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Ten Things You Should Know About Sign Languages Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Karen Emmorey
The 10 things you should know about sign languages are the following: (1) Sign languages have phonology and poetry. (2) Sign languages vary in their linguistic structure and family history but shar...
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How Does Religion Deter Adolescent Risk Behavior? Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 James A. Shepperd, Rachel B. Forsyth
We present a theoretical model that describes four explanations (mechanisms) why religious adolescents display less risk behavior than nonreligious adolescents. Specifically, religions affect the e...
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The Virtually Intelligent Negotiator: Building Trust and Maximizing Economic Gain in E-Negotiations Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Leigh Thompson
Virtual intelligence is “the ability to communicate and navigate relationships and achieve business goals when engaging with others who are not physically co-present.” Virtual intelligence is parti...
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Psychological Momentum Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Christopher J. Honey, Abhijit Mahabal, Buddhika Bellana
Our mental experience is largely continuous on the scale of seconds and minutes. However, this continuity does not always arise from a volitional carrying forward of ideas. Instead, recent actions,...
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Five Misconceptions About Consensually Nonmonogamous Relationships Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Amy C. Moors
A sizeable minority of people engage, or have engaged, in some form of consensually nonmonogamous relationship (explicit mutual agreements to have multiple emotional, romantic, and/or sexual relati...
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A Competitiveness-Based Theoretical Framework on the Psychology of Income Inequality Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Nicolas Sommet, Andrew J. Elliot
Social scientists have begun to extensively study how living in contexts with high income inequality affects psychological outcomes. Herein we overview a conceptual framework that integrates, organ...
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Facing the Unknown Unknowns of Data Analysis Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, Alexandra Sarafoglou, Balazs Aczel
Empirical claims are inevitably associated with uncertainty, and a major goal of data analysis is therefore to quantify that uncertainty. Recent work has revealed that most uncertainty may lie not ...
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Philosophy of Perception in the Psychologist’s Laboratory Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Jorge Morales, Chaz Firestone
Perception is our primary means of accessing the external world. What is the nature of this core mental process? Although this question is at the center of scientific research on perception, it has...
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Understanding Perceptual Decisions by Studying Development and Neurodiversity Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Catherine Manning, Gaia Scerif
A cornerstone of human information processing is how we make decisions about incoming sensory percepts. Much of psychological science has focused on understanding how these judgments operate in ski...
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Motivated Egalitarianism Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Aaron C. Kay, Rebecca Ponce de Leon, Arnold K. Ho, Nour S. Kteily
Much research has examined the link between (anti-)egalitarian ideology and motivated social cognition. However, this research is typically framed around anti-egalitarianism, with the other end of ...
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Revising a Self-Regulation Phenotype for Depression Through Individual Differences in Macroscale Brain Organization Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Timothy J. Strauman, Ahmad R. Hariri
Self-regulation denotes the processes by which people initiate, maintain, and control their own thoughts, behaviors, or emotions to produce a desired outcome or avoid an undesired outcome. Self-reg...
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15 Years of Parental Burnout Research: Systematic Review and Agenda Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Moïra Mikolajczak, Kaisa Aunola, Matilda Sorkkila, Isabelle Roskam
Parental burnout (PB), an exhaustion disorder related to parenting, is receiving increasing attention. In this article we aim to take stock of the findings accumulated about PB over the past 15 yea...
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A Romantic-Partner Model of Mental Health Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Susan C. South
Romantic relationships are ubiquitous among adolescents and adults the world over. More than 90% of adults in the United States will marry at some point, and cohabitation is increasingly common amo...
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Active Learning in Language Development Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Ruthe Foushee, Mahesh Srinivasan, Fei Xu
Recent evidence suggests that children play an active role in their own learning in many domains, yet the study of language development typically casts children as passive recipients of adult guida...
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Semantic Space Theory: Data-Driven Insights Into Basic Emotions Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Dacher Keltner, Jeffrey A. Brooks, Alan Cowen
Here we present semantic space theory and the data-driven methods it entails. Across the largest studies to date of emotion-related experience, expression, and physiology, we find that emotion is h...
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Everybody Hurts: Intersecting and Colliding Epidemics and the Need for Integrated Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain and Substance Use Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Katie Witkiewitz, Kevin E. Vowles
Chronic pain and substance use disorders (SUDs) are common, debilitating, and often persist over the longer term. On their own, each represents a significant health problem, with estimates indicati...
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Deepfakes: Vehicles for Radicalization, Not Persuasion Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Maja Nieweglowska, Cal Stellato, Steven A. Sloman
Deepfakes are an effective method of media manipulation because of their realism and also because truth is not a priority when people are consuming and sharing content online. Consumers are more fo...
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Let Me Choose: The Role of Choice in the Development of Executive Function Skills Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Stephanie M. Carlson
Executive function (EF) skills, including working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility, form the neurocognitive basis for conscious, goal-directed behavior and self-control. Young children...
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Explanation Is Effective Because It Is Selective Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Tania Lombrozo, Emily G. Liquin
Humans are avid explainers: We ask “why?” and derive satisfaction from a good answer. But humans are also selective explainers: Only some observations prompt us to ask “why?” and only some answers ...
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Why Recurrent Depression Should Be Reconceptualized and Redefined Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Scott M. Monroe, Kate L. Harkness
Major depressive disorder is the leading cause of physical and mental disability worldwide, affecting more than 264 million people. A disproportionate amount of the enormous personal, societal, and...
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Emotional Disclosure and Social Judgment Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Kent D. Harber, Valeria M. Vila
Negative emotions can negatively bias social judgment. However, these emotions can be tempered when expressed, suggesting that emotional disclosure might enable fairer evaluations. Three projects c...
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Historical Psychology Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Mohammad Atari, Joseph Henrich
A growing body of evidence suggests that many aspects of psychology have evolved culturally over historical time. A combination of approaches, including experimental data collected over the past 75...
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Color-Evasive Cognition: The Unavoidable Impact of Scientific Racism in the Founding of a Field Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Ayanna K. Thomas, Maxine McKinney de Royston, Shameka Powell
Cognitive psychology has traditionally focused on investigating principles of cognition that are universal across the human species. The motivation to identify “cognitive universals” stems from the...
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Delusions as Epistemic Hypervigilance Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Ryan McKay, Hugo Mercier
Delusions are distressing and disabling symptoms of various clinical disorders. Delusions are associated with an aberrant and apparently contradictory treatment of evidence, characterized by both e...
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Response Durations: A Flexible, No-Cost Tool for Psychological Science Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Roland Pfister, Bence Neszmélyi, Wilfried Kunde
Response durations for simple key presses are an easily available but heavily underused measure. Whereas response times dominate the toolbox of experimental psychologists and cognitive modelers ali...
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Underlying Role of Diminished Access to Internal States Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Nira Liberman, Amit Lazarov, Reuven Dar
We suggest that individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) experience difficulty accessing their internal states, including their feelings, emotions, preferences, and motivations. Instead...
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The Little Black Box: Contextualizing Empathy Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-03-04 Jennifer E. Stellar, Fred Duong
In the last century since the word “empathy” was first introduced to the English vernacular, it has gained wide attention within academia and society more broadly. However, empathy has proven parti...
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Institutional Inversion and “Demand-Side” Versus “Supply-Side” Views of Culture Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Dov Cohen, Minjae Seo, Robert M. Lawless
Institutional inversion occurs when collective attitudes lead to institutions that in turn lead to behaviors that are the opposite of those attitudes. We illustrate this process with the case of de...
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Disadvantaged-Group Members’ Experiences of Life Transitions: The Positive Impact of Social Connectedness and Group Memberships Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Aarti Iyer, Jolanda Jetten
Whether life transitions are anticipated or unforeseen, they can be challenging to navigate because the change process involves a period of uncertainty and adjustment. Specifically, transitions oft...
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Ancestral Diversity: A Socioecological Account of Emotion Culture Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Paula M. Niedenthal, Ryan S. Hampton, Michelle Marji
Cultural differences in emotion expression, experience, and regulation can cause misunderstandings with lasting effects on interpersonal, intergroup, and international relations. We propose that th...
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The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Patrick L. Hill, Gabrielle N. Pfund, Mathias Allemand
Academic and lay interest has accrued over recent years with respect to how people develop a purpose in life. However, few theoretical models exist for understanding this developmental process as w...
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Semantic Prosody: How Neutral Words With Collocational Positivity/Negativity Color Evaluative Judgments Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 David J. Hauser, Norbert Schwarz
We like people and objects more when they are described in positive than in negative terms. But even seemingly neutral words can elicit positive or negative responses. This is the case for words th...
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The Impacts of Anxiety and Motivation on Spatial Performance: Implications for Gender Differences in Mental Rotation and Navigation Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Stella F. Lourenco, Yaxin Liu
Despite extensive research on gender differences in spatial cognition, the potential roles of affective and situational factors in accounting for these differences remain relatively understudied. H...
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The Role of Phenomenological Control in Experience Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Zoltan Dienes, Peter Lush
To varying degrees, people have the capacity to alter their subjective experience such that it misrepresents reality in ways consistent with their goals and such that the misrepresentation can be s...
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Emerging Principles of Attention and Information Demand Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Jacqueline Gottlieb
I review recent literature on information demand and its implications for attention control. I argue that this literature motivates a view of attention as a mechanism that reduces uncertainty by se...
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The Development of Perpetration and Tolerance of Sexual Harassment Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Christia Spears Brown, Sharla Biefeld
The sexual harassment of girls and women is a common occurrence that begins in early adolescence and continues into adulthood. Not only is experiencing sexual harassment common, but it is also wide...
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How Children Develop Healthy Behavioral Choices to Promote Illness Prevention Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Vanessa LoBue, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Lauren Leotti, Nina Fefferman
Children’s understanding of contagion has been a fruitful area for studying children’s learning. However, despite a large literature on children’s conceptual understanding of illness, there is very...
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Life Detection From Biological Motion Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Nikolaus F. Troje, Dorita H. F. Chang
Life motion, the active movements of people and other animals, contains a wealth of information that is potentially accessible to the visual system of an observer. Biological-motion point-light dis...
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A Prosociality Paradox: How Miscalibrated Social Cognition Creates a Misplaced Barrier to Prosocial Action Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Nicholas Epley, Amit Kumar, James Dungan, Margaret Echelbarger
Behaving prosocially can increase well-being among both those performing a prosocial act and those receiving it, and yet people may experience some reluctance to engage in direct prosocial actions....
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What Do We Know About Threat-Related Perceptual Decision Making? Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Aprajita Mohanty, Frances Jin, Tamara Sussman
The ability to make rapid and precise decisions regarding the presence or absence of threats in the environment is critical for survival. Although threatening stimuli may be detected more accuratel...
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Metacognitive Myopia: A Major Obstacle on the Way to Rationality Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Klaus Fiedler, Johannes Prager, Linda McCaughey
The notion of metacognitive myopia refers to a conspicuous weakness of the quality control of memory and reasoning processes. Although people are often remarkably sensitive even to complex samples ...
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Impacts of Learning One’s Own Genetic Susceptibility to Mental Disorders Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Woo-kyoung Ahn, Annalise M. Perricone
Genomic research is rapidly advancing, and personalized genetic risk information about various mental disorders is likely to become readily available for many individuals. Although genetic profilin...
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Brain Reward Circuits Promote Stress Resilience and Health: Implications for Reward-Based Interventions Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Janine M. Dutcher
From the COVID-19 global pandemic to racial injustice and the continued impact of climate change on communities across the globe, the past couple of years have demonstrated the need for a greater u...
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Pride-and-Prejudice Perspectives of Marginalization Can Advance Science and Society Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Tiffany N. Brannon
Research that conceptualizes marginalization as tied to both pride and prejudice—or as simultaneously a source of strengths and stigma—is especially well positioned to address social problems in wa...
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Water From the Lake of Memory: The Regulatory Model of Nostalgia Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Tim Wildschut, Constantine Sedikides
We organize the literature on triggers and functions of nostalgia by advancing a regulatory model in which the emotion serves as a homeostatic corrective (i.e., a process that establishes and maint...
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Rational Choice in Context Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Shlomi Sher, Craig R. M. McKenzie, Johannes Müller-Trede, Lim Leong
Human decisions are context dependent in ways that violate classical norms of rational choice. However, these norms implicitly depend on idealized descriptive assumptions that are often unrealistic...
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The Nature and Nurture of Callous-Unemotional Traits Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Luke W. Hyde, Hailey L. Dotterer
Callous-unemotional (CU) traits, a risk factor for psychopathy, delineate youths with relatively low empathy and guilt, and identify youths with high risk for chronic and severe antisocial behavior...
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Intergroup Leadership: The Challenge of Successfully Leading Fractured Groups and Societies Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Michael A. Hogg, David E. Rast, III
Leadership often involves providing leadership to a group that is structured into separate subgroups that have distinctive self-contained identities that are cherished by their members. In this res...
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Estimating the Time to Do Nothing: Toward Next-Generation Models of Response Inhibition Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Patrick G. Bissett, Russell A. Poldrack
Controlled behavior requires response inhibition, which is a cognitive function that involves withholding action as goals change. Response inhibition is often assessed using the stop-signal paradig...
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The Emotional Rewards of Prosocial Spending Are Robust and Replicable in Large Samples Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Ashley V. Whillans
Past studies show that spending money on other people—prosocial spending—increases a person’s happiness. However, foundational research on this topic was conducted prior to psychology’s credibility...
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Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Anastasia Kozyreva, Sam Wineburg, Stephan Lewandowsky, Ralph Hertwig
Low-quality and misleading information online can hijack people’s attention, often by evoking curiosity, outrage, or anger. Resisting certain types of information and actors online requires people ...
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How Do LGBTQ+ Parents Raise Well-Adjusted, Resilient, and Thriving Children? Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Rachel H. Farr, Samantha L. Tornello, Sharon S. Rostosky
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) parents raise well-adjusted children. How do they accomplish this feat despite stigma and discrimination? Psychological scholarship (often ba...
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An Introduction to Ecological Active Learning Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Azzurra Ruggeri
This article introduces ecological active learning, a developmental framework that focuses on children’s ability to adapt and tailor their active-learning strategies to the particular structure and...
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Exceptional Abilities in Autism: Theories and Open Questions Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Lucina Q. Uddin
The vast majority of research on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) focuses on characterizing and addressing the social communication deficits and restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior that const...
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Studying Mental Health Problems as Systems, Not Syndromes Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Eiko I. Fried
Despite decades of clinical, sociopolitical, and research efforts, progress in understanding and treating mental health problems remains disappointing. I discuss two barriers that have contributed ...
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The Emergency of Prosociality: A Developmental Perspective on Altruism and Other Prosocial Behavior in the Face of Disaster Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Lucie Rose, Guillaume Dezecache, Tara Powell, Sylvie Chokron, Klara Kovarski
No two emergency situations are alike. A combination of human and contextual factors makes each emergency and disaster unique in its time line, its aftermath, and especially its impact on affected ...
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Social Psychological Research on Racism and the Importance of Historical Context: Implications for Policy Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Sophie Trawalter, Gerald D. Higginbotham, Kyshia Henderson
Psychology is the study of the mind, how it works, and how it affects behavior. In the context of intergroup relations and, specifically, the study of racism, the tight focus on mind and behavior h...
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Work Identity and Future Research on Work as a Calling Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Americus Reed, II, Samuel Jones, Bryan J. Dik
Research on work as a calling is gaining momentum, and work-as-a-calling theory is providing a helpful deductive structure to the consistent evidence that people who view their work as a calling an...
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The Promise and Peril of Genetics Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Danielle M. Dick
Human genetics is advancing at an unprecedented pace. Improvements in genotyping technology and rapidly falling costs have accelerated gene discovery. We can now comprehensively scan the genome, te...
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Theories of Context Effects in Multialternative, Multiattribute Choice Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.867) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Jennifer S. Trueblood
Over the past several decades, researchers in psychology, neuroscience, marketing, and economics have been keen to understand context effects in multialternative, multiattribute decision making. Th...