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Flexible Cultural Learning Through Action Coordination. Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Mathieu Charbonneau,Arianna Curioni,Luke McEllin,James W A Strachan
The cultural transmission of technical know-how has proven vital to the success of our species. The broad diversity of learning contexts and social configurations, as well as the various kinds of coordinated interactions they involve, speaks to our capacity to flexibly adapt to and succeed in transmitting vital knowledge in various learning contexts. Although often recognized by ethnographers, the
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Group Formation and the Evolution of Human Social Organization. Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Carsten K W De Dreu,Jörg Gross,Angelo Romano
Humans operate in groups that are oftentimes nested in multilayered collectives such as work units within departments and companies, neighborhoods within cities, and regions within nation states. With psychological science mostly focusing on proximate reasons for individuals to join existing groups and how existing groups function, we still poorly understand why groups form ex nihilo, how groups evolve
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The Strengths and Weaknesses of Crowds to Address Global Problems. Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Stephen B Broomell,Clintin P Davis-Stober
Global climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the spread of misinformation on social media are just a handful of highly consequential problems affecting society. We argue that the rough contours of many societal problems can be framed within a "wisdom of crowds" perspective. Such a framing allows researchers to recast complex problems within a simple conceptual framework and leverage known results
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Homo temporus: Seasonal Cycles as a Fundamental Source of Variation in Human Psychology. Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Ian Hohm,Alexandra S Wormley,Mark Schaller,Michael E W Varnum
Many animal species exhibit seasonal changes in their physiology and behavior. Yet despite ample evidence that humans are also responsive to seasons, the impact of seasonal changes on human psychology is underappreciated relative to other sources of variation (e.g., personality, culture, development). This is unfortunate because seasonal variation has potentially profound conceptual, empirical, methodological
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What We Can Learn About Emotion by Talking With the Hadza. Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Katie Hoemann,Maria Gendron,Alyssa N Crittenden,Shani Msafiri Mangola,Endeko S Endeko,Èvelyne Dussault,Lisa Feldman Barrett,Batja Mesquita
Emotions are often thought of as internal mental states centering on individuals' subjective feelings and evaluations. This understanding is consistent with studies of emotion narratives, or the descriptions people give for experienced events that they regard as emotions. Yet these studies, and contemporary psychology more generally, often rely on observations of educated Europeans and European Americans
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The Impact of School Closures on Learning and Mental Health of Children: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic. Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Deni Mazrekaj,Kristof De Witte
To curb the spread of the coronavirus, almost all countries implemented nationwide school closures. Suddenly, students experienced a serious disruption to their school and social lives. In this article, we argue that psychological research offers crucial insights for guiding policy about school closures during crises. To this end, we review the existing literature on the impact of school closures during
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Challenges in Understanding Human-Algorithm Entanglement During Online Information Consumption. Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Stephan Lewandowsky,Ronald E Robertson,Renee DiResta
Most content consumed online is curated by proprietary algorithms deployed by social media platforms and search engines. In this article, we explore the interplay between these algorithms and human agency. Specifically, we consider the extent of entanglement or coupling between humans and algorithms along a continuum from implicit to explicit demand. We emphasize that the interactions people have with
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Stumbling Blocks in the Investigation of the Relationship Between Age-Related Hearing Loss and Cognitive Impairment. Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Tetsuya Asakawa,Yunfeng Yang,Zhenxu Xiao,Yirong Shi,Wei Qin,Zhen Hong,Ding Ding
The relationship between age-related hearing loss (ARHL) and cognitive impairment (CI) remains intricate. However, there is no robust evidence from experimental or clinical studies to elucidate their relationship. The key unaddressed questions are (a) whether there is a causal effect of ARHL on CI and (b) whether efficacious treatment of ARHL (such as hearing-aid use) ameliorates CI and dementia-related
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Interpersonal Distance Theory of Autism and Its Implication for Cognitive Assessment, Therapy, and Daily Life. Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Kinga Farkas,Orsolya Pesthy,Karolina Janacsek,Dezső Németh
The interpersonal distance (IPD) theory provides a novel approach to studying autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In this article, we present recent findings on the neurobiological underpinnings of IPD regulation that are distinct in individuals with ASD. We also discuss the potential influence of environmental factors on IPD. We suggest that different IPD regulation may have implications for cognitive
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Hits and Misses: Digital Contact Tracing in a Pandemic. Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Maryanne Garry,Rachel Zajac,Lorraine Hope,Marcel Salathé,Linda Levine,Thomas A Merritt
Traditional contact tracing is one of the most powerful weapons people have in the battle against a pandemic, especially when vaccines do not yet exist or do not afford complete protection from infection. But the effectiveness of contact tracing hinges on its ability to find infected people quickly and obtain accurate information from them. Therefore, contact tracing inherits the challenges associated
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The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes. Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Sebastian Olschewski,Ashley Luckman,Alice Mason,Elliot A Ludvig,Emmanouil Konstantinidis
In many important real-world decision domains, such as finance, the environment, and health, behavior is strongly influenced by experience. Renewed interest in studying this influence led to important advancements in the understanding of these decisions from experience (DfE) in the last 20 years. Building on this literature, we suggest ways the standard experimental design should be extended to better
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Multiple Memory Subsystems: Reconsidering Memory in the Mind and Brain. Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Brynn E Sherman,Nicholas B Turk-Browne,Elizabeth V Goldfarb
The multiple-memory-systems framework-that distinct types of memory are supported by distinct brain systems-has guided learning and memory research for decades. However, recent work challenges the one-to-one mapping between brain structures and memory types central to this taxonomy, with key memory-related structures supporting multiple functions across substructures. Here we integrate cross-species
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Cooperation in the Time of COVID. Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Jade Butterworth,David Smerdon,Roy Baumeister,William von Hippel
Humans evolved to be hyper-cooperative, particularly when among people who are well known to them, when relationships involve reciprocal helping opportunities, and when the costs to the helper are substantially less than the benefits to the recipient. Because humans' cooperative nature evolved over many millennia when they lived exclusively in small groups, factors that cause cooperation to break down
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Worldwide Well-Being: Simulated Twins Reveal Genetic and (Hidden) Environmental Influences. Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Espen Røysamb,Terrie E Moffitt,Avshalom Caspi,Eivind Ystrøm,Ragnhild Bang Nes
What are the major sources of worldwide variability in subjective well-being (SWB)? Twin and family studies of SWB have found substantial heritability and strong effects from unique environments but virtually no effects from shared environments. However, extant findings are not necessarily valid at the global level. Prior studies have examined within-countries variability but did not take into account
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Maintaining Transient Diversity Is a General Principle for Improving Collective Problem Solving. Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Paul E Smaldino,Cody Moser,Alejandro Pérez Velilla,Mikkel Werling
Humans regularly solve complex problems in cooperative teams. A wide range of mechanisms have been identified that improve the quality of solutions achieved by those teams on reaching consensus. We argue that many of these mechanisms work via increasing the transient diversity of solutions while the group attempts to reach a consensus. These mechanisms can operate at the level of individual psychology
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How Do Expectations Modulate Pain? A Motivational Perspective. Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Tao Liu,Cui-Ping Yu
Expectations can profoundly modulate pain experience, during which the periaqueductal gray (PAG) plays a pivotal role. In this article, we focus on motivationally evoked neural activations in cortical and brainstem regions both before and during stimulus administration, as has been demonstrated by experimental studies on pain-modulatory effects of expectations, in the hope of unraveling how the PAG
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Religion/Spirituality, Stress, and Resilience Among Sexual and Gender Minorities: The Religious/Spiritual Stress and Resilience Model. Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 G Tyler Lefevor,Chana Etengoff,Edward B Davis,Samuel J Skidmore,Eric M Rodriguez,James S McGraw,Sharon S Rostosky
Although many sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) consider themselves religious or spiritual, the impact of this religiousness or spirituality (RS) on their health is poorly understood. We introduce the religious/spiritual stress and resilience model (RSSR) to provide a robust framework for understanding the variegated ways that RS influences the health of SGMs. The RSSR bridges existing theorizing
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For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect. Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Cynthia P May,Lynn Hasher,Karl Healey
Circadian rhythms are powerful timekeepers that drive physiological and intellectual functioning throughout the day. These rhythms vary across individuals, with morning chronotypes rising and peaking early in the day and evening chronotypes showing a later rise in arousal, with peaks in the afternoon or evening. Chronotype also varies with age from childhood to adolescence to old age. As a result of
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Managing Fear During Pandemics: Risks and Opportunities. Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Gaëtan Mertens,Iris M Engelhard,Derek M Novacek,Richard J McNally
Fear is an emotion triggered by the perception of danger and motivates safety behaviors. Within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were ample danger cues (e.g., images of patients on ventilators) and a high need for people to use appropriate safety behaviors (e.g., social distancing). Given this central role of fear within the context of a pandemic, it is important to review some of the emerging
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Assessing Autism in Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Youths: Interdisciplinary Teams, COVID Considerations, and Future Directions. Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Tyler C McFayden,Shannon Culbertson,Margaret DeRamus,Christine Kramer,Jackson Roush,Jean Mankowski
Autism spectrum disorders are more prevalent in children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (D/HH) than in the general population. This potential for diagnostic overlap underscores the importance of understanding the best approaches for assessing autism spectrum disorder in D/HH youths. Despite the recognition of clinical significance, youths who are D/HH are often identified as autistic later than individuals
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The Longitudinal Relationship Between Parenting and Self-Control Needs Reconsideration: A Commentary on Li et al. (2019). Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Cheng Chen,Junhua Dang
The relationship between parenting and self-control has received much attention from social and developmental psychologists. In a meta-analytic review, Li et al. (2019) identified a longitudinal association between parenting and subsequent self-control (P → SC) of r = .157, p < .001, and a longitudinal association between adolescent self-control and subsequent parenting (SC → P) of r = .155, p < .001
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Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Aileen Oeberst, Roland Imhoff
One of the essential insights from psychological research is that people’s information processing is often biased. By now, a number of different biases have been identified and empirically demonstr...
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Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 David A. Moscovitch, Morris Moscovitch, Signy Sheldon
Negative schemas lie at the core of many common and debilitating mental disorders. Thus, intervention scientists and clinicians have long recognized the importance of designing effective interventi...
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(Why) Is Misinformation a Problem? Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Zoë Adams, Magda Osman, Christos Bechlivanidis, Björn Meder
In the last decade there has been a proliferation of research on misinformation. One important aspect of this work that receives less attention than it should is exactly why misinformation is a pro...
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Is It the Judge, the Sender, or Just the Individual Message? Disentangling Person and Message Effects on Variation in Lie-Detection Judgments Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Sarah Volz, Marc-André Reinhard, Patrick Müller
Research suggests that people differ more in their ability to lie than in their ability to detect lies. However, because studies have not treated senders and messages as separate entities, it is un...
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The Willpower Paradox: Possible and Impossible Conceptions of Self-Control Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Thomas Goschke, Veronika Job
Self-control denotes the ability to override current desires to render behavior consistent with long-term goals. A key assumption is that self-control is required when short-term desires are transi...
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Positionality and Its Problems: Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Jukka Savolainen, Patrick J. Casey, Justin P. McBrayer, Patricia Nayna Schwerdtle
There has been a remarkable push for the use of positionality statements—also known as reflexivity statements—in scientific-journal articles and other research literatures. Grounded in reputable ph...
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Four Misconceptions About Nonverbal Communication Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Miles L. Patterson, Alan J. Fridlund, Carlos Crivelli
Research and theory in nonverbal communication have made great advances toward understanding the patterns and functions of nonverbal behavior in social settings. Progress has been hindered, we argu...
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Psychology’s Contributions to Anti-Blackness in the United States Within Psychological Research, Criminal Justice, and Mental Health Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Evan Auguste, Molly Bowdring, Steven W. Kasparek, Jeanne McPhee, Alexandra R. Tabachnick, Irene Tung, Scholars for Elevating Equity and Diversity (SEED), Chardée A. Galán
The mass incarceration of Black people in the United States is gaining attention as a public-health crisis with extreme mental-health implications. Although it is well documented that historical ef...
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Does Electrophysiological Maturation Shape Language Acquisition? Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Katharina H. Menn, Claudia Männel, Lars Meyer
Infants master temporal patterns of their native language at a developmental trajectory from slow to fast: Shortly after birth, they recognize the slow acoustic modulations specific to their native...
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Why We Gather: A New Look, Empirically Documented, at Émile Durkheim’s Theory of Collective Assemblies and Collective Effervescence Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Bernard Rimé, Dario Páez
For Durkheim, individuals’ survival and well-being rest on cultural resources and social belonging that must be revived periodically in collective assemblies. Durkheim’s concern was to clarify how ...
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Adjusting for Baseline Measurements of the Mediators and Outcome as a First Step Toward Eliminating Confounding Biases in Mediation Analysis Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Wen Wei Loh, Dongning Ren
Mediation analysis prevails for researchers probing the etiological mechanisms through which treatment affects an outcome. A central challenge of mediation analysis is justifying sufficient baselin...
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Research-Problem Validity in Primary Research: Precision and Transparency in Characterizing Past Knowledge Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Martin Schweinsberg, Stefan Thau, Madan Pillutla
Four validity types evaluate the approximate truth of inferences communicated by primary research. However, current validity frameworks ignore the truthfulness of empirical inferences that are cent...
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Inaccuracy in the Scientific Record and Open Postpublication Critique Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Chris R. Brewin
There is growing evidence that the published psychological literature is marred by multiple errors and inaccuracies and often fails to reflect the changing nature of the knowledge base. At least fo...
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Placebo and Nocebo Effects as Bayesian-Brain Phenomena: The Overlooked Role of Likelihood and Attention Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Francesco Pagnini, Diletta Barbiani, Cesare Cavalera, Eleanora Volpato, Francesca Grosso, Giacomo Andrea Minazzi, Francesco Vailati Riboni, Francesca Graziano, Sonia Di Tella, Gian Mauro Manzoni, Maria Caterina Silveri, Giuseppe Riva, Deborah Phillips
The Bayesian-brain framework applied to placebo responses and other mind–body interactions suggests that the effects on the body result from the interaction between priors, such as expectations and...
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Music in the Middle: A Culture-Cognition-Mediator Model of Musical Functionality Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Noah R. Fram
Music is both universal, appearing in every known human culture, and culture-specific, often defying intelligibility across cultural boundaries. This duality has been the source of debate within th...
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Mnemicity: A Cognitive Gadget? Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Johannes B. Mahr, Penny van Bergen, John Sutton, Daniel L. Schacter, Cecilia Heyes
Episodic representations can be entertained either as “remembered” or “imagined”—as outcomes of experience or as simulations of such experience. Here, we argue that this feature is the product of a...
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Enriching Psychology by Zooming Out to General Mindsets and Practices in Natural Habitats Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Evert Van de Vliert, Lucian G. Conway, III, Paul A. M. Van Lange
Psychology has been “zooming in” on individuals, dyads, and groups with a narrow lens to the exclusion of “zooming out,” which involves placing the targeted phenomena within more distal layers of i...
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Interactionally Embedded Gestalt Principles of Multimodal Human Communication Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 James P. Trujillo, Judith Holler
Natural human interaction requires us to produce and process many different signals, including speech, hand and head gestures, and facial expressions. These communicative signals, which occur in a ...
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Clarifying Eudaimonia and Psychological Functioning to Complement Evaluative and Experiential Well-Being: Why Basic Psychological Needs Should Be Measured in National Accounts of Well-Being Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Frank Martela, Richard M. Ryan
Measuring subjective well-being as a key indicator of national wellness has increasingly become part of the international agenda. Current recommendations for measuring well-being at a national leve...
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Coping or Thriving? Reviewing Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Societal Factors Associated With Well-Being in Singlehood From a Within-Group Perspective Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Yuthika U. Girme, Yoobin Park, Geoff MacDonald
Singlehood, defined as not being in a romantic relationship, is becoming increasingly common worldwide. Despite this, research on singlehood has not received remotely equivalent research attention ...
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Rejoinder to Commentaries on Woo et al. (2022) Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Sang Eun Woo, Melissa G. Keith, Louis Tay, James M. LeBreton
In this rejoinder, we discuss several areas of agreement as well as some noteworthy divergence in perspectives that are worth exploring further. We also note a few areas where immediate clarificati...
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A Call to Action on Assessing and Mitigating Bias in Artificial Intelligence Applications for Mental Health Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Adela C. Timmons, Jacqueline B. Duong, Natalia Simo Fiallo, Theodore Lee, Huong Phuc Quynh Vo, Matthew W. Ahle, Jonathan S. Comer, LaPrincess C. Brewer, Stacy L. Frazier, Theodora Chaspari
Advances in computer science and data-analytic methods are driving a new era in mental health research and application. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies hold the potential to enhance the a...
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Is Open Science Neoliberal? Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Duygu Uygun Tunç, Mehmet Necip Tunç, Ziya Batuhan Eper
The scientific-reform movement, frequently referred to as open science, has the potential to substantially reshape the nature of the scientific activity. For this reason, its sociopolitical anteced...
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A New Way to Think About Internal and External Validity Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 David Trafimow
Researchers have been concerned with internal and external validity for decades, and the discussion continues. The present proposal is that there are less important and more important senses in whi...
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The Role of Subjective Expectations for Exhaustion and Recovery: The Sample Case of Work and Leisure Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Victoria Schüttengruber, Alexandra M. Freund
We propose a new model of exhaustion and recovery that posits that people evaluate an activity as exhausting or recovering on the basis of the subjective expectation about how exhausting or recover...
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An Ethics and Social-Justice Approach to Collecting and Using Demographic Data for Psychological Researchers Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Christine C. Call, Kristen L. Eckstrand, Steven W. Kasparek, Cassandra L. Boness, Lorraine Blatt, Nabila Jamal-Orozco, Derek M. Novacek, Dan Foti, Scholars for Elevating Equity and Diversity (SEED)
The collection and use of demographic data in psychological sciences has the potential to aid in transforming inequities brought about by unjust social conditions toward equity. However, many curre...
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Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson's (2021) Observations on the "Microaggressions Pushback". Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Keon West
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Clinical Psychologists as T-Shaped Professionals Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Michael Vriesman, Jasmine Dhuga, Leah LaLonde, Efthymia Orkopoulou, Caroline Lucy, Tatum Teeple, Jessica Good, Alexandros Maragakis
The modern world is becoming increasingly integrated, and disciplines are frequently collaborating with each other. Following this trend, clinical psychologists are also often working within multid...
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Improving the Generalizability of Behavioral Science by Using Reality Checks: A Tool for Assessing Heterogeneity in Participants’ Consumership of Study Stimuli Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Evan Polman, Sam J. Maglio
In attempting to draw bigger conclusions, researchers in psychology open their labs to more diverse groups of people. Yet even the most far-reaching theories must be tested with specific stimuli, m...
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A Review of Multisite Replication Projects in Social Psychology: Is It Viable to Sustain Any Confidence in Social Psychology’s Knowledge Base? Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Roy F. Baumeister, Dianne M. Tice, Brad J. Bushman
Multisite (multilab/many-lab) replications have emerged as a popular way of verifying prior research findings, but their record in social psychology has prompted distrust of the field and a sense o...
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Climate Change and Substance-Use Behaviors: A Risk-Pathways Framework Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Francis Vergunst, Helen L. Berry, Kelton Minor, Nicholas Chadi
Climate change is undermining the mental and physical health of global populations, but the question of how it is affecting substance-use behaviors has not been systematically examined. In this nar...
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The WEIRD Microcosm of Microaggression Research: Toward a Cultural-Psychological Approach Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Karim Bettache
Microaggression research has made great strides over the past decade while steadily pushing itself into mainstream psychological science. Yet the field remains firmly situated within the Western, e...
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Microaggressions in Context: Linguistic and Pragmatic Perspectives Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Thomas Holtgraves
In this commentary I provide a review of the microaggression construct within a linguistic-pragmatic framework. From this perspective, microaggressions can be viewed as nonconventional indirect spe...
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The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Elisa S. M. Fattoracci, Danielle D. King
The special issue on microaggressions highlighted how subtle interpersonal bias is complex, harms its targets, and reinforces established systems of inequity. The aim of this commentary is to contr...
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Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Zhicheng Lin, Ningxi Li
Discourse on gender diversity tends to overlook differences across levels of hierarchy (e.g., students, faculty, and editors) and critical dimensions (e.g., subdisciplines and geographical location...
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Reasons to Remain Critical About the Literature on Habits: A Commentary on Wood et al. (2022) Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Jan De Houwer, Eike K. Buabang, Yannick Boddez, Massimo Köster, Agnes Moors
Wood et al. (2022) reviewed arguments in support of the idea that much of human behavior is habitual. In this commentary, we first point at ambiguities in the way Wood et al. referred to habits. Th...
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Surprise as an Emotion: A Response to Ortony Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Maital Neta, M. Justin Kim
We write in response to an article published in this journal by Andrew Ortony titled “Are All ‘Basic Emotions’ Emotions? A Problem for the (Basic) Emotions Construct.” The author claimed that “for ...
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Self-Prioritization Reconsidered: Scrutinizing Three Claims Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Marius Golubickis, C. Neil Macrae
Such is the power of self-relevance, it has been argued that even arbitrary stimuli (e.g., shapes, lines, colors) with no prior personal connection are privileged during information processing foll...
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Improving Scale Equivalence by Increasing Access to Scale-Specific Information Perspect. Psychol. Sci. (IF 12.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Alicia B. W. Clifton, Alexander G. Stahlmann, Jennifer Hofmann, Alice Chirico, Rive Cadwallader, Jeremy D. W. Clifton
Measures of the same phenomenon should produce the same results; this principle is fundamental because it allows for replication—the basis of science. Unfortunately, measures of a psychological con...