F Ece Özkan,Samuel Ronfard
F Ece Özkan
When we believe something, we favor information supporting that belief, a myside bias. Despite decades of research showing its influence on reasoning, we lack a clear understanding of how context and age influence this bias. We examined how...
Young-Eun Lee,Setayesh Radkani,Rebecca Saxe
Young-Eun Lee
When parents, teachers, or other authorities punish children for actions that violate social or moral norms, do children learn to avoid the punishment or learn that the punished action was wrong? We test the hypothesis that young children l...
Nicholas Ichien,Keith J Holyoak
Nicholas Ichien
The psychological relationship between metaphor and analogy has been the focus of continuing controversy. Using both production and comprehension paradigms, we investigated the processing of metaphors versus formally equivalent analogies. T...
Effects of adaptation to altered color statistics provide evidence for calibration of color perception to the color statistics of natural scenes [0.03%]
色彩统计变化的适应效应表明颜色感知会受自然场景中色彩分布的影响
Beata E Wozniak,John Maule,Taysa-Ja Newman et al.
Beata E Wozniak et al.
According to the theory of efficient coding, sensory processing is optimized for representing the information content of natural scenes. This implies that perceptual systems are adapted to the statistical regularities of the environments th...
Visual working memory for real-world objects is resistant to visual but vulnerable to semantic interference [0.03%]
真实世界的视觉工作记忆具有抵抗视觉但易受语义干扰的特点
Ricardo Morales-Torres,Tobias Egner
Ricardo Morales-Torres
Visual working memory has greater capacity for maintaining meaningful objects than simple stimuli. This has been attributed to real-world object representations' higher dimensionality protecting their visual features from interference by th...
Barbu Revencu,Maxence Pajot,Stanislas Dehaene
Barbu Revencu
Recent research suggests that humans use language-like mental representations for many classes of stimuli, from auditory sequences to visual shapes. However, evidence has been largely indirect, relying on stimulus complexity and compression...
To be authentic or not to be: How and why North Americans and South Koreans differ in making true-self-congruent choices [0.03%]
做真实的自己吗：北美人和韩国人如何以及为何在做出符合真实自我的选择上存在差异
Mina Jyung,Jinhyung Kim,Young Joo Jun et al.
Mina Jyung et al.
Anecdotal and empirical evidence underscores the importance of aligning major life decisions with one's true self. Yet, achieving this alignment is not always straightforward and appears to vary across cultures and individuals. Across 10 st...
Jeffrey Kang,Geoffrey Fisher
Jeffrey Kang
When making decisions, individuals tend to favor the currently attended alternative. However, there is heterogeneity in the relationship between attention and choice, and it is unclear what factors explain this variance across people. This ...
How intergroup context shapes children's decision to compensate and punish unfairness [0.03%]
群体情境如何影响儿童补偿和惩罚不公平的行为决策
Julia Marshall,Gabrielle Drake,Anton Gollwitzer et al.
Julia Marshall et al.
Children care deeply about fairness but live in a world where unfairness occurs. For example, someone might selfishly hoard resources, refusing to share. When this happens, children who are bystanders face a choice: They can punish the self...
Megan E Weber,Stephen A Spiller,Hal E Hershfield et al.
Megan E Weber et al.
People frequently encounter dynamic systems that involve inflows, outflows, and accumulated stocks-whether within their own households (e.g., financial accounts, stocks of food or supplies) or in larger institutional settings (e.g., manufac...