New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring categorical coding of object features, making moral judgments in a foreign language, and the role of self-control in the magnitude effect… More
Perception
New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring: a person-centered approach to understanding comorbidity; links between deployment stressors, post-military work, and family quality of life; audiovisual binding and symptoms predicting onset of schizophrenia; and a functional view of the p factor in psychopathology… More
Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font
Visual acuity is thought to be dictated by the shape and condition of the eye but new findings suggest it may also be influenced by perceptual processes in the brain… More
Familiar Faces Look Happier Than Unfamiliar Ones
People tend to perceive faces they are familiar with as looking happier than unfamiliar faces, even when the faces express the same emotion to the same degree… More
New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new articles exploring implicit sense of agency over somatosensory events and the motivational effects of contingent and noncontingent rewards… More
How Our Bodies Do – and Don’t – Shape Our Minds
Individuals’ bodies and their abilities to act within their environments shape their perceptions of their surroundings, says psychological scientist Jessica Witt, Colorado State University. Witt discussed the psychophysics experiments she’s conducted to demonstrate these perceptions during one of four presentations in a Presidential Symposium chaired by Susan Goldin-Meadow. … More