Depression is characterized by disturbed sleep and eating, a variety of other nonspecific
somatic symptoms, and significant somatic comorbidities. Why there is such close …

What determines what we see? In contrast to the traditional “modular” understanding of
perception, according to which visual processing is encapsulated from higher-level …

Accurate assessment of animal emotion (affect) is an important goal in animal welfare
science, and in areas such as neuroscience and psychopharmacology. Direct measures of …

Color is a ubiquitous perceptual stimulus, yet relatively little empirical and even less
theoretical work exists on color and psychological functioning. The research that has been …

People's motivational states--their wishes and preferences--influence their processing of
visual stimuli. In 5 studies, participants shown an ambiguous figure (eg, one that could be …

The world as it appears to the viewer is the result of a complex process of inference
performed by the brain. The validity of this apparently counter-intuitive assertion becomes …

The goal of perceptual systems is to allow organisms to adaptively respond to ecologically
relevant stimuli. Because all perceptual inputs are ambiguous, perception needs to rely on …

People assume that they perceive the world as it really is. In this article, we review research
that questions this assumption and instead suggests that people see what they want to see …

Three studies examined how food deprivation influences the immediate valence of food
stimuli as well as spontaneous motivational tendencies toward them. We assumed that …

Exponential increases in multiracial identities, expected over the next century, create a
conundrum for perceivers accustomed to classifying people as their own-or other-race. The …