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Longitudinal US experiments show that peer praise for empathy can promote politically inclusive behaviour towards racial/ethnic outgroups. Varying effects among subgroups suggest the value of targeted rather than uniform approaches.
Across three experiments, Baror et al. show that context shifts reduce serial dependence (bias towards prior choices) and shape memory at event boundaries.
In this Stage 2 Registered Report, Tibon et al. showed using fMRI that neural activity associated with successful memory retrieval did not differ between semantic and episodic memory, using a task with features matched across these conditions.
In this Stage 2 Registered Report, Buchanan et al. show evidence confirming the phenomenon of semantic priming across speakers of 19 diverse languages.
This Registered Report of 7,978 people in 20 countries found that guilt and information about consequences drive prosocial behaviour. Guilt-prone individuals gave more when they were informed about the consequences.
Social class is assumed to be associated with many different individual outcomes and behaviours. This Registered Report aimed to replicate 35 key hypotheses from 17 correlational and 5 experimental studies using quota-based or probability samples.
In this Registered Report, Crompton et al. examine how information is shared by autistic and non-autistic people and find that both perform comparably well. However, rapport is higher with others of the same neurotype and when diagnosis is disclosed.
Using a nationally representative UK sample of adolescents with clinical-level mental health symptoms, this Registered Report examined differences in social media use. The results suggest that adolescents with mental health conditions spent more time on social media and were less happy about online friends than adolescents without conditions.
In this Registered Report, Gligorić et al. find that liberals in the USA tend to have higher trust in most scientists compared with conservatives. However, they find no evidence that a series of interventions improve conservatives’ trust in scientists.
In this Stage 2 Registered Report, Lin et al. show that trait impressions of faces are correlated with and causally influence mental state inferences from the same faces.
In this Stage 2 Registered Report, Lin et al. report that people can learn to value effort and that this valuation can generalize to unfamiliar and unrewarded tasks.
In this Stage 2 Registered Report, Blume et al. report results of a study on the contribution of colour vision mechanisms to circadian modulation by light.
Spampatti et al. examined the efficacy of six psychological inoculation strategies and discovered that these strategies had close to no protective effects against climate disinformation across 12 different countries.
A Registered Report field study by Nichols et al. finds little evidence that images of organizational diversity change the volume or quality of minority applicants. Stronger commitments to diversity may be needed to increase recruitment of minority applicants.
Examining real-world data that tested different headlines for the same news story on real news readers, Robertson et al. find that people are more likely to click on a headline when it contains negative words compared to positive words.
In 11,407 children, Baldwin et al. report gene–environment correlations between polygenic scores for psychiatric disorders and adverse childhood experiences, as well as partial genetic confounding of associations between adverse childhood experiences and mental health.
In this Stage 2 Registered Report, Coles et al. present the results of a multicentre global adversarial collaboration on the facial feedback hypothesis.
Including participants from 45 countries, Bago et al. find that the situational factors that affect moral reasoning are shared across countries, with diminished observed cultural variation.
In a Registered Report, Altay et al. find that learning about the scientific consensus on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) reduces the gap between public opinion and scientists. This gap is also narrowed, to a greater extent, by reading counterarguments to anti-GMO arguments in a chatbot or in a list.
This Registered Report presents evidence from 87 countries and regions showing that brief emotion-regulation interventions consistently reduced negative emotions and increased positive emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
