Heavy Thinking Eases Emotional Conflict in Non-Social Anxiety, but Not Social Anxiety
A new dual-task experiment shows that high cognitive load suppresses emotional conflict in people with elevated non-social anxiety symptoms, while ...
Tag: cognitive psychology
Fake Words With Real Feelings: Giant Study Shows Emotion Sneaks Into the Brain’s Word Detector
A megastudy of over 1,000 Spanish speakers shows that emotionally charged pseudowords are harder to reject than neutral ones, revealing ...
Good Vibes Shrink Numbers: Positive Emotions Bias the Brain’s Number Sense
New research shows that positive emotions and monetary rewards systematically bias the brain's number sense toward underestimating quantities, challenging the ...
How the Brain’s Control Systems Shape the Way We Manage Our Emotions
A new study of 246 Brazilian adults finds that executive functions and metacognition are uncorrelated, yet each independently predicts distinct ...
Scientists Build a New Scale to Measure Intrusive Glimpses of Feared Futures in Anxiety
Oxford researchers have developed and validated a ten-item scale that measures intrusive 'flashforward' imagery of feared futures, showing it predicts ...
Imagining the Future Helps You Remember It: How Prospective Memory Gets Its Boost
New experiments show that vividly imagining future episodes improves prospective memory by strengthening cue monitoring rather than memory content, with ...
Massive New Database Reveals When We Learn Every Word of Russian
Researchers have collected and validated age-of-acquisition ratings for 30,849 Russian words from over 2,200 adults, creating the largest such database ...
Repeated Scenes Speed Visual Search by Guiding Attention, Not by Speeding Decisions
New experiments show that the speedup from repeated visual search layouts comes entirely from better attentional guidance, with no benefit ...
Hidden Social Biases in Emotion Recognition Emerge From Reaction Time Variability
New research shows that the faster recognition of happy versus fearful faces conceals distinct effects on response speed, consistency, and ...
Rethinking the Mind’s Brakes: Inhibition Is Not One Skill but Many
A new study of 313 young adults shows that inhibition is not a single mental skill but a set of ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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