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Spatial but not temporal orienting of attention enhances the temporal acuity of human peripheral vision. 注意的空间定向而非时间定向增强了人类周边视觉的时间敏锐度。

Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00295-6

Francois R Foerster, A Giersch, A Cleeremans

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Seeing conspiracy theorists everywhere as a conspiracy paradox. 到处都是阴谋论者，这是一个阴谋悖论。

Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-28 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00298-3

Nicolas Vermeulen

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Ambivalent sexism predicts Israelis' gendered preferences in the Gaza hostage crisis. 矛盾的性别歧视预示着以色列人在加沙人质危机中的性别偏好。

Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00279-6

Orly Bareket, Michal Reifen-Tagar, Tamar Saguy

{"title":"Ambivalent sexism predicts Israelis' gendered preferences in the Gaza hostage crisis.","authors":"Orly Bareket, Michal Reifen-Tagar, Tamar Saguy","doi":"10.1038/s44271-025-00279-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-025-00279-6","url":null,"abstract":"Gender-based prioritization in life-or-death decisions has long shaped crisis responses, from natural disasters to wartime evacuations. This study examined psychological predictors of public support for such prioritization, using the case of Israeli hostages abducted by Hamas terrorist organization on October 7, 2023. Across two hostage release deals-one in November 2023 and another in January 2025-women were systematically prioritized, leaving abducted men in captivity. Analyses of a representative Jewish Israeli sample (N = 1171) regarding the November 2023 deal, reveal that hostile sexism, marked by resentment toward women, predicts opposition to prioritizing women's release. Conversely, benevolent sexism, casting women as needing protection, predicts support for women's prioritization (particularly for mothers). Even after accounting for demographics and broader ideologies, sexist attitudes emerge as key predictors of gender-based preferences in public opinion. Hostile and benevolent sexism operate here largely independently, with no credible evidence for an interaction, suggesting distinct psychological pathways. Respondent's gender plays a minor role, though benevolent sexism predicts a stronger protective bias toward women hostages among men than among women. These findings underscore how hostile sexism can disadvantage women, while benevolent sexism can reinforce women's vulnerability but demands men's sacrifice. Although decisions about hostage release may appear purely pragmatic on the surface, divergent public views on the matter may reflect gendered biases that emerge in high-stakes, life-or-death contexts-potentially more than impartial, need-based considerations.","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12290012/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144710460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Loss avoidance during social interactions. 社会交往中的损失规避。

Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00288-5

Benjamin J Kuper-Smith, Christoph W Korn

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Effortful leisure is a source of meaning in everyday life. 努力的闲暇是日常生活意义的源泉。

Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00292-9

Aidan V Campbell, Gregory J Depow, Srishti Agarwal, Michael Inzlicht

{"title":"Effortful leisure is a source of meaning in everyday life.","authors":"Aidan V Campbell, Gregory J Depow, Srishti Agarwal, Michael Inzlicht","doi":"10.1038/s44271-025-00292-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-025-00292-9","url":null,"abstract":"People derive much purpose from their work, yet time spent on work is decreasing. Here, we ask if effortful leisure is a powerful source of meaning and purpose that could supplement the reduction in labor time. In five studies (N = 2569), we investigated the relationship between effort and meaning in leisure activities. In Study 1 (N = 1145), we found that participants rated effortful activities as more meaningful, although less enjoyable, suggesting a trade-off between eudaimonic and hedonic wellbeing. Studies 2a (N = 375), 2b (N = 389), and 3 (N = 400) provided causal evidence by comparing effortful (Sudoku puzzling) and non-effortful leisure (watching videos in Studies 2a and 2b; Click-to-Reveal game in Study 3). Effortful activities consistently felt more meaningful, though the effects plateaued at higher levels of effort. Finally, Study 4 (N = 260) used experience sampling to assess activities as they occurred in real life. Effortful leisure fostered meaning while maintaining enjoyment, whereas other activities tended to feel less enjoyable with increased effort. Across all studies, we found that effort promotes meaningful experiences, particularly in leisure contexts, where effort does not diminish enjoyment. Effortful leisure may offer a powerful opportunity to supplement or replace the once plentiful purpose we derived from our now diminishing time at work.","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12286852/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144700898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Author Correction: Electrical stimulation of smiling muscles reduces visual processing load and enhances happiness perception in neutral faces. 作者更正：电刺激微笑肌肉可以减少视觉处理负荷，增强中性面孔的幸福感。

Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00297-4

J Baker, Hvv Ngo, T N Efthimiou, A Elsenaar, M Mehu, S Korb

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Author Correction: How mood-related physiological states bias economic decisions. 作者更正：与情绪相关的生理状态如何影响经济决策。

Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-19 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00290-x

Roeland Heerema, Mathias Pessiglione

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Subjective valuation as a domain-general process in creative thinking. 主观评价是创造性思维的一个普遍过程。

Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-17 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00285-8

Gino Battistello, Sarah Moreno-Rodriguez, Emmanuelle Volle, Alizée Lopez-Persem

{"title":"Subjective valuation as a domain-general process in creative thinking.","authors":"Gino Battistello, Sarah Moreno-Rodriguez, Emmanuelle Volle, Alizée Lopez-Persem","doi":"10.1038/s44271-025-00285-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-025-00285-8","url":null,"abstract":"Is a talented painter also a proficient writer? The ongoing discourse on whether creativity operates through domain-general or domain-specific mechanisms has led to challenges in our understanding of the creative process. Prior research suggests that creativity comprises two phases: idea generation and evaluation. A recent framework has proposed that the evaluation phase involves a valuation process which occurs upstream of the selection of an idea. In this framework, the value assigned to an idea, i.e., how much one likes an idea, energizes its production and drives its selection. While the role of valuation has been demonstrated in verbal semantic creativity, its domain generality remains to be tested. In this study, we assessed whether valuation is a domain-general or domain-specific process. Seventy-three participants engaged in three creativity tasks (producing semantic associations, alternate object uses, and drawings) followed by rating tasks. Using computational modeling, we found that a consistent valuation mechanism governs idea valuation across different domains. Specifically, the same value function and value parameters were shared across the evaluation of word associations, object uses and drawing completions. These findings advance our understanding of the evaluation phase of creativity, portraying the valuation component as inherently domain-general. Identifying such core components of creative ideation contributes to elucidating the cognitive mechanisms underlying creativity and provides empirical support for including valuation as a core process in creativity.","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12271468/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144661576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Liberals and conservatives respond divergently to stereotype portrayals of race and gender. 自由派和保守派对种族和性别的刻板印象反应不一。

Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-17 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00287-6

Elizabeth Q Jiang, Margaret J Shih

{"title":"Liberals and conservatives respond divergently to stereotype portrayals of race and gender.","authors":"Elizabeth Q Jiang, Margaret J Shih","doi":"10.1038/s44271-025-00287-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-025-00287-6","url":null,"abstract":"Representation in the media has become a polarizing issue dividing conservatives and liberals in the U.S. In four experiments (N = 5125), we find that stereotype portrayal elicits divergent attitudinal, economic, and behavioral reactions from liberals and conservatives. Notably, these reactions differ when portrayals feature racial minority (Study 1, n = 958 & Study 2, n = 900) versus white models (Study 3, n = 783 & Study 4, n = 2484). Our findings demonstrate consistent divergence in responses to stereotype congruent versus incongruent portrayals between liberals and conservatives, although the direction and magnitude of differences vary. Liberals and conservatives display both variability and consistency in their divergent evaluations: liberals endorse portrayals of minority races and of incongruency but withhold this endorsement for solely white models, whereas conservatives typically prefer congruent portrayals, but show an openness towards incongruency when white models are featured. Understanding these dynamics is crucial for navigating the current sociopolitical landscape, especially in contexts where representations of race and gender identities are contentious.","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12271372/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144661574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Pledges counteract the boomerang effect in a sustainable showering intervention for children. 承诺抵消了儿童可持续淋浴干预的回旋效应。

Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-17 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00294-7

Jeeva Somasundaram, Zhiyu Wang

{"title":"Pledges counteract the boomerang effect in a sustainable showering intervention for children.","authors":"Jeeva Somasundaram, Zhiyu Wang","doi":"10.1038/s44271-025-00294-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-025-00294-7","url":null,"abstract":"Water scarcity has become a growing concern due to climate change. As fresh water is going to become increasingly scarce in the future, inculcating water-conserving habits among young children is very important. We conduct a randomized field experiment that focussed on instilling the behaviour of showering within 5 min among primary school children (N = 1121) in Singapore. Alongside an educational show emphasizing the importance of a 5 min shower, we introduced two commitment interventions-private and public (written) pledges-to nudge children to adhere to the 5 min shower time goal. Unexpectedly, the educational show and the 5 min shower time goal had an undesirable boomerang effect: children with a baseline shower time above 5 min reduced their shower time, while those below 5 min increased it, resulting in no net reduction. The private and public pledge-based commitments effectively countered the boomerang effect, reducing overall shower time and increasing adherence to the 5 min target. The commitment interventions achieved this by increasing the participants' willingness to meet the target and by ensuring greater reductions for those more willing to reduce shower time.","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12271409/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144661575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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