I checked 15 psychology journals on Tuesday, July 14, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period July 07 to July 13, I found 50 new paper(s) in 12 journal(s).

Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science

Methodological Refinement and Optimization in Service of Theory Specification and Development: A Commentary on Calderon et al. (2026)
Cheryl J. Wakslak, Kentaro Fujita
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Rethinking the Evaluation of Psychological Theories: A Commentary on Calderon et al.’s Registered Replication Report
Ihnwhi Heo, Minjeong Jeon
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Construal-level theory (CLT) is a well-established theory in social psychology that posits a relationship between psychological distance and mental abstraction such that greater distance is associated with more abstract representations. In a registered replication report, Calderon et al. presented findings that call into question the strength and generality of this relationship, including effects that were attenuated, null, or even opposite to those predicted by CLT across multiple domains of psychological distance. In this commentary, we engage with these findings at two complementary levels. We first reflect on design and measurement considerations that shape the evidentiary value of the current replication. We then situate the findings in discussions of theory evaluation amid ongoing discourse on the theory crisis in psychology. Rather than framing the results in terms of theoretical success or failure, we invite researchers to reconsider how psychological theories are evaluated, revised, and sustained as evidence accumulates. We outline how a findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR)-informed approach, applied to CLT, may support more transparent and cumulative theory development.
The Effect of Psychological Distance on Level of Construal: What Can Be Learned From the Failed Replication by the Construal Level International Multilab Replication?
Nira Liberman, Ori Levit-Mor
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Calderon and her colleagues failed to replicate construal-level theory’s finding that psychologically more distant actions—actions that are planned for the more distant future, more distant places, and less likely situations and performed by more socially distant persons—are construed more abstractly. There is considerable evidence for the effect of psychological distance on construal level, including recent well-powered, preregistered studies. There is also a theory behind this effect: Higher-level constructs change less over distance. So why did the replication fail? What can be learned from it about (studying) distance and level of construal and more generally, about multilab replications? In this commentary, we suggest that in several respects, the replication project fell short of meeting established standards of psychological research. The results of the project are partly based on samples that included many inattentive participants; responders who were not native speakers of the language in which the study was presented; translations that did not preserve the original intent of the materials; manipulations of distance that were confusing, weak, or confounded with valence; and manipulation checks that did not check the actual manipulations. We also offer a reanalysis of some of Calderon and colleagues’ data and a new replication study, both of which show an effect of temporal distance on construal level. Finally, we suggest two ways in which the Registered Replication Report format may be improved.
CyberballOS: An Updated, Easily Implemented, Open-Source Virtual Ball-Toss Game to Study Social Interactions
James H. Wirth, Andrew H. Hales, Sydney G. Wicks, Bradley M. Okdie
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Researchers continually face challenges finding ways to test the fundamentals of psychology: affect, behavior, and cognition. Since 2000, researchers have used a universal tool called Cyberball to investigate these outcomes. Cyberball is a virtual ball-toss game played with computer-controlled players. We updated the Cyberball paradigm, creating CyberballOS (Open Source), to make it require no special resources, have easy-to-set-up games, and record behavioral data. In addition, we developed CyberballOS as open-source software, making its code transparent, accessible, and extendable, which enhances reproducibility of findings and enables limitless program modifications. In this tutorial, we provide an overview of CyberballOS and instructions on how to create a new game, how to load a previous game, and where to find detailed help. We illustrate the process, step by step, for configuring a game (e.g., characteristics of the players, who the computer-controlled players throw to) for both typical use cases (with ready-to-go presets) and newer, more advanced CyberballOS features (e.g., the participant and other players being able to leave). To implement CyberballOS easily, we incorporated a critical feature: the ability to integrate CyberballOS into the popular online survey platform, Qualtrics (including collecting gameplay data). To demonstrate CyberballOS’s utility and how to use its features, we highlight three example studies based on research from developmental, social, and cognitive psychology. Ultimately, the goal is for researchers to easily and dependably work with CyberballOS to meet their needs and better understand affect, behavior, and cognition across psychology disciplines.
Artificial-Intelligence-Mediated Contamination in Online Research: Taxonomy, Risk Gradient, and Recommendations
Zhicheng Lin
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For 2 decades, online research has relied on a quality heuristic: Careful, coherent responding is good data. That heuristic is no longer reliable. Autonomous artificial-intelligence (AI) agents can now pass nearly all conventional quality checks, and in text-rich crowd-work tasks, reported use of large language models approaches one third. When such consultation shapes the response process itself—not just its surface expression—the resulting data appear human-generated while embedding systematic, model-shaped distortions. I synthesize emerging evidence on how AI-mediated contamination varies across research settings in prevalence, mechanism, and inferential consequence; and distinguish three contamination pathways (full delegation, partial mediation, and spillover) and three vulnerability zones (text-rich tasks at highest risk, browser-based cognitive paradigms as an emerging vulnerability, and supervised or identity-vetted settings at lower risk). Even modest contamination can shift estimated public opinion, compress attitudinal extremes, and, over time, feed back into the training data for future models. Current platform countermeasures may raise the cost of contamination but have not been independently validated under adversarial conditions. I argue for a shift from ad hoc detection to infrastructure redesign: contamination-aware sensitivity analyses, explicit stratification of data collection by evidential role, transparency norms that balance open science with adversarial robustness, and a minimum reporting checklist for online studies in vulnerable settings. I close by asking when AI mediation should be treated not as contamination but as part of the ecological baseline of human responding—a question that requires the field to specify the target cognitive system in any given study.
Common Evidence, Multiple Interpretations: Commentaries on a Multilab Study on Musicians’ Short-Term Memory
Rafael RomĂĄn-Caballero, Deniz Baßkent, Anne Caclin, Laura Ferreri, Anna Fiveash, ClĂ©ment François, Massimo Grassi, Eleanor E. Harding, CĂ©sar F. Lima, Katie Overy, Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, M. Paula Roncaglia, E. Glenn Schellenberg, L. Robert Slevc, Francesca Talamini, Barbara Tillmann, Laurel J. Trainor, Ana Zappa
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The multilab registered report by Grassi et al. represents the largest collaborative effort to date to estimate differences in short-term memory between musicians and nonmusicians, testing 1,200 participants across 33 units in 15 countries in an a priori registered design that adhered to open-science practices. Beyond providing precise effect-size estimates, the project exposed substantial diversity in how experts interpret the same data set, particularly regarding the causal status and practical significance of musicians’ cognitive advantages. Here, we present six independent commentaries, each authored by a subset of researchers of the original team, that articulate these contrasting perspectives. Lima and Schellenberg argue that cross-sectional advantages are best explained by preexisting differences rather than training. Román-Caballero et al. emphasize small but reliable far-transfer effects of musical training on domain-general cognition. Zappa et al. call for greater caution in policy claims about music as a cognitive intervention, and Roncaglia et al. situate musical training alongside other forms of expertise (e.g., chess, physical exercise, bilingualism) as one of several routes to cognitive enhancement. Slevc highlights how coordinated multilab projects can help generate specific and testable predictions in a field that often lacks them, and Grassi and Talamini reflect on the broader methodological value of multilab initiatives for building a more accountable and replicable cognitive science. Together, these commentaries showcase productive theoretical pluralism and outline key directions for future research on musical training, cognition, and large-scale collaborative methods.

Behavior Research Methods

Relations of social cognition with affective states: Insights from an expanded 2650-word database on warmth and competence
Dawid Ć»uk, MichaƂ ChęciƄski, Adrianna Wielgopolan, Kamil K. Imbir
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We expanded an existing database of affectively charged words by adding ratings of warmth and competence. We also examined the relationships between these two dimensions and previously established ones – positivity, negativity, automaticity, reflectiveness, arousal, and subjective significance. In this study, 948 participants evaluated 2650 words on warmth and competence using a modified version of the Self-Assessment Manikin scale. This allowed us to obtain ratings of perceived warmth and competence for each word. We also identified the type, direction, and strength of the relationships between warmth and competence and each affective dimension. The results provide a detailed mapping of these associations, and the database may serve as a valuable resource for future research. The findings, possible usage of our database, and limitations are discussed.
Dependent latent class partial credit models for careless and insufficient effort responding in online survey data
Jieyuan Dong, Hongyun Liu, Yang Liu
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Mitigating the slipping effect in polytomous scales: The Generalized Conditional Reliability Weighting (G-CRW) Algorithm and the WeightMyItems R package
Abdullah Faruk Kılıç
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The English spaced compound word database
Casey M. Riedmann, Barbara J. Juhasz, Simon P. Liversedge, Chuanli Zang
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Compound words combine existing words to form a new concept. Spaced compound words represent one form of compound words in which the orthographic space is preserved between the two constituent words (e.g., coffee table ). While recent research has mostly focused on unspaced compound words, spaced compound words offer important insight into the cognitive processes that support lexical retrieval and comprehension. Critically, whether readers process spaced compound words as single lexical units has important implications for how these items are stored and accessed in memory. To support future research, we developed the English Spaced Compound Word Database, wherein we collected familiarity, age-of-acquisition (AoA), and semantic transparency (ST) ratings for 1,162 spaced compound words. We conducted correlational analyses to compare these ratings across words, as well as across previously collected data on compound words’ constituents. These analyses revealed a strong association overall between familiarity ratings and AoA, as well as familiarity and ST. When examining the relationship between ratings and the characteristics of a compound word’s constituents, we found a strong relationship between frequency, AoA, and structural simplicity (i.e., number of characters, syllables, morphemes, and lexical similarity) within all three rating tasks. These findings provide a basis for testing future theoretical models of lexical processing and reading.
Estimating sample size in conceptual property norms by standardizing coverage
Enrique Canessa, Sergio E. Chaigneau, Rodrigo Lagos
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Semantic properties and categorization norms for the 260 Snodgrass and Vanderwart objects: A 45-year conceptual update to a classic set
Caitlyn Antal, Roberto G. de Almeida
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We present a new set of English property norms for 260 object concepts based on the standardized Snodgrass and Vanderwart (1980) picture set. For each object, 100 participants provided a basic-level label ( dog ), a superordinate category ( animal ), and three features ( bark , tail , fur ), yielding a dataset of 78,000 features. Our norms differ from other datasets in four important ways: they (1) probe basic-level information, (2) separate taxonomic and feature information, (3) use open-ended responses for natural descriptions, and (4) include a larger number of responses per object (100 vs. ~ 30 participants in other norms). We analyzed feature statistics such as frequency, distinctiveness, and co-occurrence, and contrasted our norms with those of McRae et al. (2005), CSLB (Devereux et al., 2014), and Hovhannisyan et al. (2021). Compared to picture-based norms, our data—derived from black-and-white line drawings—elicited more diverse features and aligned more closely with language-based norms, particularly CSLB. We assessed the generalizability of our norms using an object-property congruency task, where 144 participants judged whether properties (basic level, superordinate, and features) were related to objects. Objects were shown in three picture formats with increasing ecological validity: (1) colored line drawings, (2) realistic photographs, and (3) realistic photographs of objects in scenes. We then contrasted these data with those of Antal & de Almeida (2024) employing the original line-drawing set. Agreement rates for object-property pairs remained high across picture formats and property types. Bayesian inference revealed minimal variability in congruency judgments across picture formats, with responses tightly clustered around zero. Results show that our norms are generalizable to realistic visual stimuli. Norms are available at https://osf.io/c6brw/overview .
Author Correction: TCBLex - A lexical database of Finnish literary texts for children
Tapio Nojonen, Kiia Korsu, Filip Ginter, Veronika Laippala, Jenna Kanerva
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The evaluation of devaluation: Deficient outcome devaluation leads to wrongly considering goal-directed actions as habits
Antonio Våzquez-Millån, Pablo Martínez-López, María Rueda, José J. León, David Luque
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Habits are stimulus-driven responses that are produced independently of the current outcome value. They enable efficient actions in familiar contexts while freeing up cognitive resources. Habits are expected to influence behavior after substantial experience, whereas limited training leaves behavior under goal-directed control. This transition from goal-directed to habitual control has been documented in animal research but remains challenging to replicate in humans. Using a free-operant task, recent studies have suggested that human habits can be fully learned even after short training. This would produce a ceiling effect, explaining null results when the amount of training is manipulated. Here, we propose an alternative explanation: the devaluation protocol was ineffective for a subset of participants who appeared “habitual”. To test this hypothesis, we conducted a preregistered conceptual replication of the free-operant task with improved devaluation. As in previous research, we found no difference in habitual responses between short and extended training. In contrast to prior reports, most participants were sensitive to outcome devaluation. Habitual responding was strongly correlated with the effectiveness of the outcome devaluation protocol; habit-like responses were mostly produced by the few participants for whom the devaluation did not work. We further supported our hypothesis by reanalyzing previous datasets, finding that, across all studies, participants who showed more habit-like responses were those for whom the devaluation was less effective. Taken together, our findings suggest that suboptimal outcome devaluation protocols may have biased previous results, leading to habit-like goal-directed responses regardless of the amount of previous instrumental training.
The Rhythm Reproduction Task for children: A psychometric examination
Katharina Schaaf, Klaus Frieler, Franziska Degé
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Rhythmic ability includes various subskills, such as rhythm production and perception of beat, meter, and pattern. Among these, reproducing rhythmic patterns is a key measure of productive rhythmic skills. This study examined the psychometric properties of the Rhythm Reproduction Task for children (Jungbluth & Hafen, 2005) and an extended version including permuted item variants. A total of 151 children aged 5 to 8 completed the task across five response modalities (drumming after the experimenter, clapping, tapping, drumming after a loudspeaker, and vocal reproduction). Analyses showed appropriate item difficulty and variance, good internal consistency ( α = .86, ω = .77), and strong correlations between original and permuted items ( r = .84–.89). Structural equation modeling indicated partial metric invariance across item versions and response modalities. Results support the Rhythm Reproduction Task as a reliable measure of rhythmic pattern reproduction in children, with permuted items expanding its applicability.
Joint partial credit and time model
Inhan Kang
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Subjective norms of paintings: Integrating perceptual, cognitive, and emotional dimensions
Khaoula Ennahli, Cristiane Souza, Margarida Vaz Garrido
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Artworks, such as paintings, are frequently utilized as stimuli in research and interventions. However, the complexity of their perceptual, emotional, and cognitive properties necessitates rigorous validation to ensure the reliability of research outcomes and the efficacy of their application in real-world contexts. A few studies have already established norms for paintings. Still, the type of stimuli (e.g., artificial intelligence [AI]-generated) and the comprehensiveness of the assessed dimensions may not entirely capture the complexity of human-made ecological artworks. The current study establishes norms for a diverse set of 144 human-made paintings retrieved from the publicly accessible WikiArt database and thematically clustered into four categories: objects ( n = 36), places ( n = 36), people ( n = 36), and abstract ( n = 36) works. European Portuguese native speakers ( N = 361) rated the paintings in 11 perceptual, cognitive, and emotional dimensions. Participants also provided qualitative descriptions of the paintings, detailing their content and recognized elements. Descriptive data for each painting are provided by dimension and category. Correlations among the dimensions and between individual variables (e.g., personality traits, prior experience with the arts) and the evaluative ratings are also reported. The results indicate that this painting set is diverse, allowing for the selection of artworks that represent different levels of the evaluated dimensions across stimulus categories. These norms fill a critical gap in the standardized evaluation of paintings, facilitating a more precise and controlled use of these stimuli in experimental, clinical, and creative expression applications.
Reliability and statistical power: Conceptual background and practical implications
Attila Krajcsi
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In the behavioral sciences, robust phenomena having large effect sizes and related statistical power may be unreliable. This relation is in contrast to the view that both statistical power and reliability depend similarly on measurement error. In this view, robust but unreliable phenomena can be considered as a reliability paradox. The mathematical relation and possible independence of statistical power and reliability have been discussed in the statistical literature for decades. A common misconception related to the relationship between statistical power and reliability is that absolute reliability (measurement error) is often confounded with relative reliability (ratio of the true score variance to the total score variance). The present work reviews and discusses how measurement error and individual differences influence the relative reliability and robustness of a phenomenon. It discusses why relative reliability and robustness are partly related and why they are generally independent. Following these considerations, it summarizes how measurement error and group heterogeneity can be potentially manipulated to optimize the reliability and robustness of a measured phenomenon.

Computers in Human Behavior

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Corrigendum to ‘Perceptions and adoption of AI in public relations: Innovation attributes, threats, and practical implications’ [Computers in Human Behavior 184C (2026) 109087]
Sung-Un Yang, Cen April Yue, Arunima Krishna, Donald K. Wright
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Watch before you play: The effect of connection to streamers in gaming videos on viewers’ subsequent game-playing satisfaction
Soyeon Lee, Andrew J. Weaver, John A. Velez
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Attentional Priority for Social Reward is Modulated by Attentional Bias Toward Game
Dongyu Liu, Xinyu Zhang, Boxiang Li, Christian Montag, Jon D. Elhai, Haibo Yang
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The Digital Mindfulness Scale: Development and longitudinal validation in the workplace
Elizabeth Marsh, Elvira Perez Vallejos, Alexa Spence
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The creative tax of videoconferencing: How ideological diversity mitigates creativity losses in virtual teams
Daphna Shwartz-Asher, Yossef Tobol
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AI disclosure formats and user responses to AI-generated video: Evidence from a cross-national experiment
Yuya Shibuya, Yair Amichai-Hamburger
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Substratism: Conceptualizing and measuring moral bias against AI
Ali Ladak, Janet V.T. Pauketat, Jacy Reese Anthis, Steve Loughnan, Matti Wilks
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Pieces of me: Theorizing affordance-based social media usage styles and their impact on social capital and well-Being
Tammy Jih-Hsuan Lin
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Fake or trustworthy? A TCCM- and bibliometric-based hybrid review of online review research
Munmun Ghosh, Arindam Ghosh
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Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

Sexual Orientation Stereotyping of Race Categories Referring to Men, and Vice Versa: An Intersectional Analysis in the Italian Context
Rosandra Coladonato, Federico D’Atri, Francesca Trevisan, Patrice Rusconi, Mauro Bianchi, Valentina Piccoli, Andrea Carnaghi
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We employed a multi-method approach to assess both stereotypes related to male race and male sexual orientation, and then analyzed how race stereotypes applied to sexual orientation categories and vice versa. Results from Study 1−3 a-b ( N = 552), along with internal meta-analyses, showed that White, Black, and Asian men were more strongly stereotyped as heterosexual than gay. This pattern was equally strong for White and Black men but weaker for Asian men. White men were more associated with heterosexual traits, while Black men were more perceived as lacking gay traits than the other race categories. Heterosexual men displayed a race-graded structure, favoring White over Black and then Asian traits. In contrast, the race-graded structure of gay men disfavored Black traits only, compared to White and Asian traits. The theoretical implications regarding the intersection of race and sexual orientation categories, as well as the social impact of these findings, are discussed.

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Between law and conscience: Act legality shapes moral evaluation
Mane Kara-Yakoubian, Jonathan A. Fugelsang, Alexander C. Walker
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Is comedy funnier when it is easier to process? The interplay of fluency and coherence in humor appreciation
Drew Gorenz, Norbert Schwarz
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When it is important to be more virtuous: Cultural tightness exacerbates moral superiority
Lipeng Yin, Zaixuan Zhang, Zhansheng Chen
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Stimulus-category confounds reduce, but do not explain, different roles of intent across moral domains: Valid statistical inference helps explain ‘inconsistent’ findings
Joseph Sweetman, Ryan M. McManus
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Evolving together: Dynamic transactions of antagonistic and self-centered traits with couple relationships.
Anna Braig, Matthew D. Johnson, Marcus Mund, Franz J. Neyer
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Mental contrasting prevents a negative future by changing the explicit and implicit meaning of reality.
SunYoung Kim, Peter M. Gollwitzer, Gabriele Oettingen
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Tightening up under threat: Social class shapes the strength of norms.
Ying Lin, Jesse R. Harrington, Michele J. Gelfand
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Unconscious mental content in implicit evaluation: Evidence from misprediction.
Benedek Kurdi, David E. Melnikoff, Adam Morris
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Multivariate Behavioral Research

Handling Missing Data in Intensive Longitudinal Data with Mixed Missing Mechanisms
Zhilin Wan, Yue Liu
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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

To Regulate or Not to Regulate? Situational and Individual Differences in Emotion Regulation Initiation in Daily Life
Tabea Springstein, Anna C. Bankston, Tammy English
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Situational and individual differences shape how and why people regulate emotions, but whether emotion regulation is initiated remains understudied. We hypothesize that, for example, less familiar situations might be associated with more regulation initiation, and people who believe emotions are controllable initiate regulation more frequently. Using experience sampling ( N = 216; 7x/14 days), we found that participants initiated regulation 60% of the time over the past 2 hr. As predicted, people initiated regulation in less familiar, less pleasant contexts, and with more dominant, less warm social partners. Unexpectedly, individuals who believe emotions are uncontrollable were more likely to initiate regulation, even after accounting for affect. These findings highlight that while attention has mostly focused on strategy selection or efficacy, meaningful situational and individual differences also exist at the emotion regulation initiation stage when individuals determine whether to expend regulatory resources to maintain well-being.
Perceived Pain Sensitivity and Treatment Recommendations for Socially Mobile Individuals: The Mediating Role of Perceived Tenacity
Zhijie Xie, Fangfang Wen, Lujun Shen, Chen Liu, Lei Yang
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While prior research shows that higher-class individuals are perceived as more sensitive to pain than lower-class individuals, little is known about how perceptions of pain are shaped by changes in social class. Across a pilot study and five experiments with Chinese and U.S. participants (N = 1,202), we investigated whether social mobility direction influences judgments of pain sensitivity and treatment, and whether perceived tenacity serves as a mediating mechanism. Results indicated that although Chinese and U.S. participants perceived higher-class individuals as more pain-sensitive, they judged upwardly mobile individuals as less sensitive to pain than downwardly mobile individuals. This effect was driven by the attribution of greater tenacity to upwardly mobile targets, which in turn predicted lower pain sensitivity ratings and fewer pain treatment recommendations. These findings reveal a novel psychological pathway through which dynamic social class information shapes pain perception and treatment decisions, extending the literature beyond static class-based stereotypes.

Psychological Bulletin

How spatial skills relate to science achievement: A meta-analytic review.
Kinnari Atit, Emily Grossnickle Peterson, Katie Gilligan-Lee, Zachary Hawes, Jihyun Lee
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Universal interventions to improve young children’s mental well-being: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Jiying Ling, Sisi Chen, Nancy T. Browne, Melissa G. Gomes
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Individual differences in personality trait changes across the lifespan: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.
Peter Haehner, Christopher J. Hopwood, Lukas Schellenberg, Ted Schwaba, Wiebke Bleidorn
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Tackling challenges in large language model–based data extraction via context engineering: A commentary on Jansen et al. (2025).
Junsong Lu, X. T. (XiaoTian) Wang
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Psychological Methods

Identifying careless responding in ecological momentary assessment: Inconsistent signals from different detection methods in the WARN-D Data.
Leonie V. D. E. Vogelsmeier, Björn S. Siepe, Esther Ulitzsch, Gudrun Eisele, Joran Geeraerts, Adam Klocek, Ricarda K. K. Proppert, Carlotta L. Rieble, Rayyan Tutunji, Egon Dejonckheere, Peter Kuppens, Eiko I. Fried
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Sample size planning for studies with multiple measurement trials.
Douglas G. Bonett
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Evaluating local structural-after-measurement and traditional approaches for the estimation of complex nonlinear effects among latent variables.
Felipe Fontana Vieira, Kjell Solem Slupphaug, Yves Rosseel
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Post Hoc comparisons in fixed-effect ANOVA: A sequential fusion approach with calibrated error control.
Yvonnick Noel
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Bayesian marginalized zero-inflated Poisson model with random effects for single-case experimental designs: A simulation study.
Chendong Li, Wen Luo
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Psychological Science

No Evidence for Self-Esteem Effects on Aggression: Findings From a Multi-Year, Multi-Informant Longitudinal Study of Mexican-Origin Families
Ulrich Orth, Jasmin A. Aebi, Richard W. Robins
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Researchers have long debated whether self-esteem is associated with aggression. In this preregistered research, we tested the effects of self-esteem on aggression by using statistical models that control for unmeasured time-invariant confounders. Data came from a multi-wave longitudinal study of 674 Mexican-origin families, including multi-informant assessments of children, mothers, and fathers at 1- or 2-year intervals. There was no evidence of systematic self-esteem effects on aggression, and the results held when we controlled for narcissism and when the influence of shared-method variance could be ruled out. Also, there was little evidence for effects in the reverse direction, that is, from engaging in aggression on self-esteem. One limitation was that in most cases it was not possible to test whether the self-esteem effects were curvilinear because of the nonconvergence of these models. Overall, the findings do not support either low or high self-esteem as a risk factor for aggression.

Psychology of Popular Media

Exploring public perceptions of social media: A preregistered mixed-methods study.
Evelyn A. H. Murray, Michael Larkin, Daniel J. Shaw, Charlotte R. Pennington
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Understanding why people consume true crime: A systematic scoping review of psychological motivations.
Dolores FernĂĄndez, Diego Montoya-BermĂșdez, MarĂ­a V. Jimeno, Gloria GarcĂ­a-PĂ©rez
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