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Idea generation during emotion regulation: A proposed framework. 情绪调节过程中的想法产生：一个建议的框架。

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Psychological review Pub Date : 2026-10-12 DOI: 10.1037/rev0000651

Lucas Bellaiche, Kevin S LaBar

{"title":"Idea generation during emotion regulation: A proposed framework.","authors":"Lucas Bellaiche, Kevin S LaBar","doi":"10.1037/rev0000651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000651","url":null,"abstract":"The field of emotion regulation (ER) is increasingly recognizing the influence of context on an individual's regulatory processes, prompting researchers to examine how specific circumstances dynamically shape ER. Well-accepted theoretical models and supporting empirical studies frame such situation-specific ER as a sequence of stages involving decision points: choosing to regulate, selecting a strategy, deciding whether to maintain current regulatory efforts, and so forth. These frameworks, however, omit an underappreciated process that we argue underscores ER at its highest specificity: idea generation. In other words, individuals do not just select properties of their regulatory attempt, but must actually generate an attempt-a distinction that leverages an underexplored level of analysis in ER known as techniques. In this article, we integrate multiple theoretical perspectives across domains to demonstrate the feasibility in (and insight afforded by) measuring idea generation in ER. Next, we review how existing empirical paradigms already utilize generation-related principles in largely unacknowledged manners, with some studies that have specifically targeted these generative operations during ER. We combine these observations into a novel framework called Emotion Regulation Generation of Techniques, which serves to deepen the study of ER by delineating a generation stage that follows and informs selection mechanisms. To help study idea generation in practice, this framework is equipped with methodological protocols that draw from neighboring domains (e.g., divergent thinking), paired with future directions and testable hypotheses that can inform the role of idea generation in healthy regulation and in dysregulated affective disorders. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149184150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A diffusion-based framework for modeling systematic, time-varying cognitive processes. 一个基于扩散的框架，用于模拟系统的、时变的认知过程。

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Psychological review Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1037/rev0000609

Manikya Alister, Nathan J Evans

{"title":"A diffusion-based framework for modeling systematic, time-varying cognitive processes.","authors":"Manikya Alister, Nathan J Evans","doi":"10.1037/rev0000609","DOIUrl":"10.1037/rev0000609","url":null,"abstract":"As people engage in tasks over extended periods, their psychological states change systematically due to factors such as practice, learning, and/or boredom. However, the dominant frameworks for modeling cognitive processes, such as evidence accumulation models, only consider a single estimate of a process across the duration of an experiment. Our study describes, develops, and assesses the ParAcT-DDM framework: the Parameters Across Time Diffusion Decision Model, which unifies previous modeling efforts from practice and decision-making research. Specifically, our framework models time-varying changes to diffusion decision model parameters by assuming that rather than being constant across time, their estimates follow theoretically informed time-varying (e.g., trial-varying or block-varying) functions. Focusing on two diffusion model parameters: drift rate (task efficiency) and threshold (caution), our empirical results show that ParAcT-DDM variants vastly outperform the standard diffusion model in four existing data sets, including one where participants completed a practice block before data recording began, suggesting that time-varying cognitive processes often occur in typical cognitive experiments, even when the experimental design explicitly tries to remove practice effects. Finally, we find that the existence of time-varying processes causes systematic biases in the parameter estimates of the standard diffusion model, suggesting that our ParAcT-DDM framework can be crucial to ensuring the robustness of inferences against time-varying changes, regardless of whether these changes are of direct interest. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":" ","pages":"1251-1273"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145934865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Why most stereotypes are negative. 为什么大多数刻板印象都是消极的。

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Psychological review Pub Date : 2026-10-01 DOI: 10.1037/rev0000647

Christian Unkelbach,Anne Irena Weitzel,Hans Alves

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Learning from generic language. 从通用语言中学习。

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Psychological review Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-08-27 DOI: 10.1037/rev0000632

Michael Henry Tessler, Noah D Goodman

{"title":"Learning from generic language.","authors":"Michael Henry Tessler, Noah D Goodman","doi":"10.1037/rev0000632","DOIUrl":"10.1037/rev0000632","url":null,"abstract":"Generic language (e.g., \"Birds have hollow bones\") conveys generalizations about categories and is a fundamental and ubiquitous mechanism of learning about the world. How exactly learning from generics occurs, however, is unclear: Generics exhibit so much flexibility in how they are interpreted that a formal, quantitative theory of how generic language updates beliefs has not only never been developed or tested, but the very notion has often been explicitly dismissed. Here, we explore a hypothesis implicit in the work of Tessler and Goodman (2019) that generics update beliefs via an uncertain threshold, like a vague quantifier: A category-property generic (\"Ks F\") means that the property F is expected to be relatively widespread in the category K, where the threshold for being relatively widespread is a priori uncertain and resolved by consulting one's prior knowledge of the property. We compare this model to a family of alternatives with the same background knowledge but where generics have a fixed, context-invariant threshold meaning. We additionally formalize a novel quantitative model of an explicitly conceptual-based approach to generics, which does not involve any thresholds, where generics would act as a direct connection to conceptual structures. Across three experiments in which we both measure and manipulate prior beliefs, we find the uncertain threshold approach to generics to be the best explanation of participants' highly context-sensitive interpretations of novel generic statements. The sufficiency of this rational model of generic interpretation suggests that generics are an effective medium for faithful transmission of knowledge between interlocutors, arguing against proposals that generic language interpretation is biased in a fundamental way. This work adds to the growing enterprise of formal, quantitative studies of human understanding of generic language. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":" ","pages":"1152-1182"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148840119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Attentional dynamics explain the elusive nature of context effects. 注意动力学解释了上下文效应难以捉摸的本质。

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Psychological review Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1037/rev0000606

Jennifer S Trueblood, Yanjun Liu, Matthew Murrow, William M Hayes, William R Holmes

{"title":"Attentional dynamics explain the elusive nature of context effects.","authors":"Jennifer S Trueblood, Yanjun Liu, Matthew Murrow, William M Hayes, William R Holmes","doi":"10.1037/rev0000606","DOIUrl":"10.1037/rev0000606","url":null,"abstract":"Context effects in multialternative, multiattribute choice are pervasive and yet, paradoxically, elusive at the same time. For example, simple changes to the spatial layout of alternatives on the screen can nullify or reverse the effects. Despite the success of dynamic decision models in explaining the occurrence of context effects, a coherent theory for understanding their elusiveness is currently lacking. We introduce a novel theoretical framework that relies on attention-modulated comparisons to explain the elusive nature of context effects. We show through simulation that our model produces the attraction, compromise, and similarity effects simply by assuming that more time is spent comparing alternatives that are more similar. However, when more time is spent comparing dissimilar alternatives, model simulations reveal a reversal of the attraction and compromise effects. The empirical support for this model-based prediction is assessed by manipulating similarity-based attention in separate experiments for the three context effects (total N = 887). Further, by allowing the spatial organization of information to constrain the attention process, the model can explain changes in context effects induced by display layout. We show that the model's spatial attention mechanism allows it to capture presentation order effects in a reanalysis of previously published data. Finally, we develop a continuous approximation of the full model that permits fitting of choices and response times. In summary, the proposed framework provides a new tool for understanding not only the existence of context effects in choice, but also the attentional factors that lead to null or reversed context effects. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":" ","pages":"1129-1151"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145934915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Carving stories at their natural joints. 在故事的自然结合处雕刻故事。

IF 5.4 1区心理学

Psychological review Pub Date : 2026-10-01 DOI: 10.1037/rev0000648

Edgar Dubourg,Valentin Thouzeau,Thomas Beuchot,Constant Bonard,Pascal Boyer,Coralie Chevallier,Mathias Clasen,Mélusine Boon-Falleur,Grégory Fiorio,Léo Fitouchi,Maryanne L. Fisher,Ana Gantman,Ania Grant,Marc Hye-Knudsen,Tanay Katiyar,Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen,Marius Mercier,Hugo Mercier,Olivier Morin,Catherine Salmon,Thom Scott-Phillips,Coltan Scrivner,Amine Sijilmassi,Manvir Singh,Murray Smith,Oleg Sobchuk,Joseph M. Stubbersfield,Michael E. W. Varnum,Valerie van Mulukom,Jan Verpooten,Jordan Wylie,Ying Zhong,Nicolas Baumard

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Referential retrieval and integration in language comprehension: An electrophysiological perspective. 语言理解中的参考检索与整合：电生理学视角。

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Psychological review Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-03 DOI: 10.1037/rev0000530

Noortje J Venhuizen, Harm Brouwer

{"title":"Referential retrieval and integration in language comprehension: An electrophysiological perspective.","authors":"Noortje J Venhuizen, Harm Brouwer","doi":"10.1037/rev0000530","DOIUrl":"10.1037/rev0000530","url":null,"abstract":"Referential processing is part and parcel of language comprehension, but in neurocognitive theories and models of comprehension it typically does not take center stage. Models informed by event-related potentials focus on semantic and syntactic processing in terms of the two most salient event-related potentials components, the N400 and P600, while experimental findings have implicated the Nref component-a frontal, sustained negativity-in referential processing. Extant accounts of the Nref assume it reflects processes involved in establishing reference or association at a distance, but an important open question remains how these mechanisms can be reconciled with existing neurocognitive models. We here offer a mechanistic account of referential processing grounded in retrieval-integration (RI) theory, an integrated theory of language comprehension with broad empirical coverage. On RI theory, the conceptual knowledge associated with an incoming word in context is retrieved from long-term memory (N400), and accordingly integrated into the unfolding utterance representation (P600). We here argue that word meaning is not only defined by the conceptual knowledge associated with a word, but also by its referential knowledge (its presuppositions). Whenever this referential knowledge is inconsistent with what is anticipated given the context, increased referential retrieval effort ensues (Nref). In contrast to extant accounts, we do thus not implicate the Nref in the establishment of reference itself, but instead attribute referential resolution to the integrative processes underlying the P600. The resultant referential RI theory integrates the N400, Nref, and P600 in a single model, and its predictions are consistent with extant empirical evidence on referential processing. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":" ","pages":"1183-1203"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143080913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Dynamics of variability and bias in working memory. 工作记忆中的变异性和偏差的动态。

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Psychological review Pub Date : 2026-09-24 DOI: 10.1037/rev0000645

Ivan Tomić, Sebastian Schneegans, Paul M Bays

{"title":"Dynamics of variability and bias in working memory.","authors":"Ivan Tomić, Sebastian Schneegans, Paul M Bays","doi":"10.1037/rev0000645","DOIUrl":"10.1037/rev0000645","url":null,"abstract":"Visual working memory performance declines with the quantity of material stored and the duration of its maintenance, but it is disputed whether these constraints are independent or interact. Specifically, different studies have reached contradictory conclusions on whether greater memory load accelerates deterioration of the stored information during retention, a question with implications for storage mechanisms. Meanwhile, prominent models of visual working memory based on stable attractors predict that recall should become increasingly biased toward a fixed set of canonical features with longer retention, but empirical support is mixed. Uncertainty is further exacerbated by limited data, methodological variation, and inconsistent analytical approaches across studies. Moreover, previous studies have not always distinguished response variability from stimulus-specific biases nor considered the possibility of swap errors (intrusions). To address these issues, we conducted six new experiments and reanalyzed data from seven published experiments using consistent analytical methods to examine the effects of set size and delay on variability and bias. Our results show that recall variability increased with longer delays and higher set sizes, consistent with prior findings, and importantly, that these effects did not operate independently: The effect of delay was amplified at higher set sizes. We also observed consistent evidence for systematic biases across stimuli, but unlike variability, bias amplitude did not change with either set size or retention interval. These results support diffusion accounts of visual working memory maintenance, in which variability grows through the accumulation of random error, while challenging stable attractor accounts that predict systematic drift toward canonical values during maintenance. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149040425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sequence learning as Bayesian filtering. 序列学习作为贝叶斯滤波。

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Psychological review Pub Date : 2026-09-21 DOI: 10.1037/rev0000639

Dennis Norris, Kristjan Kalm

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Modular serial-parallel network for hierarchical facial representations. 面向分层面部表征的模块化串并联网络。

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Psychological review Pub Date : 2026-08-31 DOI: 10.1037/rev0000646

Mario Fifić, Daniel R Little, Cheng-Ta Yang

{"title":"Modular serial-parallel network for hierarchical facial representations.","authors":"Mario Fifić, Daniel R Little, Cheng-Ta Yang","doi":"10.1037/rev0000646","DOIUrl":"10.1037/rev0000646","url":null,"abstract":"Some evidence suggests that faces are perceived holistically, but subjective experience and research on the neural organization of the visual system indicate that facial parts can also be analyzed individually. Thus, advances in theories of face perception are met with two major challenges: How can hierarchical face representations be used to integrate holistic and analytic encoding within the same framework? And how can the stages of face processing be integrated with higher level cognitive processes, such as memory and decision making? We propose a novel computational framework termed the \"Modular Serial-Parallel Network\" (MSPN), which synthesizes several perceptual and cognitive approaches including memory representations, signal detection theory, rule-based decision making, mental architectures (serial and parallel processing), random walks, and process interactivity. MSPN provides a computational modeling account of four stages in face perception-(a) representational, (b) decisional, (c) logical-rule implementation, and (d) modular stochastic accrual of information-and can account for both choice probabilities and response-time predictions. We used MSPN to explore and validate theories across multiple paradigms including the composite face task, the part-to-whole task, and a new study of the other-race effect. The application of MSPN suggests that face processing varies based on the task and that holistic processing does not necessarily imply complete pooling into a single face object, but MSPN can reveal the precise nature of processing that gives rise to holistic effects in different paradigms. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148866724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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