How does language impact cognition and perception? A growing number of studies show
that language, and specifically the practice of labeling, can exert extremely rapid and …

Causal cognition emerges early in development and confers an important advantage for
survival. But does this mean that it is universal in humans? Our cross-disciplinary review …

When bad things happen, how do we decide who is to blame and how much they should be
punished? In the present studies, we examined whether subtly different linguistic …

Is agency a straightforward and universal feature of human experience? Or is the
construction of agency (including attention to and memory for people involved in events) …

Issues related to concepts and categorization are nearly ubiquitous in psychology because
of people's natural tendency to perceive a thing as something. We have a powerful impulse …

Multilingualism is an ever-present feature in political contexts around the world, including
multilingual states and international organizations. Increasingly, consequential political …

After introducing the new field of cultural evolution, we review a growing body of empirical
evidence suggesting that culture shapes what people attend to, perceive and remember as …

Can the way we speak affect the way we perceive time and think about politics? Languages
vary by how much they require speakers to grammatically encode temporal differences …

Psycholinguistics is a field in behaviorism science that was established by George Miller to
study the psychological impact of languages on the human mind. Specific research and …

Participants read aloud swear words, euphemisms of the swear words, and neutral stimuli
while their autonomic activity was measured by electrodermal activity. The key finding was …