Pub Date : 2024-06-07DOI: 10.1038/s44159-024-00329-6
Jolene A. Cox
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Pub Date : 2024-06-07DOI: 10.1038/s44159-024-00322-z
Tonglin Jiang, Joshua A. Hicks, Wenying Yuan, Yige Yin, Lydia Needy, Matthew Vess
Psychological research has explored awe’s intricate nature and far-reaching consequences. Awe profoundly influences the sense of self (which has considerable psychosocial implications), but there are complexities across the literature regarding how awe impacts the self. In this Review, we synthesize the literature about awe and suggest an integrative approach to understanding awe’s psychosocial implications. We begin by introducing awe as defined by an established theoretical model and examining the methodological challenges to the scientific study of awe. We then discuss discrepancies in current research on awe’s impacts on the self and consider an alternative approach in which awe promotes a broad, non-egocentric perspective on the self. We argue that this approach offers deep insight into the implications of awe and review related findings focusing on cognition and motivation, social dynamics and well-being. Finally, we examine cultural commonalities and diversity in experiences of awe and conclude by suggesting avenues for future inquiry. Awe has considerable psychological implications, but its multifaceted nature has hindered researchers in understanding the underlying processes. In this Review, Jiang et al. discuss how awe impacts the self and provide an integrative framework of the psychological consequences of awe.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-04DOI: 10.1038/s44159-024-00317-w
Mireille Babineau, Monica Barbir, Alex de Carvalho, Naomi Havron, Isabelle Dautriche, Anne Christophe
Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain how young children solve the puzzle of mapping spoken words to their meanings. The influential syntactic bootstrapping theory postulates that children learn the meanings of words (particularly verbs) by paying attention to the syntactic structures in which they occur. In this Review, we first look at the scholarly climate and pivotal experimental findings that gave rise to syntactic bootstrapping theory, how the postulated word-learning mechanism has been investigated, and the role for this mechanism in current and future research. We discuss the prerequisites behind such a powerful learning and inference process and connect it to contemporary learning frameworks that examine how humans build and update their knowledge about the world. Syntactic bootstrapping theory has shaped the landscape of language-acquisition research, and this research has reshaped syntactic bootstrapping in turn — leading to ground-breaking insights into how children assign meanings to words and learn the complex network of language. Young children learn the meanings of the words from limited information. In this Review, Babineau and colleagues synthesize the word-learning research landscape and detail the role of syntactic bootstrapping and related learning mechanisms.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-30DOI: 10.1038/s44159-024-00326-9
Taylor A. Braund
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Pub Date : 2024-05-16DOI: 10.1038/s44159-024-00320-1
Teresa Schubert
Nature Reviews Psychology is interviewing individuals with doctoral degrees in psychology who pursued non-academic careers. We spoke with Erik Simmons about his journey from a postdoctoral research fellow to a behavioural designer.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-13DOI: 10.1038/s44159-024-00319-8
José M. Causadias, Leoandra Onnie Rogers, Linda P. Juang, Tiffany Yip
An artificial boundary is often drawn between research and activism, but scholar activism can be good for science and for society when it centres the needs of people who are multiply marginalized — especially during the current climate crisis.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-08DOI: 10.1038/s44159-024-00315-y
Joel S. Snyder, Reyna L. Gordon, Erin E. Hannon
The rhythmic elements of music are integral to experiences such as singing, musical emotions, the urge to dance and playing a musical instrument. Thus, studies of musical rhythm are an especially fertile ground for the development of innovative theories of complex naturalistic behaviour. In this Review, we first synthesize behavioural and neural studies of musical rhythm, beat and metre perception. Then, we describe key theories and models of these abilities, including nonlinear oscillator models and predictive-coding models, to clarify the extent to which they overlap in their mechanistic proposals and make distinct testable predictions. Next, we review studies of development and genetics to shed further light on the psychological and neural basis of rhythmic abilities and provide insight into the evolutionary and cultural origins of music. Last, we outline future research opportunities to integrate behavioural and genetics studies with computational modelling and neuroscience studies to better understand musical behaviour. Rhythmic elements including beat and metre are integral to human experiences of music. In this Review, Snyder and colleagues discuss leading theories of rhythm perception and synthesize relevant behavioural, neural and genetic findings.
{"title":"Theoretical and empirical advances in understanding musical rhythm, beat and metre","authors":"Joel S. Snyder, Reyna L. Gordon, Erin E. Hannon","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00315-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00315-y","url":null,"abstract":"The rhythmic elements of music are integral to experiences such as singing, musical emotions, the urge to dance and playing a musical instrument. Thus, studies of musical rhythm are an especially fertile ground for the development of innovative theories of complex naturalistic behaviour. In this Review, we first synthesize behavioural and neural studies of musical rhythm, beat and metre perception. Then, we describe key theories and models of these abilities, including nonlinear oscillator models and predictive-coding models, to clarify the extent to which they overlap in their mechanistic proposals and make distinct testable predictions. Next, we review studies of development and genetics to shed further light on the psychological and neural basis of rhythmic abilities and provide insight into the evolutionary and cultural origins of music. Last, we outline future research opportunities to integrate behavioural and genetics studies with computational modelling and neuroscience studies to better understand musical behaviour. Rhythmic elements including beat and metre are integral to human experiences of music. In this Review, Snyder and colleagues discuss leading theories of rhythm perception and synthesize relevant behavioural, neural and genetic findings.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"3 7","pages":"449-462"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140929426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-07DOI: 10.1038/s44159-024-00312-1
Victoria Wardell, Daniela J. Palombo
Despite the vivid and convincing detail with which people can recollect emotional experiences from their past, emotional memory is malleable. As time passes, the memories of one’s best and worst experiences change as content is forgotten or sometimes added to the original memory. Still, people rely on emotional memories to represent their experiences across a diverse range of situations, from getting to know someone to psychotherapy. In this Review, we explore how and why emotional autobiographical memories — memories of one’s personal past — persist and transform over time, situating these findings in the framework of memory malleability. We highlight the crucial role of narrative in shaping autobiographical memories, which enables people to make sense of and extract meaning from the most salient lessons in their past. We also consider how the malleability of emotional memory shapes cognitive processes beyond remembering the past, such as imagining the future, and conclude by outlining important future directions for the field. Emotional memories can be vivid and detailed but are prone to change over time. In this Review, Wardell and Palombo detail the malleability of emotional autobiographical memories, the role of narrative and the use of these memories in future thinking.
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