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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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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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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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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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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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Goals in old age: What we want when we are old and why it matters Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Alexandra M. Freund
Across the lifespan, goals change in response to developmental changes in opportunities and demands, but they also bring about developmental changes regarding the acquisition of skills and resources. Generally, developing (selection), pursuing (optimization), and maintaining goals in the face of losses (compensation) contributes to successful development across the lifespan and to healthy aging in
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Diversity in the study of aging and lifespan development Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Jonathan J. Rolison
In psychology, authors have shined a light on a lack of ethnic/racial and cultural diversity in sampling and scholarship. These issues pertain also to the study of aging and lifespan development. This article presents examples of how diverse sampling, across ethnic/racial groups and cultures, enriches theories of aging and adult development. There remain, however, numerous theoretical insights that
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Understanding loneliness in late life Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Oliver Huxhold, Katherine L. Fiori
Loneliness in late adulthood is a public health issue. Thus, understanding the etiology of loneliness is of critical importance. Here, we conceptualize the development of loneliness in late life as dynamic interactions between individual and contextual processes. Specifically, we suggest that loneliness arises if the existing social relationships are unable to meet a set of social expectations. These
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Corrigendum to “Beyond strategies: The when and why of emotion regulation in aging” [Curr Opin Psychol 56 (2024) 101763] Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Derek M. Isaacowitz, Tammy English
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Humor and morality in organizations Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Kai Chi Yam, Yamon Min Ye
Successful leaders often use humor to motivate, inspire, and lead. Yet, recent research suggests that the use of humor is risky for leaders. Our review suggests that humor must be morally offensive to people for it to be perceived as funny. This inherent tension between humor and morality implies that the use of humor can sometimes act as a signal of acceptable moral standards in organizations, where
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The importance of epistemology for the study of misinformation Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Joseph Uscinski, Shane Littrell, Casey Klofstad
Scholars have rapidly produced a robust body of literature addressing the public's beliefs in, and interactions with “misinformation.” Despite the literature's stated concerns about the underlying truth value of the information and beliefs in question, the field has thus far operated without a reliable epistemology for determining the truth of the information and beliefs in question, often leaving
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“It's Not Literally True, But You Get the Gist:” How nuanced understandings of truth encourage people to condone and spread misinformation Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Julia A. Langdon, Beth Anne Helgason, Judy Qiu, Daniel A. Effron
People have a more-nuanced view of misinformation than the binary distinction between “fake news” and “real news” implies. We distinguish between the truth of a statement's (i.e., the specific, literal information) and its (i.e., the general, overarching meaning), and suggest that people tolerate and intentionally spread misinformation in part because they believe its gist. That is, even when they
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Updating the identity-based model of belief: From false belief to the spread of misinformation Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Jay J. Van Bavel, Steve Rathje, Madalina Vlasceanu, Clara Pretus
The spread of misinformation threatens democratic societies, hampering informed decision-making. Partisan identity biases perceptions of reality, promoting false beliefs. The Identity-based Model of Political Belief explains how social identity shapes information processing and contributes to misinformation. According to this model, social identity goals can override accuracy goals, leading to belief
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User correction Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Leticia Bode, Emily K. Vraga, Rongwei Tang
This paper reviews the existing literature on user correction to consider its value for combating misinformation on social media. We discuss the effectiveness of user correction in reducing misperceptions, and synthesize best practices, highlighting the dual audiences for public correction on social media. We outline how often user correction occurs across contexts, countries, and social media platforms
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Mean rating difference scores are poor measures of discernment: The role of response criteria Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Philip A. Higham, Ariana Modirrousta-Galian, Tina Seabrooke
Many interventions aim to protect people from misinformation. Here, we review common measures used to assess their efficacy. Some measures only assess the target behavior (e.g., ability to spot misinformation) and therefore cannot determine whether interventions have overly general effects (e.g., erroneously identifying accurate information as misinformation). Better measures assess discernment, the
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Increases in Prosociality across Adulthood: The Pure-Altruism Hypothesis Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Ulrich Mayr, Taren Rohovit, Alexandra Freund
A growing body of research suggests that prosocial behavior increases across adulthood. Yet, whether these age differences reflect “pure altruistic” or selfish motives, or the developmental mechanisms that underlie them, are largely unknown. Within a value-based decision framework, pure altruistic tendencies can be measured and distinguished from impure altruistic motives through neural-level information
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Cognitive aging and the life course: A new look at the Scaffolding theory Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz, Denise C. Park
Our understanding of human neurocognitive aging, its developmental roots, and life course influences has been transformed by brain imaging technologies, increasing availability of longitudinal data sets, and analytic advances. The is a life course model, proposed originally in 2009, featuring adaptivity and compensatory potential as lifelong mechanisms for meeting neurocognitive challenges posed by
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On the role of memory in misinformation corrections: Repeated exposure, correction durability, and source credibility Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Paige L. Kemp, Aaron C. Goldman, Christopher N. Wahlheim
Misinformation can negatively affect cognition, beliefs, and behavior, and thus contribute to societal disruption. Correcting misinformation can counteract these effects by updating memory and beliefs. In this selective review, we highlight recent perspectives on and evidence for the role of memory in the efficacy of correction methods. Two theoretical accounts propose that repeating misinformation
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An overview of the hallmarks of cognitive aging Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 V, a, n, e, s, s, a, , M, ., , L, o, a, i, z, a
Although the notion of cognitive aging is commonly associated with decline in popular culture, a wealth of scientific literature shows that cognitive aging is more aptly characterized as multidirectional, such that trajectories of cognitive changes include areas of stability and growth (e.g., general knowledge) in addition to decline (e.g., episodic long-term memory). This article overviews these multidirectional
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Trust or distrust? Neither! The right mindset for confronting disinformation Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 R, u, t, h, , M, a, y, o
A primary explanation for why individuals believe disinformation is the truth bias, a predisposition to accept information as true. However, this bias is context-dependent, as research shows that rejection becomes the predominant process in a distrust mindset. Consequently, trust and distrust emerge as pivotal factors in addressing disinformation. The current review offers a more nuanced perspective
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Tackling cognitive decline in late adulthood: Cognitive interventions Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Claudia C. von Bastian, Eleanor R.A. Hyde, Shuangke Jiang
Affordable and easy-to-administer interventions such as cognitive training, cognitively stimulating everyday leisure activities, and non-invasive brain stimulation techniques, are promising avenues to counteract age-related cognitive decline and support people in maintaining cognitive health into late adulthood. However, the same pattern of findings emerges across all three fields of cognitive intervention
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Aging in culture revisited Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 H, e, l, e, n, e, , H, ., , F, u, n, g
In this article, I reviewed the literature on cross-cultural aging that was published in the last 10 years. It is intended to be an update of my prior review on aging in culture published in 2013. In that 2013 review, I proposed that aging processes differed across cultures when (1) individuals in the cultures concerned defined different goals as emotionally meaningful and (2) they increasingly pursued
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Misinformed by images: How images influence perceptions of truth and what can be done about it Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Eryn J. Newman, Norbert Schwarz
We organize image types by their substantive relationship with textual claims and discuss their impact on attention, comprehension, memory, and judgment. Photos do not need to be false (altered or generated) to mislead; real photos can create a slanted representation or be repurposed from different events. Even semantically related non-probative photos, merely inserted to attract eyeballs, can increase
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New directions for studying the aging social-cognitive brain Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Natalie C. Ebner, Marilyn Horta, Dalia El-Shafie
The study of social cognition has extended across the lifespan with a recent special focus on the impacts of aging on the social-cognitive brain. This review summarizes current knowledge on social perception, theory of mind, empathy, and social behavior from a social-cognitive neuroscience of aging perspective and identifies new directions for studying the aging social-cognitive brain. These new directions
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Lay epistemology and the Populist's playbook: The roles of epistemological identity and expressive epistemology Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Dannagal G. Young, Brooke Molokach, Erin M. Oittinen
Salient social identities have long appeared to shape we believe and know. But do social identities also shape we know? This essay argues that performances of “lay epistemology” by populist leaders may shape group norms in ways that encourage supporters to orient to their worlds more through intuition and emotion and less through evidence and data (or at least to report that they do, thus constituting
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Cancer: A model topic for misinformation researchers Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Briony Swire-Thompson, Skyler Johnson
Although cancer might seem like a niche subject, we argue that it is a model topic for misinformation researchers, and an ideal area of application given its importance for society. We first discuss the prevalence of cancer misinformation online and how it has the potential to cause harm. We next examine the financial incentives for those who profit from disinformation dissemination, how people with
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The shared psychological roots of prejudice and conspiracy theory belief Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 D, e, e, n, , F, r, e, e, l, o, n
The psychological literature on prejudice and conspiracy theory belief have generally remained distinct, implicitly treating the two as unrelated phenomena. In this brief review, I demonstrate that the two phenomena share at least three dispositional precursors: ingroup bias, right-wing ideology (specifically right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation), and need for closure. The evidence
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Refuting misinformation: Examining theoretical underpinnings of refutational interventions Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-25 Michelle A. Amazeen, Arunima Krishna
With the proliferation of misinformation have come toolkits that include refutation strategies to target the beliefs of individuals that can be employed preemptively (prebunking) or reactively (debunking). Whereas the theoretical lineage of prebunking is well established within the literature on inoculation theory, the theoretical underpinning of debunking is not. Recent advances in inoculation theory
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Daily affect across adulthood and into old age: Recent advances from ambulatory research Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Michaela Riediger, Antje Rauers
Ambulatory research – such as daily-diary or experience sampling studies – captures experiences as they naturally occur in people's daily lives. It shows that older adults' daily affective experiences, on average, are more positive and more stable, compared to younger age groups. Recent advances in ambulatory research contribute a more refined understanding beyond the valence dimension, demonstrating
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Adult Age Differences in Value-Based Decision Making Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Sebastian Horn
A better understanding of age-related differences in judgment and decision making is important from both theoretical and applied perspectives. In this review, we focus on value-based decisions across adulthood and specifically on how loss aversion (a relatively stronger weight of losses than gains on decisions) and the relative motivational impact of gains and losses may change with aging. In doing
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Experienced Gratitude is a Catalyst for Upward Spirals of Perceived Partner Responsiveness Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Sara B. Algoe, Kylie R. Chandler
Considering the role of responsiveness in interpersonal processes has opened new frontiers for the science of gratitude. This article focuses on how responsive behavior feeds into experiences of gratitude, how the emotion of gratitude provides fuel to catalyze perceptions of the grateful person’s responsiveness, not only to the kind benefactor but also to incidental witnesses. We discuss the implications
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Bullshit can be harmful to your health: Bullibility as a precursor to poor decision--making Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 John V. Petrocelli, Joseph M. Curran, Lindsay M. Stall
Bullshitting is characterized by sharing information with little to no regard for truth, established knowledge, or genuine evidence. It involves the use of various rhetorical strategies to make one's statements sound knowledgeable, impressive, persuasive, influential, or confusing in order to aid bullshitters in explaining things in areas where their obligations to provide opinions exceed their actual
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Beyond strategies: The when and why of emotion regulation in aging Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Derek M. Isaacowitz, Tammy English
Most research to date on potential age differences in emotion regulation has focused on whether older adults differ from younger adults in how they manage their emotions. We argue for a broader consideration of the possible effects of aging on emotion regulation by moving beyond tests of age differences in strategy use to also consider when and why emotion regulation takes place. That is, we encourage
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Not all negative emotions are equal - Sadness and anger develop differently and their adaptivity is age-graded Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Ute Kunzmann, Carsten Wrosch
We argue that a comprehensive understanding of emotional development across adulthood must go beyond broad dimensions of affect and consider discrete emotions. Current evidence focuses on sadness and anger, two negative emotions that exert contrasting age trajectories because anger has high adaptive value in young adulthood, when people have abundant resources and need to carve out a niche in society
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Human-algorithm interactions help explain the spread of misinformation Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Killian L. McLoughlin, William J. Brady
Human attention biases toward moral and emotional information are as prevalent online as they are offline. When these biases interact with content algorithms that curate social media users’ news feeds to maximize attentional capture, moral and emotional information are privileged in the online information ecosystem. We review evidence for these human-algorithm interactions and argue that misinformation
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A contemporary review of employee retirement Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Mo Wang, Zhefan Huang
As societies in many developed countries grapple with the rapid aging trend of the population, the research field of retirement has gained increasing attention. Considering the extensive scope of psychological research on retirement, in this article we focus on providing a review of recent advancements, especially those that have not been covered in existing reviews. We structure our review around
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Personality and misinformation Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Dustin P. Calvillo, Alex León, Abraham M. Rutchick
Misinformation poses a significant concern, promoting false beliefs and eroding trust in media. People differ in their susceptibility to believe and to share misinformation. In this article, we reviewed recent research on relationships between personality traits and belief in and sharing of misinformation. Findings show that more extroverted and less conscientious and agreeable people tend to be more
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Adult age differences in risk perception and risk taking Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Julia Nolte, Yaniv Hanoch
Research on self-reported risk perception and risk taking suggests age-related decrements in risk preference, with older adults less likely to engage in general and domain-specific risk taking (i.e., in financial, health-related, ethical, career, and leisure contexts). Data relating to social risks, however, are inconsistent. With respect to behavioral risk-taking tasks, age-related differences vary
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Children's susceptibility to online misinformation Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Andrew Shtulman
Children have a reputation for credulity that is undeserved; even preschoolers have proven adept at identifying implausible claims and unreliable informants. Still, the strategies children use to identify and reject dubious information are often superficial, which leaves them vulnerable to accepting such information if conveyed through seemingly authoritative channels or formatted in seemingly authentic
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Wisdom and aging Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Judith Glück
How is wisdom related to aging? While many people associate wisdom with advanced age, becoming wise clearly requires more than “just” growing old – accumulated life experience is an important foundation for wisdom, but not all highly wise individuals are old and many old individuals are not particularly wise. This article first reviews how wisdom is defined in psychological research, with an emphasis
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Teaching lateral reading: Interventions to help people read like fact checkers Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Sarah McGrew
People need more support learning to evaluate the credibility of online information. This article reviews recent research on interventions designed to teach lateral reading, the strategy of leaving an unfamiliar website to search for information about a source's credibility via additional sources. Interventions that use diverse designs to teach lateral reading and target participants in elementary
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Memory selectivity in older age Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Alan D. Castel
Memory often declines with age, but older adults can off-set memory challenges by selectively remembering important information. When encountering large amounts of information and knowing that memory is limited, older adults may choose to focus on what is most important and forget less relevant details. Prioritizing what to remember becomes essential when memory is limited, and influences what information