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Larger comfortable interpersonal distances in adults exposed to child maltreatment: The role of depressive symptoms and social anxiety Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Lara‐Lynn Hautle, Jennifer Kurath, Lena Jellestad, Antonia M. Lüönd, Tanja S. H. Wingenbach, Billy Jansson, Monique C. Pfaltz
Previous studies report a preference for larger comfortable interpersonal distance (CIPD) in individuals with child maltreatment (CM) when being approached by others. Yet, research on approaching others, as opposed to being approached, as well as on potential effects of social anxiety and depression is lacking. We investigated if CM and depressive symptoms influence CIPD and if social anxiety mediates
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Social and temporal disorientation during the Covid‐19 pandemic: An analysis of 3306 responses to a quantitative questionnaire Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Pablo Fernandez Velasco, Bastien Perroy, Umer Gurchani, Roberto Casati
The societal hallmark of the Covid‐19 pandemic was a set of mitigation measures such as lockdowns and curfews. The cognitive impact on the public of the resulting spatial, social and temporal constraints is still being investigated. While pandemic time has been extensively studied and mostly described as slowed down and elongated, opposite experimental patterns across national and social contexts leave
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Why do people always want more? Perceived economic inequality leads people to be greedy by enhancing relative deprivation Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Zhenzhen Liu, Xiaomin Sun, Ruiji Bao, Rongzi Ma
Greedy phenomena have dramatically increased in societies. However, despite the universality of greedy behaviour, empirical research on the causes of greed is scarce. In this context, we propose that perceived economic inequality may be an important factor influencing greed. Study 1 provided primary evidence of a positive relationship between perceived economic inequality and greed, based on data from
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The power threat meaning framework 5 years on − A scoping review of the emergent empirical literature Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Orla Gallagher, Emma E. Regan, Gary O'Reilly
Since its release the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) has received considerable interest and uptake. However, there have not yet been any attempts to review the scope of this emergent literature. This scoping review aimed to identify and synthesize: (1) all empirical research which utilized the PTMF in their methodologies, (2) the characteristics of these studies, (3) the different ways in which
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A registered report survey of open research practices in psychology departments in the UK and Ireland Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Priya Silverstein, Charlotte R. Pennington, Peter Branney, Daryl B. O'Connor, Emma Lawlor, Emer O'Brien, Dermot Lynott
Open research practices seek to enhance the transparency and reproducibility of research. While there is evidence of increased uptake in these practices, such as study preregistration and open data, facilitated by new infrastructure and policies, little research has assessed general uptake of such practices across psychology university researchers. The current study estimates psychologists' level of
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The influence of socio‐economic status on child temperament and psychological symptom profiles Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Ryan Y. Hong, Xiao Pan Ding, Kelly M. Y. Chan, Wei‐Jun Jean Yeung
The influence of socio‐economic status (SES) on child temperament and psychological symptoms was examined using a nationally representative sample in Singapore. Data were available for 2169 children from 1987 families. Caregivers' reports were obtained on children aged 4–6. SES was operationalized as an aggregation of household income per capita, parental education level and housing type. Compared
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Coping styles and the developmental trajectories of anxiety symptoms in children during transition into early adolescence Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Qiaochu Zhang
The study investigated how active and avoidant coping styles predicted the trajectory membership of anxiety symptoms during the transition into early adolescence. A total of 321 Chinese children aged 9 to 10 years were recruited from a primary school in mainland China. Self‐reported trait anxiety, coping styles and anxiety symptoms were assessed at baseline. After 6 months, self‐reported anxiety symptoms
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Media and psychoanalysis: A critical introduction By JacobJohanssen, SteffenKrüger, London, UK: Karnac Books Limited. 2022. £26.99, ISBN 9781913494575 Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Tanya Zilberstein
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How victim sensitivity affects our attitudes and behaviour towards immigrants Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Lucas John Emmanuel Köhler, Mario Gollwitzer
Three studies explore the relation between victim sensitivity—the sensitivity to being a victim of injustice – and anti-immigration attitudes and behaviour. Based on theoretical considerations and prior research, we hypothesized that victim sensitivity positively predicts anti-immigration attitudes and behaviour over and above political orientation and ideology. Results from a longitudinal study (Study
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Perceiving multiple truths: Does dialectical thinking harmonize colourblind and multicultural ideals? Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Jessica Gale, Kumar Yogeeswaran
Multicultural and colourblind approaches to managing diversity are often conceptualized to be antagonistic. However, in principle, both have underlying motives for social justice, making it important to understand how they may be psychologically reconciled. In the present research, we examined dialectical thinking as an individual characteristic or condition under which people may endorse them in a
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Preserving the placebo effect after disclosure: A new perspective on non-deceptive placebos Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Mehran Emadi Andani, Diletta Barbiani, Marco Bonetto, Rudy Menegaldo, Bernardo Villa-Sánchez, Mirta Fiorio
The present study explores whether a particular style of placebo disclosure could serve as a tool to foster a renewed trust in one's own inherent resources and elicit a meaningful placebo effect. In a motor performance task, two placebo groups received inert transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) in each of four sessions along with information on its force-enhancing properties. Before the
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Understanding anxiety through uncertainty quantification Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Friederike Elisabeth Hedley, Emmett Larsen, Aprajita Mohanty, Jeremiah Zhe Liu, Jingwen Jin
Uncertainty has been a central concept in psychological theories of anxiety. However, this concept has been plagued by divergent connotations and operationalizations. The lack of consensus hinders the current search for cognitive and biological mechanisms of anxiety, jeopardizes theory creation and comparison, and restrains translation of basic research into improved diagnoses and interventions. Drawing
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Justice perceptions and well-being: Belief in a just world is a personal resource and a coping resource Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Isabel Correia, Helena Carvalho, Kathleen Otto, Gabriel Nudelman
Although the perception of justice is a core need of all individuals, the adaptive value of belief in a just world (BJW)—in everyday life and when facing severe distress—has been typically investigated in separate studies. In this article, we tested, in only one study, the possibility that BJW can be a personal resource and a coping resource. We analysed data from the European Social Survey comprised
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The impact of conspiracy beliefs on a targeted group: Perceived popularity of Jewish-targeted conspiracy beliefs elicits outgroup avoidant behaviours Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Daniel Jolley, Jenny L. Paterson, Andrew McNeill
In three studies with Jewish participants, we explored the consequences of intergroup conspiracy theories on those targeted. In Study 1 (N = 250), perceived Jewish conspiracy theory popularity was positively associated with intergroup threat and negatively associated with the closeness of contact with non-Jewish people. Study 2 (n = 194) employed an experimental design where Jewish participants were
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A comparative analysis of colour–emotion associations in 16–88-year-old adults from 31 countries Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Domicele Jonauskaite, Déborah Epicoco, Abdulrahman S. Al-rasheed, John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta, Victoria Bogushevskaya, Sanne G. Brederoo, Violeta Corona, Sergejs Fomins, Alena Gizdic, Yulia A. Griber, Jelena Havelka, Marco Hirnstein, George John, Daniela S. Jopp, Bodil Karlsson, Nikos Konstantinou, Éric Laurent, Lynn Marquardt, Philip C. Mefoh, Daniel Oberfeld, Marietta Papadatou-Pastou, Corinna M.
As people age, they tend to spend more time indoors, and the colours in their surroundings may significantly impact their mood and overall well-being. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence to provide informed guidance on colour choices, irrespective of age group. To work towards informed choices, we investigated whether the associations between colours and emotions observed in younger individuals
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Personal pronouns and person perception - Do paired and nonbinary pronouns evoke a normative gender bias? Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Emma A Renström,Anna Lindqvist,Amanda Klysing,Marie Gustafsson Sendén
Research on gender-fair language aims to identify language inclusive to a multitude of individuals, for example, increasing the visibility of women by using paired pronouns (he/she) instead of generic masculine forms (he). However, binary presentations like he/she might come with unwanted side effects and evoke what we label as normative gender bias. A normative gender bias is defined as when words
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Are there gender differences in promotion-prevention self-regulatory focus? Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Dinah Gutermuth,Melvyn R W Hamstra
The purpose of this research is to examine gender differences in promotion/prevention self-regulatory focus, a dispositional motivational orientation with major implications for human functioning. First, a review of literature using social cognitive theory as a framework suggests that, driven by socialization processes, (1) women may on average be more prevention focused than men - meaning more vigilant
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Cynical people desire power but rarely acquire it: Exploring the role of cynicism in leadership attainment Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Olga Stavrova, Daniel Ehlebracht, Dongning Ren
Do cynical individuals have a stronger desire for power and are they more likely to acquire power at work? The negative consequences of cynicism—for cynics themselves and the people around them—render the examination of these questions particularly important. We first examined the role of cynicism in power motives. Results showed that more cynical individuals have a greater desire for power to avoid
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Musicality – Tuned to the melody of vocal emotions Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Christine Nussbaum, Annett Schirmer, Stefan R. Schweinberger
Musicians outperform non-musicians in vocal emotion perception, likely because of increased sensitivity to acoustic cues, such as fundamental frequency (F0) and timbre. Yet, how musicians make use of these acoustic cues to perceive emotions, and how they might differ from non-musicians, is unclear. To address these points, we created vocal stimuli that conveyed happiness, fear, pleasure or sadness
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Self as a prior: The malleability of Bayesian multisensory integration to social salience Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Meike Scheller, Huilin Fang, Jie Sui
Our everyday perceptual experiences are grounded in the integration of information within and across our senses. Due to this direct behavioural relevance, cross-modal integration retains a certain degree of contextual flexibility, even to social relevance. However, how social relevance modulates cross-modal integration remains unclear. To investigate possible mechanisms, Experiment 1 tested the principles
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Curious about threats: Morbid curiosity and interest in conspiracy theories in US adults Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Coltan Scrivner, Joseph M. Stubbersfield
Conspiracy theories allege secret plots between two or more powerful actors to achieve an outcome, sometimes explaining important events or proposing alternative understandings of reality in opposition to mainstream accounts, and commonly highlight the threat presented by the plot and its conspirators. Research in psychology proposes that belief in conspiracy theories is motivated by a desire to understand
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Mood induction through imitation of full-body movements with different affective intentions Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Eva-Madeleine Schmidt, Rebecca A. Smith, Andrés Fernández, Birte Emmermann, Julia F. Christensen
Theories of human emotion, including some emotion embodiment theories, suggest that our moods and affective states are reflected in the movements of our bodies. We used the reverse process for mood regulation; modulate body movements to regulate mood. Dancing is a type of full-body movement characterized by affective expressivity and, hence, offers the possibility to express different affective states
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Moral reasoning behind the veil of ignorance: An investigation into perspective-taking accessibility in the context of autonomous vehicles Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Giovanni Bruno, Andrea Spoto, Michela Sarlo, Lorella Lotto, Alex Marson, Nicola Cellini, Simone Cutini
Perspective-taking (PT) accessibility has been recognized as an important factor in affecting moral reasoning, also playing a non-trivial role in moral investigation towards autonomous vehicles (AVs). A new proposal to deepen this effect leverages the principles of the veil of ignorance (VOI), as a moral reasoning device aimed to control self-interested decisions by limiting the access to specific
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The moderating roles of resilience and social support in the relationships between bullying victimization and well-being among Chinese adolescents: Evidence from PISA 2018 Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Ying Zhang, Hao Li, Gaowei Chen, Bo Li, Na Li, Xin Zhou
Bullying victimization can undermine adolescents' well-being. However, few studies have comprehensively investigated the contributions of various victimization forms to well-being and compared which forms were more harmful than others. Evidence on whether resilience and social support moderate such associations is also limited. Using a sample of 12,058 Chinese adolescents in the Programme for International
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Life motion signals bias the perception of apparent motion direction Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Yiping Ge, Yiwen Yu, Suqi Huang, Xinyi Huang, Li Wang, Yi Jiang
Walking direction conveyed by biological motion (BM) cues, which humans are highly sensitive to since birth, can elicit involuntary shifts of attention to enhance the detection of static targets. Here, we demonstrated that such intrinsic sensitivity to walking direction could also modulate the direction perception of simultaneously presented dynamic stimuli. We showed that the perceived direction of
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A test of the Morality-Agency-Communion (MAC) model of respect and liking across positive and negative traits Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Andrew Prestwich
The Morality-Agency-Communion (MAC) model of respect and liking suggests that traits linked with morality are important for respect and liking; traits related to competence or assertiveness are important for respect and traits related to warmth are important for liking. However, tests of this model have tended not to consider traits related to immorality, incompetence, lack of assertiveness or coldness
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Attentional asymmetries in peripheral vision Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-07-15 Stefanie Klatt, Benjamin Noël, Robin Schrödter
Previous research on the use of peripheral vision to identify two spatially separated stimuli simultaneously has led to the conclusion that the focus of attention has the form of a symmetric ellipse with a broader expansion along the horizontal compared to the vertical meridian. However, research on pseudoneglect has indicated that attention is not symmetrically distributed to the whole visual field
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Comparison of face-based and voice-based first impressions in a Chinese sample Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Zhongqing Jiang, Dong Li, Zhao Li, Yi Yang, Yangtao Liu, Xin Yue, Qi Wu, Hong Yang, Xiaolin Cui, Peng Xue
People often form first impressions of others based on face and/or voice cues. This study aimed to compare the first impressions formed under these two cues. First, we compared free descriptions based on face and voice cues and found differences in the content and frequency of the personality words. We then compiled three wordlists used for face-based and voice-based first impression evaluations separately
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Effects of relative deprivation on change in displaced aggression and the underlying motivation mechanism: A three-wave cross-lagged analysis Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Yongfen Guo, Rui Li, Ling-Xiang Xia
Displaced aggression refers to pernicious acts against innocent people. To date, little is known about mechanisms underlying dynamic changes in displaced aggression. The present study constructed a cross-lagged model to examine the dynamic effects of relative deprivation on displaced aggression and the mediation mechanisms underlying these effects. A total of 1130 undergraduate students participated
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Longitudinal relations among perceived parental warmth, self-esteem and social behaviours from middle childhood to early adolescence in China: Disentangling between- and within-person associations Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Xianqi Wang, E. Scott Huebner, Lili Tian
Although several studies have addressed the relations between perceived parental warmth and social behaviours, few have distinguished their between- and within-person effects or explored their within-person mediating mechanisms. This study examined the transactional relations among perceived parental warmth (i.e. maternal warmth and paternal warmth), children's self-esteem and children's positive/negative
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Editorial: Introducing the British Psychological Society Journals' landmark special issue on inequality Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Katherine Berry
As the Chair of Editorial Advisory Group for the British Psychological Society (BPS) Journals, I am delighted to present this special issue of landmark papers. Each paper within the collection is focused on the topic of inequality within the field of psychology, and one paper has been selected or commissioned by each Editor from all of the BPS portfolio journals. This is the third of the BPS journal's
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The Cambridge handbook of working memory and languageBy John W. Schwieter and Zhisheng (Edward) Wen (Eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Hardcover US $155.00. ISBN: 9781108845342 Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Baoshu Yi
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The author declares that there is no conflict of interest.
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How religion evolved and why it endures By Robin Dunbar. 2022. ISBN 0241431786 Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Gurjot Brar, Henry O'Connell
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT None.
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Too hot to help or too cold to care? On the links between ambient temperature, volunteerism, and civic engagement Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Henry Kin Shing Ng, Sing-Hang Cheung
We investigated the relationship between ambient temperature and prosocial behaviour in real-life settings. It was guided by two mechanisms of opposite predictions, namely (1) higher temperatures decrease prosociality by harming well-being, and (2) higher temperatures increase prosociality by promoting the embodied cognition of social warmth. In Study 1, U.S. state-level time-series data (2002–2015)
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Gender differences in optimism, loss aversion and attitudes towards risk Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Chris Dawson
Systematic differences in the attitudes of men and women towards risk is well established. In this paper, we investigate the joint role of two prominent psychological characteristics in explaining this difference. Our starting point is that risk assessments can be thought of, in general terms, to combine beliefs about the probability of negative outcomes occurring with a subjective valuation of how
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Increase in physiological inhibitory control results in better suppression of unwanted memories Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Turan Gunduz, Hasan Gunduz, Hakan Cetinkaya
Forgetting or suppressing a memory with unwanted content is just as important as remembering a desirable one. In addition to emphasizing the role of inhibitory control in memory suppression processes, neuropsychological studies have indicated that an intentional inhibition targeting a brain area may exert its inhibitory effects in seemingly unrelated areas through a common inhibitory network. In this
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Preparing children to cope with earthquakes: Building emotional competence Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Daniela Raccanello, Giada Vicentini, Emmanuela Rocca, Rob Hall, Roberto Burro
Natural disasters, including earthquakes, can have a traumatic impact on children's psychological wellbeing and development. The efficacy of interventions aimed at enhancing children's socio-emotional learning has been documented in the literature. At the same time, these techniques are the key for training children for possible future disasters by enhancing their knowledge about behavioural preparedness
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The meaning of masculinity for educated young Bedouins Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Nuzha Allassad Alhuzail
Israel's Bedouin population—an Indigenous, traditional, collective, patriarchal society—is at the height of social change, introducing modernization, religion and altered gender relations. Young Bedouin men are experiencing the ramifications of their masculine identity. As in other collective societies that emphasize mutual dependence and cooperation, honour has great meaning and unlike individualistic
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Collaboration to improve cross-race face identification: Wisdom of the multi-racial crowd? Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Jacqueline G. Cavazos, Géraldine Jeckeln, Alice J. O'Toole
Face identification is particularly prone to error when individuals identify people of a race other than their own – a phenomenon known as the other-race effect (ORE). Here, we show that collaborative “wisdom-of-crowds” decision-making substantially improves face identification accuracy for own- and other-race faces over individuals working alone. In two online experiments, East Asian and White individuals
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Associations between sleep variables and ostensibly paranormal experiences and paranormal beliefs: A scoping review Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Betul Rauf, Rotem Perach, Juan J. Madrid-Valero, Dan Denis, Brian A. Sharpless, Hope Farron, Christopher C. French, Alice M. Gregory
Night-time is a period of great significance for many people who report paranormal experiences. However, there is limited understanding of the associations between sleep variables and seemingly paranormal experiences and/or beliefs. The aim of this review is to improve our understanding of these associations while unifying a currently fragmented literature-base into a structured, practical review.
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Evaluating the integration hypothesis: A meta-analysis of the ICSEY project data using two new methods Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Hisham M. Abu-Rayya, John W. Berry, David L. Sam, Dmitry Grigoryev
The Integration Hypothesis states that acculturating migrants who adopt the integration strategy (i.e. being doubly engaged, in both their heritage culture and in the larger national society) will have better psychological and socio-cultural adaptation than those who adopt any other strategy (Assimilation, Separation or Marginalization). This hypothesis was supported in the original evaluation of the
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Default categorization of outgroup faces and the other race effect: Commentary on the special issue Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Bruce D. Bartholow
This commentary addresses how studies examining the neurophysiological correlates of racial categorization can provide insight into the neurocognitive mechanisms of the other-race effect in recognition memory. Several articles in the special issue describe how event-related potentials (ERPs) have been used to examine processing of faces that vary according to race, some of which have concluded that
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The culture of perceptual expertise and the other-race effect Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-04-08 Megan K. Lall, James W. Tanaka
In our commentary, we propose that the ORE can be viewed as a form of perceptual expertise. Like experts, we recognize own-race faces at the subordinate level as individuals and novices when recognize other-race faces at the basic level of race. Applying a perceptual expertise account, we explain the ORE in terms of its cognitive, neural, and motivational factors. We suggest that by creating a culture
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The sociological interpretation of dreams, by Bernard Lahire . Oxford, UK: Polity Press, 2020. Hardback, USD 42.82, ISBN 9781509537945. Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-04-08 Dany Nobus
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST STATEMENT The author declares no conflict of interest.
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Loneliness is associated with a greater self-reference effect in episodic memory when compared against a close friend Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Laureta Kokici, Gratiela Chirtop, Heather J. Ferguson, Andrew K. Martin
Loneliness describes a negative experience associated with perceived social disconnection. Despite the clear links between loneliness and mental and physical health, relatively little is known about how loneliness affects cognition. In this study, we tested the effect of loneliness on cognitive distance between the self and others, using a task in which participants completed a surprise memory task
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A first impression of the future Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Clare A. M. Sutherland, Andrew W. Young
We offer a response to six commentaries on our target article ‘Understanding trait impressions from faces’. A broad consensus emerged with authors emphasizing the importance of increasing the diversity of faces and participants, integrating research on impressions beyond the face, and continuing to develop methods needed for data-driven approaches. We propose future directions for the field based on
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A plausible role of imagination in pretend play, counterfactual reasoning, and executive functions Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Gill Althia Francis, Jenny Louise Gibson
A notable observation is the similarities in the cognitive processes of pretend play (PP) and counterfactual reasoning (CFR) as both involve thinking about alternatives to reality. It is argued by Weisberg and Gopnik (Cogn. Sci., 37, 2013, 1368) that alternative thinking in PP and CFR is underpinned by an imaginary representational capacity but few studies have empirically investigated this link. We
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‘So Help Me God’? Does oath swearing in courtroom scenarios impact trial outcomes? Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Ryan T. McKay, Will Gervais, Colin J. Davis
In countries such as Britain and the US, court witnesses must declare they will provide truthful evidence and are often compelled to publicly choose between religious (“oath”) and secular (“affirmation”) versions of this declaration. Might defendants who opt to swear an oath enjoy more favourable outcomes than those who choose to affirm? Two preliminary, pre-registered survey studies using minimal
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Resource scarcity aggravates ingroup bias: Neural mechanisms and cross-scenario validation Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Fang Cui, Kexin Deng, Jie Liu, Xiaoxuan Huang, Jiamiao Yang, Yue-jia Luo, Chunliang Feng, Ruolei Gu
Previous studies examining the relationship between ingroup bias and resource scarcity have produced heterogeneous findings, possibly due to their focus on the allocation of positive resources (e.g. money). This study aims to investigate whether ingroup bias would be amplified or eliminated when perceived survival resources for counteracting negative stimuli are scarce. For this purpose, we exposed
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Visual attention to own- versus other-race faces: Perspectives from learning mechanisms and task demands Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Janet H. Hsiao, Antoni B. Chan
Multiple factors have been proposed to contribute to the other-race effect in face recognition, including perceptual expertise and social-cognitive accounts. Here, we propose to understand the effect and its contributing factors from the perspectives of learning mechanisms that involve joint learning of visual attention strategies and internal representations for faces, which can be modulated by quality
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Paradoxical decrease of imitation performance with age in children Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Giovanni Ottoboni, Alessio Toraldo, Riccardo Proietti, Angelo Cangelosi, Alessia Tessari
Imitation development was studied in a cross-sectional design involving 174 primary-school children (aged 6–10), focusing on the effect of actions' complexity and error analysis to infer the underlying cognitive processes. Participants had to imitate the model's actions as if they were in front of a mirror (‘specularly’). Complexity varied across three levels: movements of a single limb; arm and leg
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Sleep as a mediator of the relationship between social class and health in higher education students Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Romany McGuffog, Mark Rubin, Mark Boyes, Marie L. Caltabiano, James Collison, Geoff P. Lovell, Orla Muldoon, Stefania Paolini
A substantial body of research indicates that higher education students from lower social class backgrounds tend to have poorer health than those from higher social class backgrounds. To investigate sleep as a potential mediator of this relationship, online survey responses of students from five large Australian universities, one Irish university and one large Australian technical college were analysed
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Event-related potential and behavioural evidence of goal-based expectations for consistent actions among group members Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Jun Yin, Dan Zhou, Danfeng Ai, Hongli Sun, Jipeng Duan, Zhongqiang Sun, Xiuyan Guo
People expect group members to act consistently. However, because actions are organized hierarchically, incorporating deep-level goals and shallow-level movements, it remains unclear what level of action is expected to be consistent among group members. We determined that these two levels of action representations can be dissociated in object-directed actions and measured the late positive potential
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Construal level among poor children: Executive function implications Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-03-04 Yi Ren, Chenyi Zuo, Hua Ming, Ying Jiang, Silin Huang
Poverty impedes children's executive function (EF). Therefore, it is necessary to mitigate the negative effect of poverty by developing efficient interventions to improve poor children's cognitive function. In three studies, we examined whether high-level construals can improve EF among poor children in China. In Study 1, we observed a positive relationship between family socioeconomic status and children's
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Pain in the eye of the beholder: Variations in pain visual representations as a function of face ethnicity and culture Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Francis Gingras, Daniel Fiset, Marie-Pier Plouffe-Demers, Andréa Deschênes, Stéphanie Cormier, Hélène Forget, Caroline Blais
Pain experienced by Black individuals is systematically underestimated, and recent studies have shown that part of this bias is rooted in perceptual factors. We used Reverse Correlation to estimate visual representations of the pain expression in Black and White faces, in participants originating from both Western and African countries. Groups of raters were then asked to evaluate the presence of pain
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Empathy and parenthood: The moderating role of maternal trait empathy on parental burnout Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Tamar Kadosh-Laor, Liat Israeli-Ran, Ido Shalev, Florina Uzefovsky
The ability to empathize with others enables us to effectively interact with each other and may have specifically evolved to support parental roles and caregiving. The relationship between parenting and trait empathy is little understood as previous research focused on empathy exclusively in the context of parenting, for example parental sensitivity. Here we aimed to understand how trait empathy may
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Comparing music- and food-evoked autobiographical memories in young and older adults: A diary study Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Kelly Jakubowski, Amy M. Belfi, Lia Kvavilashvili, Abbigail Ely, Mark Gill, Gemma Herbert
Previous research has found that music brings back more vivid and emotional autobiographical memories than various other retrieval cues. However, such studies have often been low in ecological validity and constrained by relatively limited cue selection and predominantly young adult samples. Here, we compared music to food as cues for autobiographical memories in everyday life in young and older adults
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Food word processing in Chinese reading: A study of restrained eaters Br. J. Psychol. (IF 4.981) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Changlin Luo, Mengyan Zhu, Xiangling Zhuang, Guojie Ma
Food-related attentional bias refers that individuals typically prioritize rewarding food-related cues (e.g. food words and food images) compared with non-food stimuli; however, the findings are inconsistent for restrained eaters. Traditional paradigms used to test food-related attentional bias, such as visual probe tasks and visual search tasks, may not directly and accurately enough to reflect individuals'