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The Wobbly Bits of Development: Variability, Fluctuations, and Synchrony as Temporal Markers Linking Temperament and Psychopathology Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2025-03-31
Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Kelley E. Gunther, Alicia ValloraniTemperament traits are early appearing and relatively stable phenotypic profiles of behavior that are present across space and time. This definition invariably reflects the timescale imposed when gathering repeated measures of our variables of interest and our reliance on aggregate, mean-level values. However, if the timescale of observations is shortened and the frequency of observations is increased
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The symbiosis of narcissistic leaders and low-self-esteem followers: Dominance complementarity in childhood. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2025-03-27
Barbara Nevicka,Sarah M van den Hee,Mariëlle van Loenen,Eddie BrummelmanNarcissistic leaders are on the rise globally. Although research has documented the harmful consequences of narcissistic leadership, little is known about the interplay between narcissistic leaders and their followers. Building on the dominance-complementarity theory, we theorized that the dominance and confidence of narcissistic leaders would match well with the submissiveness and insecurity of followers
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Reconciling Jekyll and Hyde: The future of masculinity research within the domestic violent extremism context. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2025-03-27
Sam T Hunter,Brett H Neely,Carter Welch,Amanda N MoellerViolence among young men in the United States has escalated in recent years, leading to two contrasting perspectives of young men-either as (a) agentic aggressors or (b) by-products of societal shifts that have caused disadvantage. The first perspective characterizes men as entitled and reactionary, prone to aggression when their societal expectations are unmet. This view aligns with the frustration-aggression
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Cognitive disengagement syndrome: A construct at the crossroads. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2025-03-27
Stephen P BeckerInitially described in the mid-1980s, cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS; previously termed sluggish cognitive tempo) is a set of symptoms comprising excessive daydreaming, mental confusion, and hypoactivity that is distinct from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and other psychopathology dimensions and independently associated with functional outcomes. This article provides a broad overview
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Cumulative social advantage across the lifespan: Examining the convergent and predictive validity of a multidimensional hierarchical construct for health and longevity. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2025-03-27
Anthony D Ong,Frank D MannThis study introduces the concept of cumulative social advantage as a hierarchical construct encompassing multiple aspects of social connection, including religious, psychosocial, familial, and emotional dimensions. Using data from the Midlife Development in the United States-II (n = 4,028) and Refresher (n = 2,586) cohorts, we assessed the dimensionality, replicability, measurement invariance, and
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Racism and resilience in daily life: A psychosocial, cultural, and neurobiological model of daily resilience among ethnically and racially minoritized young people. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2025-03-27
Yijie Wang,Youchuan Zhang,Daeun Kim,Elizabeth JelsmaAdolescents and emerging adults from ethnically and racially minoritized groups are at increased risk for racism and discrimination but also demonstrate remarkable strengths and resilience. Recent research has increasingly focused on understanding how resilience factors benefit these young people's well-being as they navigate daily exposure to racism, using intensive longitudinal methods like daily
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What is awe? On an uncontested definition, conceptual ambiguities, and cultural limitations. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2025-03-27
Tini L C Katz,David J FranzIn the last 20 years, there has been an enormous amount of research on awe and its associations with other phenomena. In this article, we draw on N = 168 publications to argue that it is very difficult to integrate this research into a coherent theory of awe because current awe research lacks a reasonably clear understanding of the phenomenon. In detail, we show that the majority of publications on
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Understanding and combating human trafficking: A psychological perspective. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2025-03-24
Nancy M SidunHuman trafficking is a global crisis that represents one of the gravest violations of human rights and dignity in modern times. Defined by international and U.S. frameworks, trafficking involves the exploitation of individuals through fraud, force, or coercion for purposes such as labor, sexual exploitation, or organ harvesting. Psychology provides a unique lens to understand, prevent, and address
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Social norm strength and norm change Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2025-03-22
Aron Szekely, Luca Tummolini, Eva Vriens, Giulia AndrighettoSocial norms vary both in terms of their contents (e.g. don't talk to strangers, help the needy) and their strength. While most research focuses on the former, increasing evidence points to the relevance of the latter for norm change. Despite this potential, existing knowledge about norm strength is siloed into “macro” and “micro” perspectives, with the former studying aggregations of norms and the
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Beliefs about perception shape perceptual inference: An ideal observer model of detection. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2025-03-20
Matan Mazor,Rani Moran,Clare PressAccording to Bayesian, "inverse optics" accounts of vision, perceiving is inferring the most likely state of the world given noisy sensory data. This inference depends not only on prior beliefs about the world but also on an internal model specifying how world states translate to visual sensations. Alternative accounts explain perceptual decisions as a rule-based process, with no role for such beliefs
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Nurture and nonshared environment in cognitive development. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2025-03-20
Robert Plomin,Kaito KawakamiBehavioral genetic research has demonstrated that shared genetics, not shared environment, makes adults who grew up in the same family similar in personality and psychopathology. The same research affirms the importance of the environment but shows that salient environmental influences in adulthood are not shared by family members; they are unique to the individual. Cognitive traits such as cognitive
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Philosophical Insights for a Science of Long-Term Affect Dynamics Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-03-18
Raamy MajeedEmotions in scientific research are typically portrayed as short-lived responses or dispositions to manifest such responses. Some philosophers have argued that this fails to capture long-term emotions (e.g., love, hate, and grief). This article examines whether the emerging field of affect dynamics (or emotion dynamics), which studies how emotions fluctuate over time, can address the philosophical
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The Development of Dance in Early Childhood Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2025-03-14
Laura K. Cirelli, Haley E. KragnessDancing to music is prevalent across human cultures. It is also developmentally precocious—most children display dance-like behaviors before their first birthday. This early emergence precedes a long maturational trajectory with broad individual differences. Here, we survey recent research on dance in infancy and childhood. We propose that investigating early musical movements is useful for understanding
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The Link Between Companion Dogs, Human Fertility Rates, and Social Networks Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2025-03-14
Eniko KubinyiThe number of dogs in Western countries has increased over the past 2 decades, whereas the number of children has remained stable or decreased. Many dog owners, including those with children, say that their pets are more important to them than any human. Presumably, the declining fertility rates contribute to the increasing value of dogs in the lives of people, and dogs fill an empty niche. The companion-dog
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A Person-Specific Emotion Regulation Flexibility Framework: Taking an Integrative Approach Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-03-14
Kiran Kaur, Monika Lohani, Paula Williams, Anu AsnaaniDespite advances in understanding emotion regulation (ER) flexibility (e.g., flexibly using ER strategies to meet situational demands), there is heterogeneity in conceptualizations. To address this, we provide a unifying operationalization for ER flexibility and a person-specific ER flexibility framework. We define ER flexibility as the ability to continuously monitor the effectiveness of chosen ER
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Adjusting for nonrepresentativeness in continuous norming using multilevel regression and poststratification. Psychological Methods (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-13
Klazien de Vries,Marieke E Timmerman,Anja F Ernst,Casper J AlbersIn psychological test norming, nonrepresentativeness in background variables in the normative sample can lead to bias in the normed score estimates. Because representativeness is difficult to establish in practice, adjustment methods are needed to combat this bias. As a candidate adjustment method, we investigated generalized additive models for location, scale, and shape with multilevel regression
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Ambiguity and Reentrant Processing in Object Detection Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2025-03-13
Mary A. PetersonMany scientists continue to conceive of object detection as occurring in stages that map onto levels in the visual hierarchy. This article reviews experiments suggesting that multiple interpretations and their semantics are activated at high levels before conscious object detection. That more than one interpretation is activated before object detection implies that ambiguity (and not just uncertainty)
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Corrigendum to “How men react to women's presence: A review and an agenda to expand team gender diversity research” [Curr Opin Psychol 60 (2024) 101911] Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2025-03-13
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Optimizing psychological treatments for pediatric chronic pain to enhance outcomes, availability, and accessibility Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2025-03-13
Melissa Pielech, Emily A. Beckmann, Hailey DorsainvilAlthough the evidence-base for psychological treatments for pediatric chronic pain (CP) is promising, the rigor and quality of existing studies remains variable and psychological treatments for pediatric CP are often inaccessible to youth that may benefit. Persistence in the rates and devastating impact of chronic pain for children and adolescents suggests a need to improve both the quality and availability
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Mutuality between connection to community and connection to nature in intentional communities Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2025-03-13
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Casting a Wider Net: Using Automated Content Analysis to Discover New Ideas Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2025-03-12
Jonah Berger, Stijn M. J. van Osselaer, Chris JaniszewskiPsychology has made great strides in how researchers collect, analyze, and report data, but there has been less attention to improving hypothesis generation. Some researchers still rely on intuition, serendipitous observations, or a limited reading of the literature to come up with a single idea about a relationship between constructs. Although this approach has led to valuable insights, it can constrain
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Contradictions at the Heart of Compassion Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-03-12
Corey G. SteinerI argue that compassion entails the experience of feelings that lie in tension with one another. Specifically, I argue that to be compassionate is to simultaneously identify with and feel separated from the regarded individual, and it is to feel empowered in being needed while also feeling powerless to prevent the other's suffering. Previous studies have typically only emphasized one side or the other
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Editorial Overview: Cognitive biases and influence strategies in mental health research Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2025-03-11
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Unsupervised [randomly responding] survey bot detection: In search of high classification accuracy. Psychological Methods (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-10
Carl F Falk,Amaris Huang,Michael John IlaganWhile online survey data collection has become popular in the social sciences, there is a risk of data contamination by computer-generated random responses (i.e., bots). Bot prevalence poses a significant threat to data quality. If deterrence efforts fail or were not set up in advance, researchers can still attempt to detect bots already present in the data. In this research, we study a recently developed
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Plant behavior: Theoretical and technological advances Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2025-03-08
Margherita Bianchi, Sara Avesani, Bianca Bonato, Marco Dadda, Silvia Guerra, Laura Ravazzolo, Valentina Simonetti, Umberto CastielloThe widespread disregard for plant behavior is gradually being overcome through more inclusive theoretical approaches and the development of appropriate and advanced technologies.
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Psychological violence and psychological bullying among children in sports: A systematic review Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2025-03-07
Tiphaine Clerincx, Hebe Schaillée, Ramón SpaaijPsychologically violent behavior among children in sports is often studied within two separate silos: psychological violence (PV) and psychological bullying. This division has resulted in largely isolated fields of research and intervention. Examining the operationalization of both PV and psychological bullying together can contribute to the development of more comprehensive interventions for preventing
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A tutorial on estimating dynamic treatment regimes from observational longitudinal data using lavaan. Psychological Methods (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-06
Wen Wei Loh,Terrence D JorgensenPsychological and behavioral scientists develop interventions toward addressing pressing societal challenges. But such endeavors are complicated by treatments that change over time as individuals' needs and responses evolve. For instance, students initially in a multiyear mentoring program to improve future academic outcomes may not continue with the program after interim school engagement improves
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Human behaviour through a LENS: How linguistic content triggers emotions and norms and determines strategy choices Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2025-03-06
Valerio CapraroA growing body of experimental research provides evidence that linguistic frames influence human behaviour in economic games, beyond the economic consequences of the available actions. This article proposes a novel framework that moves beyond traditional outcome-based preference models. According to the LENS model, the Linguistic description of the decision problem triggers Emotional responses and
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Ethical practice in the majority world: A framework for psychotherapists trained in the minority world. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2025-03-03
Yiheng ZhouTherapists trained in the minority world with Western psychological models often face significant ethical dilemmas when returning to practice in the majority world contexts, where cultural norms and systemic conditions may differ significantly from their training environments. Without a critical lens and intentional decolonization efforts, well-intentioned practices can inadvertently reimpose colonial
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Yes stormtrooper, these are the droids you are looking for: Identifying and preliminarily evaluating bot and fraud detection strategies in online psychological research. Psychological Methods (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-03
Thomas J Shaw,Cory J Cascalheira,Emily C Helminen,Cal D Brisbin,Skyler D Jackson,Melissa Simone,Tami P Sullivan,Abigail W Batchelder,Jillian R ScheerBots (i.e., automated software programs that perform various tasks) and fraudulent responders pose a growing and costly threat to psychological research as well as affect data integrity. However, few studies have been published on this topic. (a) Describe our experience with bots and fraudulent responders using a case study, (b) present various bot and fraud detection tactics (BFDTs) and identify the
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Experiments in daily life: When causal within-person effects do (not) translate into between-person differences. Psychological Methods (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-03
Andreas B Neubauer,Peter Koval,Michael J Zyphur,Ellen L HamakerIntensive longitudinal designs allow researchers to study the dynamics of psychological processes in daily life. Yet, because these methods are usually observational, they do not allow strong causal inferences. A promising solution is to incorporate (micro-)randomized interventions within intensive longitudinal designs to uncover within-person (Wp) causal effects. However, it remains unclear whether
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Iterated community detection in psychological networks. Psychological Methods (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-03
M A Werner,J de Ron,E I Fried,D J RobinaughPsychological network models often feature communities: subsets of nodes that are more densely connected to themselves than to other nodes. The Spinglass algorithm is a popular method of detecting communities within a network, but it is a nondeterministic algorithm, meaning that the results can vary from one iteration to the next. There is no established method for determining the optimal solution
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Impact of temporal order selection on clustering intensive longitudinal data based on vector autoregressive models. Psychological Methods (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-03
Yaqi Li,Hairong Song,Bertus JeronimusWhen multivariate intensive longitudinal data are collected from a sample of individuals, the model-based clustering (e.g., vector autoregressive [VAR] based) approach can be used to cluster the individuals based on the (dis)similarity of their person-specific dynamics of the studied processes. To implement such clustering procedures, one needs to set the temporal order to be identical for all individuals;
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Unidim: An index of scale homogeneity and unidimensionality. Psychological Methods (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-03
William Revelle,David CondonHow to evaluate how well a psychological scale measures just one construct is a recurring problem in assessment. We introduce an index, u, of the unidimensionality and homogeneity of a scale. u is just the product of two other indices: τ (a measure of τ equivalence) and ρc (a measure of congeneric fit). By combining these two indices into one, we provide a simple index of the unidimensionality and
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Cognitive and neural mechanisms of linguistic influence on perception. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2025-03-03
Ksenija Slivac,Peter Hagoort,Monique FleckenTo date, research has reliably shown that language can engage and modify perceptual processes in a top-down manner. However, our understanding of the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying such top-down influences is still under debate. In this review, we provide an overview of findings from literature investigating the organization of semantic networks in the brain (spontaneous engagement of the
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Structuring hierarchy concepts: Evaluating measures of power, status, dominance, and prestige on the basis of an integrative model and systematic literature review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-03-01
Robert Körner,Jennifer R Overbeck,Astrid SchützResearch on social hierarchy is flourishing. Often, researchers employ self- or peer-report measures to assess variables such as power or dominance. One drawback of studies in this line of research is that researchers use different scales to measure the same constructs and different researchers use the same scale but aim to measure different constructs. Moreover, hierarchy concepts have been used interchangeably
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Social class and prosociality: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-03-01
Junhui Wu,Daniel Balliet,Mingliang Yuan,Wenqi Li,Yanyan Chen,Shuxian Jin,Shenghua Luan,Paul A M Van LangeTwo theoretical perspectives (i.e., the risk management perspective and the resource perspective) offer competing predictions that higher class individuals-relative to lower class individuals-tend to be less versus more prosocial, respectively. Different predictions can also be drawn from each perspective about how the class-prosociality association varies across sociocultural contexts. To date, each
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Nature-focused livestreams: Connecting people to nature and to each other Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2025-03-01
Keith A. Anderson, Rebecca L. Mauldin, M. Christine Highfill, Donna Schuman, Stephanie HendersonEngaging with nature has been found to have a range of benefits across the biopsychosocial and spiritual domains of well-being. Nature-focused livestreams (NFLs) offer an alternative to physically engaging with nature and serve as a window to nature as society has become more urbanized and has increasingly moved indoors. In this brief review, we examine the role of NFLs in connecting people with nature
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Nostalgia for the Past, Present and Future Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-02-28
Saulius GeniusasIn my response to the three commentaries, I emphasize the importance of philosophical reflections on nostalgia, and especially those that are oriented phenomenologically. I criticize the methodological commitments that underlie the approach taken by Constantine Sedikides and Tim Wildschut as well as their contention that nostalgia for the past is the only legitimate form of nostalgia. I reflect on
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Professional practice guidelines for operational psychology: An executive summary. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2025-02-27
Mark A Staal,David M Corey,Paul J Dean,David DeMatteo,Daniel A Krauss,Larry K Lewis,Christopher A Myers,Daniel J Neller,James A Stephenson,Philip S Trompetter,Jeffrey N YounggrenOperational psychologists provide a variety of psychological services in support of national security, national defense, and public safety. Their work may include the assessment of personnel for high-risk positions, consultation to investigations and crisis negotiations, support to military or intelligence training and operations, or other types of psychological and behavioral assessments. The practice
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Erroneous generalization-Exploring random error variance in reliability generalizations of psychological measurements. Psychological Methods (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-27
Lukas J Beinhauer,Jens H Fünderich,Frank RenkewitzReliability generalization (RG) studies frequently interpret meta-analytic heterogeneity in score reliability as evidence of differences in an instrument's measurement quality across administrations. However, such interpretations ignore the fact that, under classical test theory, score reliability depends on two parameters: true score variance and error score variance. True score variance refers to
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True and false recognition in MINERVA2: Integrating fuzzy-trace theory and computational memory modeling. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2025-02-27
Minyu Chang,Brendan T Johns,Charles J BrainerdPrevious research suggests that the MINERVA2 model can capture basic Deese/Roediger/McDermott (DRM) false recognition findings with either randomized representations or distributional semantic representations. In the current article, we extended this line of research by showing that MINERVA2 can accommodate not only basic DRM recognition findings but also the effects of various theory-driven manipulations
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Differences in learning across the lifespan emerge via resource-rational computations. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2025-02-27
Rasmus Bruckner,Matthew R Nassar,Shu-Chen Li,Ben EppingerLearning accurate beliefs about the world is computationally demanding but critical for adaptive behavior across the lifespan. Here, we build on an established framework formalizing learning as predictive inference and examine the possibility that age differences in learning emerge from efficient computations that consider available cognitive resources differing across the lifespan. In our resource-rational
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Navigating the Temporal Veil of Nostalgia: Playing the Boundary Without Crossing it Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-02-27
James MorleyRemarking on Geniusas’ phenomenological explication of nostalgia, I review nostalgia as a form of daydreaming but with its own unique constituent of wider temporal horizons. Also, I concur with Geniusas’ observation that nostalgia is about a boundary of impossibility whereas most other forms of daydreaming offer possibility. I then contrast two modes of nostalgia, fulling nostalgia that playfully,
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Children's developing understanding of social norms Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2025-02-26
Michael TomaselloAlthough children are influenced by social norms from birth, they only begin to understand social norms as such in the three to five year age period. It is at this age that they begin to enforce conformity to social norms on others, even using the normative language of should, must, and ought to. By the end of this age period, they are even capable of creating new social norms (i.e., game rules) themselves
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Improving the probability of reaching correct conclusions about congruence hypotheses: Integrating statistical equivalence testing into response surface analysis. Psychological Methods (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-24
Sarah Humberg,Felix D Schönbrodt,Steffen NestlerMany psychological theories imply that the degree of congruence between two variables (e.g., self-rated and objectively measured intelligence) is related to some psychological outcome (e.g., life satisfaction). Such congruence hypotheses can be tested with response surface analysis (RSA), in which a second-order polynomial regression model is estimated and suitably interpreted. Whereas several strategies
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Cultural Cascades and Infant Resilience: Insights From Tajik Gahvora Cradling Practices Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2025-02-24
Lana B. KarasikCascades from culture inform beliefs and norms that guide childrearing, resulting in diverse experiences that shape developmental outcomes. This article explores the influence of cultural beliefs and childrearing practices on infant development, focusing on the traditional gahvora cradling practice in Tajikistan. Cradling in gahvoras involves movement restriction, providing a unique model for investigating
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More Than Just a Phase: Adolescence as a Window Into How the Brain Generates Behavior Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2025-02-24
Catherine Insel, Alexandra O. CohenAdolescence is a dynamic period of brain development marked by profound changes in learning, decision-making, and higher order cognition. This article explores how research on the adolescent brain can inform the development of biologically based computational models of learning and behavior. We highlight how computational frameworks such as reinforcement learning and artificial neural networks capture
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Statistical learning subserves a higher purpose: Novelty detection in an information foraging system. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2025-02-24
Ram Frost,Louisa Bogaerts,Arthur G Samuel,James S Magnuson,Lori L Holt,Morten H ChristiansenStatistical learning (SL) is typically assumed to be a core mechanism by which organisms learn covarying structures and recurrent patterns in the environment, with the main purpose of facilitating processing of expected events. Within this theoretical framework, the environment is viewed as relatively stable, and SL "captures" the regularities therein through implicit unsupervised learning by mere
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Attachment as Prediction: Insights From Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2025-02-21
Nim Tottenham, Anna VannucciEarly caregiving experiences have strong, persistent links to emotion regulation. In this article we offer a view that the content represented in emotion-regulation neurobiology in part reflects consolidated interpersonal-affective memories abstracted from early caregiving experiences. We suggest that these interpersonal-affective memories, referred to here as “attachment schemas,” are represented
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Geometry and Force Dynamics in Simple Spatial Terms: Two Theories, One Resolution Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2025-02-21
Barbara LandauBasic spatial terms such as the English prepositions “in,” “on,” “above,” “below,” “left,” and “right” represent spatial relationships that are encoded in languages of the world and are readily learned by young children. How do children learn these terms, and what are the relative contributions of universal foundations from spatial cognition versus language-specific input? I argue that progress can
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Psychological and behavioural interventions delivered by non-psychologists Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2025-02-21
Chris J. Main, Lindsay A. Ballengee, Jason M. BeneciukPsychologically Informed Practice (PiP) is best understood as enhanced physiotherapy in which identification and management of psychological factors is central to reactivation. The PiP approach has been investigated in trials of stratified care linking psychological screening with targeted treatment, but there have been challenges in its implementation in routine musculoskeletal care. The possible
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Sex, gender, and pain: Evidence and knowledge gaps Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2025-02-21
Edmund KeoghSex and gender contribute to the variation in pain experience. A range of biological, psychological, and social factors are relevant, which point to potential pain mechanisms and the reasons for this sex/gender-based variation. This review provides a brief critical overview of the evidence for these patterns. It draws on both experimental and clinical studies and identifies some of the biological and
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Is a less wrong model always more useful? Methodological considerations for using ant colony optimization in measure development. Psychological Methods (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-20
Yixiao Dong,Denis DumasWith the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), many AI-derived techniques have been adapted into psychological and behavioral science research, including measure development, which is a key task for psychometricians and methodologists. Ant colony optimization (ACO) is an AI-derived metaheuristic algorithm that has been integrated into the structural equation modeling framework to search for
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Evaluating statistical fit of confirmatory bifactor models: Updated recommendations and a review of current practice. Psychological Methods (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-20
Sijia Li,Victoria SavaleiConfirmatory bifactor models have become very popular in psychological applications, but they are increasingly criticized for statistical pitfalls such as tendency to overfit, tendency to produce anomalous results, instability of solutions, and underidentification problems. In part to combat this state of affairs, many different reliability and dimensionality measures have been proposed to help researchers
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The Neural Basis of Visual Search in Scene Context Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2025-02-20
Marius V. PeelenHumans are highly efficient in finding objects in their structured, daily-life environments. Behavioral studies have demonstrated that this efficiency is supported by expectations derived from scene context. Here, I review neuroimaging studies that have started to reveal the neural basis of contextual influences on visual search for objects. These studies point to a central role for the object-selective
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Lessons for the Next Pandemic: What Children Taught Us About Navigating New Social Norms During COVID-19 Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2025-02-20
Felix Warneken, Katherine McAuliffeResearch on children’s responses to preventive health behaviors during COVID-19 provides insights of both practical and theoretical importance: Understanding how children reason about preventive behaviors is crucial for developing effective public-health campaigns. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic presented us with a unique natural experiment for examining children’s emerging sociomoral reasoning in
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Editorial overview: Diversity in organizations – Current insights and future directions Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2025-02-19
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The gender convergence effect in older age: A meta-analytic review comparing modern attitudes toward younger, middle-aged, and older women and men. Psychological Bulletin (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-02-17
Angela Shakeri,Michael S NorthAs older women drive aging population trends, it is crucial to understand how target age and gender jointly influence perceiver attitudes. Although the prevailing "double jeopardy" perspective portrays older women as the most derogated age-gender group due to facing both age and sex bias, some evidence suggests gender attitudes converge with target age (i.e., a "convergence" perspective). Investigating
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Information theory, machine learning, and Bayesian networks in the analysis of dichotomous and Likert responses for questionnaire psychometric validation. Psychological Methods (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-17
Matteo Orsoni,Mariagrazia Benassi,Marco ScutariQuestionnaire validation is indispensable in psychology and medicine and is essential for understanding differences across diverse populations in the measured construct. While traditional latent factor models have long dominated psychometric validation, recent advancements have introduced alternative methodologies, such as the "network framework." This study presents a pioneering approach integrating