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View article: Quantum stochastic resonance in a single-photon emitter
Quantum stochastic resonance in a single-photon emitter Open
View article: Can a noisy venue be bad for comedy?
Can a noisy venue be bad for comedy? Open
People hear jokes live and pre-recorded in a variety of settings, from comedy clubs, bars, outdoor venues, cafes, to their own home or car. While a lot of research has analyzed the significance of the content of jokes, we know less about t…
View article: “Consistent with views of a climate skeptic”: Counterattitudinal alignment salience protects against illusory truth.
“Consistent with views of a climate skeptic”: Counterattitudinal alignment salience protects against illusory truth. Open
View article: Does Authenticity Matter in Humor Appreciation?
Does Authenticity Matter in Humor Appreciation? Open
Does authenticity matter in a domain where one’s words and persona aren’t meant to be taken at face value? People often say “I’m just joking” to mean “Don’t take my words or actions literally.” To date, little is known about the role of au…
View article: Does Authenticity Matter in Humor Appreciation?
Does Authenticity Matter in Humor Appreciation? Open
Does authenticity matter in a domain where one’s words and persona aren’t meant to be taken at face value? People often say “I’m just joking” to mean “Don’t take my words or actions literally.” To date, little is known about the role of au…
View article: How funny is ChatGPT? A comparison of human- and A.I.-produced jokes
How funny is ChatGPT? A comparison of human- and A.I.-produced jokes Open
Can a large language model produce humor? Past research has focused on finding examples of these models succeeding or failing at producing humor in the eyes of the authors, without surveying peoples’ actual judgments of its output. These e…
View article: Correlates of asymmetric venous drainage in resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging data
Correlates of asymmetric venous drainage in resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging data Open
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is an indirect technique for measuring cerebral neural activity. It depends on the local cerebral vasculature and perfusion. It has thus been suggested that pathologies and normal variants of th…
View article: Repetition increases belief in climate-skeptical claims, even for climate science endorsers
Repetition increases belief in climate-skeptical claims, even for climate science endorsers Open
Does repeated exposure to climate-skeptic claims influence their acceptance as true, even among climate science endorsers? Research with general knowledge claims shows that repeated exposure to a claim increases its perceived truth when it…
View article: Should we change the term we use for “climate change”? Evidence from a national U.S. terminology experiment
Should we change the term we use for “climate change”? Evidence from a national U.S. terminology experiment Open
The terms “global warming,” “climate crisis,” “climate emergency,” and “climate justice” each draw attention to different aspects of climate change. Psychological theories of attitude formation suggest that people’s attitudes can be influe…
View article: How funny is ChatGPT? A comparison of human- and A.I.-produced jokes
How funny is ChatGPT? A comparison of human- and A.I.-produced jokes Open
Can a large language model produce humor? Past research has focused on anecdotal examples of large language models succeeding or failing at producing humor. These examples, while interesting, do not examine ChatGPT’s humor production abili…
View article: Kahneman in quotes and reflections
Kahneman in quotes and reflections Open
In this retrospective honoring the exemplary psychologist Daniel Kahneman (1934 - 2024), we present a curated selection of quotes from the academic community reflecting on his ideas. These submissions, gathered from a wide range of scholar…
View article: Kahneman in quotes and reflections
Kahneman in quotes and reflections Open
In this retrospective honoring the exemplary psychologist Daniel Kahneman (1934 - 2024), we present a curated selection of quotes from the academic community reflecting on his ideas. These submissions, gathered from a wide range of scholar…
View article: The Psychological Science of Pandemics: Contributions to and Recommendations for Social, Educational, and Health Policy
The Psychological Science of Pandemics: Contributions to and Recommendations for Social, Educational, and Health Policy Open
View article: Health Communication and Behavioral Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Health Communication and Behavioral Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic Open
The COVID-19 pandemic challenged the public health system to respond to an emerging, difficult-to-understand pathogen through demanding behaviors, including staying at home, masking for long periods, and vaccinating multiple times. We disc…
View article: How funny is ChatGPT? A comparison of human- and A.I.-produced jokes
How funny is ChatGPT? A comparison of human- and A.I.-produced jokes Open
Can a large language model produce humor? Past research has focused on finding examples of these models succeeding or failing at producing humor in the eyes of the authors, without surveying peoples’ actual judgments of its output. These e…
View article: How funny is ChatGPT? A comparison of human- and A.I.-produced jokes
How funny is ChatGPT? A comparison of human- and A.I.-produced jokes Open
Can a large language model produce humor? Past research has focused on finding examples of these models succeeding or failing at producing humor in the eyes of the authors, without surveying peoples’ actual judgments of its output. These e…
View article: The interplay between electron tunneling and Auger emission in a single quantum emitter weakly coupled to an electron reservoir
The interplay between electron tunneling and Auger emission in a single quantum emitter weakly coupled to an electron reservoir Open
In quantum dots (QDs), the Auger recombination is a non-radiative scattering process in which the optical transition energy of a charged exciton (trion) is transferred to an additional electron leaving the dot. Electron tunneling from a re…
View article: Misinformed by images: How images influence perceptions of truth and what can be done about it
Misinformed by images: How images influence perceptions of truth and what can be done about it Open
We organize image types by their substantive relationship with textual claims and discuss their impact on attention, comprehension, memory, and judgment. Photos do not need to be false (altered or generated) to mislead; real photos can cre…
View article: How Prominent Cases of Sexual Harassment Influence Public Opinion Across Countries: The Cases of Cosby, Trump, and Weinstein
How Prominent Cases of Sexual Harassment Influence Public Opinion Across Countries: The Cases of Cosby, Trump, and Weinstein Open
In 2017, media coverage of the #MeToo movement brought attention to the pervasive problem of sexual harassment against women, highlighting several prominent American cases including Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and Donald Trump. In survey…
View article: The paucity of morality in everyday talk
The paucity of morality in everyday talk Open
Given its centrality in scholarly and popular discourse, morality should be expected to figure prominently in everyday talk. We test this expectation by examining the frequency of moral content in three contexts, using three methods: (a) P…
View article: Close to the same: Similarity influences remembered distance between stimuli
Close to the same: Similarity influences remembered distance between stimuli Open
View article: Semantic Prosody: How Neutral Words With Collocational Positivity/Negativity Color Evaluative Judgments
Semantic Prosody: How Neutral Words With Collocational Positivity/Negativity Color Evaluative Judgments Open
We like people and objects more when they are described in positive than in negative terms. But even seemingly neutral words can elicit positive or negative responses. This is the case for words that predominantly occur alongside positive …
View article: Semantic prosody: How neutral words with collocational positivity/negativity color evaluative judgments
Semantic prosody: How neutral words with collocational positivity/negativity color evaluative judgments Open
We like people and objects more when they are described in positive than in negative terms. But even seemingly-neutral words can elicit positive or negative responses. This is the case for words that predominantly occur alongside positive …
View article: Implicit Bias Reflects the Company That Words Keep
Implicit Bias Reflects the Company That Words Keep Open
In everyday language, concepts appear alongside (i.e., collocate with) related concepts. Societal biases often emerge in these collocations; e.g., female (vs. male) names collocate with art- (vs. science-) related concepts, and African Ame…
View article: Implicit bias reflects the company that words keep
Implicit bias reflects the company that words keep Open
In everyday language, concepts appear alongside (i.e., collocate with) related concepts. Societal biases often emerge in these collocations; e.g., female (vs male) names collocate with art- (vs science-) related concepts, and African Ameri…
View article: Capital Flow Management Measures in the Digital Age
Capital Flow Management Measures in the Digital Age Open
View article: Virtual Assets and Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (2)
Virtual Assets and Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (2) Open
View article: Virtual Assets and Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (1)
Virtual Assets and Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (1) Open
The purpose of this note is to assist countries in their understanding and mitigation of the money laundering (ML), terror financing (TF), and financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (PF) risks related to virtual asse…
View article: Reply to Ropovik and IJzerman's blog post (March 17, 2021)
Reply to Ropovik and IJzerman's blog post (March 17, 2021) Open
We thank Ropovik and IJzerman for taking the time to write their blog post that follows up on prior correspondence in BBS (Behavioral and Brain Sciences). Our reading of their blog post is that there are two key aspects of disagreement. Fi…
View article: “That’s bitter!”: Culture-specific effects of gustatory experience on judgments of fairness and advancement.
“That’s bitter!”: Culture-specific effects of gustatory experience on judgments of fairness and advancement. Open
[Retraction notice: A retraction for this article was reported in Vol 150(6) of Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (see record 2021-94347-001). The following article is being retracted: Xu, J., Wan, F., & Schwarz, N. (2020,…