Communications Psychology最新文献

{"title":"Neural correlates reveal separate stages of spontaneous face perception.","authors":"Amanda K Robinson, Greta Stuart, Sophia M Shatek, Adrian Herbert, Jessica Taubert","doi":"10.1038/s44271-025-00308-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-025-00308-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The human brain rapidly detects faces, even in inanimate objects-a phenomenon known as face pareidolia. While this illusion reveals the automaticity of face detection, it also presents a paradox: how does the brain process stimuli that are simultaneously faces and objects? Here, we combined behavioral experiments with electroencephalography to track the temporal dynamics of face pareidolia processing. Using a large stimulus set of human faces, objects containing illusory faces, and matched control objects, we show that perception of face pareidolia is remarkably flexible and task dependent. When making spontaneous similarity judgments, participants (N = 338) perceived illusory faces as intermediate between faces and objects. However, in explicit categorization tasks (N = 22), the same stimuli were predominantly classified as objects, while rating face-likeness (N = 20) bolstered the representation of face-like features. Neural responses (N = 20) tracked this perceptual flexibility: early visual processing (90-130 ms) correlated with face-like judgments, while later activity (150-210 ms) aligned with object categorization. This temporal progression demonstrates how the brain maintains multiple levels of representation, integrating early face detection with subsequent object recognition to support flexible behavior. Our findings demonstrate that face pareidolia exemplifies the brain's capacity to resolve perceptual ambiguity through dynamic processing, with task demands determining how competing representations contribute to perception.</p>","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12361498/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144877790","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}

{"title":"Social inequity disrupts reward-based learning.","authors":"Huang Ham, Adrianna C Jenkins","doi":"10.1038/s44271-025-00300-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-025-00300-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Through reward-based learning, people learn which actions generate which outcomes in which situations. What happens to human reward-based learning when outcomes are shared? Here we show that learning is impacted by inequity in the distribution of rewards (self-other) and others' identity. In three experiments, participants could learn how different actions, in response to different stimuli, generated different monetary rewards, each split between the participant and a member of a particular social group. Overall, participants learned more slowly and less successfully when they received a smaller (vs larger) share of the total reward. Stereotypes about the partner's social group additionally modulated learning rates when cognitive load was reduced, with lower perceived warmth or competence hampering learning from the partner's share. Computational modeling showed participants' learning was best explained by adapting the standard reinforcement learning model to account for stereotypes and inequity information, demonstrating that social context modulates non-social learning processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12357889/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144862766","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}

{"title":"Identity fusion can foster intergroup trust and willingness to cooperate.","authors":"Jack W Klein, Brock Bastian, Emmanuel N Odjidja, Samhita S Ayaluri, Christopher M Kavanagh, Alimudin M Mala, Harvey Whitehouse","doi":"10.1038/s44271-025-00303-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-025-00303-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Identity fusion - a construct that captures extreme ingroup commitment - has traditionally been associated with intergroup violence. However, recent research suggests that identity fusion is also associated with feelings of security that promote intergroup interactions. This apparent contradiction was explored by examining moderators of the relationship between identity fusion and positive intergroup relations across two studies. Study 1, a pre-registered study on intergroup relations in the turbulent Bangsamoro region of the Philippines (N = 816), found that identity fusion was positively associated with outgroup trust when the outgroup was perceived positively. Study 2 (N = 1576) replicated these results across Gambia (n = 236), Pakistan (n = 505), Tanzania (n = 337), and Uganda (n = 498), while also finding that perceptions of the relationship itself (e.g., whether cooperation was judged beneficial to the ingroup) similarly moderated the effect of identity fusion on willingness to cooperate. These results suggest that identity fusion can have positive consequences for intergroup relations, depending on contextual perceptions.</p>","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12356696/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144859992","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}

{"title":"Awe is characterized as an ambivalent affect in the human behavior and cortex.","authors":"Jinwoo Lee, Danny Dongyeop Han, Seung-Yeop Oh, Jiook Cha","doi":"10.1038/s44271-025-00299-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-025-00299-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Awe is a complex emotion that encompasses conflicting affective feelings inherent to its key appraisals, but it has been studied as either a positive or a negative emotion, which has made its ambivalent nature underexplored. To address whether and how awe's ambivalent affect is represented both behaviorally and neurologically, we conducted a study using virtual reality (VR) and electroencephalography (N = 43). Behaviorally, the subjective ratings of awe intensity for VR clips were accurately predicted by the duration and intensity of ambivalent feelings. In the electrophysiological analysis, we identified a latent neural-feeling space for each participant that shared valence representations across individuals and stimuli, using deep representational learning and decoding analyses. Within these spaces, ambivalent feelings were represented as spatially distinct from positive and negative ones, with large individual differences in their separation. Notably, this variability significantly predicted subjective awe ratings. Lastly, hidden Markov modeling revealed that the multiple band powers, particularly in the frontoparietal channels, were significantly associated with differentiation of valent states during awe-inducing VR watching. Our findings consistently highlight the salience of ambivalent affect in the subjective experience of awe at both behavioral and neural levels. This work provides a nuanced framework for understanding the complexity of human emotions with implications for affective neuroscience.</p>","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12350678/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144850241","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}

{"title":"Anticipatory eye gaze as a marker of memory.","authors":"Flavio Jean Schmidig, Daniel Yamin, Omer Sharon, Yoav Nadu, Jonathan Nir, Charan Ranganath, Yuval Nir","doi":"10.1038/s44271-025-00305-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-025-00305-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Human memory is typically studied by direct questioning, and the recollection of events is investigated through verbal reports. Thus, current research confounds memory per-se with its report. Critically, the ability to investigate memory retrieval in populations with deficient verbal ability is limited. Here, using the MEGA (Memory Episode Gaze Anticipation) paradigm, we show that monitoring anticipatory gaze using eye tracking can quantify memory retrieval without verbal report. Upon repeated viewing of movie clips, eye gaze patterns anticipating salient events can quantify their memory traces seconds before these events appear on the screen. A series of five experiments with a total of 145 participants using either tailor-made animations or naturalistic movies consistently reveal that accumulated gaze proximity to the event can index memory. Machine learning-based classification can identify whether a given viewing is associated with memory for the event based on single-trial data of gaze features. Detailed comparison to verbal reports establishes that anticipatory gaze marks recollection of associative memory about the event, whereas pupil dilation captures familiarity. Finally, anticipatory gaze reveals beneficial effects of sleep on memory retrieval without verbal report, illustrating its broad applicability across cognitive research and clinical domains.</p>","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12339399/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144824509","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}

{"title":"Veteran and first responder family members show distinct mental health networks centered on negative emotions.","authors":"Johannes A Karl, Warren N Ponder, Jose Carbajal, Oleg N Medvedev","doi":"10.1038/s44271-025-00307-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-025-00307-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The interplay of mental health symptoms among family members of veterans and first responders remains poorly understood despite their vital support role. Network analysis and community detection were performed on mental health assessment data from 317 treatment-seeking family members of trauma-exposed veterans and first responders, who completed clinical distress measures including posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. Network analysis revealed six distinct symptom communities: depression, generalized anxiety disorder, intrusion and avoidance, anxious arousal, externalizing behaviors, and negative alterations. Strong negative feelings (fear, horror, anger) and uncontrollable worry emerged as the most influential nodes in the network. Remarkably, 55.5% of participants screened positive for probable posttraumatic stress disorder, while 38.5% reported moderately severe to severe depression, and 36.6% experienced severe generalized anxiety disorder. The network demonstrated high stability across bootstrap analyses, with a correlation stability coefficient exceeding 0.59. Overall, this study revealed network of co-occurring mental health symptoms in family members of veterans and first responders. The identification of six distinct symptom communities suggests that traditional diagnostic boundaries may not fully capture the complexity of psychological distress in this population. These findings highlight the need for targeted interventions addressing both fear-based trauma symptoms and mood dysregulation in this understudied group.</p>","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12334751/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144805510","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}

{"title":"Publisher Correction: Automatic multisensory integration follows subjective confidence rather than objective performance.","authors":"Yi Gao, Kai Xue, Brian Odegaard, Dobromir Rahnev","doi":"10.1038/s44271-025-00302-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-025-00302-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12332091/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144802127","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}

{"title":"Scientific publications that use promotional language in the abstract receive more citations and public attention.","authors":"Olga Stavrova, Bennett Kleinberg, Anthony M Evans, Milena Ivanović","doi":"10.1038/s44271-025-00293-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-025-00293-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Researchers often use promotional language (\"hyping\") in scientific publications to draw attention to their findings. Here we examined whether promotional language is indeed associated with higher academic impact and public attention. A content analysis of over 130,000 abstracts published in three major interdisciplinary outlets (PNAS: 84,603; Science: 25,142; Nature: 26,870) between 1991 and 2023 showed that promotional language predicted more citations and more full-length paper views, more paper mentions in online media and higher Altmetric scores. Further, additional analyses by first and last author gender (first female author n = 15,368, first male author n = 32,873, last female author n = 10,218, last male author n = 46,606) showed that despite women being often advised to engage in more self-promotion, following this advice was not significantly associated with a smaller gender gap in impact indicators. If anything, promotional language predicted a larger gender gap with men (vs. women) receiving even more citations, paper views and mentions in the media. Our findings highlight the role of communication strategies in academic impact and public attention, as well as gender diversity in academia.</p>","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12325648/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144791255","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}

{"title":"Communicating science, not magic.","authors":"Brooke N Macnamara, Alexander P Burgoyne, David Moreau","doi":"10.1038/s44271-025-00301-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-025-00301-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12325975/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144791254","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}

{"title":"Problematic online gaming mediates the association between attention-deficit/hyperactivity and subsequent mental health issues in adolescents.","authors":"Zui C Narita, Jordan DeVylder, Gemma Knowles, Shuntaro Ando, Syudo Yamasaki, Mitsuhiro Miyashita, Daniel Stanyon, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Toshiaki A Furukawa, Kiyoto Kasai, Atsushi Nishida","doi":"10.1038/s44271-025-00296-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-025-00296-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Theoretical models suggest that attention-deficit/hyperactivity and problematic online gaming could contribute to negative mental health outcomes, yet evidence on their interplay remains limited. Using data from 3171 adolescents in the Tokyo Teen Cohort, the present study examined the interplay of attention-deficit/hyperactivity at age 12 and problematic online gaming at age 14 associated with mental health issues at age 16. The sample consisted of 1487 girls (46.9%) and 1684 boys (53.1%). Doubly robust estimation revealed that a high degree of problematic online gaming consistently elevated the absolute and relative risks of mental health issues. The fully adjusted risk difference and risk ratio (95% confidence intervals (CIs)) were: incident depression, 7.8% (3.0%-13.1%) and 1.62 (1.25-2.05); incident anxiety, 5.7% (2.7%-8.7%) and 1.98 (1.45-2.67); incident psychotic experiences, 5.9% (2.3%-10.8%) and 1.72 (1.30-2.47); diminished well-being, 9.6% (5.1%-14.3%) and 1.54 (1.27-1.84). Higher attention-deficit/hyperactivity scores were associated with a greater degree of problematic online gaming (adjusted β per 1 SD: 0.18, 95% CI: 0.12-0.24). Causal mediation analysis-ensuring temporal plausibility, carefully adjusting for confounders, and accounting for exposure-mediator interaction-showed that problematic online gaming partially mediated the association between attention-deficit/hyperactivity and mental health issues: depressive symptoms (29.2%), anxiety (12.3%), psychotic experiences (20.6%), and diminished well-being (22.1%). The findings highlight the interplay of psychopathology, diminished inhibitory control, and addictive behaviors associated with negative consequences. Problematic online gaming may represent a modifiable mediator, warranting further intervention research to examine its potential as a treatment target.</p>","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12322020/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144786261","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}