Collabra: Psychology

Collabra: Psychology, the official journal of SIPS @improvingpsych, seeks applications for Editor-in-Chief. The SIPS Publications Committee encourages editors with innovative ideas about how Collabra: Psychology can best accomplish its mission to apply. improvingpsych.org/2026/05/18/col…

New in Social Psychology: Does Uncontrollability Reduce Willingness to Invest Mental Effort? doi.org/10.1525/collab…

Four experiments explore the social softness illusion and qualitative aspects of touch sensation across multiple body parts. doi.org/10.1525/collab…

New #RegisteredReport Probing the Dual-Task Structure of a Metacontrast-Masked Priming Paradigm With Subjective Visibility Judgments doi.org/10.1525/collab…

Core Vocabulary Reveals Differences Between Human Word Prediction and Large Language Models doi.org/10.1525/collab…

New cognitive psychology research help us to understand the underlying mechanisms of arithmetic deficits faced by Parkinson’s Disease patients in daily life. doi.org/10.1525/collab…

The Advantage of Big Team Science: Lessons Learned From Cognitive Science doi.org/10.1525/collab…

🚨Our new paper is out! How Dark Tetrad traits are related to faking - social desirability and supernormality?

D3の三井さんの論文が公開されました。Silver & Shaw (2022, JEP:G) を拡張する形で，日米両文化圏で政治的対話の中で自分の立場を明かさない人は，対立意見を主張する人より信頼されにくいことを示しました。

What happens when people ‘stay out’ in political disagreements? It makes them seem less trustworthy than those who openly disagree, even when the topic barely matters (to them), even in a culture where tolerance for open disagreement is low (i.e., Japan). doi.org/10.1525/collab…

関係フレーム理論を応用した学習プログラSMARTは知能を上げる（あるいは低下を予防する）ことができると期待されているけど、ここ最近はネガティブ報告も増えつつある感覚🙃

Using Zhang et al. (2024) as a launching point, Gian Domenico Iannetti and @AndreiCimpian address a broader methodological challenge in neuroscience doi.org/10.1525/collab…

What are the relative roles of passive and active processes when people choose a preselected option? Using a novel process dissociation procedure, researchers found a surprising result. doi.org/10.1525/collab…

New in Cognitive Psychology: Evidence Accumulation Modelling Offers New Insights Into the Cognitive Mechanisms That Underlie Linguistic and Action-based Training doi.org/10.1525/collab…

The role of expressive writing in mitigating test anxiety to improve academic performance doi.org/10.1525/collab…

New personality psychology research explores the relationship between Dark Tetrad traits and faking good behavior doi.org/10.1525/collab…

You can read more about our research here: doi.org/10.1525/collab…

We argue that these results suggest that surveys can produce inflated estimates of the prevalence of belief in conspiracy theories, which raises questions about how research on conspiracy theories—and misinformation more broadly—has frequently equated endorsement with belief.

In a new study my collaborators and I focus on this hypothesis. We ask participants if this statement is true or false: “The Canadian Armed Forces have been secretly developing an elite army of genetically engineered, super intelligent, giant raccoons to invade nearby countries”.

A case for using the tidy data format to better convey the findings of questionnaires doi.org/10.1525/collab…