Top Research Papers on Psychology

A moderate prevalence of generalized anxiety symptoms about COVID-19 vaccines in a Portuguese sample, with a tendency to increase when approaching vaccination decision making is showed, ensuring that the population is informed about COVID-19 vaccines.

The Psychology of Music provides an overview of the perception of musical tones by discussing different sound characteristics, like loudness, pitch and timbre, together with interaction between these attributes.

1. Psychology, Science and Research. 2. Measuring People: Variables, Samples and the Qualitative Critique. 3. Experiments and Experimental Designs in Psychology. 4. Validity in Psychological Research. 5. Quasi-experiments and Non-experiments. 6. Observational Methods: Watching and Being with People. 7. Interview Methods: Asking People Direct Questions. 8. Psychological Tests and Measurement Scales. 9. Comparison Studies: Cross-sectional, Longitudinal and Cross-cultural Studies. 10. Qualitative Approaches in Psychology. 11. Statistics - Organising the Data. 12. Graphical Representation of Data....

Use of social media has a significant influence on the behaviors of teenagers. Although nations around the world are aware of what occurs on websites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and others, there has been evidence of cyberbullying on these platforms. This study was conducted among the teenagers attending secondary schools in Nairobi County, Kenya, to investigate the coping strategies used by adolescents in dealing with the effects of cyberbullying. The research used Ex –Post- Facto design. All of the adolescents in selected secondary schools between the ages of 13 and 18 made up the study...

About half of the samples were having psychological distress which is of mild and moderate, severe psychological distress were seen in 16.7% of the samples, ordinal self-esteem were seen in 73% of the samples, 27% of samples had mild and average self- esteem.

Thousands of readers who have profited from engagement with the lively mind of Rudolf Arnheim over the decades will receive news of this new collection of essays expectantly. In the essays collected here, as in his earlier work on a large variety of art forms, Arnheim explores concrete poetry and the metaphors of Dante, photography and the meaning of music. There are essays on color composition, forgeries, and the problems of perspective, on art in education and therapy, on the style of artists' late works, and the reading of maps. Also, in a triplet of essays on pioneers in the psychology of ...

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New pedagogical tools that guide students through the text, the Fifth Edition offers expanded coverage of key topic areas, such as cultural issues, scientific integrity, and recent changes in the publication and communication of research.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to the field of school psychology and the many different roles school psychologists can assume. At the end of this course students will: 1. be familiar with the organization of schools and the multi-cultural nature of school populations, 2. be aware of the contributions of school psychologists to schools, 3. be familiar with the knowledge base and skills needed to become competent psychologists, 4. understand basic concepts of program evaluation, 5. understand the psycho-educational assessment process and critical cons...

The Psychology of Wisdom: An Introduction is the first comprehensive coursebook on wisdom, providing an engaging, balanced, and expert introduction to the psychology of wisdom. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the psychological science of wisdom, covering wide-ranging perspectives. Each chapter includes extensive pedagogy, including a summary, a glossary, bolded terms, practical applications, discussion questions, and a brief description of the authors' research. Topics include the philosophical foundations, folk conceptions, and psychological theories of wisdom; relations...

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A growing body of evidence suggests that many aspects of psychology have evolved culturally over historical time. A combination of approaches, including experimental data collected over the past 75 years, cross-cultural comparisons, and studies of immigrants, points to systematic changes in psychological domains as diverse as conformity, attention, emotion, morality, and olfaction. However, these approaches can go back in time only for a few decades and typically fail to provide continuous measures of cultural change, posing a challenge for testing deeper historical psychological processes. To...

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

Changing negative societal attitudes to high body weights would improve the wellbeing of people living with obesity, and promote more effective weight-inclusive attitudes and behaviours in society at large, particularly in healthcare settings.

The textbook contains systematized information about psychological, socio-cultural, historical-ethnographic, psychobiological and other aspects of the development of a person changing over time. The first section is devoted to general theoretical problems of developmental psychology, the second to the analysis of different ages. The comprehensive nature of the manual makes it possible to solve the problems of formation in the professional consciousness of a stable complex of scientific categories and concepts, with the help of which the factual diversity of manifestations of the mental life o...

This study aims to investigate the relationship between perceived organizational support (POS), psychological empowerment, psychological well-being, and job performance among 150 employees in the Indonesian telecommunications sector. This sample size aligns with the requirements for Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis. Data was collected through a questionnaire using a Likert scale with two parts, covering respondent profiles and research variables. SmartPLS was employed for data analysis, and various tests were conducted to ensure data reliability, convergent validity, and discriminan...

The paper outlines how different subfields of psychology can inform behavioral tests for LLMs and defines methodological standards for machine psychology research, especially by focusing on policies for prompt designs.

The importance of legal psychology at the international level has gained ground in the last ten years due to the increase in criminality within the so-called transnational organized crime. Drug trafficking, money laundering, human trafficking, femicides, migrant smuggling, and genocide are examples of criminal behavior that crosses borders between countries. The social, cultural, political and economic implications that these antisocial behaviors entail makes it necessary to implement specialized and trained professional teams for the identification and management of criminal profiling, where ...

: The article presents the results of the theoretical substantiation of the essence of the concept of "student's personal development" as a conscious process of purposeful self-change of personality, manifested in the progressive improvement of psychological characteristics of a personality and leading to the formation of universal competencies. The role of the discipline "Personal development" is shown in the formation of universal competencies of students, implemented in the direction of training "Information systems and technologies" of HE programs of the Industrial University of Tyumen. Th...

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The ultimate goal of schools is to educate young people to become responsible, critically thinking citizens who can succeed in life. Understanding the factors that stimulate them to become active agents in their own learning is critical. Positive psychology is a relatively new field of psychology.Positive psychology can be used to unravel factors that facilitate a student’s sense of agency and active school engagement. Positive psychology is an emerging applied science that is just beginning to have a significant impact on schools and school-based interventions. Positive psychology is a...

This article argues that instead of relying solely on such performance-based benchmarks, researchers should apply methods from cognitive psychology to gain insights into LLMs, and takes an admirable first step toward establishing the value of such an approach.

The cultural-evolutionary, or "cognitive gadget," perspective suggests that people alive today-parents, educators, elders, politicians, lawyers-have more responsibility for sustaining normativity than the nativist view implies.

The difficulties that occur in defining the concept, structure, and classification and ensuring the diagnosis and development of various types of social organization are analyzed and the reliability of the organizational (corporate) security system is associated with overcoming these difficulties.

This interview is a slightly modified transcript from the first PSYCHE Talk, hosted at the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, October 6, 2023. PSYCHE – Psychology of Culture, Humanity and Education, is a newly established research section that gathers three different research groups: Qualitative Studies, Situated Psychology and Cultural Psychology. PSYCHE Talks are hosted as biannual events, where prominent psychological researchers are invited to discuss fundamental questions about the nature and subject matter of psychology through an interview-based format. Th...

The relationship between AD and mental health is explored, including possible causation pathways, and there is increasing evidence that AD contributes to chronic low-grade inflammation and cognitive impairment (CI).

Abstract. This article phenomenologically contrasts the experience of sensations and concepts as two forms of psychological awareness of non-psychological content. While the contents of sensations ...

Human behavior plays a critical role in causing global climate change as well as in responding to it. In this article, I review important insights on the psychology of climate change. I first discuss factors that affect the likelihood that individuals engage in a wide range of climate actions. Next, I review the processes through which values affect climate actions and reflect on how to motivate climate actions among people who do not strongly care about nature, the environment, and climate change. Then I explain that even people who may be motivated to engage in climate actions may not do so ...

Myths in Psychology are beliefs that are widely spread and inconsistent with the empirical evidence available within this field of knowledge. They are characterized by being relatively stable, resistant to change, and prevalent both among the non-academic population and among students and professionals within this discipline. The aim of this study was to analyse the prevalence of these myths among Spanish psychology students and the influence of three variables: the type of university, face-to-face (UAM) and online (UNED), the academic year in which participants were enrolled and familiarity w...

In this paper, we argue that psychological capital is unequally distributed among people from different social classes, ethnic backgrounds and genders. Con-fronting the limitations of the current, individualistic perspective on psychological capital, we offer a re-conceptualisation of the construct from a critical, interdisciplinary perspective, placing it at the inter-section of sociology and psychology. We discuss the various mechanisms through which social inequalities may cause differential access to psychological capital for members of low-and high-status social groups and show how this d...

Progress in each of these areas and highlighting the connections between them can be reviewed to better appreciate the structure of social thought and behavior, while also coming to understand when, why, and how formal tools can be useful for social psychologists.

For over 50 years, psychology leaders have called for fundamental changes in how we undertake research, education, and community interaction. This paper provocatively argues the case for “why now, and how.” The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that psychology must contribute more to the wellbeing of local and global communities. We propose that a primary mechanism for doing so is by reinventing the undergraduate psychology program. This paper provides a stimulus to initiate international discussion of interconnected graduate capabilities, which we propose to be: Knowledge, Research Methods, Appl...

Early work on attention selective report and interference effects in visual attention the nature of visual attenion combining the attributes of objects and visual search selection for action task combination and divided attention automaticity, skill and expertise intentional control and willed behaviour the problem of consciousness deficits of attention consciousness and control.

Our mental experience is largely continuous on the scale of seconds and minutes. However, this continuity does not always arise from a volitional carrying forward of ideas. Instead, recent actions, thoughts, dispositions, and emotions can persist in mind, continually shaping our later experience. Aspects of this fundamental property of human cognition—psychological momentum—have been studied under the rubrics of mindset, mood, memory, task set, and mind wandering. Reviewing these largely independent threads of research, we argue that psychological momentum needs to be understood from an integr...

The history of the racialized weaponization of the noose in the United States is reviewed; the potential psychological harm and test performance degradation imposed by including racist stimuli in assessment materials; and the ethical and cultural competency implications of exposing examinees to racist stimuli during psychological assessments are reviewed.

It is demonstrated that the large-language model GPT is capable of accurately detecting various psychological constructs in text across 12 languages, using simple prompts and no additional training data, and thus overcomes the limitations present in existing methods.

The Psychology of Reading reviews what has been learned about skilled reading and dyslexia using research on one of the most important but often overlooked languages and writing systems – Chinese. It provides an overview of the Chinese language and writing systems, discusses what is known about the cognitive and neural processes that support the skilled reading of Chinese, as well as its development and impairment, and describes the computer models that have been developed to understand these topics. It is written in an accessible way to appeal to anyone with an interest in cognitive psycholog...

Some commentators have recently argued that scientific psychology is overly reliant on artificial laboratory-based activities and that it undervalues field-based investigations. However, it remains unclear how a field-based programme of psychological research might be organized in a scalable way. We examine and compare two existing field-based approaches: Roger Barker's behaviour settings programme and Edwin Hutchins's distributed cognition programme. Both programmes prioritize observational work, and both reject the individual as the unit of analysis in favour of a community-scale unit. Howev...

Abstract. Translational science involves the fruitful interplay between basic research paradigms and related fields of application. One promising candidate for such synergy is the relationship between social and clinical psychology. Although the relation is principally bi-directional, such that either discipline can take the role of the basic and the applied science, we take the perspective of transfer from basic social and cognitive social psychology to applications in the clinical realm. Starting from a historical sketch of some of the earliest topics in the interface of both disciplines, we...

ABSTRACT The central focus of this paper is to motivate and explore the question which is that of, when is it permissible to endorse a psychologizing explanation of a sincere interlocutor? I am interested in the moral question of when (if ever) we may permissibly dismiss the sincere reasons given to us by others, and instead endorse an alternative explanation of their beliefs and actions. I argue that there is a significant risk of wronging the other person, and so we should only psychologize when we are in a position to know that they are in bad faith.

This book aims to serve as a basic literature in the new field of African psychology as presently constituted in continental Africa. The book is designed to fill a huge void that exists with the persistent absence of a foundational text that evolves from the situated knowledges and experience of continental African realities and postcolonial concerns and is devoted to defining and charting the content and scope of this new field for scholars within and outside Africa. The book consists of a coherent and organically cohesive selection of the author’s key essays, the majority of them published b...

The aim of this research is to emphasize on how COVID-19 psychologically affected people all around the world. COVID-19 completely turned down the lives of people with its adverse effects. It drained people physically as well as mentally. The fear of becoming infectious and the lockdown measures have significantly changed people’s daily routine. In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25%. One major explanation for the increase is the unprecedented stress caused by the social isolation resulting from the pandemic. From lone...

ABSTRACT This study tests a model exploring the direct effect of workplace bullying on employee creativity and performance using psychological distress as the mediator and psychological resilience as the moderator based on the JD-R theory. PLS-SEM was applied to analyze data collected from both employees and supervisors of 4 – and 5-star hotels. The main findings reveal that workplace bullying affects employee creativity negatively, and psychological distress positively. While psychological distress has a negative effect on employee creativity, the latter exerts a significantly positive effect...

ABSTRACT So as to effectively personalize a game design and gamified experiences in a learning context, the psychological characteristics of the students must be inexorably considered. A rigorous search using scientific search engines was conducted in order to explore game user classification theories that can contribute to tailor game content. On the one hand, research revealed that personality traits can be highly predictive of the players’ degree of enjoyment of a wide range of game design elements (levels, points, leaderboards, etc.). On the other hand, research also showed that motivation...

alysis and academic psychiatry) are often important and delicately balanced." My experiences and my theoretical and clinical orientation as both a psychoanalyst and a psychiatrist made it clear to me that my position was unhesitatingly with Dr. James Mann's spirited paper. He makes clear that a blurring of psychiatry and psychoanalysis has taken place because psychoanalytic concepts have become so much a part of psychiatry and he proceeds to differentiate between the two. He points out specifically that so-called Neo-Freudians may minimize, ignore or discard significant unified psychoanalytic ...

This paper focuses on climate anxiety and its role in the psychology of climate change, compared with responses to the COVID-19 global pandemic.

Editor’s note: this article is a summary of the Keynote at the Section Annual Conference Transpersonal Activism on 12 September 2021.Despite its designation as the ‘Fourth Force,’ Transpersonal Psychology often occupies a peripheral and precarious place within mainstream Psychological approaches. Its historic focus on mystical/spiritual and non-ordinary states of consciousness, coupled with its continued emphasis on subjective and experiential inquiry, have often led to it being excluded in favour of more materialist, positivistic paradigms that currently dominate the discipline. Rather than a...

Children with ASD are uniquely vulnerable to the disruption caused by COVID-19 pandemic, and implementation of structured multi-level and multi-component child/parent-centered interventions are of paramount importance to mitigate the effect of the pandemic on this vulnerable population.

During the past decade, a rich literature emerged focusing on “psychological capital,” a multidimensional concept encompassing self-efficacy, hope, optimism, and resilience. So far psychological capital has been predominantly studied in the areas of work and organizational psychology, management, and organizational behavior. This paper argues that (1) the relevance of psychological capital is much broader than assumed so far and (2) that not only the outcomes but also the (social) origins and sources of psychological capital need to be studied. More specifically, the key questions that we addr...

Introduction. The specifics of the work of university psychological educational support services are related to helping young and adult people involved in educational relationships with problems arising in connection with psychological distress or with the tasks of ensuring psychological well-being.Purpose setting. The purpose of the study is to analyze current problems of preserving and strengthening the psychological well-being of modern university students in the context of various areas of psychological support of the educational process.Methodology and methods of the study. The research m...