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Knowing before doing: Review and mega-analysis of action understanding in prereaching infants. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Shari Liu,Melyssa Almeida
The relationship between experience and knowledge is one of the oldest and deepest questions in psychology. In developmental science, research on this question has focused on prereaching infants who cannot yet retrieve objects by reaching for and grasping them. Over the past 2 decades, behavioral research in this population has produced two seemingly contradictory findings: After first-person experience
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The conspiratorial mind: A meta-analytic review of motivational and personological correlates. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Shauna M Bowes,Thomas H Costello,Arber Tasimi
A tidal wave of research has tried to uncover the motivational and personological correlates of conspiratorial ideation, often studying these two classes of correlates in parallel. Here, we synthesize this vast and piecemeal literature through a multilevel meta-analytic review that spanned 170 studies, 257 samples, 52 variables, 1,429 effect sizes, and 158,473 participants. Overall, we found that the
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Priming behavior: A meta-analysis of the effects of behavioral and nonbehavioral primes on overt behavioral outcomes. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Wenhao Dai,Tianshu Yang,Benjamin X White,Ryan Palmer,Emily K Sanders,Jack A McDonald,Melody Leung,Dolores Albarracín
Past meta-analyses of the effects of priming on overt behavior have not examined whether the effects and processes of priming behavioral or nonbehavioral concepts (e.g., priming action through the word go and priming religion through the word church) differ, even though these possibilities are important to our understanding of concept accessibility and behavior. Hence, we meta-analyzed 351 studies
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A meta-analytic review of the relationship between explicit memory bias and depression: Depression features an explicit memory bias that persists beyond a depressive episode. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Jonas Everaert, Janna N. Vrijsen, Renée Martin-Willett, Livia van de Kraats, Jutta Joormann
Emotional bias in explicit memory is theorized to play a prominent role in the etiology, maintenance, and recurrence of depression. Even though this cognitive bias is regarded as one of the most robust phenomena in depression, its magnitude and boundary conditions in depression are currently unknown. This review presents two three-level meta-analyses to estimate the overall effect size and identify
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A tale of two theories: A meta-analysis of the attention set and load theories of inattentional blindness. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Brendan T. Hutchinson, Kristen Pammer, Kavindu Bandara, Bradley N. Jack
Inattentional blindness (IB), the failure to notice something right in front of you, offers cognitive scientists and practitioners alike a unique means of studying the nature of visual perception. The present meta-analysis sought to provide the first synthesis of the two leading theories of IB—attention set and load theory. We aimed to estimate the magnitude of the effect of each, how they interact
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The relation between executive functions and math intelligence in preschool children: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Valentin Emslander, Ronny Scherer
Executive functions (EFs) are key skills underlying other cognitive skills that are relevant to learning and everyday life. Although a plethora of evidence suggests a positive relation between the three EF subdimensions, inhibition, shifting, and updating, and math skills for schoolchildren and adults, the findings on the magnitude of and possible variations in this relation are inconclusive for preschool
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Personality and intelligence: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Jeromy Anglim, Patrick D. Dunlop, Serena Wee, Sharon Horwood, Joshua K. Wood, Andrew Marty
This study provides a comprehensive assessment of the associations of personality and intelligence. It presents a meta-analysis (N = 162,636, k = 272) of domain, facet, and item-level correlations between personality and intelligence (general, fluid, and crystallized) for the major Big Five and HEXACO hierarchical frameworks of personality: NEO Personality Inventory–Revised, Big Five Aspect Scales
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Do growth mindset interventions impact students' academic achievement? A systematic review and meta-analysis with recommendations for best practices. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Brooke N Macnamara,Alexander P Burgoyne
According to mindset theory, students who believe their personal characteristics can change-that is, those who hold a growth mindset-will achieve more than students who believe their characteristics are fixed. Proponents of the theory have developed interventions to influence students' mindsets, claiming that these interventions lead to large gains in academic achievement. Despite their popularity
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of growth mindset interventions: For whom, how, and why might such interventions work? Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Jeni L Burnette,Joseph Billingsley,George C Banks,Laura E Knouse,Crystal L Hoyt,Jeffrey M Pollack,Stefanie Simon
As growth mindset interventions increase in scope and popularity, scientists and policymakers are asking: Are these interventions effective? To answer this question properly, the field needs to understand the meaningful heterogeneity in effects. In the present systematic review and meta-analysis, we focused on two key moderators with adequate data to test: Subsamples expected to benefit most and implementation
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Sex drive: Theoretical conceptualization and meta-analytic review of gender differences. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Julius Frankenbach,Marcel Weber,David D Loschelder,Helena Kilger,Malte Friese
Few spheres in life are as universally relevant for (almost) all individuals past puberty as sexuality. One important aspect of sexuality concerns individuals' sex drive-their dispositional sexual motivation. A vigorous scientific (and popular) debate revolves around the question of whether or not there is a gender difference in sex drive. Several theories predict a higher sex drive in men compared
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The enactment effect: A systematic review and meta-analysis of behavioral, neuroimaging, and patient studies. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Brady R. T. Roberts, Colin M. MacLeod, Myra A. Fernandes
The enactment effect is the phenomenon that physically performing an action represented by a word or phrase (e.g., clap, clap your hands) results in better memory than does simply reading it. We examined data from three different methodological approaches to provide a comprehensive review of the enactment effect across 145 behavioral, 7 neuroimaging, and 31 neurological patient studies. Boosts in memory
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A meta-analytic review of cognition and reading difficulties: Individual differences, moderation, and language mediation mechanisms. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Peng Peng, Zheng Zhang, Wei Wang, Kejin Lee, Tengfei Wang, Cuicui Wang, Jie Luo, Jiangze Lin
Based on 378 studies, 541 independent samples, and over 34,000 participants, the current meta-analysis aimed to explore the associations between cognition and reading difficulties (RD). Results showed that compared with age-matched typically developing (TD) peers, RD showed deficits across processing speed, short-term memory, attention, working memory, inhibition, switching, visuospatial skills, and
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A meta-analytic review on the social–emotional intelligence correlates of the six bullying roles: Bullies, followers, victims, bully-victims, defenders, and outsiders. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Kana Imuta, Sumin Song, Julie D. Henry, Ted Ruffman, Candida Peterson, Virginia Slaughter
Bullying is one of the most common peer-relational problems experienced by children and adolescents worldwide. One reason bullying is so widespread is that it is a dynamic, group process that involves multiple roles—namely, bullies, followers, victims, bully-victims, defenders, and outsiders. Given the profoundly negative impact of exposure to bullying on well-being across development, researchers
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Feeling good, doing good, and getting ahead: A meta-analytic investigation of the outcomes of prosocial motivation at work. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Huiyao Liao, Rong Su, Thomas Ptashnik, Jordan Nielsen
In recent years, a rapidly growing literature has shed light on important costs and benefits of prosocial motivation in the workplace. However, researchers have studied prosocial motivation using various labels, conceptualizations, and operationalizations, leaving this body of knowledge fragmented. In this study, we contribute to the literature by providing an integrated framework that organizes extant
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Did cooperation among strangers decline in the United States? A cross-temporal meta-analysis of social dilemmas (1956–2017). Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Mingliang Yuan, Giuliana Spadaro, Shuxian Jin, Junhui Wu, Yu Kou, Paul A. M. Van Lange, Daniel Balliet
Cooperation among strangers has been hypothesized to have declined in the United States over the past several decades, an alarming trend that has potential far-reaching societal consequences. To date, most research that supports a decline in cooperation has relied on self-report measures or archival data. Here, we utilize the history of experimental research on cooperation in situations involving conflicting
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Personality stability and change: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Wiebke Bleidorn,Ted Schwaba,Anqing Zheng,Christopher J Hopwood,Susana S Sosa,Brent W Roberts,D A Briley
Past research syntheses provided evidence that personality traits are both stable and changeable throughout the life span. However, early meta-analytic estimates were constrained by a relatively small universe of longitudinal studies, many of which tracked personality traits in small samples over moderate time periods using measures that were only loosely related to contemporary trait models such as
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Self-reported mindfulness accounts for the effects of mindfulness interventions and nonmindfulness controls on self-reported mental health: A preregistered systematic review and three-level meta-analysis of 146 randomized controlled trials. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Ulrich S. Tran, Layla Birnbaum, Matthias A. Burzler, Ulrich J. C. Hegewisch, Dariga Ramazanova, Martin Voracek
Meta-analyses suggest that mindfulness interventions have positive effects on mental health. Yet, how mindfulness interventions exert their effects is still largely unknown. Self-reported mindfulness may partially mediate the association between mindfulness interventions and change in self-reported mental health. We present the results of a novel application of three-level meta-analysis on the pre–post
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Dominance and prestige: Meta-analytic review of experimentally induced body position effects on behavioral, self-report, and physiological dependent variables. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-12
Early research on body positions suggested that engaging in certain nonverbal displays can lead to changes in self-report, behavioral, and physiological dependent variables. Still, there has been intense criticism regarding the replicability of these effects. To determine what effects are valid, we conducted a meta-analytic review on body position studies. We used the dominance–prestige framework and
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Psychological stress during childhood and adolescence and its association with inflammation across the lifespan: A critical review and meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Jessica J. Chiang, Phoebe H. Lam, Edith Chen, Gregory E. Miller
Psychological stress during childhood and adolescence increases risk of health problems across the lifecourse, and inflammation is implicated as an underlying mechanism. To evaluate the viability of this hypothesis, we used meta-analysis to quantify the association between childhood/adolescent stress and inflammation over the lifecourse. Furthermore, we addressed three unresolved conceptual questions:
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Which student and instructional variables are most strongly related to academic motivation in K-12 education? A systematic review of meta-analyses. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Thorben Jansen, Jennifer Meyer, Allan Wigfield, Jens Möller
Academic motivation is an essential predictor of school success in K-12 education. Accordingly, many meta-analyses have examined variables associated with academic motivation. However, a central question remains unanswered: What is the relative strength of the relations of both student variables (achievement, socioemotional variables, and background variables) and instructional variables (teacher variables
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Gross motor impairment and its relation to social skills in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and two meta-analyses. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Leah A. L. Wang, Victoria Petrulla, Casey J. Zampella, Rebecca Waller, Robert T. Schultz
Gross motor ability is associated with profound differences in how children experience and interact with their social world. A rapidly growing literature on motor development in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) indicates that autistic individuals exhibit impairment in gross motor skills. However, due to substantial heterogeneity across studies, it remains unclear which gross motor skills are impaired
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The sleep benefit in episodic memory: An integrative review and a meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-11
People recall more information after sleep than after an equally long period of wakefulness. This sleep benefit in episodic memory has been documented in almost a century of research. However, an integrative review of hypothesized underlying processes, a comprehensive quantification of the benefit, and a systematic investigation of potential moderators has been missing so far. Here, we address these
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The role of domain-specific and domain-general cognitive functions and skills in sports performance: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Anton Kalén, Elisa Bisagno, Lisa Musculus, Markus Raab, Alexandra Pérez-Ferreirós, A. Mark Williams, Duarte Araújo, Magnus Lindwall, Andreas Ivarsson
Cognition plays a key role in sports performance. This meta-analytic review synthesizes research that examined the relationship between cognitive functions, skills, and sports performance. We identified literature by searching Cochrane Library, APA PsycINFO, PubMed, and Web of Science. We included studies conducted on competitive athletes, assessed cognitive prerequisites, and included performance
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Visual attentional orienting by eye gaze: A meta-analytic review of the gaze-cueing effect. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Kate T. McKay, Sarah A. Grainger, Sarah P. Coundouris, Daniel P. Skorich, Louise H. Phillips, Julie D. Henry
Given limitations in the amount of visual information that a person can simultaneously process through to conscious perception, selective visual attention is necessary. Visual signals in the environment aid this selection process by triggering reflexive shifts of covert attention to locations of potential importance. One such signal appears to be others’ eye gaze. Indeed, a gaze-cueing effect, whereby
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Collaborative dishonesty: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Margarita Leib, Nils Köbis, Ivan Soraperra, Ori Weisel, Shaul Shalvi
Although dishonesty is often a social phenomenon, it is primarily studied in individual settings. However, people frequently collaborate and engage in mutual dishonest acts. We report the first meta-analysis on collaborative dishonesty, analyzing 87,771 decisions (21 behavioral tasks; k = 123; nparticipants = 10,923). We provide an overview of all tasks used to measure collaborative dishonesty, and
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Young people’s perceptions of their parents’ expectations and criticism are increasing over time: Implications for perfectionism. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Thomas Curran, Andrew P. Hill
Recent evidence demonstrates rising self-oriented, other-oriented, and socially prescribed perfectionism among young people from the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada (Curran & Hill, 2019). One reason why perfectionism is increasing may be that rising competitiveness and individualism are requiring parents to engage in anxious, overly involved, and/or overly controlling forms of parenting.
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Sleep deprivation and memory: Meta-analytic reviews of studies on sleep deprivation before and after learning. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Chloe R. Newbury, Rebecca Crowley, Kathleen Rastle, Jakke Tamminen
Research suggests that sleep deprivation both before and after encoding has a detrimental effect on memory for newly learned material. However, there is as yet no quantitative analyses of the size of these effects. We conducted two meta-analyses of studies published between 1970 and 2020 that investigated effects of total, acute sleep deprivation on memory (i.e., at least one full night of sleep deprivation):
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Depression and episodic memory across the adult lifespan: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Taylor A. James, Samuel Weiss-Cowie, Zachary Hopton, Paul Verhaeghen, Vonetta M. Dotson, Audrey Duarte
Episodic memory deficits have increasingly been recognized as a cognitive feature of depression. To quantify these deficits and determine how they are moderated by various tasks (e.g., stimulus valence) and participant (e.g., age, depression diagnosis) variables, we conducted a three-level meta-analysis on 995 effect sizes derived from 205 studies with 236 unique comparisons between depressive and
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Expertise in emotion: A scoping review and unifying framework for individual differences in the mental representation of emotional experience. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Katie Hoemann, Catie Nielson, Ashley Yuen, J. W. Gurera, Karen S. Quigley, Lisa Feldman Barrett
Expertise refers to outstanding skill or ability in a particular domain. In the domain of emotion, expertise refers to the observation that some people are better at a range of competencies related to understanding and experiencing emotions, and these competencies may help them lead healthier lives. These individual differences are represented by multiple constructs including emotional awareness, emotional
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The significance of early temperamental reactivity for children’s social competence with peers: A meta-analytic review and comparison with the role of early attachment. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Sarah K. Borowski, Ashley M. Groh, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg, Pasco Fearon, Glenn I. Roisman, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Brian E. Vaughn
Early temperamental reactivity and attachment security are key predictors of children’s social competence with peers. Leveraging meta-analytic evaluation of the significance of early attachment for social competence already available (Groh et al., 2014), this quantitative review examined the significance of early temperamental reactivity for social competence with peers and compared the strength of
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The etiologic, theory-based, ontogenetic hierarchical framework of alcohol use disorder: A translational systematic review of reviews. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Cassandra L. Boness, Ashley L. Watts, Kimberly N. Moeller, Kenneth J. Sher
Modern nosologies (e.g., International Classification of Diseases, 11th edition [ICD-11], Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition [DSM–5]) for alcohol use disorder (AUD) and dependence prioritize reliability and clinical presentation over etiology, resulting in a diagnosis that is not always strongly grounded in basic theory and research. Within these nosologies, DSM–5 AUD
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Gender, “masculinity,” and “femininity”: A meta-analytic review of gender differences in agency and communion. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Ning Hsu, Katie L. Badura, Daniel A. Newman, Mary Eve P. Speach
Agency and communion are gender-stereotypical traits, which were explicitly designed to capture desirable attributes of men and women, respectively. Whereas the existence of gender gaps in agency and communion is commonly known, it remains unknown what the average magnitude, stability (over time and developmental age), and variability (across cultures, sampling strategies, and measures) of these gender
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Dominance and prestige: Meta-analytic review of experimentally induced body position effects on behavioral, self-report, and physiological dependent variables. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Robert Körner,Lukas Röseler,Astrid Schütz,Brad J. Bushman
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Autobiographical memory impairments as a transdiagnostic feature of mental illness: A meta-analytic review of investigations into autobiographical memory specificity and overgenerality among people with psychiatric diagnoses. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Tom J. Barry, David J. Hallford, Keisuke Takano
Decades of research has examined the difficulty that people with psychiatric diagnoses have in recalling specific autobiographical memories of events that lasted less than a day. Instead, they seem to retrieve general events that have occurred many times or which occurred over longer periods of time, termed overgeneral memory. We present the first transdiagnostic meta-analysis of memory specificity/overgenerality
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Development of relationship satisfaction across the life span: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Janina Larissa Bühler, Samantha Krauss, Ulrich Orth
Previous research has not led to any agreement as to the normative trajectory of relationship satisfaction. In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we summarize the available evidence on development of relationship satisfaction, as a function of age and relationship duration. Data came from 165 independent samples including 165,039 participants. In the analyses, we examined cross-sectional information
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The sleep benefit in episodic memory: An integrative review and a meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Sabrina Berres,Edgar Erdfelder
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Familism values and adjustment among Hispanic/Latino individuals: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Karina M. Cahill,Kimberly A. Updegraff,José M. Causadias,Kevin M. Korous
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Paths to the light and dark sides of human nature: A meta-analytic review of the prosocial benefits of autonomy and the antisocial costs of control. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 James N. Donald,Emma L. Bradshaw,James H. Conigrave,Philip D. Parker,Lauren L. Byatt,Michael Noetel,Richard M. Ryan
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Chills in music: A systematic review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Rémi de Fleurian,Marcus T. Pearce
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When do students begin to think that one has to be either a “math person” or a “language person”? A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Sirui Wan,Fani Lauermann,Drew H. Bailey,Jacquelynne S. Eccles
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Structural and functional neural correlates of schizotypy: A systematic review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Emiliana Tonini,Yann Quidé,Manreena Kaur,Thomas J Whitford,Melissa J Green
Schizotypy refers to a multidimensional construct that spans a range of cognitive, behavioral, and personality features, representing liability to psychosis on a continuum between health and illness. Schizotypy has been associated with functional and structural brain alterations as potential intermediate phenotypes on the developmental path to psychosis. We scanned the literature between February 2019
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Advancing our understanding of psychological flow: A scoping review of conceptualizations, measurements, and applications. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Cameron Norsworthy,Ben Jackson,James A Dimmock
Research on psychological flow is well established, although criticisms remain regarding conceptual and measurement issues associated with the construct. This scoping review maps flow-related research across scientific disciplines, examining the conceptualization, measurement instruments, and outcomes of flow between 2012 and 2019. Across 236 sources that met the review criteria, 108 different flow-related
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Is loneliness in emerging adults increasing over time? A preregistered cross-temporal meta-analysis and systematic review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Susanne Buecker,Marcus Mund,Sandy Chwastek,Melina Sostmann,Maike Luhmann
Judged by the sheer amount of global media coverage, loneliness rates seem to be an increasingly urgent societal concern. From the late 1970s onward, the life experiences of emerging adults have been changing massively due to societal developments such as increased fragmentation of social relationships, greater mobility opportunities, and changes in communication due to technological innovations. These
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Digital interventions for the treatment of depression: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Isaac Moshe,Yannik Terhorst,Paula Philippi,Matthias Domhardt,Pim Cuijpers,Ioana Cristea,Laura Pulkki-Råback,Harald Baumeister,Lasse B Sander
The high global prevalence of depression, together with the recent acceleration of remote care owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, has prompted increased interest in the efficacy of digital interventions for the treatment of depression. We provide a summary of the latest evidence base for digital interventions in the treatment of depression based on the largest study sample to date. A systematic literature
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"The relationship between religiousness and health among sexual minorities: A meta-analysis": Correction to Lefevor et al. (2021). Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-01
Reports an error in "The relationship between religiousness and health among sexual minorities: A meta-analysis" by G. Tyler Lefevor, Edward B. Davis, Jaqueline Y. Paiz and Abigail C. P. Smack (Psychological Bulletin, Advanced Online Publication, Apr 01, 2021, np). In the article, there was an error in the calculation of the effect sizes from one study. The three effect sizes for Wolff et al. (2016)
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A meta-analysis of longitudinal peer influence effects in childhood and adolescence. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Matteo Giletta,Sophia Choukas-Bradley,Marlies Maes,Kathryn P Linthicum,Noel A Card,Mitchell J Prinstein
For decades, psychological research has examined the extent to which children's and adolescents' behavior is influenced by the behavior of their peers (i.e., peer influence effects). This review provides a comprehensive synthesis and meta-analysis of this vast field of psychological science, with a goal to quantify the magnitude of peer influence effects across a broad array of behaviors (externalizing
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The role of causal attributions in determining behavioral consequences: A meta-analysis from an intrapersonal attributional perspective in achievement contexts. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Laurent Brun,Pascal Pansu,Benoit Dompnier
A large body of research has documented Weiner's theory as it applies to achievement contexts, highlighting the role of the causal dimensions (locus of causality, stability, and controllability) as antecedents of specific emotional, cognitive, and behavioral reactions. The aim of this article is to address important, and as yet unanswered questions, by focusing on the relationship between these causal
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Toward a comprehensive and potentially cross-cultural model of why people engage in collective action: A quantitative research synthesis of four motivations and structural constraints. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Maximilian Agostini,Martijn van Zomeren
Sociopsychological theorizing and research on collective action (e.g., social protests) has mushroomed over the last decade, studying a wide variety of groups, contexts, and cultures. Through a quantitative research synthesis of four motivations for collective action (1,235 effects from 403 samples; total N = 123,707), we summarize and synthesize this body of research into the dual chamber model, a
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Superiority of external attentional focus for motor performance and learning: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Lee-Kuen Chua,Judith Jimenez-Diaz,Rebecca Lewthwaite,Taewon Kim,Gabriele Wulf
Considerable literature on the role of attentional focus in motor performance and learning has accumulated for over two decades. We report the results of comprehensive meta-analyses that address the impact of an external focus (EF, on intended movement effects) versus internal focus (IF, on movements of body parts) of attention on the performance and learning of motor skills. Values of effect sizes
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The visual environment and attention in decision making. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Jacob L Orquin,Erik S Lahm,Hrvoje Stojić
Visual attention is a fundamental aspect of most everyday decisions, and governments and companies spend vast resources competing for the attention of decision makers. In natural environments, choice options differ on a variety of visual factors, such as salience, position, or surface size. However, most decision theories ignore such visual factors, focusing on cognitive factors such as preferences
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The home math environment and math achievement: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Mia C Daucourt,Amy R Napoli,Jamie M Quinn,Sarah G Wood,Sara A Hart
Mathematical thinking is in high demand in the global market, but approximately 6 percent of school-age children across the globe experience math difficulties (Shalev et al., 2000). The home math environment (HME), which includes all math-related activities, attitudes, beliefs, expectations, and utterances in the home, may be associated with children's math development. To examine the relation between
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How experimental methods shaped views on human competence and rationality. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Tomás Lejarraga,Ralph Hertwig
Within just 7 years, behavioral decision research in psychology underwent a dramatic change: In 1967, Peterson and Beach (1967) reviewed more than 160 experiments concerned with people's statistical intuitions. Invoking the metaphor of the mind as an intuitive statistician, they concluded that "probability theory and statistics can be used as the basis for psychological models that integrate and account
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Beyond the toddler years: A meta-analysis of communicative abilities in siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-31 Emily J Roemer
Communication is a core challenge for individuals on the autism spectrum, and many autistic individuals experience challenges with language. Prospective studies of younger siblings of children with autism show that siblings not only have an increased likelihood of developing autism themselves, but that even siblings without an autism spectrum diagnosis are more likely to have a language delay as toddlers
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The link between narcissism and aggression: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-24 Sophie L Kjærvik,Brad J Bushman
This meta-analytic review examines the link between narcissism and aggression, and whether the link is stronger under provocation conditions. A total of 437 independent studies were located, which included 123,043 participants. Narcissism was related to both aggression (r = .26, [.24, .28]) and violence (r = .23, [.18, .27]). As expected, the narcissism-aggression link was stronger under provocation
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Effectiveness of cognitive stimulation for dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-24 Robin M T Cafferata,Ben Hicks,Claudia C von Bastian
Cognitive stimulation (CS) is a nonpharmacological intervention often involving group activities and social interaction used to treat cognitive declines in people with dementia. This preregistered systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the effectiveness of CS in producing benefits on cognition (primary outcome) and quality of life, activities of daily living, and psychological symptoms (secondary
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Together, everyone achieves more-or, less? An interdisciplinary meta-analysis on effort gains and losses in teams. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Ann-Kathrin Torka,Jens Mazei,Joachim Hüffmeier
This preregistered meta-analysis theoretically and empirically integrates the two research strands on effort gains and effort losses in teams. Theoretically, we built on Shepperd's (1993) framework of productivity loss in groups and Karau and Williams' (1993) Collective Effort model (CEM) and developed the Team member Effort Expenditure model (TEEM), an extended Expectancy × Value framework with the
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Relations between executive functions and academic outcomes in elementary school children: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Jamie A Spiegel,J Marc Goodrich,Brittany M Morris,Colleen M Osborne,Christopher J Lonigan
The primary goal of this study was to examine developmental patterns among the relations between components of executive function (EF; working memory [WM], inhibitory control, shifting), and academic outcomes (reading, mathematics, language) in elementary school-age children. These relations were examined within the context of the development of EF and of academic skills utilizing an extension of the
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Sex differences in verbal working memory: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Daniel Voyer,Jean Saint Aubin,Katelyn Altman,Genevieve Gallant
The present meta-analysis aimed to quantify sex differences in verbal working memory and to examine potential moderators of these differences. We examined 802 effect sizes from 478 samples in 284 studies in a multilevel meta-analysis. Results revealed a small overall female advantage (g = .028, 95% CI [.006, .050]). In the overall sample, results showed that sex differences differed across tasks. Specifically
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The relationship between religiousness and health among sexual minorities: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 G Tyler Lefevor,Edward B Davis,Jaqueline Y Paiz,Abigail C P Smack
[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 147(7) of Psychological Bulletin (see record 2022-08521-004). In the article, there was an error in the calculation of the effect sizes from one study. The three effect sizes for Wolff et al. (2016) listed in Table B1 of the online supplemental materials should have been "r = .09, r = -.02, r = -.05," rather than "r = -.18, r = .53
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Testing (quizzing) boosts classroom learning: A systematic and meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 22.4) Pub Date : 2021-03-08 Chunliang Yang,Liang Luo,Miguel A Vadillo,Rongjun Yu,David R Shanks
Over the last century hundreds of studies have demonstrated that testing is an effective intervention to enhance long-term retention of studied knowledge and facilitate mastery of new information, compared with restudying and many other learning strategies (e.g., concept mapping), a phenomenon termed the testing effect. How robust is this effect in applied settings beyond the laboratory? The current