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Abstract

The current issue of PsyCh Journal features four regular contributions, beginning with a cross‐cultural examination of the Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale (TEPS) using Chinese and American samples, which also demonstrated the temporal stability in the Chinese sample of the four‐factor model of the TEPS. This is followed by a study of perceptual distortion of the horizontal compared to the vertical dimensions of a particular road sign, presenting an image of a snow tire, with experiments showing a robust illusion effect that appears to result from different magnitudes of assimilation for these two orthogonal dimensions. A third contribution explores individual differences in associative memory noted for older adults, comparing fMRI results for groups who self‐reported the use and non‐use of encoding strategies in a paired‐associative learning test. The fourth original article used eye tracking to investigate the relation between own‐race face scanning and recognition in 6‐ and 9‐month‐old infants, finding that differences in experience between own‐ versus other‐race faces affects some aspects but not others of the relation between recognition and scanning.A Short Communication reports on differences in temperament and character found between patients waiting for obesity surgery and the general population. A final contribution introduces speculation from within China on the link between money and morality, highlighting the moderating role of culture on the effects of money on moral behavior. image