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Cross-cultural and interdisciplinary work is needed to advance understanding of naturalistic human behaviour. Exemplifying this approach, two Reviews in Nature Reviews Psychology consider how perception of and responses to music diverge and align across the world.
Research into clinical interventions rarely translates to improved mental health at the population level. Adequately powered studies leveraging advances in statistical methods to assess and translate multicomponent interventions will be better positioned to yield improvements in population mental health.
Nature Reviews Psychology is interviewing individuals with doctoral degrees in psychology who pursued non-academic careers. We spoke with Xiao Wang about her journey from PhD student to professional editor.
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.
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.
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.
Many people conceal some of their identities to successfully navigate intergroup contexts. In this Perspective, Le Forestier and Lewis propose a model of identity concealment that makes specific predictions about when people choose to engage in concealment that applies to a broad range of motives and identities.
