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The Power of a Good Word: Enhancing the Efficacy of Analgesics in Clinical Settings. Psychother. Psychosom. (IF 16.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-04 Roi Treister,Vered Cohen,Limor Issa,Karine Beiruti Wiegler,Alexander Izakson,Mariana Agostinho
INTRODUCTION Communication between medical staff and patients about treatment efficacy elicits expectations of benefit and improves treatment outcomes. While demonstrated in multiple studies via different research methodologies, uniform communication protocols have not been adopted in clinical practice. Here, we summarize the results of two sister studies aimed at bridging this gap. METHODS Women undergoing
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Supporting the status quo is weakly associated with subjective well-being: A comparison of the palliative function of ideology across social status groups using a meta-analytic approach. Psychological Bulletin (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Salvador Vargas Salfate,Julia Spielmann,D A Briley
Research has suggested that the endorsement of ideologies supporting the status quo leads to higher subjective psychological well-being-an idea labeled as the palliative function of ideology within system justification theory. Furthermore, this approach has suggested that this association should be moderated by social status. Specifically, the association between the endorsement of ideologies supporting
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Who am I? A second-order meta-analytic review of correlates of the self in childhood and adolescence. Psychological Bulletin (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Thorben Jansen,Jennifer Meyer,John Hattie,Jens Möller
People's subjective beliefs about themselves affect what people think and, consequently, what they do. Positive self-beliefs are important for many life outcomes, from academic success to well-being, especially during K-12 education as a crucial developmental period. Many empirical studies and meta-analyses have examined correlates of self-beliefs. The present second-order meta-analytic review integrates
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Reporting bias, not external focus: A robust Bayesian meta-analysis and systematic review of the external focus of attention literature. Psychological Bulletin (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Brad McKay,Abbey E Corson,Jeswende Seedu,Celeste S De Faveri,Hibaa Hasan,Kristen Arnold,Faith C Adams,Michael J Carter
Evidence has ostensibly been accumulating over the past 2 decades suggesting that an external focus on the intended movement effect (e.g., on the golf club during a swing) is superior to an internal focus on body movements (e.g., on your arms during a swing) for skill acquisition. Seven previous meta-studies have all reported evidence of external focus superiority. The most comprehensive of these concluded
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When connecting with LGBTQ+ communities helps and why it does: A meta-analysis of the relationship between connectedness and health-related outcomes. Psychological Bulletin (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 G Tyler Lefevor,Sydney A Sorrell,Samuel J Skidmore,Kiet D Huynh,Rachel M Golightly,Eleanor Standifird,Kyrstin Searle,Madelyn Call
We conducted a multilevel meta-analysis of 390 effect sizes from 167 studies with 157,923 participants examining the relationship between connectedness with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) communities and health-related outcomes, following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. We conducted our initial search in January 2023
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Telehealth-delivered depression prevention: Short-term outcomes from a school-based randomized controlled trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-31 Jami F Young,Jason D Jones,Karen T G Schwartz,Amy So,Gillian C Dysart,Rebecca M Kanine,Jane E Gillham,Robert Gallop,Molly Davis
OBJECTIVE To examine short-term (i.e., postintervention) outcomes from a randomized controlled trial comparing a school-based telehealth-delivered depression prevention program, Interpersonal Psychotherapy-Adolescent Skills Training (IPT-AST), to services as usual (SAU). We expected IPT-AST would be acceptable and feasible and that IPT-AST adolescents would experience greater reductions in depression
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Reconsidering Persistent Somatic Symptoms: A Transdiagnostic and Transsymptomatic Approach. Psychother. Psychosom. (IF 16.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-29 Bernd Löwe,Stephan Zipfel,Omer van den Bergh,Peter Henningsen
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Developing and Testing Complex Interventions in Psychosomatic Medicine. Psychother. Psychosom. (IF 16.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-25 Christopher Burton
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A theory of flexible multimodal synchrony. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-10-24 Ilanit Gordon,Alon Tomashin,Oded Mayo
Dominant theoretical accounts of interpersonal synchrony, the temporal coordination of biobehavioral processes between several individuals, have employed a linear approach, generally considering synchrony as a positive state, and utilizing aggregate scores. However, synchrony is known to take on a dynamical form with continuous shifts in its timeline. Acting as one continuously, is not always the optimal
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Safety behavior reduction for appearance concerns: A randomized controlled trial of a smartphone-based intervention. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-24 Tapan A Patel,Jesse R Cougle
OBJECTIVE Appearance concerns are a core feature of multiple psychiatric disorders (i.e., body dysmorphic disorder, eating disorders, and social anxiety disorders). Individuals with these concerns commonly engage in appearance-related safety behaviors (ARSB), behaviors intended to avoid, prevent, or manage the negative evaluation of one's physical appearance. The present study evaluated a brief ARSB
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Results of a randomized waitlist-controlled trial of online cognitive behavioral sex therapy and online mindfulness-based sex therapy for hypoactive sexual desire dysfunction in women. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-24 Julia Velten,Gerrit Hirschfeld,Milena Meyers,Jürgen Margraf
OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of two internet-delivered psychological treatments for hypoactive sexual desire dysfunction (HSDD) in women: internet-based cognitive behavioral sex therapy (iCBST) and internet-based mindfulness-based sex therapy (iMBST). METHOD Women with HSDD were randomly assigned to one of three groups: iCBST, iMBST, or a waitlist control group. The interventions
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Efficacy of a Standalone Smartphone Application to Treat Postnatal Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Psychother. Psychosom. (IF 16.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-23 Pedro F Zuccolo,André R Brunoni,Tatiane Borja,Alicia Matijasevich,Guilherme V Polanczyk,Daniel Fatori
INTRODUCTION Smartphone app interventions based on cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) are promising scalable alternatives for treating mental disorders, but the evidence of their efficacy for postpartum depression is limited. We assessed the efficacy of Motherly, a standalone CBT-based smartphone app, in reducing symptoms of postpartum depression. METHODS Women aged 18-40 with symptoms of postpartum
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Challenges for the Moral Injury Construct. Psychother. Psychosom. (IF 16.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-23 Richard A Bryant
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Evolution of Psychotropic Medication Prescription in Young People: Reflection from the Quebec Experience. Psychother. Psychosom. (IF 16.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-22 Joël Monzée
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Defining social reward: A systematic review of human and animal studies. Psychological Bulletin (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-21 Ana Stijovic,Magdalena Siegel,Asena U Kocan,Isidora Bojkovska,Sebastian Korb,Giorgia Silani
Social rewards are strong drivers of behavior and fundamental to well-being, yet there is a lack of consensus regarding what actually defines a reward as "social." Because a systematic overview of existing social reward operationalizations is currently absent, a review of the literature seems necessary to advance toward a unified framework and to better guide research and theory. To bridge this gap
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Bouncing back from life's perturbations: Formalizing psychological resilience from a complex systems perspective. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-10-21 Gabriela Lunansky,George A Bonanno,Tessa F Blanken,Claudia D van Borkulo,Angélique O J Cramer,Denny Borsboom
Experiencing stressful or traumatic events can lead to a range of responses, from mild disruptions to severe and persistent mental health issues. Understanding the various trajectories of response to adversity is crucial for developing effective interventions and support systems. Researchers have identified four commonly observed response trajectories to adversity, from which the resilient is the most
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Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy versus Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Multisite Randomized Controlled Non-Inferiority Trial. Psychother. Psychosom. (IF 16.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-18 Nadja Wolf,Patricia van Oppen,Adriaan W Hoogendoorn,Odile A van den Heuvel,Harold J G M van Megen,Aniek Broekhuizen,Mirjam Kampman,Daniëlle C Cath,Koen R J Schruers,Saskia M van Es,Tamara Opdam,Anton J L M van Balkom,Henny A D Visser
INTRODUCTION Although cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) effectively treats obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), many patients refuse CBT or drop out prematurely, partly because of anxiety regarding exposure and response prevention (ERP) exercises. Inference-based cognitive behavioral therapy (I-CBT) focuses on correcting distorted inferential thinking patterns, enhancing reality-based reasoning, and
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Study of Rates and Factors Associated to Psychosomatic Syndromes Assessed Using the Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research across Different Clinical Settings. Psychother. Psychosom. (IF 16.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-17 Wei Xu,Wenhao Jiang,Rongjing Ding,Hong Tao,Yanyong Wang,Yanping Tang,Dongfeng Liang,Yuping Wang,Mingwei Wang,Bingwei Chen,Youyong Kong,Lei Liu,Yingying Yue,Liangliang Tan,Lu Yu,Fiammetta Cosci,Yonggui Yuan,
INTRODUCTION Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research (DCPR) serve as an instrument for identifying and classifying specific psychosomatic syndromes that are not adequately encompassed in standard nosography. The present study aimed at measuring the prevalence of DCPR syndromes in different clinical settings and exploring factors associated to such diagnoses. METHODS A cross-sectional and nationwide
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Associations between cognitive appraisals and emotions: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-14 Gerard C Yeo,Desmond C Ong
The core premise of cognitive appraisal theories of emotion is that emotions are produced from our interpretation of what we experience. Compared to other major theoretical frameworks in emotion, the appraisal perspective emphasizes the centrality of these cognitive interpretations in giving rise to emotions. Decades of research have yielded numerous studies that broadly agree on the centrality of
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The importance of the appropriate use of terms related to body ownership in research using avatars. Psychother. Psychosom. (IF 16.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-14 Monika Kisielewska,Beata Mirucka
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Reply to Kisielewska and Mirucka: The Crucial Aspect of Ownership Illusions Is Their Strength, Not the Method to Induce Them. Psychother. Psychosom. (IF 16.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-14 Simone C Behrens,Katrin E Giel,Stephan Zipfel
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Innovative Strategies in Evaluation and Treatment of Burnout in Medical Workers. Psychother. Psychosom. (IF 16.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-11 Jenny Guidi,Giovanni A Fava
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Enhancing Conceptual Clarity regarding the Construct of Moral Injury. Psychother. Psychosom. (IF 16.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-07 Sheila Frankfurt O'Brien,Isabelle Baptista,Philip R Szeszko
BACKGROUND The construct of "moral injury" is used widely in the research literature and media to broadly describe the impact of events involving perceived violations of one's sense of right and wrong (herein referred to as "potentially morally injurious events" [PMIEs]). SUMMARY In this theoretical review, we provided a brief overview of the "moral injury" construct and its limitations including the
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Individualized Assessment and Treatment Program (IATP) for alcohol use disorder: Comparison with conventional cognitive-behavioral treatment and examination of coping skills as a mediator of treatment. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-07 Mark D Litt,Howard Tennen,Ronald M Kadden
OBJECTIVE This study tested a highly individualized cognitive-behavioral coping skills treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD). Recent studies have indicated that coping skills training programs are not always effective. A possible explanation is that the training provided in these programs may not address the specific needs of the patient. The Individualized Assessment and Treatment Program (IATP)
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Fadeout and persistence of intervention impacts on social-emotional and cognitive skills in children and adolescents: A meta-analytic review of randomized controlled trials. Psychological Bulletin (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Emma R Hart,Drew H Bailey,Sha Luo,Pritha Sengupta,Tyler W Watts
Researchers and policymakers aspire for educational interventions to change children's long-run developmental trajectories. However, intervention impacts on cognitive and achievement measures commonly fade over time. Less is known, although much is theorized, about social-emotional skill persistence. The current meta-analysis investigated whether intervention impacts on social-emotional skills demonstrated
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Categories of training to improve empathy: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Xiao Wu,Su-Chen Yao,Xue-Jing Lu,Yu-Qing Zhou,Ya-Zhuo Kong,Li Hu
Due to the vital role of empathy in promoting prosocial behaviors and nurturing social bonds, there is a growing interest in cultivating empathy. Yet, the effectiveness of existing training methods on empathy, especially on different dimensions of empathy (i.e., affective, cognitive, motivational, and behavioral empathy), varies tremendously, and the underlying causes for this heterogeneity remain
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Does the apple fall far from the tree? A meta-analysis linking parental factors to children's intrinsic and extrinsic goals. Psychological Bulletin (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Kelly A Ferber,Emma L Bradshaw,Michael Noetel,Tsz Ying Wong,Jiseul S Ahn,Philip D Parker,Richard M Ryan
Self-determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2017) has highlighted the differential roles that intrinsic life goals (for personal growth, close relationships, community connections, and physical health) and extrinsic life goals (i.e., for wealth, image, and status) play in supporting well-being. Less is known about how orientations toward these two types of aspirations develop. It is likely that early environmental
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Early childhood executive function predicts concurrent and later social and behavioral outcomes: A review and meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Nicole J Stucke,Sabine Doebel
Executive function (EF), the set of mental processes and skills involved in goal-oriented planning, organizing, and controlling behavior, is believed to support child development across many domains of life. However, although ample evidence suggests a relation between childhood EF and academic skills, it is less clear what its role is in domains beyond academics. We report a meta-analysis of relations
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School-based organizational skills training for students in grades 3-5: A cluster randomized trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Jenelle Nissley-Tsiopinis,Thomas J Power,Phylicia F Fleming,Katie L Tremont,Bridget Poznanski,Shannon Ryan,Jaclyn Cacia,Theresa Egan,Cristin Montalbano,Alex Holdaway,Ami Patel,Richard Gallagher,Howard Abikoff,A Russell Localio,Jennifer A Mautone
OBJECTIVE Research has demonstrated the effectiveness of interventions to reduce organizational skills deficits and homework problems, including the clinic-based Organizational Skills Training (OST-C) program (Abikoff et al., 2013). In this study, OST-C was adapted for schools as a small-group (Tier 2) intervention delivered by school partners (OST-T2). METHOD The study was conducted in 22 schools
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Change processes associated with functional improvement in a web-based version of Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation (webSTAIR) for trauma-exposed veterans. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Kathryn S Macia,Eve B Carlson,Daniel M Blonigen,Jan Lindsay,Marylène Cloitre
OBJECTIVE In spite of the evidence that both symptom reduction and functional improvement are important for supporting recovery from trauma, psychotherapy process research has largely focused on mechanisms of symptom reduction. A better understanding of how change occurs in treatments that emphasize functional improvement rather than trauma processing is critical for optimizing effective, patient-centered
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Data-informed psychological therapy, measurement-based care, and precision mental health. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Wolfgang Lutz,Antonia Vehlen,Brian Schwartz
Measurement-based care, that is, incorporating data-informed decision support for therapists into psychological therapy, has undergone significant advancements over the past 2 decades. Technological innovations such as computerized data assessment and feedback tools have facilitated its widespread adoption across various settings. For instance, clinicians can utilize psychometric data to personalize
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A randomized controlled trial comparing brief online self-guided interventions for loneliness. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-26 Benjamin T Kaveladze,Sara F Gastelum,Dong-Anh C Ngo,Paul Delacruz,Katherine A Cohen,Anton Käll,Gerhard Andersson,Jessica L Schleider,Stephen M Schueller
OBJECTIVE Loneliness is a global health issue, but current loneliness interventions are not scalable enough to reach many who might benefit from them. Brief online interventions could greatly expand access to evidence-based loneliness interventions. METHOD We conducted a preregistered three-armed trial (N = 908, ages 16-78) to compare three self-guided online interventions: a single-session intervention
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The Role of Online Well-Being Therapy in Overcoming Allostatic Overload in Medical Workers: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Study. Psychother. Psychosom. (IF 16.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-23 Xiaolei Liu,Penghui Song,Lu Yin,Kun Wang,Boheng Zhu,Xiaomin Huang,Yanyan Niu,Haixia Leng,Qing Xue,Mao Peng,Baoquan Min,Fangfang Shangguan,Peiran Zhang,Wenfeng Zhao,Huang Wang,Jing Lv,Mei Yang,Ping Wang,Dongning Li,Xiaoling Gao,Kun Feng,Keming Yun,Fiammetta Cosci,Hongxing Wang
INTRODUCTION Stress may lead to allostatic overload. Well-being therapy (WBT) might mitigate it by enhancing psychological well-being and protecting from psychological symptoms. Since no reports are available on the use of WBT in allostatic overload, we evaluated online WBT effects in reducing allostatic overload in medical workers during the coronavirus pandemic. METHODS Sixty-six participants with
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Measuring the impact of multiple social cues to advance theory in person perception research. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-23 Samuel A W Klein,Jeffrey W Sherman
Forming impressions of others is a fundamental aspect of social life. These impressions necessitate the integration of many and varied sources of information about other people, including social group memberships, apparent personality traits, inferences from observed behaviors, and so forth. However, methodological limitations have hampered progress in understanding this integration process. In particular
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Positive health outcomes of mindfulness-based interventions for cancer patients and survivors: A systematic review and meta-analysis Clin. Psychol. Rev. (IF 13.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Nasim Badaghi, Cecilie Buskbjerg, Linda Kwakkenbos, Sabien Bosman, Robert Zachariae, Anne Speckens
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are commonly used for cancer patients and survivors to reduce symptoms, but little is known about effects on positive health outcomes. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the effects of MBIs on positive health outcomes (mindfulness skills, self-compassion, positive affect, coping, social support, well-being, personal growth, and spirituality)
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A flexible threshold theory of change perception in self, others, and the world. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Ed O'Brien
I propose a flexible threshold theory of change perception in self and social judgment. Traditionally, change perception is viewed as a basic cognitive process entailing the act of discriminating informational differences. This article takes a more dynamic view of change perception, highlighting people's motivations in interpreting those differences. Specifically, I propose people's change perceptions
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Bridging the gap between subjective probability and probability judgments: The quantum sequential sampler. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Jiaqi Huang,Jerome R Busemeyer,Zo Ebelt,Emmanuel M Pothos
One of the most important challenges in decision theory has been how to reconcile the normative expectations from Bayesian theory with the apparent fallacies that are common in probabilistic reasoning. Recently, Bayesian models have been driven by the insight that apparent fallacies are due to sampling errors or biases in estimating (Bayesian) probabilities. An alternative way to explain apparent fallacies
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Violations of transitive preference: A comparison of compensatory and noncompensatory accounts. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Rob Ranyard,Henry Montgomery,Ashley Luckman,Emmanouil Konstantinidis
Violations of transitive preference can be accounted for by both the noncompensatory lexicographic semiorder heuristic and the compensatory additive difference model. However, the two have not been directly compared. Here, we fully develop a simplified additive difference (SAD) model, which includes a graphical analysis of precisely which parameter values are consistent with adherence to, or violation
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An entropy modulation theory of creative exploration. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Thomas T Hills,Yoed N Kenett
Compared to individuals who are rated as less creative, higher creative individuals tend to produce ideas more quickly and with more novelty-what we call faster-and-further phenomenology. This has traditionally been explained either as supporting an associative theory-based on differences in the structure of cognitive representations-or as supporting an executive theory-based on the principle that
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Networks of beliefs: An integrative theory of individual- and social-level belief dynamics. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Jonas Dalege,Mirta Galesic,Henrik Olsson
We present a theory of belief dynamics that explains the interplay between internal beliefs in people's minds and beliefs of others in their external social environments. The networks of belief theory goes beyond existing theories of belief dynamics in three ways. First, it provides an explicit connection between belief networks in individual minds and belief dynamics on social networks. The connection
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Emotion understanding as third-person appraisals: Integrating appraisal theories with developmental theories of emotion. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Tiffany Doan,Desmond C Ong,Yang Wu
Emotion understanding goes beyond recognizing emotional displays-it also involves reasoning about how people's emotions are affected by their subjective evaluations of what they experienced. Inspired by work in adults on cognitive appraisal theories of emotion, we propose a framework that can guide systematic investigations of how an adult-like, sophisticated understanding of emotion develops from
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Efficient visual representations for learning and decision making. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Tyler Malloy,Chris R Sims
The efficient representation of visual information is essential for learning and decision making due to the complexity and uncertainty of the world, as well as inherent constraints on the capacity of cognitive systems. We hypothesize that biological agents learn to efficiently represent visual information in a manner that balances performance across multiple potentially competing objectives. In this
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How do people predict a random walk? Lessons for models of human cognition. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Jake Spicer,Jian-Qiao Zhu,Nick Chater,Adam N Sanborn
Repeated forecasts of changing values are common in many everyday tasks, from predicting the weather to financial markets. A particularly simple and informative instance of such fluctuating values are random walks: Sequences in which each point is a random movement from only its preceding value, unaffected by any previous points. Moreover, random walks often yield basic rational forecasting solutions
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Exploring the underlying psychological constructs of self-report eating behavior measurements: Toward a comprehensive framework. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Clarissa Dakin,Graham Finlayson,R James Stubbs
Food and eating are fundamental for survival but also have significant impacts on health, psychology, sociology, and economics. Understanding what motivates people to eat can provide insights into "adaptive" eating behavior, which is especially important due to the increasing prevalence of health-related conditions such as obesity. There has been considerable interest in developing theoretical models
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A formal analysis of the standard operating processes (SOP) and multiple time scales (MTS) theories of habituation. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Orlando E Jorquera,Osvaldo M Farfán,Sergio N Galarce,Natalia A Cancino,Pablo D Matamala,Edgar H Vogel
In this article, we compare two theories of habituation: the standard operating processes (SOP) and the multiple time scales (MTS) models. Both theories propose that habituation is due to a reduction in the difference between actual and remembered stimulation. Although the two approaches explain short-term habituation using a similar nonassociative mechanism based on a time-decaying memory of recent
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Learning emotion regulation: An integrative framework. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Rachael N Wright,R Alison Adcock,Kevin S LaBar
Improving emotion regulation abilities, a process that requires learning, can enhance psychological well-being and mental health. Empirical evidence suggests that emotion regulation can be learned-during development and the lifespan, and most explicitly in psychotherapeutic interventions and experimental training paradigms. There is little work however that directly addresses such learning mechanisms
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Decisions among shifting choice alternatives reveal option-general representations of evidence. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Peter D Kvam,Konstantina Sokratous,Anderson K Fitch
Dynamic models of choice typically describe the decision-making process in terms of the degree or balance of support for available response options. However, these alternative-specific representations of support are liable to fail when the available options change during the course of a decision. We suggest that people may use alternative-general representations, where stimulus feature information-rather
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Sleep and paranoia: A systematic review and meta-analysis Clin. Psychol. Rev. (IF 13.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Poppy Brown, Sarah Reeve, Matthew Hotton, Natalie Steer, Craig Steel
Sleep dysfunction commonly co-occurs with paranoia and is hypothesised to be a contributory causal mechanism in its development and maintenance.
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Should Loneliness Be a Treatment Target? Psychother. Psychosom. (IF 16.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Tobias Krieger,Noëmi Seewer
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Childhood Trauma and the Immune System: A Complex Interaction That Can Lead to Biopsychosocial Pathogenesis. Psychother. Psychosom. (IF 16.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Laiana A Quagliato,Antonio E Nardi
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The (absence of the) presence-absence distinction in motivation science. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Andrew J Elliot,E Tory Higgins,Emily Nakkawita
A focal stimulus (object, end state, outcome, event, experience, characteristic, possibility, etc.) may represent a presence, an occurrence, or something, or it may represent an absence, a nonoccurrence, or nothing. This presence-absence distinction has received extensive and explicit attention in cognitive psychology (it is the central figure), but it has received minimal and primarily implicit attention
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Social exploration: How and why people seek new connections. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Shelly Tsang,Kyle Barrentine,Sareena Chadha,Shigehiro Oishi,Adrienne Wood
Just as animals forage for food, humans forage for social connections. People often face a decision between exploring new relationships versus deepening existing ones. This trade-off, known in optimal foraging theory as the exploration-exploitation trade-off, is featured prominently in other disciplines such as animal foraging, learning, and organizational behavior. Many of the framework's principles
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Understanding self-control as a problem of regulatory scope. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Kentaro Fujita,Yaacov Trope,Nira Liberman
Although the focus of research for decades, there is a surprising lack of consensus on what is (and what is not) self-control. We review some of the most prominent theoretical models of self-control, including those that highlight conflicts between smaller-sooner versus larger-later rewards, "hot" emotions versus "cool" cognitions, and efficient automatic versus resource-intensive controlled processes
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Rise in Persistent Somatic Syndromes: A Relationship with Systemic Changes in Healthcare? Psychother. Psychosom. (IF 16.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Tahir Jokinen
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Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder: Systematic review and meta-analysis demonstrating the impact of study quality on prevalence rates Clin. Psychol. Rev. (IF 13.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Rebecca Nicholls-Clow, Melanie Simmonds-Buckley, Glenn Waller
The prevalence of Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is unclear. This paper is the first to present meta-analysis based estimates of the prevalence of ARFID, and to assess the impact of the quality of the research on these estimates.
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The association between digital addiction and interpersonal relationships: A systematic review and meta-analysis Clin. Psychol. Rev. (IF 13.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Xun Yang, Tingting Liao, Yan Wang, Lifeng Ren, Jianguang Zeng
Digital addiction (DA) has been identified as an emerging public health problem worldwide. However, the extent and direction of the association between DA and interpersonal relationships (IRs) are unknown. Does DA have adverse effects on IRs, and how credible is the evidence for this association in published analyses of real-world data? Using the PRISMA method, we conducted a meta-analysis to quantitatively
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Gender nonconformity and common mental health problems: A meta-analysis Clin. Psychol. Rev. (IF 13.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Yin Xu, Jinghao Feng, Qazi Rahman
We tested the association between gender nonconformity and common mental health outcomes, including generalized anxiety symptoms, depressive symptoms, self-esteem, self-harm attempts, and suicide attempts using an exhaustive meta-analysis. PsycInfo, ProQuest Central, EBSCOhost, and PubMed were searched for eligible articles using either cross-sectional or longitudinal designs on 11th July 2024. A total
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Response to Philips et al.: Several Fundamental Misconceptions about Evidence-Based Practice. Psychother. Psychosom. (IF 16.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Sophie Juul,Janus Christian Jakobsen,Emilie Hestbaek,Caroline Barkholt Kamp,Markus Harboe Olsen,Marie Rishede,Frederik Weischer Frandsen,Sune Bo,Stig Poulsen,Per Sørensen,Anthony Bateman,Sebastian Simonsen
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Understanding non-response in psychotherapy: A meta-synthesis Clin. Psychol. Rev. (IF 13.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Bethany Carrington, Rebecca Yeates, Ciara Masterson
There is considerable research focusing on the negative outcomes of psychotherapy, however, there remains an overlooked population: those who appear to show no response after treatment. This qualitative evidence synthesis aimed to review the available literature exploring client and therapist experiences of psychotherapy nonresponse. Seven databases were searched for studies using qualitative approaches
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Age-related changes in emotion recognition across childhood: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Christopher Riddell,Milica Nikolić,Elise Dusseldorp,Mariska E Kret
Children's ability to accurately recognize the external emotional signals produced by those around them represents a milestone in their socioemotional development and is associated with a number of important psychosocial outcomes. A plethora of individual studies have examined when, and in which order, children acquire emotion knowledge over the course of their development. Yet, very few attempts have