{"title":"Lessons from non-decision time for interpreting model parameters","authors":"Mingqian Guo","doi":"10.1038/s44159-026-00548-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-026-00548-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"5 4","pages":"237-237"},"PeriodicalIF":21.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147666373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The diverse psychological processes of dehumanization","authors":"Zhixu Rick Yang","doi":"10.1038/s44159-026-00546-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-026-00546-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"5 4","pages":"236-236"},"PeriodicalIF":21.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147666379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The culture-to-cognition transmission of inequality and the psychological necessity of consciousness-raising","authors":"Karim Bettache","doi":"10.1038/s44159-026-00541-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-026-00541-6","url":null,"abstract":"A defining fault line in contemporary Western societies centres on consciousness-raising interventions aimed at addressing social inequities — approaches often dismissed as ‘woke’ — that can generate intense polarization and backlash. In this Review, I apply a cultural-psychological framework to understand both the psychological necessity of consciousness-raising interventions and the predictable resistance they trigger. Specifically, I demonstrate how harmful cultural schemas become embedded in cognitive processes through participation in cultural systems. These schemas shape perception, identity and behaviour in ways that produce and reproduce social inequality and can cause psychological harm, particularly for individuals from marginalized groups. Thus, consciousness-raising approaches reflect a necessary response to harmful psychological processes that occur as minds develop within culturally stratified contexts. I also explain how resistance to consciousness-raising interventions is a predictable psychological reaction to schema disruption rather than a political reaction. By reframing this societal fault line through the lens of cultural psychology, this analysis moves beyond polarized political discourse towards a more empirically grounded understanding of societal tensions and how they might be ameliorated. Consciousness-raising interventions aimed at addressing social inequities often generate intense polarization and backlash. In this Review, Bettache demonstrates that such interventions are a psychologically necessary response to harmful cultural schemas and that resistance to these interventions is a predictable reaction to schema disruption.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"5 4","pages":"256-272"},"PeriodicalIF":21.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147666390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psycholinguistic perspectives on face-to-face conversation","authors":"Judith Holler, Anna K. Kuhlen","doi":"10.1038/s44159-026-00538-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-026-00538-1","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional psycholinguistic approaches to language have examined production and comprehension in isolation. However, these processes are tightly intertwined and embedded in social interactions. In this Review, we summarize empirical work that highlights the behavioural and cognitive complexities of communicating meaning in face-to-face conversation and that should be captured by psycholinguistic accounts and paradigms. To begin, we consider the implications of conceptualizing language as a situated joint action. Then, we summarize work on three defining features of conversation. First, visual bodily signals play an integral role in composing and comprehending meaning and achieving mutual understanding. Second, addressee feedback signals understanding or difficulty understanding, and the monitoring of interlocutors for such signals adds demands on cognitive resources. Third, multi-party interactions require participants to keep track of and adapt to multiple people’s understanding, signals and shared knowledge. In closing, we point to issues that require further research and the development of experimental paradigms that can capture defining features of face-to-face conversation while maintaining experimental control. Language production and comprehension are often studied as separate processes, but they are intertwined in naturalistic conversation. In this Review, Holler and Kuhlen summarize how visual signals, feedback and multi-party interactions contribute to language processing and require further study.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"5 4","pages":"240-255"},"PeriodicalIF":21.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147666387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correlates of interpersonal physiological synchrony and sources of empirical heterogeneity","authors":"Ilanit Gordon, Ronny P. Bartsch","doi":"10.1038/s44159-026-00535-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-026-00535-4","url":null,"abstract":"Interpersonal physiological synchrony refers to the temporal coordination of physiological processes among several individuals and is considered to be an emergent property of sociality and cooperation. However, despite decades of work the psychological meaning of interpersonal physiological synchrony remains ambiguous. In this Review, we synthesize all interpersonal physiological synchrony findings with a focus on key review articles and empirical papers published between 2020 and 2024. We identify social-oriented, performance-oriented and self-oriented correlates of interpersonal physiological synchrony and point to critical issues for each domain. We then expand on methodological and theoretical sources of empirical heterogeneity across the interpersonal physiological synchrony literature. We conclude with hypotheses and design recommendations for future studies with the aim of advancing the field towards a more verified, rigorous and nuanced understanding of interpersonal physiological synchrony. Despite decades of work on interpersonal physiological synchrony, its psychological function and meaning remains ambiguous. In this Review, Gordon and Bartsch identify social-oriented, performance-oriented and self-oriented correlates of interpersonal physiological synchrony and sources of empirical heterogeneity across the literature.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"5 3","pages":"201-215"},"PeriodicalIF":21.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147441942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A many model systems thinking approach to cyberbullying","authors":"Lia Mills","doi":"10.1038/s44159-026-00542-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-026-00542-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"5 3","pages":"156-156"},"PeriodicalIF":21.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147441941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subcomponents of reward processing in adolescent anhedonia","authors":"Xueqing Ma, Angad Sahni, Ciara McCabe","doi":"10.1038/s44159-026-00534-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-026-00534-5","url":null,"abstract":"Anhedonia is increasingly linked to dysfunctional reward processing and has been consistently reported to emerge during adolescence, a period of major developmental changes in the neurobiological and social aspects of reward experiences. Understanding anhedonia and the reward dysfunction that might underpin it could inform prevention and intervention efforts among young people, particularly for major depressive disorder. In this Review, we critically examine the relationship between anhedonia and reward processing in adolescence, including evidence from retrospective self-report questionnaires, task-based measures and ecological momentary assessment. We structure our synthesis according to the reward process subcomponents (consummatory pleasure, anticipation, motivation and learning) and with reference to the positive valence systems domain of the Research Domain Criteria framework and developmental perspectives. We discuss key limitations in the assessment of reward processing in adolescents and propose future directions to map real-time subjective anhedonia experiences to observable behaviour using objective task-based assessments. Understanding the link between anhedonia and reward processing in adolescence can enhance mental health interventions specifically for young people. In this Review, Ma et al. examine the evidence on consummatory pleasure, anticipation, motivation and learning, and discuss real-time assessment of anhedonia and the reward cycle.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"5 3","pages":"185-200"},"PeriodicalIF":21.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147441947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}