Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Adar B. Eisenbruch, Max M. Krasnow
Summary: Multiple lines of evidence suggest that warmth is prioritized over competence in social decision-making. This prioritization can be explained by the greater variance in warmth of potential cooperative partners and the greater variance in competence over time within cooperative relationships. This suggests that warmth is more predictive of future benefits in a relationship, but not because it is intrinsically more consequential than competence.
PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Juan-Pablo Robledo, Ian Cross, Luisa Boada-Bayona, Nadine Demogeot
Summary: This paper examines the relationship between imprinting theory and attachment theory, critically reviews various theories of imprinting and attachment, and highlights the importance of supra-individual and individual aspects of bonding, as well as the role of proto-attachment phases and communicative signals during early stages. The study suggests that considering these elements can contribute to the understanding of early social cognition, particularly in the study of gaze and infant-directed communication.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Zahra Vahedi, Jamin Pelkey, Sari Park, Stephanie Walsh Matthews
Summary: The study aims to investigate whether the cultural production and appreciation of ritual knots are influenced by features of human cognition, but the results do not show short-term priming effects of enhanced analogical reasoning at the analytic level following brief manual tracing of traditional knot designs.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Thomas G. Bever
Summary: The establishment of the journal "Cognition" broke away from traditional constraints and provided a platform for the publication of new concepts in Cognitive Psychology. Under Jacques Mehler's leadership, the journal remained fresh for 40 years, fostering the development of Cognitive Psychology into Cognitive Science.
Article
Psychology
Paula Rubio-Fernandez
Summary: Language and social cognition are interconnected and mutually influence each other through a positive feedback loop. The hypothesis is that language and social cognition co-develop in individual development and co-evolve in historical evolution through the acquisition, mature use, and cultural evolution of reference systems. The research program proposed aims to study the connection between reference systems and communicative social cognition across three timescales - language acquisition, language use, and language change - as a new approach in cultural evolutionary pragmatics. The coevolution of language and communicative social cognition is discussed as cognitive gadgets within this framework, and a new methodological approach is introduced to explore how universals and cross-linguistic differences in reference systems contribute to different developmental pathways of human social cognition.
PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Kathryn L. Jackson, Jing Luo, Emily C. Willroth, Anthony D. Ong, Bryan D. James, David A. Bennett, Robert Wilson, Daniel K. Mroczek, Eileen K. Graham
Summary: This study examined the relationship between loneliness and cognitive resilience in the aging population and found that higher levels of loneliness were associated with lower cognitive resilience. Additionally, increasing loneliness over time was also associated with lower cognitive resilience. These findings highlight the importance of addressing loneliness as a risk factor for cognitive decline and suggest that interventions aimed at optimizing cognitive function in older adults should include strategies to reduce loneliness.
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Manuel Bohn, Michael Henry Tessler, Clara Kordt, Tom Hausmann, Michael C. C. Frank
Summary: This study assessed pragmatic abilities in 3- to 5-year-old German-speaking children and developed a computational cognitive model to understand the relationships between these abilities and other cognitive skills.
DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Review
Psychology, Clinical
Anne R. Carlew, Emily E. Smith, William Goette, Ben Lippe, Laura Lacritz, Heidi Rossetti
Summary: The review critically examined 36 studies on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in patients with non-neurologic medical conditions, finding that cognitive impairment detected by the MoCA was associated with adverse health variables in the majority of studies, including increased morbidity/mortality, poorer functional abilities, increased length of hospital stay, and increased hospital readmissions. Further research is needed to determine the optimal use of the MoCA in informing treatment planning in medical populations.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Kathrin Rothermich, Cristal Giorio, Sharon Falkins, Lindsay Leonard, Angela Roberts
Summary: This study utilized a video-based task to investigate the impact of healthy aging on social communication perception, using a new database called RISC. The findings revealed that older participants had lower accuracy in distinguishing literal from nonliteral interactions compared to younger and middle-aged individuals, and tended to perceive sarcasm as friendlier and struggle to identify teasing as insincere the older they were.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Noah R. Fram
Summary: Music is both universal and culture-specific, and there have been debates on its ontology and epistemology in the research community. To resolve this tension, a culture-cognition-mediator model is proposed, which positions music as a mediator between cultures and individuals. This model incorporates concepts from music grammar, developmental and cultural psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, and is supported by empirical evidence.
PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Manuel Bohn, Michael Henry Tessler, Megan Merrick, Michael C. Frank
Summary: Language is learned in complex social settings. Children use pragmatic reasoning to learn unfamiliar words. This study integrates multiple information sources and uses a probabilistic model to generate predictions that align well with experimental data.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Marcel Binz, Eric Schulz
Summary: In this study, we use cognitive psychology tools to investigate GPT-3, a recent large language model. The research finds that GPT-3 performs impressively in decision-making, information search, deliberation, and causal reasoning. However, small perturbations in vignette-based tasks can lead GPT-3 astray, it shows no directed exploration, and performs poorly in causal reasoning tasks. Overall, these results enhance our understanding of current large language models and pave the way for future investigations using cognitive psychology tools to study increasingly capable and opaque artificial agents.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Guillaume Escalie, Jeremy Lesellier, Julie K Bidy, Pascal Legrain
Summary: This article aims to outline a psychological anthropology programme in teacher education based on Wittgenstein's philosophical approach. It explores the relationships between experience, consciousness, and language, and argues for the documentation of professional experience through both deliberate reasons and less verbally accessible sensations. The article also examines the use of self-confrontation interviews and questionnaires as an analysis method, providing new insights into pre-service teachers' training experiences.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF TEACHER EDUCATION
(2023)
Article
Biology
Johan J. Bolhuis, Stephen Crain, Ian Roberts
Summary: In the middle of the last century, the cognitive revolution challenged the dominant paradigm of behaviorism in psychology. It argued that learning is a result of mental processes rather than simply changes in behavior through reinforcement. The cognitive approach has been successful in both language and learning fields.
BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
David Pietraszewski, Annie E. Wertz
Summary: This article argues that the debate surrounding modularity in psychology is based on confusion and faulty concepts, mainly due to a lack of clear distinction between levels of analysis in approaching the mind. The authors suggest that researchers should take preventive measures to avoid confusion between different levels of analysis in the future.
PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Editorial Material
Psychology, Biological
Christophe Heintz
BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES
(2011)
Article
Biology
Thom Scott-Phillips
Summary: This passage introduces two hypotheses about the formation of human minds, namely the "cultural minds" hypothesis and the "social minds" hypothesis, and debates between these two viewpoints. The author argues that the data support the social minds perspective and emphasizes the pivotal role of intentional communication in cultural phenomena.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Kate McCallum, Scott Mitchell, Thom Scott-Phillips
REVIEW OF PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Anthropology
Christophe Heintz, Stefaan Blancke, Thom Scott-Phillips
EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY
(2019)
Review
Anthropology
Thom Scott-Phillips, Stefaan Blancke, Christophe Heintz
EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY
(2018)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Christophe Heintz, Jeremy Celse, Francesca Giardini, Sylvain Max
JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING
(2015)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Hugo Mercier, Emmanuel Trouche, Hiroshi Yama, Christophe Heintz, Vittorio Girotto
THINKING & REASONING
(2015)
Article
Philosophy
Hugo Mercier, Christophe Heintz
TOPOI-AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF PHILOSOPHY
(2014)
Review
Linguistics
Dan Sperber, Fabrice Clement, Christophe Heintz, Olivier Mascaro, Hugo Mercier, Gloria Origgi, Deirdre Wilson
Editorial Material
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Dario Taraborelli, Roberto Casati, Paul Egre, Christophe Heintz
REVIEW OF PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY
(2010)