A sample of articles on sharing and withholding information and social cohesion, the importance of language analysis, the neuroscience of social learning, how diversity matters for knowledge, regional variation in personality, interventions to help minoritized students in college transitions, and individual differences in structure building and their impact on learning.
Field experiments in economics can serve an invaluable intellectual role alongside traditional laboratory research.
A sample of articles on youth irritability, visualizing data, narcissism, cultural adaptations and responses to collective threat, experiments in economics, inhibitory control in memory, and the development of communication.
A sample of research on antagonism in daily life, metarepresentation and autism symptoms, computational linguistics in suicide prevention, using acoustics to predict schizotypy, a model for mental health diagnostic, and sibling alcohol use and suicide.
A sample of research on working memory, counter-argumentation strategies, attitudes toward political opponents, students returning to school from juvenile detention, natural disasters and relationship satisfaction, racial labels and their implications, and how a sugar tax can decrease sugary-drink buying.
Consumer taxes on sugary beverages are meant to curb consumption, but they are effective only when increased costs are salient at the point of purchase, according to new research published in Psychological Science.
To prevent wrongful convictions, only the first identification of a suspect should be considered, according to the latest issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest.
A sample of articles on childhood adversity, habit formation and mental illness, implicit bias, teleological reasoning, article length, choice and losses, and psychological science in the wake of COVID-19.
As Under the Cortex enters its second year, we decided to comb through the archive and revisit three exciting stories from our early days.
