Top Research Papers on Human Psychology

Two case studies provide an existence proof that psychological AI can help design efficient and transparent algorithms that predict recidivism and recency.

Abstract. In 2020, the United Nations celebrated its 75th anniversary. The celebration marked the founding of the UN Charter and reminded the world that this intergovernmental organization, created in the aftermath of World War II, was envisioned as an institution to safeguard humanity, and extend the protection and promotion of human rights, peace and security, the rule of law, and development. The anniversary also came against the backdrop of a world teetering on the brink of disaster – the COVID-19 pandemic. The UN Secretary-General described the COVID-19 pandemic as a global crisis that th...

All sciences have a special importance in the formation of human outlook. What does psychology study and what does the word psychology mean? The word psychology comes from the Greek word "psychiyu" meaning "soul, soul" and "logia" meaning "science, teaching", that is, psychology is a science that studies the human psyche and inner world.

In this text we will reflect on psychology as a scientific discipline focused on mind and behavior, which initially diverged from philosophy and medicine and has made a long process of recognition as an autonomous science. Since the 19th century, with Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener, William James, John Dewey to the famous Thorndike as main pioneers. Thorndike discovered a premise so important in psychology and applicable to so many human behaviors which is the fact that a stimulus tends to produce a certain response over time, if a given organism is rewarded for that response. Introducing ...

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The study encompasses various applications of AI technologies in understanding, simulating, and augmenting human psychological processes, aiming to shed light on the transformative potential and ethical considerations of such integration, and evaluates the impact on individual well-being and the broader societal implications.

This paper presents an experimental based approach to teaching humanities classes at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering CTU in Prague with general principles and describes eleven laboratory tasks from Engineering psychology.

Modern society faces major environmental problems, but there are many difficulties in studying the nature–human relationship from an integral psychosocial perspective. We propose the ecomindsponge conceptual framework, based on the mindsponge theory of information processing. We present a systematic method to examine the nature–human relationship with conceptual frameworks of system boundaries, selective exchange, and adaptive optimization. The theoretical mechanisms were constructed based on principles and new evidence in natural sciences. The core mechanism of ecomindsponge is the subjective...

The effects of fasting on human lipid metabolism, glucose metabolism, protein metabolism, and neuroendocrine metabolism are introduced; the metabolic conversion caused by fasting is demonstrated; and the effects offasting on human psychological health, the relationship between mood regulation and glucose, and the emotional enhancing effect induced by fasting are described.

It is concluded that the same value-based processes underlying economic decisions also underlie choices involving human lives and that the perceived Psychological Value of human lives is highly influenced by individual differences of people but minimally influenced by the number of people in a group.

The veterinary profession has a unique responsibility to animals during the final stages of their lives. The veterinarian's obligations extend to humane endings, involving all species of animals in a range of circumstances including, but not limited to, euthanasia of individually owned animals, euthanasia of animals for research purposes, depopulation of animals during emergencies, and slaughter of animals raised for food. The veterinary profession continues to improve animal welfare through advances in end-of-life decision-making and humane killing techniques,1-3 but the psychological impacts...

This work highlights new approaches and indicates possible new directions in the understanding of the cognitive and perceptual capacities of the human fetus.

The Al-Qur'an is the official guideline and is an interesting material for Muslims to study because it is comprehensive about all aspects of life. This is proven, one of which is with several verses that explore the nature of human creation to the deviations it commits. So guidance, coaching, education, and healing are needed both from the psychological and physiological aspects. So the purpose of this study is to describe the Psychological and Physiological Motives in Humans (Studies on the Verses of the Qur'an). The method used is literature in the process of collecting data, then careful an...

Studying the effect of HCI on users’ psychological anxiety can help designers improve the design and function of H CI systems, reduce users” psychological anxiety, and improveusers’ satisfaction and efficiency.

There appears to be a dominant genetic factor associated with the predisposition for developing sleep paralysis, and the effects of sleep paralysis on one’s psychology and personal life are shown.

© 2021 Jessica Tizzard This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License. <www.philosophersimprint.org/021016/> F ew issues reveal more about Immanuel Kant’s moral psychology than his take on human frailty or weakness.1 Interpreters differ widely on the topic, for it gets to the heart of a fundamental and controversial subject for Kant’s philosophical system. To give a reading of Kant’s view of weakness, one must delve deeply into the question of how our rational and sensible capacities relate to one another. For example, is all human action, ev...

The current paper aims to provide the venue to the spiritual insights of Ghazalian thought to be integrated into the study of Freudian psychoanalysis. The study has adopted descriptive and analytical approach to make a comparative analysis of Ghazalian concept of nafs e lawwamma and Freudian superego.  Zepetnek’s (1998) theory of comparative literature has provided the guidelines for an in depth analysis of both the models.  This analytical approach may lead to an alternative critical agenda for the better understanding of human psyche. Moreover, the present study emanates from the assumption ...

An expanded evolutionary approach is introduced that considers how genetic and cultural evolution, and their interaction, may have shaped both the reliably developing features of the authors' minds and the well-documented differences in cultural psychologies around the globe.

Humanistic psychology as a social movement was indigestible for many humanistically oriented academic psychologists. Their students wanted easy therapeutic gimmicks, and they saw humanistic psychology as justifying a comfortably optimistic view of people in the world. Leaders of humanistic psychology advanced other worldly concerns over worldly ones. "Secular humanism" in the style of Chein, Fromm, and Murray was essentially unrepresented in the movement, and May's tragic view did not prevail. With recent changes in psychoanalysis and in behaviorism/cognitive psychology, humanistic psychology ...

Psychology can be considered a humanity as well as a science. This paper examines distinctions between the humanities and the sciences and suggests five characteristics of a humanity. After reviewing previous pleas to broaden the perspective of psychology, three examples are provided of psychology as a humanity. Finally, the impact that this view might have on teaching and research is discussed.

Abstract After seeing one solid object apparently passing through another, or a person taking the long route to a destination when a shortcut was available, human adults classify those events as surprising. When tested on these events in violation-of-expectation (VOE) experiments, infants look longer at the same outcomes, relative to similar but expected outcomes. What cognitive processes underlie these judgments from adults, and perhaps infants’ sustained attention to these events? As one approach to test this question, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan the brains o...

The author investigates ChatGPT’s technical foundation, including its Transformer architecture and RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) process, enabling it to generate human-like responses, and studies the significant improvements GPT models bring to conversational interfaces.

Psychology is the study of the mind and behaviour. Psychologists look into the many dimensions of being a person, including thoughts, brain function, activities, emotions, personality, and human development. Human society is always evolving, and he is the most intelligent creature on the planet. Humans act differently depending on the demands of the circumstance. Every person is unique, and their behaviour depends on a variety of psychological elements like their intelligence, emotional maturity, motivation, ability to adapt, self-concept, self-efficacy, and susceptibility to depression, anxie...

"This article explores the role of anthropocentric ideology, and belief systems in hampering effective individual and collective responses to ecological crises. In the context of the Anthropocene, it considers how anthropocentrism is culturally widespread and habitually reproduced across a range of practices. However, to avoid overly deterministic readings of the power of anthropocentrism, the article considers how humancentred ways of thinking and working are being challenged in many areas of life. It focuses on psychology, psychotherapy and related disciplines, drawing on examples of researc...

The role of emotion recognition in HRI is examined from a psychological standpoint, shedding light on its implications for the design and development of effective human-robot interfaces and the challenges associated with emotion recognition are discussed.

Organizations can sustain different efforts toward human development, and employee–employer relationships can sustain the organizations to work toward their purpose. However, contemporary organizations are facing unprecedented challenges as a result of COVID-19, intensified globalization, increasingly diversified workforce, and continuous technological advancements, thereby impacting the way businesses and people are managed. Most of the work has transitioned to online, and employees are working from home due to pandemic situations. Organizations need to manage the emerging, complex employee–e...

People's attitudes towards social norms play a crucial role in understanding group behaviour. Norm psychology accounts focus on processes of norm internalization that influence people's norm-following attitudes but pay considerably less attention to social identity and group identification processes. Social identity theory in contrast studies group identity but works with a relatively thin and instrumental notion of social norms. We argue that to best understand both sets of phenomena, it is important to integrate the insights of both approaches. Social status, social identity and social norms...

This study is a great contribution to the banking industry of Pakistan as it provides a complete analysis to control fraud inside organizations by understanding the mindset of fraudsters with the help of fraud diamond theory.

How adding ‘health humanities’ to health psychology opens up a potentially rich domain for research and clinical application is discussed and put into a context of related fields.

WHATEVER else it may or may not possess, psychology has one quality which obstinately refuses to be assimilated to the requirements of natural science. This quality has expressed itself of late in the resurgence of the humanistic, "understanding," qualitative-affective movement; but there are divergent ideas as to what the quality is. The present article tries to take one more step in bringing it down to earth. Such an inquiry cannot be conclusive, for the movement is one that proceeds by many paths. But contribute it can (and hopes to) by centering on the third of these sources of change, the...

ABSTRACT The twinship/alter-ego experience, defined as a sense of being human among other human beings, is one of the most significant concepts of Heinz Kohut’s Psychology of the Self. Throughout his work, Kohut always referred to both the twinship and alter-ego terms interchangeably, but he never clarified his use of the two very different concepts to encompass one idea. In this article, we attempt to clarify this by exploring how the twinship experience and the alter-ego experience do, or do not, come into contact with each other. Through a reexamination of a case vignette about Anna, who we...

With rapid urbanization, the increasing separation between humans and the natural environment is exacerbating mental health challenges. Research shows that contact with the natural environment yields significant psychological benefits. However, existing theories have limitations in sample diversity and explanatory power. This study reviewed and tested five major theoretical frameworks, aiming to develop a new interdisciplinary theoretical framework. Using a questionnaire, data from 413 participants were analyzed via structural equation modeling. The results confirmed the important roles of phy...

The volumes in this set take a comparative approach to human and animal psychology and give a valuable insight into thinking about similarities and differences between humans and animals prevalent in the 1920s and 1930s.

This study proposed one novel trust-behavior model, namely the reverse psychology model, and compared it against the commonly used disuse model to examine how the two models affect the robot's optimal policy and the human-robot team performance.

The article thoroughly analyses the relevance of adhering to the rules of leading a healthy lifestyle through the eyes of a specialist in medicine and psychology.

This study investigates the effects of task demonstrability and replacing a human advisor with a machine advisor. Outcome measures include advice-utilization (trust), the perception of advisors, and decision-maker emotions. Participants were randomly assigned to make a series of forecasts dealing with either humanitarian planning (low demonstrability) or management (high demonstrability). Participants received advice from either a machine advisor only, a human advisor only, or their advisor was replaced with the other type of advisor (human/machine) midway through the experiment. Decision-make...

Abstract Despite years of discussion, whether and to what extent human resource management (HRM) has been psychologized remains controversial. We consider HRM psychologization as indicated by a disciplinary (i.e., the relative contribution of psychology and other fields to HRM research) and an inter-disciplinary component (i.e., knowledge integration of psychology and other fields in HRM research). Accordingly, we apply two bibliometric methods (i.e., citation and co-citation analysis) to a sample of 6,709 articles published in six HRM journals from 2000 to 2021. Overall, psychology became mor...

Since its inception as a modern and evolving discipline, psychology has been concerned with issues of human security. This think piece offers an initial conceptualisation of human security as a broad security concept that encompasses a range of interrelated dimensions that have been responded to by different sub-disciplinary domains within psychology. We advance an argument for a human security psychology as a connecting focal point for general psychology that enables us to bring knowledge from across our eclectic discipline into further dialogue. This is a necessary step in understanding bett...

This paper analyzes the concept and main ideas of positive psychology, discusses the theoretical basis of applying the principle of positive psychology to human resource management, analyzes the problems encountered in the development of modern enterprise organization from a practical point of view, and discusses its enlightenment to human resource management of enterprises. From how to establish enterprise culture and create a positive working environment for enterprise organization, to training enterprise employees, including employee recruitment, employee motivation, employee training and c...

This paper highlights to put forward reasons supporting the use of AI in the field of psychology.

The humanlike responses of large language models (LLMs) have prompted social scientists to investigate whether LLMs can be used to simulate human participants in experiments, opinion polls and surveys. Of central interest in this line of research has been mapping out the psychological profiles of LLMs by prompting them to respond to standardized questionnaires. The conflicting findings of this research are unsurprising given that mapping out underlying, or latent, traits from LLMs' text responses to questionnaires is no easy task. To address this, we use psychometrics, the science of psycholog...

This original and engaging book advocates an unabashedly empirical approach to understanding human values: abstract ideals that we consider important, such as freedom, equality, achievement, helpfulness, security, tradition, and peace. Our values are relevant to everything we do, helping us choose between careers, schools, romantic partners, places to live, things to buy, who to vote for, and much more. There is enormous public interest in the psychology of values and a growing recognition of the need for a deeper understanding of the ways in which values are embedded in our attitudes and beha...

“Kawaii” is a popular word in Japan today. Although it is often translated as “cute” in English, its meaning and scope are broader than those of “cute,” because this word is used not only as an adjective that describes the perceivable features of an object, but also as an adjective that expresses a person's feelings toward the object. In this talk, I will explain how “kawaii” can be conceptualized in the cognitive and behavioral sciences and how it is relevant to the field of human-robot interaction. First, I will introduce Lorenz's (1943) seminal concept of “Kindchenschema” (baby schema), whi...

This paper presents one line of sociocultural psychology aiming at a better understanding of people’s development in their courses of life, unfolding in changing social and cultural environments. Adopting such a position leads me to three core questions: first, if development occurs at the junction of the social and the psychological, how can we theoretically account for the guidance of the sociocultural world upon people’s learning and development, and people’s unique capacities to create and transform these environments? Second, if one adopts such a perspective, how do we account for what it...

It was concluded that the cities can help stimulate the brain cells of citizens and maintain their brain activity at a certain level of productivity.

There is a problem with applied social psychology research—what might be considered the proverbial elephant-in-the-room—that it is the rare applied social psychology article, or set of articles, that is eventually implemented into intervention or policy to better the human condition (Bhave et al., 2016; Bickman & Rog, 2008; Dasgupta & Stout, 2012; Dir et al., 2021; Kantilal et al., 2020). The aim of this editorial is to consider the barriers that arise when going from applied social psychology research to applications of the findings to an actual policy utilized in a company setting (e.g. redu...

The study of psychology has been handicapped by the difficulty of measuring how individual traits affect interactions with the surrounding social structures and how this interaction affects both individual life outcomes and group characteristics. With the advent of continuous, fine-grain data from cell phones, credit cards, and online interactions, the field of human psychology can become better at understanding the role of social context by combining these new data sources with standard experimental methods. This article will examine how these new tools can shed light on the influence individ...

The term “psychology” was applied for the first time in the 16th century. Yet the most interesting examples appeared in three different contexts. The Croatian poet and humanist Marko Marulić (ca. 1520), the German philosopher and Calvinist Johann Thomas Freig (1575), and the German Lutheran philosopher Rudolph Goclenius (1590). Marulić’s manuscript is likely lost, and neither of the other two defined the term. Even the interests of the three went apparently in different directions. Marulić focused on poetry and history, Freig on physica, and Goclenius on theological issues. Nevertheless, they ...

This review breaks down the complex effects of robotic agents on interacting humans into some basic building blocks based on human–human interaction findings, and proposes that the neural correlates of these effects could support real-time evaluation and optimization of HRI with electroencephalograph-based brain–computer interface (BCI).

Insight is offered into the possible advantages, difficulties, and ethical issues that occur when integrating AI and ML into the study of human psychology by looking at recent developments and implementations of these technologies in psychological research.