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Registered reports in psychology across scholarly citations and public dissemination: A comparative metaevaluation of more than a decade of practice. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-30 Zheng Liu,X T XiaoTian Wang,Zhonghan Wang,Weijin Yan,Mengzhen Hu
After more than a decade of practice, registered reports (RRs) are widely adopted in psychology. However, the acceptance of RRs in terms of postpublication academic recognition and public dissemination, compared with nonregistered reports (non-RR), remained largely unexplored. This matched meta-evaluation identified and analyzed 119 pairs of original research articles (RR vs. non-RR) from 33 psychology
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The involuntary experience of digital exclusion among older adults: A taxonomy and theoretical framework. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-30 Yanran Fang,Yiduo Shao,Mo Wang
The emerging phenomenon of digital exclusion raises an important issue that not everyone is equally engaged in and can benefit from the digital world. Older adults are particularly susceptible to digital exclusion, but a comprehensive conceptual treatment of digital exclusion in older adults is lacking in the psychology literature. In this article, we provide a taxonomy to advance the literature on
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Which comes first, puberty or identity? The longitudinal interrelations between pubertal timing and sexual minority self-identification among early adolescents. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Juan Del Toro,Victoria Papke,Andrea Wiglesworth,Bonnie Klimes-Dougan
Sexual minority adolescents experience puberty earlier than their heterosexual peers. Early puberty is an indicator of premature aging and can be partly driven by chronic stress linked to discrimination. Nonetheless, the neural, cognitive, and social development linked to puberty enables adolescents to explore and understand their sexual identities. For sexual minority youth, does the stress from identity-based
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Scholarship, not politics: Reply to Eidelson (2025). American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Lenore E Walker,Ester Cole,Sarah L Friedman,Beth Rom-Rymer,Arlene Steinberg,Susan Warshaw
Eidelson's (2025) commentary misses the point of our article (Walker et al., 2025), which reviews the history of antisemitism within the psychology profession and calls for the American Psychological Association to acknowledge its past and to proactively address the recent rise in antisemitism. Our scholarship is consistent with that of others in the field (e.g., Winston, 2020). We refute some of the
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Poor scholarship and unacknowledged bias: Commentary on Walker et al. (2025). American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Roy Eidelson
The article by Walker et al. (2025) titled "The American Psychological Association and Antisemitism: Toward Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion" regrettably suffers from serious shortcomings in regard to scholarship. These include flawed analyses, an overreliance on unreliable and biased sources, and the presentation of provocative and significant claims without any documentation at all. There is no question
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Autism at 30: Conceptualizations for adult research and clinical practice. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-16 Elaine Clarke,Hannah Singer,Hillary Schiltz,Catherine Lord
Autism spectrum disorder is one of the most common neurodevelopmental conditions diagnosed in children. Most autism research, intervention, and policy focus exclusively on this condition in childhood, but autism often persists across the life course. This narrative review leverages data from 115 participants first diagnosed with autism between ages 2 and 3 years and subsequently followed for 3 decades
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Social support, spirituality, and executive functions: An event-related potential (ERP) study of neural mechanisms of cultural protective factors in American Indians (AIs). American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-12 Ricardo A Wilhelm,Breanna A McNaughton,Mara J Demuth,Danielle Bethel,Lizbeth Rojas,Nicole Baughman,Eric Mann,Glenna P Stumblingbear-Riddle,Terrence K Kominsky,Robin L Aupperle,Martin P Paulus,Jennifer L Stewart,Evan J White
A resilience-based approach in American Indian (AI) communities focuses on inherent sociocultural assets that may act as protective resilience buffers linked to mitigated mental health risks (e.g., deep-rooted spiritual, robust social support networks). Executive control functions are implicated as mechanisms for protective factors, but little evidence exists on the underlying neurocognitive mechanisms
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Why misinformation must not be ignored. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-12 Ullrich K H Ecker,Li Qian Tay,Jon Roozenbeek,Sander van der Linden,John Cook,Naomi Oreskes,Stephan Lewandowsky
Recent academic debate has seen the emergence of the claim that misinformation is not a significant societal problem. We argue that the arguments used to support this minimizing position are flawed, particularly if interpreted (e.g., by policymakers or the public) as suggesting that misinformation can be safely ignored. Here, we rebut the two main claims, namely that misinformation is not of substantive
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Fears about artificial intelligence across 20 countries and six domains of application. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-12 Mengchen Dong,Jane Rebecca Conway,Jean-François Bonnefon,Azim Shariff,Iyad Rahwan
The frontier of artificial intelligence (AI) is constantly moving, raising fears and concerns whenever AI is deployed in a new occupation. Some of these fears are legitimate and should be addressed by AI developers-but others may result from psychological barriers, suppressing the uptake of a beneficial technology. Here, we show that country-level variations across occupations can be predicted by a
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Heat on the brain: The impacts of rising temperatures on psychiatric functioning, potential causes, and related compounding factors. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-12 Joseph R Taliercio
While the impact of heat on physical health is well-known and discussed, researchers, clinicians, and individuals fail to recognize the severity of such heat on one's mental health. Unfortunately, as temperatures are expected to continue rising, the potential consequences of neither recognizing nor effectively responding to this relation between mental health and extreme heat can prove disastrous to
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Veterans health administration leads the way in population mental health science: Commentary on Dodge et al. (2024). American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-12 Brian P Marx,Denise M Sloan,Terence M Keane,Stacey Pollack,Paula P Schnurr
Recently, Dodge et al. (2024) published an article in American Psychologist offering recommendations to the mental health field for changing from an individual-level to a population-level focus. These recommendations included scaling up evidence-based programs, innovating and evaluating population-level interventions, and creating a primary system of care to promote mental health and well-being. For
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A global context for population mental health: Commentary on Dodge et al. (2024). American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-12 Karen B Schmaling,Robert M Kaplan
Dodge et al. (2024) outlined the gap between population mental health needs and the current capacity of the U.S. health care system to provide necessary services. We add international examples and a global perspective to their observations. Unlike some nations, the mental health needs in the United States occur in the context of privatized, for-profit health care. Nations that offer population-based
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Acceptance and commitment therapy versus trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy: A comparative study of the effects on the posttraumatic stress symptoms of female Afghan adolescents. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Sayed Jafar Ahmadi,Azadeh Tavoli,Zeinab Musavi,Justin Dainer-Best
The objective of this study was to conduct a randomized control trial investigating the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) compared to a trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy (TF-CBT) in treating symptoms of posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in female Afghan adolescents. Participants were randomly assigned to the ACT (20 participants; M = 14.8 [SD = 1.93]), TF-CBT (20 participants;
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International Humanitarian Award: Sayed Jafar Ahmadi and Zeinab Musavi. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01
The International Humanitarian Award recognizes extraordinary humanitarian services and activism by psychologists, including professional and volunteer work conducted primarily in the field with underserved populations. Sayed Jafar Ahmadi and Zeinab Musavi cofounded the Behrawan Research and Psychology Services Organization (BRPSO) in 2015 to provide psychological and crisis intervention mental health
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Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology: Hector Betancourt. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01
This award is given to individuals who have made sustained and enduring contributions to international cooperation and the advancement of knowledge in psychology. The Committee for Global Psychology (CGP) is pleased to present the 2024 American Psychological Association (APA) Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology to Hector Betancourt, PhD. Dr. Betancourt
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APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology: Shawntell Nicole Pace. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01
The APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology is awarded on an annual basis by the APA Board of Professional Affairs and the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) to a graduate student who has demonstrated outstanding practice and application of psychology. Shawntell N. Pace is a joint winner of the 2024 award. Pace is a doctoral candidate
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Age-friendly mental health systems: A step toward geriatric competency. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Erin E Emery-Tiburcio
The 4Ms of an Age-Friendly Health System framework (What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility) have been effectively implemented in thousands of health systems worldwide to improve the care of older adults. As Americans are living longer lives, the need for age-friendly care will continue to grow. While the 4Ms framework has been highly effective at improving care for older adults, many mental
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Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Independent Practice: Erin E. Emery-Tiburcio. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01
This award is intended to recognize outstanding independent practitioners in psychology. With this award, we celebrate Dr. Erin E. Emery-Tiburcio's extraordinary contributions to preparing our health care workforce to provide age-friendly health care and competently delivered mental health services to older adults. As a board-certified geropsychologist clinician, educator, researcher, and advocate
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APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to an Outstanding Graduate Student. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01
The APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology is awarded on an annual basis by the APA Board of Professional Affairs and the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) to a graduate student who has demonstrated outstanding practice and application of psychology. A qualified candidate must demonstrate exemplary performance in working with an underserved
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Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice: Lisa K. Kearney. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01
This award is intended to recognize outstanding practitioners in psychology. "Lisa Kearney is a deeply deserving recipient of the 2024 APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice. Her efforts in program development, administration, and policy have contributed hugely to patient care provided by the Veterans Health Administration, to the Department of Veterans Affairs
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Reenvisioning ethnic-racial identity: Asian Indian American experiences. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Arpana G Inman,Pratyusha Tummala-Narra
Identity formation among immigrant communities, particularly for ethnic-racial minorities like Asian Indian Americans, is a multifaceted process. Shaped by preimmigration histories of British colonization and the caste system and the Indian diasporic postimmigration, experiences of physical and psychological displacement alongside racism in the United States contribute to the complexity of identity
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How to improve outcomes of psychological treatment of depression: Lessons from "next-level" meta-analytic research. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Pim Cuijpers
Depression is a major public health challenge. Psychotherapy is one of the most important first-line treatments with good outcomes, although there is also room for improvement. In this article, I describe how outcomes can be further improved, based on innovative meta-analytic research. I first describe this innovative approach: a living systematic review of all randomized trials on psychological treatments
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Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research: Pim Cuijpers. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01
This award is given to a psychologist whose research has led to important discoveries or developments in the field of applied psychology. The 2024 award winner is Pim Cuijpers. When we try to determine how to serve our clients, the key question is 'What works?' Pim Cuijpers has done more to answer this for mental health disorders, particularly depression, than any other researcher in the world. He
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Award for Distinguished Senior Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Nancy M. Sidun. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01
The Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest recognize persons who have advanced psychology as a science and/or profession by a single extraordinary achievement or a lifetime of outstanding contributions in the public interest. Nancy M. Sidun, PsyD, ABPP, ATR, is a clinical psychologist, art therapist, educator, administrator, and scholar. She embodies the Public
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Bridging the sociopolitical divide: Transforming efforts to prevent firearm suicide. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Russell B Lemle
Firearm-related suicide represents a significant public health concern in the United States, contributing to 55% of the approximately 49,000 suicide fatalities recorded in 2022. Research has demonstrated a robust link between firearm accessibility and suicide rates. These findings have prompted interest in developing interventions designed to increase the time and space between an individual's suicidal
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Award for Distinguished Senior Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Russell B. Lemle. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01
The Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest recognize persons who have advanced psychology as a science and/or profession by a single extraordinary achievement or a lifetime of outstanding contributions in the public interest. The 2024 Award for Distinguished Senior Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest is bestowed to Russell B. Lemle in recognition
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Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Anjhula Mya Singh Bais. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01
The Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest recognize persons who have advanced psychology as a science and/or profession by a single extraordinary achievement or a lifetime of outstanding contributions in the public interest. Anjhula Mya Singh Bais is the chair of the International Board of Amnesty International, the first psychologist in this role. Dr. Bais has
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The detection of automatic behavior in other people. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Tomer D Ullman,Ilona Bass
The standard model of theory of mind posits that we attribute mental states to other people to explain their behavior. However, what of cases in which we think the other person is being scripted, acting automatically with no goals or beliefs to recover? While a great deal of past work has distinguished between automatic and reflective behaviors in one's own decision making, here we argue that reasoning
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Internalization of weight bias and stigma: Scientific challenges and opportunities. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Rebecca L Pearl
Weight bias and stigma are widespread, unjust, and harmful to health. Increased empirical attention to the internalization of weight bias and stigma (or weight self-stigma) has revealed significant health implications that require further study and intervention. This review summarizes current knowledge on the conceptualization, measurement, prevalence, and correlates of internalized weight stigma.
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Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Tomer Ullman. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01
The Early Career Awards, given for the first time in 1974, recognize the large number of excellent early career psychologists. Recipients of this award may not have held a doctoral degree for more than nine years. For outstanding contributions to the computational understanding of 'intuitive theories' in cognition and their development in children, Tomer Ullman is a 2024 award winner. His work on intuitive
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Intergenerational transmission of depression risk and the developing brain. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Anna Weinberg,Aislinn Sandre
Parental depression is a well-established risk factor for depression in offspring. This intergenerational transmission involves a diverse array of mechanisms, both familial and environmental, working at different levels to increase depression in offspring. To identify modifiable mechanisms for depression among this heterogeneity, recent work has turned to neurobiological measures as more proximal indicators
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Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Christopher Krupenye. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01
The Early Career Awards, given for the first time in 1974, recognize the large number of excellent early career psychologists. Recipients of this award may not have held a doctoral degree for more than nine years. For his inspiring work in elucidating the nature of animal thought, Christopher Krupenye is a 2024 award winner. His methodological creativity has revealed ways in which a range of species
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Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Anna E. F. Weinberg. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01
The Early Career Awards, given for the first time in 1974, recognize the large number of excellent early career psychologists. Recipients of this award may not have held a doctoral degree for more than nine years. Anna E. F. Weinberg is a 2024 award winner, for combining the absolute highest level of expertise in both psychopathology and psychophysiology; for pursuing systematic research that leverages
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Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology: Francis J. Keefe. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01
The Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology is presented to a person who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, has made distinguished theoretical or empirical advances leading to the understanding or amelioration of important practical problems. The 2024 recipients of the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards were recognized by the 2023 Board of Scientific
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Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Rebecca l. Pearl. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01
The Early Career Awards, given for the first time in 1974, recognize the large number of excellent early career psychologists. Recipients of this award may not have held a doctoral degree for more than nine years. For her compassionate illumination of the bias, stigma, and discrimination to which individuals with obesity are subjected in media portrayals and in their daily lives, Rebecca L. Pearl is
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What is unique about acceptance and correction of misinformation? Insights from work on attitudes, persuasion, and beyond. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Richard E Petty
Research on misinformation has exploded over the past decade in psychology and other disciplines. Much research has been conducted about which variables are associated with the initial acceptance of misinformation (i.e., false statements such as "Venice is the capital of Italy") and which variables are associated with its correction ("No. Rome is the capital of Italy"). A largely independent literature
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Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Gerald G. Carter. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01
The Early Career Awards, given for the first time in 1974, recognize the large number of excellent early career psychologists. Recipients of this award may not have held a doctoral degree for more than nine years. Gerald G. Carter's innovative research on the food-sharing behavior of common vampire bats has advanced our understanding of cooperative behavior in animals. By conducting carefully designed
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Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Robert T. Knight. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01
The Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions are presented to persons who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. The 2024 recipients of the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards were recognized by the 2023 Board of Scientific Affairs and selected by the 2023 Committee
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Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Stephen P. Becker. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01
The Early Career Awards, given for the first time in 1974, recognize the large number of excellent early career psychologists. Recipients of this award may not have held a doctoral degree for more than nine years. For his pioneering and programmatic research on attentional difficulties in youth, documenting the structure, external validity, and clinical importance of cognitive disengagement syndrome
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Top-down self-regulation as a core construct in children's and adolescents' optimal development. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Nancy Eisenberg,Tracy L Spinrad,Maciel M Hernández,Antonio Zuffianò
Research and theory on the role of top-down self-regulation (TDSR) in children's developmental outcomes has received considerable attention in the last few decades. In this review, we distinguish TDSR (and overlapping self-regulatory processes) from bottom-up regulation. With a particular focus on Eisenberg et al.'s body of work, we review evidence for the role of individual differences in children's
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Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Richard E. Petty. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01
The Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions are presented to persons who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. The 2024 recipients of the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards were recognized by the 2023 Board of Scientific Affairs and selected by the 2023 Committee
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Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Nancy Eisenberg. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-01
The Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions are presented to persons who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. The 2024 recipients of the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards were recognized by the 2023 Board of Scientific Affairs and selected by the 2023 Committee
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The psychology of life's most important decisions. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-14 Shahar Hechtlinger,Christin Schulze,Christina Leuker,Ralph Hertwig
Research on judgment and decision making typically studies "small worlds"-highly simplified and stylized tasks such as monetary gambles-among homogenous populations rather than big real-life decisions made by people around the globe. These transformative life decisions (e.g., whether or not to emigrate or flee a country, disclose one's sexual orientation, get divorced, or report a sexual assault) can
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Frans B. M. de Waal (1948-2024). American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-07 Stephanie D Preston
Article memorializes Frans B. M. de Waal (1948-2024). Franciscus (Frans) Bernardus Maria de Waal was a Dutch-American primatologist and ethologist who was born on October 29, 1948, in Hertogenbosch, in the southern Netherlands. Frans was taken by stomach cancer in March 2024, at the age of 75. Frans's long and storied career and life touched the lives of so many, all around the world. Through 13 books
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There is nothing WEIRD about basic research: The critical role of convenience samples in psychological science. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-07 Jeffrey W Sherman
Attention to issues of sample diversity and generalizability has increased dramatically in the past 15 years, as psychological scientists have confronted the limitations of relatively homogeneous samples. Though this reckoning was perhaps overdue and has undoubtedly shined a light on some poor research practices, recommendations surrounding sample diversity are sometimes applied to research that does
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Beliefs that influence personality likely concern a situation humans never leave. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-07 Jeremy D W Clifton,Alia J Crum
Many of us-60% of humanity, according to one study-would like to change some of our personality traits, such as decreasing pessimism or neuroticism. Dweck (2008) proposed that traits might be altered by changing beliefs. However, novel beliefs must be identified, she contends, because currently studied beliefs are empirically inadequate (e.g., low correlations to broad personality traits) and because
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Move past adversity or bite through it? Diet quality, physical activity, and sedentary behavior in relation to resilience. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-07 Alea Ruf,Kira F Ahrens,Judith R Gruber,Rebecca J Neumann,Bianca Kollmann,Raffael Kalisch,Klaus Lieb,Oliver Tüscher,Michael M Plichta,Ute Nöthlings,Ulrich Ebner-Priemer,Andreas Reif,Silke Matura
Adverse life experiences are associated with an increased risk of mental disorders. The successful adaptation to adversity and maintenance or quick restoration of mental health despite adversity is referred to as resilience. Identifying factors that promote resilience can contribute to the prevention of mental disorders. Lifestyle behaviors, increasingly recognized for their impact on mental health
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Beyond "post," "traumatic," "growth," and prediction in research on posttraumatic growth. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Jonathan M Adler,Ted Schwaba
Thirty years after the introduction of posttraumatic growth (PTG), research on the concept has expanded dramatically. Novel theoretical perspectives included in this special issue, however, demonstrate that nearly every element of PTG requires revision. "Post" implies a definitive before and after adversity that simply does not exist, either empirically or in the everyday navigation of adversity, especially
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A stigma-conscious framework for resilience and posttraumatic change. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Danielle D King,Gabrielle Lopiano,Elisa S M Fattoracci
Members of stigmatized groups face severe, chronic adversities that produce qualitatively unique and often challenging experiences. Further, access to resources relevant to overcoming adversity (e.g., time, money, energy, support) is depleted and blocked by stigmatization. However, current approaches to resilience and posttraumatic growth do not account for stigma, hindering our understanding of both
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Correction to "The narcissistic appeal of leadership theories" by Steffens et al. (2022). American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-01
Reports an error in "The narcissistic appeal of leadership theories" by Niklas K. Steffens, Mark S. P. Chong and S. Alexander Haslam (American Psychologist, 2022[Feb-Mar], Vol 77[2], 234-248). In the article, Mark S. P. Chong was incorrectly omitted from the author list. The online version of this article has been corrected. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2020-81554-001
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Pathways to queer thriving in an LGBTQ+ intergenerational community. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Nic M Weststrate,Adam J Greteman,Karen A Morris,Lisa L Moore
LGBTQ+ people and communities continue to survive and thrive within the context of complex and unrelenting personal, structural, and collective trauma. Psychological research has examined this adaptive capacity through frameworks of resilience and posttraumatic growth. Through multidisciplinary engagement, we have identified limitations of these frameworks when they are applied to LGBTQ+ communities
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Black intergenerational healing and well-being: Reimagining posttraumatic growth. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Anna Ortega-Williams,Tricia Stephens,Zuleka Henderson
For Black people of the African diaspora, who have survived generational oppression including enslavement, and exist in persistently hostile environments in which anti-Black racism is structural and interpersonal, an expansive view of posttraumatic growth (PTG) is required to promote personal and collective healing. Using the intergenerational healing and well-being framework, the authors examine historical
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Psychological predictors of socioeconomic resilience amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from machine learning. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Abhishek Sheetal,Anyi Ma,Frank J Infurna
What predicts cross-country differences in the recovery of socioeconomic activity from the COVID-19 pandemic? To answer this question, we examined how quickly countries' socioeconomic activity bounced back to normalcy from disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic based on residents' attitudes, values, and beliefs as measured in the World Values Survey. We trained nine preregistered machine learning
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Do many hands make light work? The role of romantic partners and close relationships in posttraumatic growth. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Mariah F Purol,William J Chopik
Our relationships are an important resource for health and well-being in times of need, often buffering the negative effects of stressful situations. Recent research has expanded on these buffering effects, exploring the role of close others in the experience of posttraumatic growth (PTG), or positive personality change that occurs after someone has experienced trauma. In the current review, we examine
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Early adolescents' ethnic-racial discrimination and pubertal development: Parents' ethnic-racial identities promote adolescents' resilience. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Juan Del Toro,Riana E Anderson,Xiaoran Sun,Richard M Lee
Ethnically and racially underrepresented adolescents are experiencing pubertal development earlier in life than prior cohorts and their White American peers. This early onset of puberty is partly attributable to ethnic-racial discrimination. To contribute to adolescents' resilience and posttraumatic growth in the face of ethnic-racial discrimination, parents' ethnic-racial identities may spill over
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Not just growth, but worldmaking: A phenomenological exploration of posttraumatic growth among sexual minority women and nonbinary individuals. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Émilie Ellis,Elizabeth Wieling
Despite experiencing disproportionately high rates of trauma exposure and traumatic stress, sexual and gender minority populations are underrepresented in research on posttraumatic growth (PTG). Data from two waves of semistructured life review phenomenological interviews with 14 sexual minority women and nonbinary individuals were analyzed to explore sexual minority women and nonbinary individuals'
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"Resilience looks like me": Community stakeholder perspectives on resilience in Black boys and young men exposed to community violence. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Indya A Walker,Jocelyn R Smith Lee,Erica Payton Foh,Precious McKoy,Miaya H Johnson
Black boys and young men are disproportionately burdened with navigating contexts of community violence resulting from race-based structural inequities and concentrated disadvantage. Despite this chronic adversity, many Black boys and young men thrive; however, resilience research has traditionally focused on identifying individual- and family-level factors that support resilience. Research has yet
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Building a dynamic adaptational process theory of resilience (ADAPTOR): Stress exposure, reserve capacity, adaptation, and consequence. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Cindy S Bergeman,Niccole A Nelson
A Dynamic Adaptational Process Theory of Resilience (ADAPTOR) incorporates a synchronistic interplay of reserve capacity, adaptation, and consequences in the context of the larger exposome. This conceptualization of resilience centers on the argument that individuals can "build" resilience by drawing upon their various reserve capacities to effectively adapt to challenging contextual factors, and that
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Functional brain network organization and multidomain resilience to neighborhood disadvantage in youth. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Jessica L Bezek,Scott Tillem,Gabriela L Suarez,S Alexandra Burt,Alexandra Y Vazquez,Cleanthis Michael,Chandra Sripada,Kelly L Kump,Luke W Hyde
Though youth living in disadvantaged neighborhoods experience greater risk for poor behavioral and mental health outcomes, many go on to show resilience in the face of adversity. A few recent studies have identified neural markers of resilience in cognitive and affective brain networks, yet the broader network organization supporting resilience in youth remains unknown, particularly in relation to
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I am not (your) superwoman, Black girl magic, or beautiful struggle: Rethinking the resilience of Black women and girls. American Psychologist (IF 12.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Keisha L Bentley-Edwards,Valerie N Adams
The concept and social media hashtag, #BlackGirlMagic, is used to demonstrate the ability of Black women and girls to create paths and to succeed despite intersectional racism, sexism, and classism. Conversely, the concept of Black Girl Magic and Strong Black Woman schemas have been used to glorify struggle, undermine support, and victim-blame. Therefore, resiliency for Black women and girls requires