Online and offline, we are surrounded by recommendations on how to improve our health and extend our longevity. Ideally, this health advice is grounded in science. Health psychology plays a distinct role, complimenting research in public health and epidemiology to improve practical insights.

The rush to study generative AI is producing a feedback loop of topical and methodological convergence, flattening scientific imagination and crowding out the pluralism needed to keep research adaptive, resilient, and intellectually generative.

The experience sampling method (ESM) collects real-time reports of people’s feelings, actions, and surroundings, and originally included both numerical and open-ended responses. Whereas most studies today focus only on the numbers, we argue that open-ended responses should be collected and analyzed again, because they are essential for understanding what the numbers mean and for capturing context and the temporal order of experiences.

Three experiments show that people continue to rely on the content of deepfake videos when making moral judgements, despite prior warnings that the videos were fake, underscoring the limitations of AI transparency.

Modelling of three patch foraging experiments in humans and rats suggests that stochastic choice can account for variability in stay-or-leave choices. Stochastic choices can make a forager’s variability independent of rewards in the environment.

This study investigates the dynamic interplay between habitual and goal-directed control. Using RL and drift-diffusion modelling, we show that these systems interact in a context-dependent manner: habits facilitate aligned goals but cause interference during conflicts.

In a longitudinal study, three profiles of parental self- and child-focused reappraisal and rumination were identified that are associated with parental exhaustion, children’s internalizing problems, and parent–child relationship closeness.

Advice improves decisions, yet its use is suboptimal. Combining experiments and Bayesian modeling, this study identifies egocentric discounting and a failure to apply global traits to trial level choices as key causes. Suboptimality peaks with high-quality advisers and varies widely across individuals.

Measuring synchrony between two brains during live social interaction versus passive viewing of the same event shows greater interbrain synchrony during live than represented experiences, both shaped by the behavioral coordination between partners.

This study separates trait and state reading enjoyment, showing that both are associated with comprehension and willingness to wait to learn more about the text, but with distinct links to eye-movement behaviour.

Gender stereotypes contribute to gender disparities. We find that children enter school expecting teachers to hold gender stereotypes and view acting on these beliefs as acceptable, highlighting a potential early obstacle to educational equity.

This study addresses discrepancies in prevalence estimates of nonordinary experiences. It validates descriptive, non-judgmental items, identifies factors influencing prevalence, and estimates relative rates (total N = 11,628) to inform future consciousness research.

This study examined what information people may consider before a choice by asking them to repeatedly generate its possible outcomes. Participants overgenerated rare events and avoided direct repetitions, suggesting biases in what comes to mind.