Cognitive functions refer to the set of brain-based skills to execute tasks of various difficulty
levels. As people spend substantial time indoors, the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) …

Goals play a central role in human cognition. However, computational theories of learning
and decision-making often take goals as given. Here, we review key empirical findings …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 123 (4) of Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology (see record 2023-02979-003). In the article, a coding …

• Why do people behave and think the way they do?• What makes people choose certain
products and services?• How does consumption affect our everyday lives? Informed by …

What determines what we see? In contrast to the traditional “modular” understanding of
perception, according to which visual processing is encapsulated from higher-level …

Empathy features a tension between automaticity and context dependency. On the one
hand, people often take on each other's internal states reflexively and outside of awareness …

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and acclaimed social psychologist challenges conventional thinking about morality, politics …

Decision scientists have identified various plausible sources of ideological polarization over
climate change, gun violence, national security, and like issues that turn on empirical …

As illustrated by the mistaken, high-profile fingerprint identification of Brandon Mayfield in
the Madrid Bomber case, and consistent with a recent critique by the National Academy of …

The notion that self-control entails effortful inhibition of impulses dominates prevailing
psychological models of self-control. This article describes some of the conceptual and …