Social semantic memory guides many aspects of behavior. Individuals rely on acquired and
inferred knowledge about personal characteristics and group membership to predict the …

Misinformation represents one of the greatest challenges for the functioning of societies in
the information age. Drawing on a signal-detection framework, the current research …

Affective polarization, the extent to which political actors treat each other as disliked
outgroups, is challenging political exchange and deliberation, for example, via mistrust of …

The present review investigates factors that predict three processes that lead to persistence
versus change of expectations after confrontation with expectation violations, based on the …

This Perspective adapts the ViolEx Model, a framework validated in several clinical
conditions, to better understand the role of expectations in the recovery and/or maintenance …

Expectations are probabilistic beliefs about the future that shape and influence our
perception, affect, cognition, and behavior in many contexts. This makes expectations a …

When asked to evaluate their probability of experiencing a negative life event, healthy
individuals update their beliefs more following good news than bad. This is referred to as …

Central bank communication has changed over the years, following the trend of
digitalization. It has been used as a tool for the implementation of monetary policies since …

Exposure therapy is the gold-standard treatment approach for pathological anxiety. This
therapeutic approach builds on principles of extinction training from traditional fear …

Uncertain promotion is used widely in marketing practice. This study discusses the ego
depletion differences of consumers for three types of uncertain promotions based on …