{"title":"Rethinking inner speech through linguistic active inference.","authors":"Bo Yao","doi":"10.1037/rev0000607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000607","url":null,"abstract":"This article introduces the linguistic active inference theory, which proposes that inner speech augments the brain's predictive processes by transforming prior expectations and sensorimotor predictions to help reduce prediction error and uncertainty. By leveraging language's unique properties-its efficiency in representing sensorimotor information, its ability to extend across time and space, and its generativity in constructing novel predictions-inner speech enables predictive processes to transcend immediate experience, encoding complex sensory experiences into linguistic forms for perceptual inference while decoding abstract goals into situated actions for active control. Linguistic active inference theory provides a unifying framework explaining how inner speech's diverse functions, varied phenomenology, and neurocognitive developmental mechanisms all emerge from its augmentation of perceptual inference and active control. It posits that inner speech dynamically adapts its form and function in response to computational demands and ongoing prediction errors to reduce the imprecision in the brain's generative model. This synthesis advances foundational theories and provides a roadmap for future research: generating novel testable hypotheses, motivating a shift toward dynamic and integrative methodologies, and opening new perspectives on related mental phenomena and the broader role of symbolic systems in cognition. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"128 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145673975","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}
Alejandro Pérez Velilla,Bret Beheim,Paul E Smaldino
{"title":"The development of risk behaviors and their cultural transmission.","authors":"Alejandro Pérez Velilla,Bret Beheim,Paul E Smaldino","doi":"10.1037/rev0000599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000599","url":null,"abstract":"We use cultural evolutionary models to examine how individual experiences and culturally inherited information jointly shape risk-taking behavior under environmental uncertainty. We find that learning processes not only generate considerable variation in risk beliefs and behaviors, but also that conservative learning strategies-emphasizing the preservation of generational knowledge-excel in high-risk settings, promoting risk avoidance and long-term survival but limiting growth when conditions improve. In contrast, exploratory learning strategies-leveraging juvenile exploration and peer influence-foster risk tolerant behaviors that thrive in affluent, low-risk settings where wealth buffers and social safety nets reduce the costs of miscalculations. Introducing economic stratification to the model reveals how wealth disparities and interclass interactions reinforce these patterns, exacerbating differences in learning strategies and risk-taking behaviors within populations, and perpetuating socioeconomic inequalities through the cultural inertia of excessive risk avoidance. By uniting developmental, social, and evolutionary perspectives, our framework provides a novel lens on the cultural evolution of risk-taking behavior and its broader societal implications. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145673976","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}
{"title":"A global matching model of choice and response times in the Deese-Roediger-Mcdermott semantic and structural false recognition paradigms.","authors":"Adam F Osth,Lyulei Zhang,Samuel Williams","doi":"10.1037/rev0000596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000596","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most common method of eliciting false memories in the laboratory is the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm (Deese, 1959; Roediger & McDermott, 1995), where participants study a set of items that are all similar to a nonpresented critical lure. A common finding is that false recognition to critical lures is much higher than to other nonpresented items and in some cases is even comparable to true recognition, regardless of whether similarity is semantic or structural (e.g., phonological or orthographic) relations. While there exists a handful of computational models of this paradigm, they have only been applied to semantic but not structural false recognition, they have not been fit at the level of individual participants, and they have not been applied to response times. We present a global matching model that addresses all three of these current gaps. Global similarity of semantic and structural representations drives a pair of linear ballistic accumulators, which are used to produce decisions as well as complete response time distributions. In addition to being able to account for heightened false recognition of critical lures, the model was able to account for differences across both individual participants and items, lower correlations between semantic and structural false recognition than true recognition, differences in false recognition across levels of processing, improved true recognition but not false recognition with higher study time, and heightened false recognition under speed emphasis. The model suggests that semantic and structural false recognition can be explained using only a single retrieval mechanism. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"156 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145674164","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}
{"title":"Bounded rationalization: The role of acceptance in postchoice and postassignment rationalization.","authors":"Kurt P Munz,Adam Eric Greenberg,Vicki G Morwitz","doi":"10.1037/rev0000602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000602","url":null,"abstract":"People often rationalize their choices, reassessing selected options as more positive after choosing them. This article proposes that this type of rationalization does not arise from the act or self-perception of choosing (as previously thought), but rather from accepting the outcome, characterized by the degree to which it feels resolved and settled. It builds on a dissonance-reduction account of rationalization, in which unfavorable features of a chosen alternative become inconsistent with the choice, and the resulting cognitive dissonance motivates the chooser to rationalize them (e.g., by downplaying the importance of those features) and form a more favorable view of the chosen alternative. We extend this idea by suggesting that a similar process can motivate this form of rationalization for outcomes that were not personally selected, provided there is acceptance of the outcome. This article introduces acceptance as a critical moderator of this type of rationalization for both choices and assignments, with higher acceptance leading to more rationalization. This conceptualization allows for the exploration of factors that influence acceptance of outcomes. Potential antecedents such as freedom to choose or reject the outcome, finality of the outcome, and consent to the outcome-determining process are discussed. Finally, this perspective broadens the scope of dissonance theory. While choice has been considered a necessary condition for dissonance effects, the results from seven experiments (N = 2,557) challenge this view, bridging dissonance and other theories of rationalization. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"168 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145674163","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}
Gilad Pessach, Konstantinos Tsetsos, Michel Regenwetter, Marius Usher
{"title":"Within-alternative processing supports transitivity of preferences in multiattribute choice.","authors":"Gilad Pessach, Konstantinos Tsetsos, Michel Regenwetter, Marius Usher","doi":"10.1037/rev0000587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000587","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145651547","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}
{"title":"Supplemental Material for Bounded Rationalization: The Role of Acceptance in Postchoice and Postassignment Rationalization","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/rev0000602.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000602.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"115 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145651539","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}
{"title":"Supplemental Material for The Development of Risk Behaviors and Their Cultural Transmission","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/rev0000599.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000599.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145651540","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}
{"title":"Supplemental Material for A Global Matching Model of Choice and Response Times in the Deese–Roediger–McDermott Semantic and Structural False Recognition Paradigms","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/rev0000596.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000596.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145651560","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}
{"title":"From basic affordances to symbolic thought: A computational phylogenesis of biological intelligence.","authors":"John E. Hummel, Rachel F. Heaton","doi":"10.1037/rev0000592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000592","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145478477","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}