Fear, Not Anxiety, Fuels Panic Buying — But Only When We Think Concretely, Study Finds
Two experiments show that fear-framed crisis messages boost panic buying intentions mainly under concrete thinking, with the effect stronger among ...
Tag: experimental psychology
Self-Blame Turns Social Rejection Into Real Pain in Depression
A new Cyberball experiment shows that depressive symptoms amplify social pain after exclusion only when people blame themselves, identifying belonging ...
Same Story or New Story? New Study Reveals How Context Variety Drives Vocabulary Learning
A randomized experiment with eighty Chinese undergraduates shows that encountering new second-language words across varied stories significantly improves vocabulary learning ...
How You Handle Your Own Anger Shapes How You See It in Others’ Faces
A new study of 60 adults finds that individual anger management styles are linked to how accurately and how quickly ...
Economic Inequality Pushes People Toward Traditional Masculinity and Gender Essentialism, Experiments Show
Two preregistered experiments in Spain and Italy show that exposure to economic inequality increases acceptance of traditional male role norms ...
Writing Your Life Story May Give Self-Esteem an Instant Boost, Study Finds
New experiments with Korean adults show that writing a single life story with a positive interpretation and a sense of ...
Even Human-Like AI Fails the Consciousness Test in Public Minds
A new LMU study published in Cognition finds that people consistently attribute less consciousness to AI than to humans even ...
New dataset aids modeling of judgment, categorization, memory across three domains
Cognitive scientists have long faced an uncomfortable trade-off. To test formal models of how people judge, categorize, and remember, researchers ...
Previewing distractors shapes how alerting affects conflict in attention tasks
A brief warning tone before a visual task is known to sharpen our readiness, but a new study reveals that ...
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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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