Deceptive claims surround us, embedded in fake news, advertisements, political
propaganda, and rumors. How do people know what to believe? Truth judgments reflect …

What psychological mechanisms underlie aesthetic judgements? An influential account
known as the Hedonic Marking of Fluency, later developed into a Processing Fluency …

Because approach/avoidance is a crucial response to environmental stimuli, this type of
action should have left its trace on our sensorimotor system. Recent work, however …

Questions of how we know our own and other minds, and whether metacognition and
mindreading rely on the same processes, are longstanding in psychology and philosophy. In …

As an alternative protein product to animal meat, plant-based meat is considered to play an
essential role in improving animal welfare and protecting the environment. However, why do …

Extensive work has been done on the metacognitive capacities of humans, as well as to
investigate metacognitive processes in nonhuman animals. What we propose here …

Social functioning requires emotion. We must be able to recognize, interpret, and generate
emotions across a variety of social contexts. But how are emotions conceptually represented …

Abstract Words whose consonantal articulation spots wander inward, simulating ingestion
movements, are preferred to words featuring the opposite consonantal articulation direction …

A fundamental and seemingly unbridgeable psychological boundary divides humans and
nonhumans. Essentialism theories suggest that mixing these categories violates “natural …

With the development of the advertisement industry, consumers are surrounded by
increasing numbers of different types of visual stimuli (eg, images on billboards, websites …