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Communications Psychology is a selective, peer reviewed, open access journal in the @natureportfolio.bsky.social, publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary across psychology.
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A new research Article in the journal by Yassaman Ommi and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Reinforcement-trained recurrent networks reproduce human beat-synchronization dynamics - Communications Psychology
We train a recurrent neural network to synchronize its output with a metronome across a range of tempos using reinforcement learning. The most effective reinforcement scheme also reproduces key featur...
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September 15, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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A new research Article in the journal by Sergio Frumento and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Characterizing the behavioral subtypes of phobic avoidance - Communications Psychology
Communications Psychology - Characterizing the behavioral subtypes of phobic avoidance
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September 15, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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A new research Article in the journal by Mustafa Alperen Ekinci and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Visual features explain dynamic aesthetic experiences across distinct movie content - Communications Psychology
Communications Psychology - Visual features explain dynamic aesthetic experiences across distinct movie content
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September 15, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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A new Comment in the journal by Panayiota Kendeou and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Epistemic reflexivity for AI-augmented research - Communications Psychology
Using generative AI in science necessitates that institutions and researchers practice epistemic reflexivity to protect intellectual diversity and resist the threat of scientific monoculture. We argue...
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September 15, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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A new Perspective in the journal by Laura Desiree Di Paolo and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Educating minds with generative AI - Communications Psychology
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly entering education, framed as a tool for efficiency and personalization. This Perspective argues that this framing of GenAI obscures a deeper tran...
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September 14, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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A new research Article in the journal by Roman Fleischmann and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Pupil dilation indicates arousal-related mediation of perceptual belief updating across auditory domains - Communications Psychology
In this study, pupil dilation is related to latent variables of belief updating (surprisal, information gain) from an auditory change-point task across the spatial and temporal domain. The results sug...
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September 10, 2026 at 8:21 AM
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A new research Article in the journal by Prasetia Utama Putra & Fumihiro Kano: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Successful coordination emerges from aligned self-predictions in a dynamic motor interaction - Communications Psychology
Combining eye-movement, body-kinematics, heart-rate, and individual-characteristic data with machine learning, this study shows that coordination during dynamic motor interaction reflects how similarl...
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September 10, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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A new research Article in the journal by Aaron Baker and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press)
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People use roles to quickly predict how others will act, what they know, and when they can be replaced - Communications Psychology
Using a self-paced reading paradigm, we show that, from just the mention of a role, people build rapid expectations about how other people will act, what they know, and whether they can be interchange...
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September 10, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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A new research Article in the journal by Tobias Koch and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Improving the comparability of momentary affect assessments and accounting for item-specific effects in within-person affect dynamics - Communications Psychology
The paper introduces a model for item- and person-specific affect dynamics that improves cross-study comparability when item sets only partly overlap, demonstrated in a reanalysis of five intensive lo...
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September 10, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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September 9, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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A new research Article in the journal by Gal R. Chen and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press)

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High-level prediction of continuous speech during mind-wandering - Communications Psychology
This study examines how spontaneous drifts in listening relate to EEG responses to continuous speech, using encoding models of semantic and contextual representations. It finds that neural markers of ...
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August 18, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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A new research Article in the journal by Li Li Hwangpo and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press)
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Communicating social perspective taking creates common ground and improves relational perceptions - Communications Psychology
This preregistered RCT (N = 558 U.S. adults) tested perspective-taking on a divisive environmental education topic. Affirming either arguments or intentions of the opposing side built common ground an...
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August 18, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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A new research Article in the journal by Nara C. Andrade and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press)
A game-based intervention promotes social-cognitive development in early childhood in urban poverty contexts in Brazil - Communications Psychology
In a preregistered, doubleblind randomized pilot study in Brazil, a game-based social-cognitive intervention improved preschool children’s emotion labeling, recognition, and emotion situation knowledg...
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August 18, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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We welcome applicants worldwide, including, but not limited to, those with expertise in emotion, affective science, and LLM research.
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August 14, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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August 11, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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A new Comment in the journal by Suzannah Gerber and Sean B. Cash: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Identifying generative AI use among genuine responders in online survey research - Communications Psychology
Surveys are compromised not only by bots, but also by the use of AI by genuine human survey respondents. How can researchers ensure that surveys reflect public opinion rather than recycled or programm...
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August 7, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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A new research Article in the journal by Henna I. Vartiainen and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press)

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The valence of client and therapist language reflects symptom changes in messaging-based psychotherapy - Communications Psychology
The valence of client and therapist language was associated with changes in clients’ depression and anxiety symptoms across messaging based psychotherapeutic exchanges, showing how affective and lingu...
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August 7, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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A new research Article in the journal by Dorothée Bentz and Dirk U. Wulff: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press)

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Leveraging large language models to map triggers of contamination-related obsessive-compulsive symptoms - Communications Psychology
Using LLMs, this study mapped contamination-related obsessive compulsive symptom triggers in 1’495 individuals. Distinct trigger categories across ecological domains and varying intensity were identif...
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August 7, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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A new research Article in the journal by Chen-Wei Yu and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press)
Psychological research is increasingly cited in U.S. policy documents especially for education, health and social justice issues - Communications Psychology
Using a large-scale dataset linking U.S. policy documents to cited social science papers, this study traces psychology’s policy uptake from 2000–2022 and identifies the paper features, topics, and pol...
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August 7, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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A new research Article in the journal by Amanda J. Wright and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press)

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Personality traits are less stable than people think - Communications Psychology
Two studies show that laypeople uniquely rate personality traits as being more stable across the lifespan than 20+ other individual differences, despite the traits having similar and often even larger...
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August 7, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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A new Registered Report in the journal by Cristina-Ioana Galusca and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press)
Children shift their curiosity from kinds to individuals when items are special or useful - Communications Psychology
How do children build comprehensive models of the world? Across two experiments with 5- to 9-year-olds in the United States and France, marking items as special or useful shifted children’s curiosity ...
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August 7, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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A new Registered Report in the journal by Malika Tapparel and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press)
The role of affective learning biases in daily food behaviour - Communications Psychology
How individuals learn to assign value to cues and actions may help explain how eating behaviours emerge. This study investigated whether reinforcement learning biases are associated with food cravings...
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August 7, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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A new research Article in the journal by Kaylin E. Hill and colleagues (in Press): www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Early parenting is associated with the development of neural reward responsiveness from childhood through adolescence - Communications Psychology
Reward responsiveness plays an important role in promoting health in youth. We examined neural reward response from childhood through adolescence. Lower positive parenting and higher negative parentin...
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July 23, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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A new research Article in the journal by Melinda Sabo and colleagues (in Press): www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Orienting selective attention within long-term contextual memories - Communications Psychology
We show that valid spatial cues directing internal attention during long-term memory retrieval boost recall, while invalid cues incur costs. Our work offers a flexible experimental framework to study ...
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July 23, 2026 at 3:35 PM