Beyond meeting a basic need, eating behaviour shapes human health and environmental outcomes. In this Review, Mata highlights the fundamentally social nature of eating and describes how to integrate t...

Executive function (the ability to regulate thoughts and actions in the service of goals) develops across childhood. In this Review, Doebel and colleagues critically examine how executive function is measured and synthesize evidence on how experience fosters the development of executive function skills.

The treatment of paediatric post-traumatic stress disorder currently focuses on associative processes that have primarily been studied in adults. In this Perspective, Foster et al. spotlight higher-order learning processes that typically develop during childhood to specify intervention targets for young patients.

Engaging in internet gaming, social media use and other online behaviours can become problematic, but these behaviours are not always clinically relevant. In this Review, Burleigh et al. describe how machine learning and psychological theories should be combined to identify people at risk of behavioural addictions.

Responses to violence against the ingroup depend on how people think about their group’s collective victimization. In this Review, Vollhardt et al. organize collective victimization beliefs and their ...

Conflicting findings about the psychological effects of social class might arise because different operationalizations represent conceptually different constructs. In this Review, Laurin describes thr...

People care deeply about some animals (such as pets) but engage in practices that harm other animals (such as eating meat). In this Review, Dhont and Hodson outline how people evaluate different anima...

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly transforming the methods of psychological research, but the use of proprietary models poses risks to transparency and reproducibility. Prioritizing open models...

Adults tend to systematically associate numerical information with space, such as small numbers with the left. In this Review, Eccher and colleagues discuss how cultural and biological factors sh...

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly transforming the methods of psychological research, but the use of proprietary models poses risks to transparency and reproducibility. Prioritizing open models...

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly transforming the methods of psychological research, but the use of proprietary models poses risks to transparency and reproducibility. Prioritizing open models...

People care deeply about some animals (such as pets) but engage in practices that harm other animals (such as eating meat). In this Review, Dhont and Hodson outline how people evaluate different anima...

Beyond meeting a basic need, eating behaviour shapes human health and environmental outcomes. In this Review, Mata highlights the fundamentally social nature of eating and describes how to integrate this evidence into current research on behaviour change.

There is ample empirical evidence that humans are cooperative, but there is also evidence that humans can be distrustful, hostile and aggressive. In this Review, Van Lange and Bergmann reconcile this ...

Nature Reviews Psychology - Attention can be flexibly directed to information that is on- or off-task and internal or external to the individual. In this Perspective, Verschooren and colleagues...