Attention is one of the most thoroughly investigated psychological phenomena, yet
skepticism about attention is widespread: we do not know what it is, it is too many things …

Hypothesis-driven research rests on clearly articulated scientific theories. The building
blocks for communicating these theories are scientific terms. Obviously, communication–and …

One of the most fundamental questions in social psychology is whether norms can change
individuals' minds by shaping the visual appearance of stimuli. This question was first raised …

Effective decision-making involves multiple steps to reduce a nearly limitless set of available
choices to a final selection. The attention system plays a critical early role in this process by …

Stimuli predicting rewards are more likely to capture attention, even when they are not
relevant to our current goals. Individual differences in value-modulated attentional capture …

There is growing consensus that selection history strongly guides spatial attention and is
distinct from current goals and physical salience. Here, we focused on target-location …

Prior research has demonstrated two distinct modes of searching a display: singleton
detection mode and feature search mode. Due to the explicit template-based attentional …

This opinion piece is part of a collection on the topic:“What is attention?” Despite the word's
place in the common vernacular, a satisfying definition for “attention” remains elusive. Part of …

Dating back to the seminal studies of Sherif (1935), there is robust evidence that social norm
learning is able to shape perceptual decision making in a persistent manner. But what …

Despite a constant deluge of sensory stimulation, only a fraction of it is used to guide
behavior. This selective processing is generally referred to as attention, and much research …