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Challenges in the Pursuit of an Indigenous Psychology: A Self-Reflection Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Anand Paranjpe
This paper describes a variety of challenges faced by the author in studying and promoting indigenous psychologies of the Indian intellectual and cultural traditions. It narrates specific instances which tried to present a variety of obstacles that discouraged the author from his pursuit. For example, when a colleague stated that indigenous psychology is nonsense insofar as science is universal, and
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Positive Deviance Underlies Successful Science: Normative Methodologies Risk Throwing out the Baby With the Bathwater Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 R. Hans Phaf
Successful science needs deviant ideas that may challenge established norms. The last decade saw an unprecedented science-engineering project, with strict rules on preregistration, statistical testing, result-independent guaranteed publication, replication, and openness badging being enforced by psychological journals. These normative methodologies seek to prevent failure (negative deviance) rather
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Building Bridges: Visual Search Meets Action Control via Inter-Trial Sequence Effects Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Dominique Lamy, Christian Frings, Heinrich R. Liesefeld
What we have attended to in the past, as well as the stimulus context associated with past motor responses, have a strong impact on our current behavior. These influences have been investigated through inter-trial priming effects in visual search and sequence effects in action control, respectively. These two research fields are strongly complementary at the theoretical level and show striking similarities
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The Future of Psychotherapy Research and Neuroscience: Introducing the 4E/MoBI Approach to the Study of Patient–Therapist Interaction Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Stefanella Costa-Cordella, Aitana Grasso-Cladera, Francisco J. Parada
The integration of neuroscience and psychotherapy research has long been a topic of interest in the field of mental health. A significant challenge in psychotherapy research is understanding the dyadic interaction between patient and therapist. This interaction is complex, emerging from a myriad of multi-level factors such as gestures, verbal communication, mentalization, and environmental influences
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Returning to Evolved Nestedness, Wellbeing, and Mature Human Nature, an Ecological Imperative Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Darcia Narvaez
Why is humanity destroying its wellbeing and its habitat, Earth? The suggestion here is that the dominant culture has unnested itself from humanity’s millions-year-old adaptive heritages, impairing evolved capacities and human potential in a feedback loop of greater disconnection and destruction. Humanity’s heritage is to be nested horizontally, respectful of deep history and future generations, nested
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Can a Theory of Human Flourishing be Formulated? Toward a Science of Flourishing Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Blaine J. Fowers, Lukas F. Novak, Alex J. Calder, Nona C. Kiknadze
Interest in the topic of human flourishing has burgeoned. This article discusses what is required for a general account of flourishing. It builds on three previous critiques of flourishing conceptualization that clarified the lack of systematic theorizing, the overemphasis on psychometric investigations, and the acultural manner of conceptualization. Addressing these difficulties is necessary to move
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Restoring Sanity and Remembering Spirit in Psychology: Reclaiming Our Pre-Colonial Worldview Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Wahinkpe Topa Four Arrows
This article focuses on rebalancing our colonial worldview assumptions about psychological healing with our pre-colonial, “Indigenous” worldview. It argues that uninvestigated dominant worldview precepts are why most approaches to psychology have not adequately addressed mental health problems. As a solution, the author offers ways to use metacognitive worldview reflection with the aid of a worldview
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Embodied Imagination: Lakoff and Johnson’s Experientialist View of Conceptual Understanding Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Kevin M. Clark
This paper reviews an embodied or experientialist view of conceptual understanding. It focuses on George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s theory of embodied cognition and its framing of human conceptualization and reasoning in terms of embodied imagination. These ideas are summarized as ten basic claims: (a) objectivist assumptions are problematic; (b) many human categories have non-classical structure; (c)
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Climate Justice, Capitalism, and the Political Role of the Psychological Professions Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Abiodun Omotayo Oladejo, Nick Malherbe, Ashley van Niekerk
The term Anthropocene (Age of Human) implies that the reduction of carbon emissions is a matter of changing human behaviour. This risks depoliticising the climate emergency. Everyone is not equally...
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No More Building Resiliency: Confronting American Psychology’s White Supremacist Past to Reimagine Its Antiracist Future Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Rupinder K Legha, Nathalie N. Martinek
This paper introduces a historically informed antiracist approach to psychological practice aimed at disrupting American psychology’s legacy of racism by first saying “No More” to the whiteness eng...
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Moral Identity and the Acquisition of Virtue:A Self-Regulation View Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Tobias Krettenauer, Matt Stichter
The acquisition of virtue can be conceptualized as a self-regulatory process in which deliberate practice results in increasingly higher levels of skillfulness in leading a virtuous life. This conc...
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Report Failure in Applied Research and Social Program Evaluation: An Invitation to Epistemic Integrity Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Marianne Daher, Antonia Rosati, Sofía Cifuentes
From a critical community psychology approach, this article seeks to visibilize social interventions that exhibit failings, thus exerting epistemic violence, by critically analyzing a microfinance ...
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In Search of the Social in Psychological Capital: Integrating Psychological Capital into a Broader Capital Framework Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Edina Dóci, Bram Spruyt, Deborah De Moortel, Christophe Vanroelen, Joeri Hofmans
During the past decade, a rich literature emerged focusing on “psychological capital,” a multidimensional concept encompassing self-efficacy, hope, optimism, and resilience. So far psychological ca...
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An Historical Causal-Chain Theory of Conceptions of Intelligence Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Robert J. Sternberg, David D. Preiss, Sareh Karami
Lurking behind every conception of intelligence—whether an implicit (folk) or explicit (expert-generated) conception—is an underlying theory of meaning that specifies the form the theory of intelli...
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Unity or Anarchy? A Historical Search for the Psychological Consequences of Psychotrauma Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Ruud A. Jongedijk, Paul A. Boelen, Jeroen W. Knipscheer, Rolf J. Kleber
The field of traumatic stress is often referred to as being in a state of controversy and lack of continuity. Throughout history, disputes repeatedly centered on defining the psychological conseque...
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How We Understand Others: A Theory of How Social Perspective Taking Unfolds Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Hunter Gehlbach, Nan Mu
Social perspective taking—the process through which perceivers discern the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of a target—is foundational for navigating social interactions, building relationships...
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Constructing Indigenous Psychological Theories From A Global Perspective: Taking Filial Piety Model As An Example Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Kuang-Hui Yeh
Most nonwestern researchers regard the field of indigenous psychology as an intellectual movement across the globe to resist the hegemony of Western psychology in representation of the human mind, ...
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Promoting Liberal Education through Introductory Psychology: The Perspective-Based Approach Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 H. Russell Searight, Paul Georg Geiss
Introductory psychology is typically presented to undergraduates as a set of loosely related topics reflecting the organization of most textbooks. The empirically based evidence presented in the to...
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Social-Ecological Measurement of Daily Life: How Relationally Focused Ambulatory Assessment can Advance Clinical Intervention Science Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Deanna M. Kaplan
Individuals’ daily behaviors and social interactions play a central role in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders. Despite this, observational ambulatory assessment methods—researc...
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The Hormesis Model for Building Resilience Through Adversity: Attention to Mechanism in Developmental Context Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Assaf Oshri
In developmental science, resilience refers to children and youths’ ability to recover and pursue positive development in the face of stress related to adversity. Extant research has documented pro...
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He Knows, She Doesn’t? Epistemic Inequality in a Developmental Perspective Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Waldomiro J. Silva Filho, Maria Virginia M. Dazzani, Luca Tateo, Rodrigo Gottschalk Sukerman Barreto, Giuseppina Marsico
This paper aims at establishing a dialogue between philosophy and psychology about the conditions and the process through which humans build epistemic relationships during ontogenetic development. ...
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Where is the When of Creativity?: Specifying the Temporal Dimension of the Four Cs of Creativity Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 James C. Kaufman, Ronald A. Beghetto
Creativity researchers typically focus on the who, what, why, where, and how of creativity. A noticeable omission is when. The when is not completely ignored in the field; it surfaces in developmen...
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Questioning Contemporary Universalist Approaches to Human Flourishing Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Blaine J. Fowers, Lukas F. Novak, Nona C. Kiknadze, Alex J. Calder
This article takes stock of the growing interest in flourishing measurement. The focus is on three challenges in this domain: the degree of coherent theorizing, the overreliance on psychometric val...
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Development of Three Psychology Sub-Disciplines Over the Past 30 Years: A Citation Analysis Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Susanne Singer
At the end of the last century, there was a debate about whether cognitive psychology had superseded behavioral psychology and psychoanalysis, and the question was raised of whether the latter two ...
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Perspectives (of People of Color) on Psychological Science: Does Psychological Science Listen? Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Miraj U Desai, Leswin Laubscher, Spencer Johnson
It remains to be seen whether the American Psychological Association’s new apology and resolutions on racism will help redress longstanding inequities in the field. To be sure, critiques of psychol...
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Childhood Gender Segregation in Context: A Cultural Sociocontextual Approach Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Clare M. Mehta, Kelly Smith
Childhood gender segregation, the tendency for children to form acquaintanceships and friendships with those of the same gender (Mehta & Smith, 2019), has been proposed to be a universal phenomenon...
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Toward a (“Dissolved”) Psychology of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Relations: A Complexity-Informed Proposal Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Ana Teixeira de Melo
Our world is in a state of critical transition demanding new, creative, ecosystemically fit and sustainable responses to complex challenges. We need both new types of knowledge and new modes of kno...
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Human Security Psychology: A Linking Construct for an Eclectic Discipline Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Darrin Hodgetts, Veronica Hopner, Stuart Carr, Daniel Bar-Tal, James H. Liu, Raymond Saner, Lichia Yiu, John Horgan, Rosalind H Searle, Gustavo Massola, Moh A. Hakim, Leo Marai, Pita King, Fathali Moghaddam
Since its inception as a modern and evolving discipline, psychology has been concerned with issues of human security. This think piece offers an initial conceptualisation of human security as a bro...
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The Clinical Relevance of a Socioecological Conceptualization of Self-Worth Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Abigail W. Batchelder, Melissa J. Hagan
Low self-worth pervades discussions of psychopathology, is a central feature of many psychiatric disorders, and appears in conceptions of psychological distress in a range of cultural contexts. Exp...
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The Psychology of Personalization in Digital Environments: From Motivation to Well-Being – A Theoretical Integration Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Fabian Hutmacher, Markus Appel
The personalization of digital environments is becoming ubiquitous due to the rise of AI-based algorithms and recommender systems. Arguably, this technological development has far-reaching conseque...
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Mindfulness and Nondual Well-Being – What is the Evidence that We Can Stay Happy? Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-05-27 Patrick Jones
Research into subjective well-being (SWB) focuses on conducive life conditions, healthy cognitive-affective processes and adaptive behaviours, however, in this model, well-being fluctuates based on...
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Cultures of Listening: Psychology, Resonance, Justice Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Johanna F. Motzkau, Nick M. Lee
Listening, as a general psychological capacity, is a key aspect of perception, communication and experience. However, listening researchers frequently characterize it as a neglected, misunderstood ...
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Five Approaches to Understanding Interpersonal Competence: A Review and Integration Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-04-24 Michelle R. Persich, Michael D. Robinson
Social connectedness has been linked to beneficial outcomes across domains, ages, and cultures. However, not everyone receives these benefits, as there are large individual differences in the capac...
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Phenomenological Origins of Psychological Ownership Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Haider Riaz Khan, John Turri
Motivated by a set of converging empirical findings and theoretical suggestions pertaining to the construct of ownership, we survey literature from multiple disciplines and present an extensive the...
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Metascience is Not Enough—A Plea for Psychological Humanities in the Wake of the Replication Crisis Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Lisa Malich, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter
The replication crisis led to the rise of metascience as a possible solution. In this article, we examine central metascientific premises and argue that attempts to solve the replication crisis in psychology will benefit from a tighter integration of approaches from the psychological humanities. The first part of our article identifies central epistemic merits that metascientific endeavors can contribute
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Protecting Youth from Racism and Prejudice: Contexts, Interventions, and Future Directions Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-04-17 Christia Spears Brown
In the first half of the 21st century, it is clear that racism and prejudice are prevalent worldwide and begin in childhood—as children can be perpetrators, victims, and bystanders of racism and prejudice. Reducing racism in youth is a critical step toward improving the society we all live in. This special issue reviews and synthesizes the latest research on racism and prejudice in childhood and adolescence
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Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Education and Individual Student Development: Understanding the Full Picture in the Era of School Choice Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Christina L. Rucinski
A primary through-line of the research literature on the correlates of structural diversity in education has focused on intergroup outcomes, including prejudice reduction and improving attitudes toward racial and ethnic out-groups. Over the past two decades, advances in theory have illustrated how individuals may cognitively adapt to ongoing interactions with diverse others, informing new investigations
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Applying Insights on Categorisation, Communication, and Dynamic Decision-Making: A Case Study of a ‘Simple’ Maritime Military Decision Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Charlotte E. R. Edmunds, Adam J. L. Harris, Magda Osman
A complete understanding of decision-making in military domains requires gathering insights from several fields of study. To make the task tractable, here we consider a specific example of short-term tactical decisions under uncertainty made by the military at sea. Through this lens, we sketch out relevant literature from three psychological tasks each underpinned by decision-making processes: categorisation
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Integrated Constraints in Creativity: Foundations for a Unifying Model Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Catrinel Tromp
Despite their negative connotation, and the pervasiveness of blue-sky, outside-the-box thinking metaphors, constraints are at the heart of creativity. Using a multidisciplinary approach, as part of the Integrated Constraints in Creativity (IConIC) model, I propose that creative outcomes emerge from the successful leveraging of different types of constraints. I introduce a new, constraint-based definition
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Introduction: Replication of Crises: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Phenomenon of the Replication Crisis in Psychology Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Lisa Malich, Marcus R. Munafò
The replication crisis has preoccupied psychology for over a decade and has led to many reform proposals. In this Special Issue, we argue that a reflexive discussion of both the replication crisis and possible reforms is crucial. With the plural ‘replication of crises’ in the title, we want to make clear that the current crisis is more than one. What is perceived as a crisis varies depending on the
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Replication and Reproduction: Crises in Psychology and Academic Labour Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Felicity Callard
Discussions of the replication crisis in psychology require more substantive analysis of the crisis of academic labour and of social reproduction in the university. Both the replication crisis and the crisis of social reproduction in the university describe a failure in processes of reproducing something. The financial crisis of 2007–8 shortly preceded the emergence of the replication crisis, as well
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Intergroup Contact and Prejudice Reduction: Prospects and Challenges in Changing Youth Attitudes Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Linda R. Tropp, Fiona White, Christina L. Rucinski, Colin Tredoux
Intergroup contact has long been lauded as a key intervention to reduce prejudice and improve intergroup attitudes among youth. In this review, we summarize classic perspectives and new developments in the intergroup contact literature, highlighting both prospects and challenges associated with achieving desired youth outcomes through contact. First, we review literature showing how positive intergroup
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Early Experimental Psychology: How did Replication Work Before P-Hacking? Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Annette Mülberger
For many researchers, replication is still the “gold standard” that is crucial for verifying scientific findings (see, for example, Frank & Saxe, 2012; Iso-Ahola, 2020; Witte & Zenker, 2017). Indeed, Crandall and Sherman (2016) declared that: “[t]here is no controversy over the need for replication; virtually all scientists and philosophers of science endorse the notion that replication of one sort
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Creators of the Vocabulary of Anglophone Psychology and Their Relationships Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 John G. Benjafield
The vocabulary of anglophone psychology largely developed during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The creators of this vocabulary include such well-known names as William James, Joan Riviere, E. L. Thorndike, and James Strachey. Along with others, they invented many new words and word meanings for psychology. The more a psychologist responded to the need for new vocabulary the more likely were they
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The Function of Literature in Psychological Science Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-01-21 Ivan Flis
The recent reform debates in psychological science, prompted by a widespread crisis of confidence, have exposed and destabilized the so-called myth of self-correction, that is, the problem that most scientists perceive their disciplines as self-correcting without engaging in actual practices that correct the scientific record. In this paper, building on the idea of self-correction as a myth, I propose
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Making Sense of Culture for the Psychological Sciences Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Nandita Chaudhary, Girishwar Misra, Parul Bansal, Jaan Valsiner, Tushar Singh
In this article, we examine the place of culture in the human sciences with specific reference to psychology and the cultural histories of India. Despite the depth of scholarly writing on the intimate and inextricable ties between culture and psychological processes, core advancements and definitive positions in psychology have remained elusive. The privileging of a single culturally specific world-view
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Decoloniality and Disruption of the Scientific Status Quo: Dissemination of Universal Theoretical Assumptions in International Research Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Ana Luiza de França Sá, Giuseppina Marsico
The challenges faced by science in the international communication process range from the choice of philosophical and epistemological assumptions used in scientific research to the choice of participants who comprise the sample of the studies produced. There is, in the hierarchy of scientific production, Westernized trends of theoretical assumptions that predominate. The challenge of producing and
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Meaning-Change Through the Mistaken Mirror: On the Indeterminacy of “Wundt” and “Piaget” in Translation Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Jeremy Trevelyan Burman
What does a name mean in translation? Quine argued, famously, that the meaning of gavagai is indeterminate until you learn the language that uses that word to refer to its object. The case is similar with scientific texts, especially if they are older; historical. Because the meanings of terms can drift over time, so too can the meanings that inform experiments and theory. As can a life’s body of work
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Reducing Prejudice Through Promoting Cross-Group Friendships Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Melanie Killen, Katherine Luken Raz, Sandra Graham
Around the globe, individuals are affected by exclusion, discrimination, and prejudice targeting individuals from racial, ethnic, and immigrant backgrounds as well as crimes based on gender, nationality, and culture (United Nations General Assembly, 2016). Unfortunately, children are often the targeted victims (Costello & Dillard, 2019). What is not widely understood is that the intergroup biases underlying
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The AMIGAS Model: Reconciling Prejudice Reduction and Collective Action Approaches Through a Multicultural Commitment in Intergroup Relations Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Ana Urbiola, Craig McGarty, Rui Costa-Lopes
Social psychology’s search for ways to address intergroup inequality has grappled with two approaches that have been considered incompatible: (a) the prejudice reduction approach, that argues that changing individual negative attitudes will undermine the basis for discrimination and lead to intergroup harmony; and (b) the collective action approach, that argues that social protest and activism can
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Developmental Prevention of Prejudice: Conceptual Issues, Evidence-Based Designing, and Outcome Results Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Andreas Beelmann, Sebastian Lutterbach
This article reviews conceptual and empirical issues on the developmental prevention of prejudice in childhood and adolescence. Developmental prejudice prevention is defined as interventions that intentionally change and promote intergroup attitudes and behavior by systematically recognizing theories and empirical results on the development of prejudice in young people. After presenting a general conception
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The Role of the Family for Racism and Xenophobia in Childhood and Adolescence Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Tuğçe Aral, Linda P. Juang, Miriam Schwarzenthal, Deborah Rivas-Drake
Racism and xenophobia are not just the problems of the adult world; As systems of beliefs, practices, and policies, racism and xenophobia influence children’s perceptions and experiences at early ages. Because families can be significant sources of information regarding race and ethnicity, we focus on the family to understand the broader context of racism and xenophobia in childhood and adolescence
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Ethnic-Racial Identity as a Source of Resilience and Resistance in the Context of Racism and Xenophobia Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Deborah Rivas-Drake, Bernardette J. Pinetta, Linda P. Juang, Abunya Agi
How youth come to understand their social identities and their relation to others’ identities can have important implications for the future of our society. In this article, we focus on how ethnic-racial identities (ERI) can serve to promote (or hinder) collective well-being. We first describe the nature of change in ethnic-racial identities over the course of childhood and adolescence. We then delineate
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Back to the Source: Moving Upstream in the Curricular Rivers of Coloniality Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2021-10-21 Susan James, Helene Lorenz
This article shares choices made as part of an introductory decoloniality curriculum in a non-clinical community psychology M.A./PhD program where the authors are faculty members. We focus on the basics of decoloniality and decolonial pedagogies in two first-year foundational psychology courses: one course on implications of decoloniality for studying differing psychological paradigms, ontologies,
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General Psychology Otherwise: A Decolonial Articulation Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Decolonial Psychology Editorial Collective
Critics have faulted the project of general psychology for conceptions of general truth that (1) emphasize basic processes abstracted from context and (2) rest on a narrow foundation of research among people in enclaves of Eurocentric modernity. Informed by these critiques, we propose decolonial perspectives as a new scholarly imaginary for general psychology Otherwise. Whereas hegemonic articulations
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Understanding Intergroup Relations in Childhood and Adolescence Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Maykel Verkuyten
There are various theoretical approaches for understanding intergroup biases among children and adolescents. This article focuses on the social identity approach and argues that existing research will benefit by more fully considering the implications of this approach for examining intergroup relations among youngsters. These implications include (a) the importance of self-categorization, (b) the role
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How to True Psychology’s Objects Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2021-10-02 Jill Morawski
Psychology’s current crisis attends most visibly to perceived problems with statistical models, methods, publication practices, and career incentives. Rarely is close attention given to the objects of inquiry—to ontological matters—yet the crisis-related literature does features statements about the nature of psychology’s objects. Close analysis of the ontological claims reveals discrepant understandings:
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Coloniality and Psychology: From Silencing to Re-Centering Marginalized Voices in Postcolonial Times Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2021-09-27 Sunil Bhatia, Kumar Ravi Priya
We adopt a decolonizing framework in this article to examine how legacies of colonialism and coloniality continue to manifest in Euro-American psychology. The population of India is now over 1.2 billion people with over 356 million young; they make up the world’s largest youth population, but their stories remain largely invisible in Euro-American psychology. For this article, we draw on a growing
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Understanding Replication in a Way That Is True to Science Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2021-09-25 Brian D. Haig
In this article, I critically examine a number of widely held beliefs about the nature of replication and its place in science, with particular reference to psychology. In doing so, I present a number of underappreciated understandings of the nature of science more generally. I contend that some contributors to the replication debates overstate the importance of replication in science and mischaracterize
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Ecological Values Theory: Beyond Conformity, Goal-Seeking, and Rule-Following in Action and Interaction Review of General Psychology (IF 4.615) Pub Date : 2021-09-25 Bert H. Hodges, Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi
Values have long been considered important for psychology but are frequently characterized as beliefs, goals, rules, or norms. Ecological values theory locates them, not in people or in objects, but in ecosystem relationships and the demands those relationships place on fields of action within the system. To test the worth of this approach, we consider skilled coordination tasks in social psychology