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A review of the peak-end rule in mental health contexts Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-07 Adam G. Horwitz, Kaitlyn McCarthy, Srijan Sen
The peak-end rule, a memory heuristic in which the most emotionally salient part of an experience (i.e., peak) and conclusion of an experience (i.e., end) are weighted more heavily in summary evaluations, has been understudied in mental health contexts. The recent growth of intensive longitudinal methods has provided new opportunities for examining the peak-end rule in the retrospective recall of mental
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Bridging the digital and physical: The psychology of augmented reality Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Rhonda Hadi, Eric S. Park
By blurring the boundaries between digital and physical realities, Augmented Reality (AR) is transforming consumers' perceptions of themselves and their environments. This review demonstrates AR's capacity to influence psychology and behavior in profound ways. We begin by providing a concise introduction to AR, considering its technical, practical, and theoretical properties. Next, we showcase a multi-disciplinary
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AI and culture: Culturally dependent responses to AI systems Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Aaron J. Barnes, Yuanyuan Zhang, Ana Valenzuela
This article synthesizes recent research connected to how cultural identity can determine responses to artificial intelligence. National differences in AI adoption imply that culturally-driven psychological differences may offer a nuanced understanding and interventions. Our review suggests that cultural identity shapes how individuals include AI in constructing the self in relation to others and determines
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Algorithmic bias: Social science research integration through the 3-D Dependable AI Framework Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Kalinda Ukanwa
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Unveiling the adverse effects of artificial intelligence on financial decisions via the AI-IMPACT model Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-29 Wendy De La Rosa, Christopher J. Bechler
There is considerable enthusiasm for the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve financial well-being. Despite this enthusiasm, it is important to underscore AI's potential adverse effects on consumers' financial decisions. We introduce the AI-IMPACT model, a unifying theoretical framework for how AI can influence consumers' financial decisions. The model details how AI impacts the marketplace
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Speaking your language: The psychological impact of dialect integration in artificial intelligence systems Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-29 Andre Martin, Khalia Jenkins
As the popularity and adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems continue to rise, this article presents a promising proposition: the use of AI dialects to enhance AI perception. By delving into the potential of personalized AI dialects to augment user perceptions of warmth, competence, and authenticity, the article underscores the pivotal role of anthropomorphism in fortifying trust, satisfaction
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Averse to what: Consumer aversion to algorithmic labels, but not their outputs? Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-29 Shwetha Mariadassou, Anne-Kathrin Klesse, Johannes Boegershausen
Inspired by significant technical advancements, a rapidly growing stream of research explores human lay beliefs and reactions surrounding AI tools, which employ algorithms to mimic elements of human intelligence. This literature predominantly documents negative reactions to these tools or the underlying algorithms, often referred to as algorithm aversion or, alternatively, a preference for humans.
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AI-teaming: Redefining collaboration in the digital era Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-29 Jan B. Schmutz, Neal Outland, Sophie Kerstan, Eleni Georganta, Anna-Sophie Ulfert
Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into human teams, forming human-AI teams (HATs), is a rapidly evolving field. This overview examines the complexities of team constellations and dynamics, trust in AI teammates, and shared cognition within HATs. Adding an AI teammate often reduces coordination, communication, and trust. Further, trust in AI tends to decline over time due to initial overestimation
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Beyond code: Consumer response to chatbots Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-29 Nicole Davis, Jianna Jin
Chatbots, a type of virtual AI entity designed to emulate human conversation, are gaining prominence in business and consumer domains. This research aims to consolidate extant literature focusing on a pivotal aspect: the human-likeness of chatbots. Employing three fundamental themes as organizational pillars – chatbot as a non-human entity, chatbot as a human-like entity, and chatbot as an ambiguous
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Athletes and aggression: A systematic review of physical and verbal off-field behaviors Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-29 Fiona N. Conway, Sabrina M. Todaro, Laura M. Lesnewich, Nicola L. de Souza, Erin Nolen, Jake Samora, Haelim Jeong, Jennifer F. Buckman
For decades, scientists have explored the link between aggressive behaviors and being an athlete based on a persistent concern that behaviors encouraged during competition influence actions outside the sports context. Numerous publications have investigated the relationship between athlete identity and engaging in aggressive behaviors. Only a small percentage have used psychometrically validated instruments
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Relationship between bullying behaviors and physical activity in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Yang Liu, Ziyi Chen, Pengfei Wang, Lei Xu
Previous research has indicated a connection between physical activity and bullying behaviors among children and adolescents, however, there is a lack of in-depth exploration of this relationship. Therefore, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the relationship between the physical activity in children and adolescents and bullying behaviors. We searched the literature through
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Mapping the literature on school bullying in India: A scoping review Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Sruthi Suresh, R. Vijaya
School bullying has been identified as a major issue among students throughout the world. With around 260 million school students, the largest student population in the world, it becomes essential to investigate this issue in the Indian context. The present work uses the Arksey and O'Malley (2005) framework for scoping review to examine the nature of research on school bullying in India and identify
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Psychology of AI: How AI impacts the way people feel, think, and behave Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Gizem Yalcin Williams, Sarah Lim
Over the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have transformed numerous facets of our lives. In this article, we summarize key themes in emerging AI research in behavioral science. In doing so, we aim to unravel the multifaceted impacts of AI on people's emotions, cognition, and behaviors, offering nuanced insights into this rapidly evolving landscape. This article concludes with
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Assessing AI receptivity through a persuasion knowledge lens Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Jared Watson, Francesca Valsesia, Shoshana Segal
Understanding human-artificial intelligence (AI) interactions is a growing academic interest. This article conceptualizes AI as a persuasion agent and reviews the recent literature on AI through the lens of persuasion knowledge. It presents research on AI acceptance and aversion in terms of the properties of the AI itself (e.g., anthropomorphism, functionality, and usability), the properties of individuals
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Cracking the consumers’ code: A framework for understanding the artificial intelligence–consumer interface Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Valentina O. Ubal, Monika Lisjak, Martin Mende
This review presents a framework for understanding how consumers respond to artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies, such as robots, algorithms, or chatbots. Drawing on a systematic review of the literature (N = 111), we describe how AI technologies influence a variety of consumer-relevant outcomes, including consumer satisfaction and the propensity to rely on AI. We also highlight the
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Emotional and cognitive trust in artificial intelligence: A framework for identifying research opportunities Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Breagin K. Riley, Andrea Dixon
This article briefly summarizes trust as a multi-dimensional construct, and trust in AI as a unique but related construct. It argues that because trust in AI is couched within an economic landscape, these two frameworks should be combined to understand the dynamics of trust in AI as it is currently implemented. The review focuses on healthcare and law enforcement as two industries that have adopted
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Representations and consequences of race in AI systems Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Angela Yi, Broderick Turner
Race is directly or indirectly incorporated into many AI systems. These systems, which automate typically human tasks, are used across various domains such as predictive policing, disease detection, government resource allocation, and loan approvals. However, these tools have been criticized for handling race insensitively or inaccurately. Despite the prevalent use of race in these AI systems, it is
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Artificial intelligence and its implications for data privacy Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Kelly D. Martin, Johanna Zimmermann
Contemporary, multidisciplinary research sheds light on data privacy implications of artificial intelligence (AI). This review adopts an AI ecosystem perspective and proposes a process-outcome continuum to classify AI technologies; this perspective helps to understand the nuances of AI relative to psychological aspects of privacy decision-making. Specifically, different types of AI affect traditionally
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Artificial intelligence, workers, and future of work skills Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Sarah Bankins, Xinyu Hu, Yunyun Yuan
Historically, the use of technology in organizations has reshaped the nature of human work. In this article, we overview how current waves of artificially intelligent (AI) technologies are following this trend, showing how its uses can both automate and complement human labor, alongside creating new forms of human work. However, AI can also generate both upsides and downsides for workers' experiences
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A machine learning (ML) approach to understanding participation in government nutrition programs Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Stacey R. Finkelstein, Rohini Daraboina, Andrea Leschewski, Semhar Michael
Machine Learning (ML) affords researchers tools to advance beyond research methods commonly employed in psychology, business, and public policy studies of federal nutrition programs and participant food decision-making. It is a sub domain of AI that is applied for feature extraction – a crucial step in decision making. These features are used in context-specific automated decisions resulting in predictive
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Affective Ruptures: A Pragmatist Approach Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Giacomo Lampredi
This article defines a possible pragmatist approach to the sociology of emotions by discussing and delimiting the concept of “affective rupture.” According to this approach, emotions emerge from the breaking of habits in the face of the transformation of situations, producing reflexivity and relational adjustments. The pragmatist approach problematizes the “rhythm” of emotions, made up of ruptures
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Entertainment media as a source of relationship misinformation Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Asheley R. Landrum, Liesel L. Sharabi
In this piece, we propose that entertainment media is an understudied of misinformation and relationship science is an understudied of misinformation. We discuss two ways that relationship misinformation can appear in entertainment media – in the form of blatant claims and subtle content – and we provide an example of each from reality and entertainment television. We also propose an agenda for studying
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What is the psychology of aging? Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Jonathan J. Rolison, Alexandra M. Freund
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A race-centered critique of place-based research and policing Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Rod K. Brunson, Maria B. Vélez, Elena Tapia
Our review offers a compelling case for centering race in place-based research and policing. Specifically, we build on insights gained from the racial structural perspective that well-documented, residentially based race disparities yield divergent social worlds, setting the stage for crime concentration and its durability. Centering race requires a critique of conventional approaches to studying hot
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Names Matter: Implications of Name “Whitening” for Ethnic Minority Discrimination and Well-Being Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Monica Biernat, Xian Zhao, Emily C. Watkins
Names are important signifiers of identity, but for many ethnic minority–group members, names trigger discriminatory responses. Name anglicization (or name whitening) is one proactive response to ward off anticipated discrimination and to signal assimilation. We review evidence suggesting that name anglicization may reduce discrimination (compared with using an original ethnic name), but it burdens
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The Inequality Cycle: How Psychology Helps Keep Economic Inequality in Place Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Manuel J. Galvan, B. Keith Payne
Inequality is perpetuated, in part, by the psychological and behavioral tendencies that arise from the social context of inequality. Cognitive biases lead most people to see themselves as middle class, even when that perception does not align with economic reality. Those who perceive themselves as economically advantaged tend to view inequality as fair and legitimate, often dismissing proponents of
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Intuitive Theories and the Cultural Evolution of Morality Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 M. J. Crockett, Judy S. Kim, Yeon Soon Shin
We explore the role of intuitive theories in the cultural evolution of moral cognition, integrating recent work across subfields of psychology and suggesting directions for future research. Focusing on intuitive theories in the moral domain concerning how people judge the moral value of actions and make inferences about moral character, we review evidence that the specific forms these theories take
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Trends in traditional bullying and cyberbullying victimization by race and ethnicity in the United States: A meta-regression Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Reeve S. Kennedy, Kaylee Dendy, Alyson Lawrence
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City government as super-controller: A systematic review of non-police mechanisms that city governments can apply to reduce crime at hot spots Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Claudia Gross Shader, Charlotte Gill, Xiaotian Zheng, Benjamin Carleton
Place-based policing is effective, but the police do not have all the tools needed to solve complex crime problems and certain policing strategies may increase the risk of disparate impacts to members of marginalized communities. However, local governments—acting in their role as a “super-controller,” can incentivize and support the natural crime-control system of place managers, handlers, and guardians
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Omega-3 supplementation reduces aggressive behavior: A meta-analytic review of randomized controlled trials Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Adrian Raine, Lia Brodrick
There is increasing interest in the use of omega-3 supplements to reduce aggressive behavior. This meta-analysis summarizes findings from 29 RCTs (randomized controlled trials) on omega-3 supplementation to reduce aggression, yielding 35 independent samples with a total of 3918 participants. Three analyses were conducted where the unit of analysis was independent samples, independent studies, and independent
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Does crime in places stay in places? Evidence for crime radiation from three narrative reviews Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 John E. Eck, Shannon J. Linning, Kate Bowers
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Collective emotions, triggering events, and self-organization: The forest-fire model of cultural identity conflict escalation Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Felix Schulte, Christoph Trinn
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The effectiveness of educational intervention in improving healthcare professionals' knowledge and recognition towards elder abuse: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Bonnie W.Y. Wong, Elsie Yan
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Corrigendum to “Resisting during sexual assault: A meta-analysis of the effects on injury” [Aggression and Violent Behavior (2016) Vol 28, 1-11/] Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Jennifer S. Wong, Samantha Balemba
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A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Person-Environment Fit: Relevance, Measurement, and Future Directions Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Christian Kandler, Simone Kühn, Bastian Mönkediek, Andreas J. Forstner, Wiebke Bleidorn
Environments shape people, and at the same time, people are attracted to environments that fit their characteristics because fit facilitates the achievement of people’s desired life outcomes, such as relationship satisfaction, work success, and well-being. In this article, we outline how persons and environments can fit, the relevance of fit and misfit for different life outcomes, and the benefits
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A scoping review of technological tools for supporting victims of online sexual harassment Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Yuying Tan, Heidi Vandebosch, Sara Pabian, Karolien Poels
Experiencing online sexual harassment (OSH) poses significant threats to individuals' well-being, necessitating effective intervention. Addressing OSH requires collaboration across policy, education, and technology, where technology can play a role in supporting victims. This paper conducted a scoping review to identify technological tools for supporting OSH victims, uncovering five tools documented
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Gun violence research from a micro-place perspective: A scoping review Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Beidi Dong, Tyler Houser, Christopher S. Koper
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How effective is the “Reasoning and Rehabilitation” (R&R) program in changing cognitive and behavioral skills? A systematic review and meta-analysis Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Olga Sánchez de Ribera, Violeta Chitgian Urzúa, Genée Pienaar
Interventions for individuals who commit offenses are of great importance to reduce criminal recidivism by targeting criminogenic factors. The first and most widely applied program is the Reasoning & Rehabilitation (R&R) program. Despite evidence that the R&R program (and its derivatives) is effective in reducing recidivism, questions remain regarding the benefits in a range of cognitive and behavioral
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What Can Language Models Tell Us About Human Cognition? Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Louise Connell, Dermot Lynott
Language models are a rapidly developing field of artificial intelligence with enormous potential to improve our understanding of human cognition. However, many popular language models are cognitively implausible on multiple fronts. For language models to offer plausible insights into human cognitive processing, they should implement a transparent and cognitively plausible learning mechanism, train
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There Are Multiple Paths to Personalized Education, and They Should Be Combined Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Garvin Brod
The ubiquity of digital devices has made it feasible to assign different tasks and levels of support to different learners, also in the classroom. Ideally, this is done with the help of formative assessment software or intelligent tutoring systems. However, personalized assignment of tasks and support levels by a teacher or teaching agent has limitations and is only one path to successful personalization
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Blood Pressure and Social Algesia: The Unexpected Relationship Between the Cardiovascular System and Sensitivity to Social Pain Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Tristen K. Inagaki, Peter J. Gianaros
Threats to social connectedness in the form of social and societal rejection, and the permanent loss of social bonds, are inevitable and common sources of social pain. However, sensitivity to social pain, also known as algesia, differs across individuals and contexts. Such sensitivity has implications for health, well-being, and the maintenance of social connection over time. What biological factors
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The Power of Numeric Evidence in Science Communication Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Ellen Peters, Jon Benedik Bunquin
Advantages and disadvantages exist for presenting numeric information in science communication. On the one hand, public innumeracy and experts’ concerns about providing numbers suggest not always showing them. On the other hand, people often prefer getting them, and their provision can increase comprehension, trust, and healthy behaviors while reducing risk overestimates and supporting decision-making
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Intraindividual Conflicts Reduce the Polarization of Attitudes Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Kai Sassenberg, Kevin Winter
Societies are increasingly divided about political issues such as migration or counteracting climate change. This attitudinal polarization is the basis for intergroup conflict and prevents societal progress in addressing pressing challenges. Research on attitude change should provide an answer regarding how people might be persuaded to move away from the extremes to take a moderate stance. However
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The Representation of Giving Actions: Event Construction in the Service of Monitoring Social Relationships Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Denis Tatone, Gergely Csibra
Giving is a unique attribute of human sharing. In this review, we discuss evidence attesting to our species’ preparedness to recognize interactions based on this behavior. We show that infants and adults require minimal cues of resource transfer to relate the participants of a giving event in an interactive unit (A gives X to B) and that such an interpretation does not systematically generalize to
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“Weeding out” violence? Translational perspectives on the neuropsychobiological links between cannabis and aggression Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Marco Bortolato, Giulia Braccagni, Casey A. Pederson, Gabriele Floris, Paula J. Fite
Recent shifts in societal attitudes toward cannabis have led to a dramatic increase in consumption rates in many Western countries, particularly among young people. This trend has shed light on a significant link between cannabis use disorder (CUD) and pathological reactive aggression, a condition involving disproportionate aggressive and violent reactions to minor provocations. The discourse on the
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Motivated Counterfactual Thinking and Moral Inconsistency: How We Use Our Imaginations to Selectively Condemn and Condone Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Daniel A. Effron, Kai Epstude, Neal J. Roese
People selectively enforce their moral principles, excusing wrongdoing when it suits them. We identify an underappreciated source of this moral inconsistency: the ability to imagine counterfactuals, or alternatives to reality. Counterfactual thinking offers three sources of flexibility that people exploit to justify preferred moral conclusions: People can (a) generate counterfactuals with different
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Generalized and racialized consequences of the police response to intimate partner violence in the U.S.: A systematic scoping review Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Sandhya Kajeepeta, Lisa M. Bates, Katherine M. Keyes, Zinzi D. Bailey, Dorothy E. Roberts, Emilie Bruzelius, Melanie S. Askari, Seth J. Prins
Intimate partner violence (IPV) impacts more than 40 % of people in the U.S. Since the 1980s, the U.S. has maintained a police-centric response to IPV, which relies on arrest—via policies like mandatory arrest laws—as its primary intervention. There is mixed evidence on whether IPV policing decreases subsequent IPV at the individual level, but less is known about IPV policing's broader collateral consequences
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The effectiveness of psychological interventions for adults who set fires: A systematic review Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Eleftherios Kipoulas, Athina Sideri, Bethany Driver, Peter Ilmari Beazley
Firesetting is an international public health concern with significant consequences for individuals and society. However, the adult firesetting literature is limited, especially for treatment provision. PsycINFO, EMBASE, MEDLINE Complete, PsycArticles, Web of Science, Scopus, ProQuest Central, and CINAHL were searched for peer-reviewed quantitative studies considering psychological interventions targeting
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The impact of institutional child abuse: A systematic review using Reflexive Thematic Analysis Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Rebecca Ozanne, Jane L. Ireland, Carol A. Ireland, Abigail Thornton
Institutional child abuse has several negative impacts, including effects on mental health, well-being and interpersonal relationships. There is a need to understand this complex form of abuse occurring in an out-of-home setting. The current review aims to understand the literature base regarding the impact of institutional child abuse and to identify areas where further research is needed. Consequently
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The influence of social norms on sexual violence and physical intimate partner violence in Somalia: A systematic literature review Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-31 Robert Torrance, Quman Akli, Rahma Ahmed, Henry Cust, Beniamino Cislaghi
This systematic literature review sought to identify social norms influencing the perpetration of, and response to, sexual violence and physical intimate partner violence in Somalia. A systematic search of four online databases (Embase, Cinahl Plus, Scopus, and PsychINFO) was undertaken to identify peer-reviewed articles relevant to this study. The search was then expanded to identify other relevant
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Comedy, consensus, and conflict framework: Comedy as a norm violation can build consensus or escalate conflict in negotiations Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Jeremy A. Yip, Kelly Kiyeon Lee
In this work, we propose that humor violates norms that can build consensus or escalate conflict in negotiations. Drawing on social identity theory, we propose that humor commits norm violations that are more likely to be perceived as benign among ingroup observers in negotiations, but perceived as offensive to outgroup observers in negotiations. We introduce the Comedy, Consensus, and Conflict Framework
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Relationship between cyber and in-person dating abuse: A systematic review Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 María-Luisa Rodríguez-deArriba, Cristiana Santos, Olga Cunha, Virginia Sánchez-Jiménez, Sónia Caridade
Dating abuse is widely recognized as a public health issue. A relationship between cyber and in-person dating abuse (CDA and IDA) has been established. A systematic review was carried out with the aim of identifying the studies that analyzed the relationship between CDA and IDA. Filtering by keywords that referred to the sentimental relationship, the context (in-person, online), the aggressive behavior
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The New Psychology of Secrecy Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Michael L. Slepian
Nearly everyone keeps secrets, but only recently have we begun to learn about the secrets people keep in their everyday lives and the experiences people have with their secrets. Early experimental research into secrecy sought to create secrecy situations in the laboratory, but in trying to observe secrecy in real time, these studies conflated secrecy with the act of concealment. In contrast, a new
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School-based primary prevention interventions for adolescent relationship abuse: An umbrella review Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Xiaomin Sheng, Paul Miller, Timothy Gomersall, Nadia Wager
There is growing use of primary prevention interventions which aim to tackle adolescent relationship abuse (ARA) through raising awareness of the issue, changing attitudes that underpin abusive behaviors, increasing knowledge and skills to promote help-seeking, and to ultimately lower the incidence of ARA victimization and perpetration. To date, several reviews have explored the effectiveness of existing
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Document review of state practice standards for batterer intervention programs in the United States Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Hannabeth Franchino-Olsen, Brittney Chesworth
This document review investigated policies that govern Batterer Intervention Programs (BIPs) across the United States. The document review systematically analyzed current state practice standards ( = 46) across the United States that guide BIPs. Data collection and abstraction took place between June of 2019 and January of 2020. Descriptive statistics were calculated for standard development and revision
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Empathy & Literature Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 A. E. Denham
There is a long tradition in philosophy and literary theory defending the view that engagement with literature promotes readers’ empathy. Until the last century, few of the empirical claims adduced in that tradition were investigated experimentally. Recent work in psychology and neuropsychology has now shed new light on the interplay of empathy and literature. This article surveys the experimental
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Fighting misinformation among the most vulnerable users Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Nadia M. Brashier
Misinformation undermines trust in the integrity of democratic elections, the safety of vaccines, and the authenticity of footage from war zones. Social scientists have proposed many solutions to reduce individuals' demand for fake news, but it is unclear how to evaluate them. Efficacy can mean that an intervention increases (the ability to distinguish true from false content), works over a delay,
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Evidence-based policy in a new era of crime and violence prevention and social justice Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Brandon C. Welsh, Steven N. Zane, Daniel P. Mears
The present state of calls for and efforts to implement evidence-based policy provide a powerful foundation for propelling a movement toward bringing about rational, cost-efficient, and humane policies for reducing aggression, crime, and violence. The main aim of this article is to report on new developments in evidence-based policy (EBP)—what we view as giving rise to a new era in crime and violence
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Correlates of responses to peer provocation and bullying in middle childhood: A systematic review Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Sophie A. Stephenson, Kane Meissel, Elizabeth R. Peterson
Provocation and bullying by peers in middle childhood can have negative effects, but these outcomes can vary depending on how the child responds. Understanding the correlates associated with their choice of response can help to explain why children respond in the ways that they do. To date, no reviews have summarised the association between correlates and responses to peer provocation in middle childhood
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Cyberbullying intervention and prevention programmes in Primary Education (6 to 12 years): A systematic review Aggression and Violent Behavior (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Mercedes Chicote-Beato, Sixto González-Víllora, Ana Rosa Bodoque-Osma, Raúl Navarro
The majority of studies in the current literature analyse cyberbullying at the secondary education stage. Nevertheless, although it has been shown that cybervictim and cyberbully roles may arise from the Primary School stage onwards, more research is still needed. The consequences of this problem can be manifested in indicators of psycho-social and psycho-emotional adjustment, harming not only the