Article
Psychology, Clinical
Naomi G. Hill, Sophie R. Abber, Pamela K. Keel
Summary: Sexual abuse or assault history is associated with eating disorder severity and psychiatric comorbidity, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD due to different trauma sources may impact the likelihood of eating regulating affect. Insights from this study may help adapt treatments for purging in BN-S comorbid with PTSD.
Review
Clinical Neurology
F. Duquette-Laplante, M. Macaskill, B. Jutras, B. Jemel, A. Koravand
Summary: This scoping review aimed to identify and understand the impacts of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) on EEG-measured functional connectivity (FC) in children. The review provides an overview of the available literature, analysis techniques, and describes gaps in the research.
APPLIED NEUROPSYCHOLOGY-CHILD
(2023)
Article
Oncology
Victoria Dax, Maria Ftanou, Ben Tran, Jeremy Lewin, Joshua F. Wiley
Summary: Psychological distress is common in men with testicular cancer, and masculinities may work to explain this. This study found that masculinities are implicated in psychological distress in men with testicular cancer, and psychological flexibility as well as leveraging masculine beliefs, such as optimistic action, may be modifiable targets to reduce distress.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Richard M. Kesler, Anthoney Shawn Deaton, Robert Bryan Ormond, Samantha Silverstein, Kathryn L. Donlin, Gavin P. Horn
Summary: This study quantified the impact of hood design on firefighters' range of motion, noise production, and hearing. Particulate-blocking hoods reduced rotational range of motion, while thicker hoods decreased hearing ability. Design, rather than the number of layers, affected noise production during head movement.
Article
Psychology
Julie Y. L. Chow, Jessica C. Lee, Peter F. Lovibond
Summary: People often rely on covariation between events to infer causality, but the covariation between cues and outcomes may change over time. Extinction provides a model to study the updating of causal beliefs when a previously established relationship no longer holds. Prediction error theories can explain both extinction and protection from extinction, but our findings suggest that the nature of the change in causal beliefs is influenced by reasoning processes that incorporate existing knowledge of causal mechanisms and may be biased towards preserving existing beliefs.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Eric O. Ingram, Justin E. Karr
Summary: The study aimed to examine the frequency of obtaining potentially problematic scores on the NIH Toolbox Emotion Battery. The results showed that 65.2% of participants obtained one or more potentially problematic scores in different subdomains. Participants who were younger and had less education had higher rates of potentially problematic scores in specific subdomains.
ARCHIVES OF CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology
Joakim Hellumbraten Kristensen, Stale Pallesen, Jonas Bauer, Tony Leino, Mark D. Griffiths, Eilin K. Erevik
Summary: Gambling problems are consistently associated with suicidality, but the magnitude of this relationship and the potential causal link between them remain uncertain. This meta-analysis reveals that individuals with gambling problems have a high prevalence of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts, indicating a need for attention from help agencies.
PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Yee To Ng, Sae Hwang Han, Karen L. Fingerman, Kira S. Birditt
Summary: This study shows that encounters with friends, particularly positive encounters, are associated with momentary reductions in heart rate variability (HRV) among individuals, and those with more friend encounters, particularly positive encounters, have higher HRV. These associations are observed only among Black adults and suggest that friends may be more salient for Black adults' cardiovascular health.
Article
Psychology
Caitlin A. Sisk, Vanessa G. Lee
Summary: During prolonged tasks, visual attention fluctuates temporally in response to stimuli, task demands, and available attentional resources. Research has shown that detecting a target in a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) stream leads to better memory for concurrently presented stimuli than for stimuli presented with an RSVP distractor. This study demonstrates the consistent presence of both target-induced memory enhancement and distractor-induced memory impairment, highlighting the importance of considering distractor-induced memory impairment and the control of temporal selection in dual-task research.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Aviva Charles, Yann Henaut, Michel Saint-Jalme, Baptiste Mulot, Alexis Lecu, Fabienne Delfour
Summary: This study investigates the behavioral and acoustic responses of Antillean manatees towards various stimuli involving three sensory modalities. The results show that manatees react more to submerged stimuli and display more interest, social behaviors, and vocalizations. Different stimuli also affect the types and properties of vocalizations. The findings suggest that manatees have sensory preferences and are more interested in manipulable stimuli when exploring.
JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology
Matthew W. Lowder, Adrian Zhou, Peter C. Gordon
Summary: This study investigates how metonyms are interpreted in sentence structures through eye-tracking experiments. The results suggest that the subject-as-agent heuristic is a powerful cue during sentence processing, which can prompt the comprehender to access a figurative interpretation of a metonym.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
(2023)
Article
Psychology
Emanuel Schuett, Merle Weicker, Carolin Dudschig
Summary: Nonverbal cues of negation and affirmation, such as facial expressions and colors, were found to have no significant impact on the comprehension of negated and affirmative sentences.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
(2023)
Article
Psychology
Jennifer de Lange, Diana D. van Bergen, Henny M. W. Bos, Roel J. Bosker, Eva Dumon, Gwendolyn Portzky, Joz Motmans, Laura Baams
Summary: Sexual and gender minority (SGM) young adults have a higher risk of suicidal ideation and attempts compared to heterosexual, cisgender young adults. This study found that transgender and genderqueer participants had higher odds for suicidal ideation and attempts than cisgender, sexual minority participants. Social support from family and heterosexual friends was associated with lower odds of suicidal ideation and attempts among SGM young adults.
PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER DIVERSITY
(2023)
Review
Psychology
Manoj K. Doss, Jason Samaha, Frederick S. Barrett, Roland R. Griffiths, Harriet de Wit, David A. Gallo, Joshua D. Koen
Summary: Despite differences in psychoactive drugs, their effects on episodic memory and cognition share similarities. This study reanalyzed previously published data and found that different classes of drugs had unique effects on memory processes depending on encoding, consolidation, or retrieval. These findings provide insights into the mechanisms underlying drug-induced phenomena and highlight the influence of memory quantity and stability on metamemory.
PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Ting-Yu Lin, Hao-Chien Cheng, Yi-Luen Tsai, Hung-Wen Liu, Tsung-Min Hung
Summary: This study investigates the effects of acute resistance exercise on cognitive performance, addressing previous methodological limitations and finding that it improves congruent reaction time but is not associated with changes in plasma epinephrine levels.
Article
Psychology
Apryl A. Alexander, Hannah Klukoff, Claire Gaglione
Summary: This article discusses how psychologists can use social science to address the issues of the COVID-19 pandemic and mass incarceration. It suggests decarceration tactics to reduce the risk of infection among incarcerated individuals. Additionally, the article highlights the inequities and racial discrimination within the criminal legal system.
TRANSLATIONAL ISSUES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology
Eliot Hazeltine, Iring Koch, Daniel H. Weissman
Summary: In two-choice tasks, responses are slower when either a previous stimulus feature or the previous response repeats. According to current views of action control, these partial repetition costs (PRCs) indicate the time needed to update a prior binding between a stimulus feature and a response or to resolve processing conflicts between retrieved and current features. However, violating a heuristic that relates stimulus feature repetitions and changes to repetitions or changes in the previous response may also contribute to these costs.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
(2023)
Article
Psychology
Michal Pinhas
Summary: Our mental representation of the infinite has received little research attention in cognitive psychology. However, a series of experiments revealed that the infinity symbol is perceived as larger than natural numbers in numerical comparisons, but smaller than multidigit numbers in physical comparisons. These findings suggest limitations in abstracting the meanings of infinity from its symbol and highlight the role of physical magnitude in numerical evaluation.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
(2023)
Article
Psychology
G. Tyler Lefevor, Lauren J. A. Bouton, Edward B. Davis, Samuel J. Skidmore, Ilan H. Meyer
Summary: This study found that older, Black, cisgender men, and/or those living in the American South were more likely to identify as Christian among sexual and gender minorities (SGMs). Those who were never Christian were more likely to come out to family and friends at earlier ages compared to those raised Christian. SGMs who were raised Christian but did not identify as Christian in adulthood reported more adverse childhood experiences and bullying. Moreover, sexual minorities who identified as Christian in adulthood reported higher levels of internalized homophobia. Christian upbringing, regardless of adulthood religious identification, was associated with experiencing more stigma among sexual minorities. Overall, identifying as Christian, either in childhood or adulthood, was linked to greater experiences of stigma and stress.
PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER DIVERSITY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Nicholas R. Moorehead, Jeffrey L. Goodie, David S. Krantz
Summary: This study investigates the bidirectional relationships between depressive symptoms and metabolic syndrome (MetS). MetS more consistently predicts depressive symptoms over time compared to the reverse. The relationships between MetS and depressive symptoms are moderated by race and sex, but not influenced by health behaviors.
