I checked 15 psychology journals on Tuesday, October 06, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period September 29 to October 05, I found 67 new paper(s) in 11 journal(s).

Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science

Dyadic: A Scalable Platform for Research on Human–Human and Human–AI Conversation
David M. Markowitz
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Conversation is ubiquitous in social life, but the empirical study of this interactive process has been thwarted by tools that are insufficiently modular and unadaptive to researcher needs. To relieve many constraints in conversation research, in the current tutorial, I present an overview and walkthrough of a new tool, Dyadic ( https://www.chatdyadic.com ), a web-based platform for studying human–human and human–artificial intelligence (AI) conversations using text-based or voice-based chats. Dyadic is distinct from other platforms by offering studies with multiple modalities, AI suggestions (e.g., in human–human studies, AI can suggest responses to a participant), live monitoring (e.g., researchers can evaluate chats between communicators in real time), and survey deployment (e.g., Likert-type scales, feeling thermometers, and open-ended text boxes can be sent to humans for in situ evaluations of the interaction), among other consequential features. No coding is required to operate Dyadic directly, and integrations with existing survey and participant-recruitment platforms are offered.

Behavior Research Methods

Emotion profile: A data-driven method to dissect context-specific and co-occurring patterns of emotion
Xin Hu, Lauren M. Bylsma, Dan Zhang
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How much habituation is enough? An R application for ad hoc content-related limits of acceptance in behavioral research
Konstantin Warneke, Stanislav D. Siegel, José Afonso, Marco Herbsleb, Sebastian Wallot
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Evaluating test–retest reliability is of crucial importance for clinical decision-making and an integral component of studies in empirical sciences. In psychology, classical test theory focused on reliability coefficients, but research has shown that intraclass correlation coefficients and Cronbach’s alpha have limited value in quantifying individual measurement error sources appropriately. Preliminary assumptions such as parallel readings and independency of error sources are violated by practice/habituation effects, i.e., test–retest systematic errors. Although awareness of the need for additional measurement quantifications to properly assess test–retest agreement has increased, many such quantifications are insufficiently implemented. Furthermore, one of the most important agreement analyses introduced by Bland and Altman in 1986 has interpretation limitations, as the limits of agreement are descriptive and not linked to content-based clinical decision-making, oftentimes causing inappropriate usage. To counteract these limitations and improve the implementation of agreement analyses in addition to more commonly used reliability coefficients, we introduce a software package that allows predefining acceptable measurement limits (limits of acceptance) to evaluate the sufficiency of task habituation to gauge individual error sources. The package implements a comprehensive test–retest evaluation in order to improve transparency of data quality reporting in psychological and cognitive research.
Quantifying infants’ everyday restrained experiences in the home using wearable inertial sensors
Hanzhi Wang, Hailey N. Rousey, John M. Franchak
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Physical restraint—including being held, carried, and restrained in devices—is a common feature of infants’ everyday lives. However, previous survey-based and video-based methods cannot simultaneously provide continuous, full-day accounts of infants’ restrained experiences. This study developed and validated a machine learning model to quantify infants’ restrained time moment-to-moment across the full day in the home environment using wearable sensor data. We used a dataset that includes 146 home-visit sessions from 66 infants, with 30 younger infants aged 4–7 months, and 36 older infants aged 11–14 months. We annotated infants’ restrained states in the first 1.5-h video recording of each session as ground-truth labels. The supervised machine-learning model achieved high accuracy (89%) and substantial kappa agreement (κ = .73) compared with human-coded ground truth. The model showed a slight bias toward overestimating unrestrained periods relative to restrained periods, but this bias was mitigated when we used a longer data-aggregation window. The model also showed convergent validity by corroborating prior studies that showed an age-related decrease in infants’ overall restrained time throughout the day. In short, the current study demonstrated the utility of using wearable sensors to quantify infants’ real-world restrained experiences, offering a new tool for studying how daily restraint influences early development.
VRrec: A zero-coding open-source VR body-motion capture tool for behavioral research
Pawel Kobylinski, Bartosz Muczynski, Daniel Cnotkowski, Mariusz Wierzbowski, Cezary Biele
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We present VRrec, an open-source, motion-tracking and recording tool for PC-based virtual reality (VR). The tool addresses a persistent gap in VR-based experimental research by enabling real-time capture of head, hand, and optional body-tracking data without the need to code. VRrec runs discreetly in the background, collecting positional and rotational data as researchers engage participants with third-party VR applications. This design lets researchers use flexible paradigms that leverage off-the-shelf VR content, eliminating the need to build or modify custom software. However, because VRrec does not read application-level events or object states from the target VR software, it does not directly support paradigms that require synchronization with in-app events or distances to dynamic virtual objects or avatars. VRrec still allows manual event marking for contextual annotation. The resulting data are stored as plain text, which can be imported into various analysis pipelines to derive behavioral metrics in fields such as social psychology, rehabilitation, and consumer research. Evaluations show consistent and stable recording performance with minimal impact on system resources, while also indicating some limitations for study designs that require millisecond-accurate timing precision. By streamlining VR motion data acquisition, VRrec broadens the range of feasible VR study designs and reduces technical barriers, making VR-based behavioral research more accessible. Both the source code and the executable version of VRrec are freely available on GitHub.
A beta way: A tutorial on Bayesian beta regression for psychological research
Jason Geller, Robert Kubinec, Chelsea M. Parlett Pelleriti, Matti Vuorre
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Bayesian distributional models of executive functioning
Robert Kasumba, Zeyu Lu, Dom C. P. Marticorena, Mingyang Zhong, Paul Beggs, Anja Pahor, Geetha Ramani, Imani Goffney, Susanne M. Jaeggi, Aaron R. Seitz, Jacob R. Gardner, Dennis L. Barbour
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This study uses controlled simulations with known ground-truth parameters to evaluate how distributional latent variable models (DLVM) and Bayesian distributional active learning (DALE) perform compared with conventional independent maximum likelihood estimation (IMLE). DLVM integrates observations across multiple executive function tasks and individuals, allowing parameter estimation even under sparse or incomplete data conditions. To establish known ground truth, we uniformly sample individual sessions from a neural network-learned latent space and map them to distributional cognitive performance across different tasks. We then sample individual test items from these distributions using DALE, a random procedure, or a standard fixed-battery approach. Given the same observations, DLVM consistently outperformed IMLE, especially with smaller amounts of data, and converged faster to highly accurate estimates of the true distributions. In a second set of analyses, DALE adaptively guided sampling to maximize information gain, outperforming random sampling and fixed test batteries, particularly within the first 80 trials. These findings establish the advantages of combining DLVM’s cross-task inference with DALE’s optimal adaptive sampling, providing a principled basis for more efficient cognitive assessments.
Including auxiliary cases to address missing data issues through multiple-group models
Po-Yi Chen
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Computers in Human Behavior

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Corrigendum to ‘Addressing FoMO and telepressure among university students: Could a technology intervention help with social media use and sleep disruption?’ [Computers in Human Behavior 93 (2019) Pages 192-199]
Arielle P. Rogers, Larissa K. Barber
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Corrigendum to ‘Are your defense mechanisms harming you? The role of psychological defenses in social media comparison and adolescent self-esteem’ [Computers in Human Behavior 178 (2026) 108916]
Lin Ting Jin, Yun Jung Choi
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Online Collective Aggression in Algorithmic Environments: The Roles of Algorithm Awareness, Moral Outrage, and Negative Descriptive Norms
Zilin Wang, Jingyuan Yang, Xiaofei Qiao, Lei Li
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Sociotechnical imaginaries and acceptance of artificial intelligence in education: A longitudinal social media analysis
Özgehan Uştuk, Ali Fuad Selvi, Zihan Xia
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The Dynamics of Climate Change Skepticism Sharing on Social Media: Social Identity, Partisanship, and the Impact of Negative Public Opinion Cues
Seo Yoon Lee
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Not naive, just gullible: psycho-cognitive vulnerability and fraud victimization in Italy
Chiara Barbara Dadà, Laura Colautti, Matteo Robba, Alessia Rosi, Elena Cavallini, Paola Iannello
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Facilitator or Hallucination Trap? A Social-Cognitive Account of AI-Generated Misinformation Handling in GenAI-Assisted L2 Writing
Yilong Yang, Jia Li, Yadan Li, Shuyi Zhang, Kai Guo
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Blurring the boundaries of the self: Instagram's impact on bodily identity and multisensory experience among young adults
Maria Sansoni, Jade Portingale, Stefano De Gaspari, Giulia Brizzi, Magdalena Chorzępa, Giuseppe Riva
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Avatars, embodiment, and virtual engagement: A large-scale study with young adults in Germany and the United States
Oliver Korn, Benjamin Schnitzer, Xenia Armstrong, Jan Vogt, Sanika Doolani, Coye Cheshire
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From pixels to perceptions: Predicting video game ratings through reviews and metadata
Yavuz Selim BalcioÄŸlu, Erkut AltindaÄŸ
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Decoding and controlling emotion in LLMs through human-aligned representational geometry with enhanced interpretability
Xiuwen Wu, Hao Wang, Zhiang Yan, Xiaohan Tang, Pengfei Xu, Wai-Ting Siok, Ping Li, Jia-Hong Gao, Bingjiang Lyu, Lang Qin
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Internet use, social isolation, and loneliness among older adults: A multi-wave analysis
Eleftheria Vaportzis
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Beyond the post: Effects of vividness dominance on attention and recall of visual misinformation on social media
Zexin Ma, Jiyoung Lee, Jiyoun Suk
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Rethinking smartphone use and attention regulation among adolescents: A focus on habit and online basic psychological needs satisfaction
Haoyu Zhao, Jennifer Shapka
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Perceived effectiveness of online vigilantism: The role of schadenfreude and moral grandstanding
Dosun Kim, Yeon Soo Kim
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Identity manipulation in online grooming: Gendered strategies among male suspects
Jorge Santos-Hermoso, Virginia Soldino
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Is this real or Fake? Examining the effects of disclosure of AI-generated content and source type in instagram-based travel destination advertising on consumer attitudes and behavioral intentions
Delia Cristina Balaban, Joe Phua
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Immersive virtual reality for caregivers of children and adolescents with ADHD: A mixed-methods study of stress reduction, empathy engagement, and quality of life outcomes
Ka Po Wong, Haoneng Lin, Sikai Wu, Kean Poon, Cynthia Yuen Yi Lai, Jing Qin
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Efficacy of a context-aware mobile app with adaptive feedback for promoting behavioral change in problematic smartphone use: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Sandy C. Li, Stella Cheung, Ming Lui, Andrew K.F. Lui, Jackie W.W. Chan
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Beyond the ideal: How 'Instagram vs reality' content shapes positive and negative body image
Kerstin Becker, Jessica M. Alleva, Philippe Verduyn
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Making sense of scent: Cultural styles, cognitive schemas, and the situated logic of online perfume reviews
Larisa Nikitina, Yu Liu, Fumitaka Furuoka
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Tell me who its founders are and I'll tell you what your online community looks like: Online community founders' personality and community attributes
Yaniv Dover, Shaul Oreg
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Modeling misinformation herd immunity from a multi-mechanism integration perspective: The role of selective exposure and echo chamber effect
Renbiao Yang, Gaohui Cao
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Between the bars: Virtual reality and physical prison simulations link to reduced prejudice against incarcerated people
Marco Marinucci, Paolo Riva, Teresa Traversa, Maria Elena Magrin
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Decision-making in esports: Identifying and understanding heuristics in League of Legends teamfights
Jorge Rodriguez-Robaina, Loel Collins
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Not warm or cold, but appropriate: How outcome severity shifts moral-mind inferences and trust in AI chatbots
Lianshan Zhang, Mei Yin Zhao
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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Reevaluating the empirical support for a lens-based account: dissecting comparative fit and reconstructive category guessing
Roland Imhoff, Verena Heidrich
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Smiling your way to happiness or misery? Experimental tests of competing perspectives [Registered Report - stage II]
Nicholas A. Coles, Annabel V. Dang, Joao Francisco Goes Braga Takayanagi
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

The temporal dynamics of narcissism and aggression: Timescales, moderators, and generalizations in diverse samples.
Yuping Liu, Tengwei Sun, Bingtao Zhou, Sander Thomaes, Bo Yang, Jaap J. A. Denissen
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Associations of fear, anger, happiness, and hope with risk judgments: Revisiting appraisal-tendency framework with a replication and extensions registered report of Lerner and Keltner (2001).
Sirui Lu, Emir Efendić, Gilad Feldman
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Does losing your job change your personality? Findings from a 16-year longitudinal study of Mexican-origin adults.
Guido Alessandri, Lorenzo Filosa, Richard W. Robins
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When having less elevates more: Benefactor income, moral elevation, and prosocial contagion among observers.
Bingqing Miranda Yin, Jenny G. Olson, Yexin Jessica Li
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The predictive validity of vocational interests for life outcomes across adulthood.
Lena Roemer, Christopher D. Nye, Rong Su, Kevin A. Hoff
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Virtue trade-offs in everyday life.
Qilin Zhang, Jeremy Jacobson, Benjamin Hardin, Jessie Sun
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Unstable, indistinct, and cohesive? How group cognitions shape attitudes toward transgender and nonbinary people as a function of gender essentialism.
Julia Spielmann, Andrea C. Vial
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Extended artificial intelligence aversion: People deny humanness to artificial intelligence users.
Jianning Dang, Li Liu
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Unconscious mental content in implicit evaluation: Evidence from misprediction.
Benedek Kurdi, David E. Melnikoff, Adam Morris
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Life satisfaction, loneliness, and depressivity in consistently single young adults in Germany and the United Kingdom.
Michael D. Krämer, Julia Stern, Laura Buchinger, Geoff MacDonald, Wiebke Bleidorn
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Multivariate Behavioral Research

When Nesting is Nuisance in Cluster Sampled Longitudinal Research
James Peugh, Francis Huang, Sonja D. Winter
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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Grateful for What and Whom? How Gratitude List Content Varies and Is Associated With Affective Responses
Yoobin Park, Elissa S. Epel, Emiliana Simon-Thomas
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A gratitude list activity, whereby one recalls and writes down things they are grateful for, is a well-studied intervention known to confer an immediate and even prolonged boost in well-being. However, the specific content people reflect on, and how it relates to affective evaluations and the impact of the intervention, remains underexplored. Using data from a global online study ( N = 19,265), we applied natural language processing to examine the content of gratitude lists, identifying 16 thematic clusters, with the most common one focused on social relationships. Next, we examined and found various sociodemographic and psychological differences in people’s gratitude list content. Further, mentioning themes related to family or nature was associated with greater increases in positivity following the activity. Overall, our findings highlight individual differences in what people naturally think of during this popular intervention and suggest opportunities for personalized modifications to enhance adherence to and effectiveness of the intervention.

Psychological Bulletin

Contributions of the general factor of intelligence to cognitive performance across ability levels and age: An individual participant data meta-analysis of child and adolescent norming data.
Moritz Breit, Martin Brunner, Julian Preuß, Monika Daseking, Günter Esser, Alexander Grob, Jan-Philipp Freudenstein, Ulf Kieschke, Ludwig Kreuzpointner, Franz Pauls, Christoph Perleth, Gabriele Ricken, Stefan Schipolowski, Ulrich Schroeders, Franziska Walter, Oliver Wilhelm, Anne Wyschkon, Franzis Preckel
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Childhood emotional abuse and adult psychopathology: A multilevel meta-analytic review.
Noga Miron, Wendy M. D'Andrea, Eran Barzilai, Shoshana Krohner, Ellen H. Yates, Samuel G. Conner Self, E. Samuel Winer, Ashley M. Doukas, Joseph Spinazzola
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of partial correlations between caregiver cognitive stimulation in early childhood and child development.
Sarah F. Hatch, Noelle M. Suntheimer, Abigail W. Otwell, Laura Tang, Dana C. McCoy, Sharon Wolf
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Toward a unified process model of situational frustration, need deprivation, and behavioral compensation: A meta-analytic review.
Maximilian Agostini, N. Pontus Leander, Jannis Kreienkamp, Justin König, Catharina Gerigk, Russell Spears
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Psychological Methods

Regularized multigroup exploratory approximate factor analysis with orthogonal factors.
Katrijn Van Deun, Trà Lê, Jakub Malinowski, Floortje Mols, Dounya Schoormans
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Using features of dynamic networks to guide treatment selection and outcome prediction: The central role of uncertainty.
Björn S. Siepe, Matthias Kloft, Yong Zhang, Fridtjof Petersen, Laura F. Bringmann, Daniel W. Heck
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Psychology of Popular Media

Body positivity versus body neutrality: Examining video effects on adolescent girls’ state self-objectification.
Jiaqi Zeng, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Kausumi Saha, Heather Gahler
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Karen E. Shackleford
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Older and wiser, but not immune: A brief report examining movie exposure and male body image across development.
Kate Stewart, James Alex Bonus
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Seeing and being seen: A latent class analysis of social media use among young individuals with visible differences and its links to sociodemographic characteristics, norms, and body image.
Laure Dedecker, Laura Vandenbosch, Chelly Maes, Jill Meirte, Lara Schreurs
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Nigerian women’s perceptions of social media’s role in skin bleaching, body image, and colorism.
Ruth Emmanuel, Kelly Merrill
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Differential effects of social media on body esteem: An ecological momentary assessment on weight satisfaction and muscularity importance.
Megan Van Alfen, Sarah M. Coyne, Joseph A. Olsen, Drew P. Cingel, Adam A. Rogers, Ashley Larsen Gibby
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Social media, racialized appearance concerns, and well-being among adolescent girls of color in the United States and England.
L. Monique Ward, Elizabeth A. Daniels, Morgan Jerald, Kyla N. Brathwaite
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Magic mirror on my screen: An experimental test of assimilation effects of beauty filters on Chinese college women’s self-esteem and affect.
Yanzhuo Niu
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Eye tracking and the self-view: Self-focused attention on Zoom is a limited predictor of appearance-related concerns.
Amelia C. Couture Bue, Julie Aprill, Jacob Russell, Mariia Pugina, Carrie Grim, Jessica Simmons, Mania Mohseni, Sheena Hunter
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Editors’ introduction to the special issue: New media and body image.
Megan A. Vendemia, Teresa Lynch
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Adolescents’ appearance-related social media consciousness and photo-related behaviors are linked to social anxiety symptoms with peers digitally and in-person: An ecological momentary assessment study.
Adelaide E. Graham, Margaret V. Brehm, Zelal Kilic, Sophia Choukas-Bradley, Jacqueline L. Nesi, Cecile D. Ladouceur, Jennifer S. Silk
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Twinks, jocks, bears, and cubs: Associations between dating app usage and body image among sexual minority men with lean and nonlean subcultural appearance identities.
Clay M. Williams, Kristen Harrison
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Selfies’ effects on the self: An experimental study of the influence of beauty filters on body image.
Irene Razpurker-Apfeld, Nurit Tal-Or
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Technology, Mind, and Behavior

When artificial intelligence apologizes: Dynamic trust updating and the role of personality.
Jit Wei A. Ang, Chenye Zhong, Syaheed B. Jabar, Georgios Christopoulos
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Exploring the limits of large language models as a reflection of human cognition: An illustration in the context of moral judgment.
Sarah Schröder, Thekla Morgenroth, Ulrike Kuhl, Valerie Vaquet, Benjamin Paaßen
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