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

Abstract Thinking is accompanied by metacognitive experiences of ease or difficulty. People
draw on these experiences as a source of information that can complement or challenge the …

Abstract Electronic Mediated Communication (EMC) has become highly prevalent in our
daily lives. Many of the communication formats used in EMC are text-based (eg, instant …

The use of emoticons and emoji is increasingly popular across a variety of new platforms of
online communication. They have also become popular as stimulus materials in scientific …

Research findings indicate that the feelings and moods individuals experience (ie, their
affect) influence many aspects of cognition and behavior. Extending these findings to …

Repetition has been shown to increase subjective truth ratings of trivia statements. This truth
effect can be measured in two ways:(a) as the increase in subjective truth from the first to the …

The other-race effect (ORE), or the finding that same-race faces are better recognized than
other-race faces, is one of the best replicated phenomena in face recognition. The current …

It is commonly assumed that successful innovation depends on creative idea generation: the
more ideas are generated, the higher the probability of selecting a very good idea should …

The capacity for complex thought is one of the traits that distinguish us as humans. Although
social psychologists have been concerned with thinking and thought processes from our …

A recent set of articles in Perspectives on Psychological Science discussed inflated
correlations between brain measures and behavioral criteria when measurement points …