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Cognitive computational model reveals repetition bias in a sequential decision-making task. 认知计算模型揭示了顺序决策任务中的重复偏差。

Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2025-06-13 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00271-0

Eric Legler, Darío Cuevas Rivera, Sarah Schwöbel, Ben J Wagner, Stefan Kiebel

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Author Correction: Anti-immigration conspiracy beliefs are associated with endorsement of conventional and violent actions opposing immigration and attitudes towards democracy across 21 countries. 作者更正：在21个国家中，反移民阴谋论与支持反对移民的传统和暴力行动以及对民主的态度有关。

Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2025-06-13 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00273-y

Emma F Thomas, Christina Stothard, Tomasz Besta, Gulcin Akbas, Julia C Becker, Maja Becker, Tymofii Brik, Maria Chayinska, Makiko Deguchi, Sandesh Dhakal, Kaltrina Kelmendi, Anna Kende, Soledad de Lemus, Paul Le Dornat, Magdalena Iwanowska, Angela Leung, Sarah Martiny, Rie Mizuki, Danny Osborne, Marek Palace, Maura Pozzi, Carlo Pistoni, Raja Intan Arifah Binti Raja Reza Shah, Pravash Kumar Raut, Saba Safdar, Katherine Stroebe, Dijana Sulejmanović, Eugene Y J Tee, Gonneke Ton, Ozden Melis Ulug, Ana Urbiola, Nathan Weber, Anna Włodarczyk, Martijn van Zomeren

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Individuals with methamphetamine use disorder show reduced directed exploration and learning rates independent of an aversive interoceptive state induction. 甲基苯丙胺使用障碍的个体表现出独立于厌恶内感受状态诱导的定向探索和学习率降低。

Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2025-06-07 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00269-8

Carter M Goldman, Toru Takahashi, Claire A Lavalley, Ning Li, Samuel M Taylor, Anne E Chuning, Rowan Hodson, Jennifer L Stewart, Robert C Wilson, Sahib S Khalsa, Martin P Paulus, Ryan Smith

{"title":"Individuals with methamphetamine use disorder show reduced directed exploration and learning rates independent of an aversive interoceptive state induction.","authors":"Carter M Goldman, Toru Takahashi, Claire A Lavalley, Ning Li, Samuel M Taylor, Anne E Chuning, Rowan Hodson, Jennifer L Stewart, Robert C Wilson, Sahib S Khalsa, Martin P Paulus, Ryan Smith","doi":"10.1038/s44271-025-00269-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-025-00269-8","url":null,"abstract":"Methamphetamine use disorder (MUD) is associated with substantially reduced quality of life. Yet, decisions to use persist, due in part to avoidance of anticipated withdrawal states. However, the specific cognitive mechanisms underlying this decision process, and possible modulatory effects of aversive states, remain unclear. Here, 56 individuals with MUD and 58 healthy comparisons (HCs) performed a decision task, both with and without an aversive interoceptive state induction. Computational modeling measured the tendency to test beliefs about uncertain outcomes (directed exploration) and the ability to update beliefs in response to outcomes (learning rates). Compared to HCs, the MUD group exhibited less directed exploration and slower learning rates, but these differences were not affected by the aversive state induction. Follow-up analyses further suggested that reduced exploration in those with MUD was best explained by greater avoidance of uncertainty on the task, and that trait differences in cognitive reflectiveness might account for these differences in task behavior. These results suggest state-independent computational mechanisms whereby individuals with MUD may have difficulties in testing beliefs about the tolerability of abstinence and in adjusting behavior in response to consequences of continued use.","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12145274/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144251736","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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Ingroup favoritism and outgroup derogation in intergenerational cooperation. 代际合作中的内群体偏爱与外群体贬损。

Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00272-z

Hirotaka Imada, Yukako Inoue, Alice Yamamoto-Wilson, Tatsuyoshi Saijo, Nobuhiro Mifune

{"title":"Ingroup favoritism and outgroup derogation in intergenerational cooperation.","authors":"Hirotaka Imada, Yukako Inoue, Alice Yamamoto-Wilson, Tatsuyoshi Saijo, Nobuhiro Mifune","doi":"10.1038/s44271-025-00272-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-025-00272-z","url":null,"abstract":"Issues related to sustainability (e.g., climate change and over-fishing) often manifest themselves as intergenerational social dilemmas, where people are faced with a choice between self-serving, unsustainable behavior and sustainable, personally costly behavior. Extending the previous literature on (non-intergenerational) intergroup cooperation, we tested whether group membership of the future generations influenced sustainable decision-making. In two preregistered studies using the intergenerational sustainability dilemma game, we found that individuals were more likely to make a sustainable (vs. selfish) decision when they believed that their current behavior would benefit future ingroup members, whereas more selfish decisions were made when benefits would accrue to outgroup members. These findings held in both the minimal group (Study 1: N = 1393) and national group (Study 2: Japan vs. China, N = 1781) contexts. The effect of ingroup intergenerational membership on cooperation was mediated by higher felt responsibility for future generations in both minimal and national group contexts. The effect of outgroup membership on intergenerational cooperation was mediated by a reduced sense of reputational concern in the minimal group context and by reduced affinity, legacy motivation, and responsibility for future generations in the nationality context.","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12144128/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144251737","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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Psychological, social, and health-related factors predict risk for financial exploitation. 心理、社会和健康相关因素可预测财务剥削的风险。

Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2025-06-05 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00266-x

Yi Yang, Katherine Hackett, Srikar Katta, Rita M Ludwig, Johanna Jarcho, Tania Giovannetti, Dominic S Fareri, David V Smith

{"title":"Psychological, social, and health-related factors predict risk for financial exploitation.","authors":"Yi Yang, Katherine Hackett, Srikar Katta, Rita M Ludwig, Johanna Jarcho, Tania Giovannetti, Dominic S Fareri, David V Smith","doi":"10.1038/s44271-025-00266-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-025-00266-x","url":null,"abstract":"People lose tens of billions of dollars a year to financial exploitation in the United States alone. Few studies have examined how preferences for trust and fairness in economic activities may contribute to risk for financial exploitation. Furthermore, few studies have examined the interaction between risk factors. In three studies, we attempt to address these gaps by surveying 1918 (Study 1 = 680, Study 2 = 305, Study 3 = 933) demographically and socioeconomically diverse participants to examine putative risk factors for self-reported financial exploitation. We focused on: (1) how trust in others and fairness preferences during economic games are associated with self-reported financial exploitation; and (2) how sociodemographic and health-related factors interact with psychosocial factors to confer risk for financial exploitation. We found participants with lower socioeconomic status and poor emotion regulation skills were at the greatest risk for financial exploitation. We also found associations between greater risk for financial exploitation and poorer physical health, more severe cognitive decline, increased persuadability, and increased insensitivity to trustworthiness cues. Our findings suggest that risk for financial exploitation is dependent upon a combination of psychosocial, sociodemographic and health factors, which may lead to interventions that protect vulnerable individuals.","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12141040/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144236396","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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Decoding words during sentence production with ECoG reveals syntactic role encoding and structure-dependent temporal dynamics. 用ECoG对句子生成过程中的单词进行解码，揭示了句法角色编码和结构依赖的时间动态。

Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2025-06-03 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00270-1

Adam M Morgan, Orrin Devinsky, Werner K Doyle, Patricia Dugan, Daniel Friedman, Adeen Flinker

{"title":"Decoding words during sentence production with ECoG reveals syntactic role encoding and structure-dependent temporal dynamics.","authors":"Adam M Morgan, Orrin Devinsky, Werner K Doyle, Patricia Dugan, Daniel Friedman, Adeen Flinker","doi":"10.1038/s44271-025-00270-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-025-00270-1","url":null,"abstract":"Sentence production is the uniquely human ability to transform complex thoughts into strings of words. Despite the importance of this process, language production research has primarily focused on single words. It remains a largely untested assumption that the principles of word production generalize to more naturalistic utterances like sentences. Here, we investigate this using high-resolution neurosurgical recordings (ECoG) and an overt production experiment where ten patients produced six words in isolation (picture naming) and in sentences (scene description). We trained machine learning classifiers to identify the unique brain activity patterns for each word during picture naming, and used these patterns to decode which words patients were processing while they produced sentences. Our findings confirm that words share cortical representations across tasks, but reveal a division of labor within the language network. In sensorimotor cortex, words were consistently activated in the order in which they were said in the sentence. However, in prefrontal cortex, the order in which words were processed depended on the syntactic structure of the sentence. In non-canonical sentences (passives), we further observed a spatial code for syntactic roles, with subjects selectively encoded in inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and objects selectively encoded in middle frontal gyrus (MFG). We suggest that these complex dynamics of prefrontal cortex may impose a subtle pressure on language evolution, potentially explaining why nearly all the world's languages position subjects before objects.","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12133590/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144218042","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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Semantic priming modulates the strength and direction of the Kanizsa illusion. 语义启动调节Kanizsa错觉的强度和方向。

Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00268-9

Nataly Davidson Litvak, Amir Tal, Liad Mudrik

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Long-term elevated levels of loneliness are linked to lower health-related quality of life in middle-aged Australian women. 长期的孤独感水平升高与澳大利亚中年妇女较低的健康相关生活质量有关。

Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2025-05-26 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00264-z

Neta HaGani, Katherine Owen, Philip J Clare, Dafna Merom, Ben J Smith, Ding Ding

{"title":"Long-term elevated levels of loneliness are linked to lower health-related quality of life in middle-aged Australian women.","authors":"Neta HaGani, Katherine Owen, Philip J Clare, Dafna Merom, Ben J Smith, Ding Ding","doi":"10.1038/s44271-025-00264-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-025-00264-z","url":null,"abstract":"Loneliness has long been associated with poor health outcomes. However, few studies have considered the dynamic nature of loneliness over time. This study aimed to identify longitudinal patterns of loneliness over 18 years and their associations with physical and mental health-related quality of life. Using data from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Women's Health, we conducted a Latent Class Analysis to identify long-term loneliness patterns. We used Multinomial logistic regression to examine baseline predictors of loneliness trajectories and linear regression to examine the association between loneliness trajectories and health-related quality of life. Baseline predictors, such as smoking, depression, anxiety, stress and low social support, were associated with higher odds of 'Increasing', 'Stable-medium' and 'Stable-high loneliness. Compared to 'Stable-low loneliness, 'Increasing' [B = -3.73 (95%CI = -5.42, -2.04)], 'Medium' [B = -3.12 (95%CI = -5.08, -1.15)] and 'High' loneliness [B = -5.67 (95%CI = -6.84, -4.49)] were associated with lower mental health-related quality of life. 'Increasing' loneliness was also associated with lower physical health-related quality of life [B = -1.06 (95%CI = -2.11, -0.02)]. Among health-related quality of life sub-scales, emotional role, social functioning and physical role were the most strongly associated with loneliness. Findings highlight the importance of addressing loneliness among women to promote their health and well-being.","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12106689/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144151852","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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The influence of mental state attributions on trust in large language models. 大型语言模型中心理状态归因对信任的影响。

Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2025-05-25 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00262-1

Clara Colombatto, Jonathan Birch, Stephen M Fleming

{"title":"The influence of mental state attributions on trust in large language models.","authors":"Clara Colombatto, Jonathan Birch, Stephen M Fleming","doi":"10.1038/s44271-025-00262-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-025-00262-1","url":null,"abstract":"Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have led users to believe that systems such as large language models (LLMs) have mental states, including the capacity for 'experience' (e.g., emotions and consciousness). These folk-psychological attributions often diverge from expert opinion and are distinct from attributions of 'intelligence' (e.g., reasoning, planning), and yet may affect trust in AI systems. While past work provides some support for a link between anthropomorphism and trust, the impact of attributions of consciousness and other aspects of mentality on user trust remains unclear. We explored this in a preregistered experiment (N = 410) in which participants rated the capacity of an LLM to exhibit consciousness and a variety of other mental states. They then completed a decision-making task where they could revise their choices based on the advice of an LLM. Bayesian analyses revealed strong evidence against a positive correlation between attributions of consciousness and advice-taking; indeed, a dimension of mental states related to experience showed a negative relationship with advice-taking, while attributions of intelligence were strongly correlated with advice acceptance. These findings highlight how users' attitudes and behaviours are shaped by sophisticated intuitions about the capacities of LLMs-with different aspects of mental state attribution predicting people's trust in these systems.","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12104094/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144145390","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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Extinction context is learned by pigeons, not given by the environment. 灭绝的背景是鸽子学会的，而不是环境给的。

Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2025-05-24 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00261-2

Juan Peschken, Lukas Alexander Hahn, Roland Pusch, Jonas Rose

{"title":"Extinction context is learned by pigeons, not given by the environment.","authors":"Juan Peschken, Lukas Alexander Hahn, Roland Pusch, Jonas Rose","doi":"10.1038/s44271-025-00261-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-025-00261-2","url":null,"abstract":"The saying \"context is everything\" underscores the importance of interpreting things, be they quotes, events, actions, or stimuli, not in isolation but in the light of a bigger picture - their context. This is evident even in fundamental forms of learning such as extinction learning where, in contextual renewal, an extinguished response reoccurs if the context is changed. But what exactly is context? Is context given by stimuli with inherent properties making them context or, what are the circumstances that allow a stimulus to become \"contextual\"? Even though the answer may seem intuitively trivial, the literature only provides competing and vague definitions. Using a modified ABA paradigm, we assessed how competing stimuli induced contextual renewal during extinction learning in seven pigeons (Columba livia). Furthermore, we controlled the timing of these stimuli and found it to be crucial; with the right contiguity, even small local stimuli resulted in the strongest contextual renewal. This result challenges definitions of context as 'a backdrop where learning occurs'. Instead, we propose that context can be understood mechanistically as a learned stimulus property. Therefore, context truly is everything and anything.","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12103601/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144145384","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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