirical conclusions can depend on the many individual choices researchers make when analyzing data. Multiverse-style analyses address this by computing results across a set of specifications rather ...

Experts believe it’s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implications

How the original ELIZA chatbot transformed ideas about AI and society’s response to them.As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZA’s public debut, Inventin