Spontaneous thought separates into clusters of negative, positive, and flexible thinking
The nature and frequency of spontaneous thoughts play a critical role in cognitive processes like perception, decision-making, attention, and memor…
Category: Human behaviour
Boredom signals deviation from a cognitive homeostatic set point
Boredom is the feeling of wanting but failing to engage the mind and can be conceived as one among many signals of suboptimal utilization of cognit…
The individual determinants of morning dream recall
Evidence suggests that (almost) everyone dreams during their sleep and may actually do so for a large part of the night. Yet, dream recall shows la…
Higher income is associated with greater life satisfaction, and more stress
Is there a cost to our well-being from increased affluence? Drawing upon responses from 2.05 million U.S. adults from the Gallup Daily Poll from 20…
Participatory approaches should be used to address the ethics of social media experiments
The problems in current ethical practices Typically, psychological research within an academic setting that involves human participants is evaluated by an ethics committee, also known…
Language measures correlate with other measures used to study emotion
Researchers are increasingly using language measures to study emotion, yet less is known about whether language relates to other measures often use…
Virtual contact improves intergroup relations between non-Muslim American and Muslim students from the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia in a field quasi-experiment
Given the current polarized climate in many parts of the world, finding effective interventions to address psychological factors that drive conflic…
Person-centered analyses reveal that developmental adversity at moderate levels and neural threat/safety discrimination are associated with lower anxiety in early adulthood
Parsing heterogeneity in the nature of adversity exposure and neurobiological functioning may facilitate better understanding of how adversity shap…
Weak ties and the value of social connections for autistic people as revealed during the COVID-19 pandemic
A diverse portfolio of social relationships matters for people’s wellbeing, including both strong, secure relationships with others (‘close tie…