Extended experiences of loneliness, defined as perceived social isolation, are associated with lasting impacts on health outcomes. One proposed mechanism through which [...]

Studying the way athletes predict actions of their peers during fast-ball sports, such as a tennis, has proved to be a valuable tool for increasing our knowledge of inten [...]

The study of decision making using gambling-type problems is common among decision researchers in general, as well as among psychologists specifically concerned with unde [...]

Most previous studies investigating early neural predictors of Executive Function (EF) abilities focused on resting-state brain activity in infancy, with mixed findings. [...]

The frequency-following response (FFR) offers a powerful window into how attention and domain-specific expertise shape early auditory encoding. Yet, despite decades of re [...]

Memory consolidation is a critical process by which labile learning is stabilized for long-term retention. While a growing body of research supports the role of sleep in [...]

The ability to understand and use symbolic number is fundamental to mathematical and cognitive development. Prior research has focused extensively on the developmental tr [...]

This dissertation investigates several factors that influence the olfactory system from both sensory and cognitive perspectives. I examine how rats smell and perform olfa [...]

Decades of research have shown working memory (WM) relies on sustained prefrontal cortical activity and visual extrastriate activity, particularly in the alpha (8 to 12 H [...]

Research on judgment and decision-making (JDM) demonstrates that people deviate from rational decision-making, often times in predictable ways. Despite decades of researc [...]

People spend a significant portion of their daily lives detached from the present, mentally traveling through time to relive past experiences or imagine future scenarios. [...]

Limited research has examined how institutional support programs influence the identity development of underrepresented and first-generation graduate students. Using a qu [...]

Sexual motivation includes proceptivity (mental or physical pursuit of sexual gratification) and receptivity (openness to having sex initiated by someone else). The roles [...]

The purpose of this project is to study the effect of gratitude interventions by conducting an experiment involving a series of gratitude and control interventions. We pl [...]

Positive psychologists regularly use gratitude interventions to study and improve subjective well-being. However, most studies have examined the efficacy of only one or t [...]

Human affective experience varies along the dimensions of valence (positivity or negativity) and arousal (high or low activation). It remains unclear how these dimensions [...]

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Intentional binding (IB), defined as the perceived temporal compression between a voluntary action and its consequence, has been widely interpreted as a behavioral index [...]

To produce effective behavior, it is critical that an organism be able to identify which parts of its sensory world are caused by its actions. On one hand, successful ass [...]

In the primary article of this research dialogue (Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2025), we outlined the social, cognitive, and affective benefits of interacting with nat [...]

This is the repository for the Academic Priors Project, a research project aiming to understand whether cognitive biases or individual differences in cognitive style can [...]

Scientific research is often characterized by schools of thought. We investigate whether these divisions are associated with differences in researchers’ cognitive traits [...]

Deciding between a pair of familiar items is thought to rely on a comparison of their subjective values. When the values are similar, decisions take longer, and the choic [...]

Associated data and code for Smith et al (2025). Instability in the environment and children’s in-school self-regulatory behaviors. Frontiers in Psychology, 16: 14 [...]

Introduction: Experiences of chronic and/or extreme stress early in childhood are associated with altered self-regulatory behaviors. However, there is a range of varia [...]