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Psychologist Explains Why We Love Holiday, Feel-Good Movies
Dr. Pamela Rutledge, Director of the Media Psychology Research Center, discusses why people love predictable, feel-good holiday movies.
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New Content From Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on natural experiments, calculating and interpreting prediction intervals, the misuse of the bayes factor, analyzing ecological momentary assessment data, and much more.
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What Comes Next? The Joy of Anticipating Melodies
Podcast: In this episode of Under the Cortex, APS’s Özge Gürcanlı Fischer Baum hosts music researchers who delve into the rewarding experience of accurately predicting tunes.
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Expect the Unexpected: Why We Process Surprising Objects More Deeply
We tend to pay greater attention to incongruent objects, making us less likely to remember details about and changes to congruent objects.
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Predicting the Future Is Possible. These ‘Superforecasters’ Know How.
Can we predict the future more accurately? It’s a question we humans have grappled with since the dawn of civilization — one that has massive implications for how we run our organizations, how we make
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The Brain’s ‘Prediction Machine’ Anticipates the Future When Listening to Music
New research explores the brain’s “prediction machine” capabilities by examining how we experience music.
