Pub Date : 2025-02-21DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102006
Edmund Keogh
Sex and gender contribute to the variation in pain experience. A range of biological, psychological, and social factors are relevant, which point to potential pain mechanisms and the reasons for this sex/gender-based variation. This review provides a brief critical overview of the evidence for these patterns. It draws on both experimental and clinical studies and identifies some of the biological and psychosocial factors that are thought to impact on men and women's pain. There are limitations and gaps in understanding, and numerous challenges exist, ranging from difficulties with concepts through to methodology. There is a focus on gender as a dimensional set of psychosocial constructs, as this offers one approach to help enhance our understanding of men and women's pain.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-19DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102007
Astrid C. Homan, Lisa Leslie
{"title":"Editorial overview: Diversity in organizations – Current insights and future directions","authors":"Astrid C. Homan, Lisa Leslie","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143477801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-11DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102005
Amy Isham , Luke Jefferies , Jesse Blackburn , Zoe Fisher , Andrew H. Kemp
The healthcare sector significantly contributes to global environmental impacts. While efforts are underway to reduce emissions, this article explores ecotherapy as an innovative approach to treatment and public health that could further mitigate emissions while enhancing health outcomes. Ecotherapy involves nature-based interventions that reconnect individuals with the environment, offering mental and physical health benefits. Evidence indicates that ecotherapy can improve conditions like depression and anxiety, promote social cohesion, and encourage pro-environmental worldviews. Despite its potential, barriers such as cultural perceptions and accessibility issues hinder widespread adoption. The article emphasizes the need for trained practitioners and standardized evaluations to integrate ecotherapy into mainstream health and social care, providing co-benefits for both human and planetary health.
{"title":"Green healing: Ecotherapy as a transformative model of health and social care","authors":"Amy Isham , Luke Jefferies , Jesse Blackburn , Zoe Fisher , Andrew H. Kemp","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The healthcare sector significantly contributes to global environmental impacts. While efforts are underway to reduce emissions, this article explores ecotherapy as an innovative approach to treatment and public health that could further mitigate emissions while enhancing health outcomes. Ecotherapy involves nature-based interventions that reconnect individuals with the environment, offering mental and physical health benefits. Evidence indicates that ecotherapy can improve conditions like depression and anxiety, promote social cohesion, and encourage pro-environmental worldviews. Despite its potential, barriers such as cultural perceptions and accessibility issues hinder widespread adoption. The article emphasizes the need for trained practitioners and standardized evaluations to integrate ecotherapy into mainstream health and social care, providing co-benefits for both human and planetary health.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 102005"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143418566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-07DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102004
Jordana W. Composto , Mona Bielig , Christoffer Bruns , Elke U. Weber
Trust strengthens people's confidence in a stable society and their willingness to perform pro-social behaviors, such as getting vaccinated or protecting a livable climate and environment. This review proposes a framework of how norms of trust change during times of uncertainty and collective threat. Norms of trust influence expectations toward another's actual or acceptable behavior in interdependent contexts and thus inform an individual's level of trust. These expectations are based on experienced behavior, norm-based beliefs about the counterparty, and/or projections about what oneself would do in a given situation. A match or mismatch between expectations and the experienced behavior of others (both individuals and institutions) during interactions in new environments either affirm or weaken norms of trust.
{"title":"Changing norms of trust","authors":"Jordana W. Composto , Mona Bielig , Christoffer Bruns , Elke U. Weber","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Trust strengthens people's confidence in a stable society and their willingness to perform pro-social behaviors, such as getting vaccinated or protecting a livable climate and environment. This review proposes a framework of how <em>norms of trust</em> change during times of uncertainty and collective threat. <em>Norms of trust</em> influence expectations toward another's actual or acceptable behavior in interdependent contexts and thus inform an individual's level of trust. These expectations are based on experienced behavior, norm-based beliefs about the counterparty, and/or projections about what oneself would do in a given situation. A match or mismatch between expectations and the experienced behavior of others (both individuals and institutions) during interactions in new environments either affirm or weaken norms of trust.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 102004"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143418567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-31DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102000
Katja Boersma , Ida Katrina Flink
Pain and emotions are inherently connected, and this review presents contemporary findings on the pain-emotion connection. We address in what ways pain and emotions are related as well as how the link may be understood and targeted in treatment. Both pain and negative emotions are essential (and ancient) biological and motivational systems which share protective and regulatory functions. There is a marked co-occurrence between chronic pain and mental health conditions. One way to understand the pain-emotion connection, stressed by recent theoretical models, is that pain and emotions share cognitive and behavioral mechanisms that serve to downregulate these unpleasant inner states. Treatments targeting these shared regulatory mechanisms show promising results, but more research is needed on generalization, implementation and dissemination.
{"title":"Key aspects concerning the role of emotion in the chronic pain experience","authors":"Katja Boersma , Ida Katrina Flink","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102000","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102000","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Pain and emotions are inherently connected, and this review presents contemporary findings on the pain-emotion connection. We address in what ways pain and emotions are related as well as how the link may be understood and targeted in treatment. Both pain and negative emotions are essential (and ancient) biological and motivational systems which share protective and regulatory functions. There is a marked co-occurrence between chronic pain and mental health conditions. One way to understand the pain-emotion connection, stressed by recent theoretical models, is that pain and emotions share cognitive and behavioral mechanisms that serve to downregulate these unpleasant inner states. Treatments targeting these shared regulatory mechanisms show promising results, but more research is needed on generalization, implementation and dissemination.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 102000"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143349980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-30DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.101998
Komathi Kolandai, Niki Harré
Increasing emphasis on the interrelatedness of ecological sustainability and human wellbeing (eco-human flourishing) is evident in global initiatives such as the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, initiatives that give greater attention to Indigenous worldviews, and expanding notions of wellbeing in psychology. Our literature search on organisations that promote eco-human flourishing resulted in thirty relevant articles in 2023 or 2024. Organisations were either attempting or achieving eco-human flourishing through green infrastructure, green spaces, nature-based interventions, nature-integrated experiences, ecologically focused business operation models, transformational leadership, and curriculum (in the case of higher education). We offer two reasons for optimism that integrated eco-human flourishing goals will become more normalised among organisations in the near future – one, such integration appeals to the younger generation and two, the increasing scholarship on reciprocal human–nature relationships.
{"title":"Organisations that promote eco-human flourishing","authors":"Komathi Kolandai, Niki Harré","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.101998","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.101998","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Increasing emphasis on the interrelatedness of ecological sustainability and human wellbeing (eco-human flourishing) is evident in global initiatives such as the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, initiatives that give greater attention to Indigenous worldviews, and expanding notions of wellbeing in psychology. Our literature search on organisations that promote eco-human flourishing resulted in thirty relevant articles in 2023 or 2024. Organisations were either attempting or achieving eco-human flourishing through green infrastructure, green spaces, nature-based interventions, nature-integrated experiences, ecologically focused business operation models, transformational leadership, and curriculum (in the case of higher education). We offer two reasons for optimism that integrated eco-human flourishing goals will become more normalised among organisations in the near future – one, such integration appeals to the younger generation and two, the increasing scholarship on reciprocal human–nature relationships.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 101998"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143298436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-30DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102003
Frank J. Schwebel, Matison W. McCool, Katie Witkiewitz
Chronic pain and opioid use disorder cause significant social, physical, and economic burdens on individuals and society. Historically, chronic pain and opioid use disorder have been treated individually, yet they often are comorbid conditions and treatment targeting both concurrently might improve outcomes. This article reviewed psychological treatment approaches for comorbid chronic pain and opioid use disorder. Treatments were classified as cognitive behavioral therapy-based, mindfulness-based, or integrated treatments. Treatments were primarily delivered in-person other than a cognitive behavioral digital health approach. Mindfulness-based and integrated interventions demonstrated the best outcomes. Given the significant public health burden from comorbid chronic pain and opioid use disorder, there is an urgent need for increased research and implementation of psychological treatments for these conditions.
{"title":"Psychological treatments for comorbid chronic pain and opioid use disorder: Current research and future directions","authors":"Frank J. Schwebel, Matison W. McCool, Katie Witkiewitz","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Chronic pain and opioid use disorder cause significant social, physical, and economic burdens on individuals and society. Historically, chronic pain and opioid use disorder have been treated individually, yet they often are comorbid conditions and treatment targeting both concurrently might improve outcomes. This article reviewed psychological treatment approaches for comorbid chronic pain and opioid use disorder. Treatments were classified as cognitive behavioral therapy-based, mindfulness-based, or integrated treatments. Treatments were primarily delivered in-person other than a cognitive behavioral digital health approach. Mindfulness-based and integrated interventions demonstrated the best outcomes. Given the significant public health burden from comorbid chronic pain and opioid use disorder, there is an urgent need for increased research and implementation of psychological treatments for these conditions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 102003"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143232767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-28DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.101999
Ezgi Ozgumus , Aneeta Rattan
Diversity policies designed to foster more equitable work environments are widespread, but not necessarily widely supported. In this review, we advance a fixed-growth mindsets approach to understand people's support for, or resistance to, diversity policies in the workplace. We theorize that people's mindsets, or their fundamental beliefs about the malleability of attributes, underlie their diversity support via multiple mechanisms: (1) effort, (2) bias, (3) attributions, and (4) worldview threat. We expand upon each theorized mechanism, draw on established evidence to substantiate our arguments, and offer exciting new questions to guide future research. Because mindsets are amenable to change, we argue that our motivational framework to understanding diversity support offers a novel path forward for both scholarship and organizations that want to generate a greater consensus of support for their diversity policies.
{"title":"Motivating support for workplace diversity policies: A mindsets framework","authors":"Ezgi Ozgumus , Aneeta Rattan","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.101999","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.101999","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Diversity policies designed to foster more equitable work environments are widespread, but not necessarily widely supported. In this review, we advance a fixed-growth mindsets approach to understand people's support for, or resistance to, diversity policies in the workplace. We theorize that people's mindsets, or their fundamental beliefs about the malleability of attributes, underlie their diversity support via multiple mechanisms: (1) effort, (2) bias, (3) attributions, and (4) worldview threat. We expand upon each theorized mechanism, draw on established evidence to substantiate our arguments, and offer exciting new questions to guide future research. Because mindsets are amenable to change, we argue that our motivational framework to understanding diversity support offers a novel path forward for both scholarship and organizations that want to generate a greater consensus of support for their diversity policies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 101999"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143077450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-25DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.101997
Liesbet Goubert , Sónia F. Bernardes
Chronic pain affects one-third of adults globally, leading to significant disability and healthcare costs. This review highlights the role of interpersonal processes in chronic pain adjustment, focusing on how partner behaviors and interactions influence patient well-being and functioning. It synthesizes recent theoretical perspectives and empirical findings, discussing both potentially maladaptive responses, such as solicitousness and invalidation, and adaptive behaviors, including validation of emotional disclosures and encouragement of valued activities. The review identifies gaps in current research, emphasizing the need for clearer conceptualizations of partner behaviors, advanced methodological approaches to capture dynamic interactions, and robust measurement tools. Prioritizing couple interventions that enhance communication, relational dynamics, and partner support for functional autonomy may lead to more holistic and effective chronic pain management.
{"title":"Interpersonal dynamics in chronic pain: The role of partner behaviors and interactions in chronic pain adjustment","authors":"Liesbet Goubert , Sónia F. Bernardes","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.101997","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.101997","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Chronic pain affects one-third of adults globally, leading to significant disability and healthcare costs. This review highlights the role of interpersonal processes in chronic pain adjustment, focusing on how partner behaviors and interactions influence patient well-being and functioning. It synthesizes recent theoretical perspectives and empirical findings, discussing both potentially maladaptive responses, such as solicitousness and invalidation, and adaptive behaviors, including validation of emotional disclosures and encouragement of valued activities. The review identifies gaps in current research, emphasizing the need for clearer conceptualizations of partner behaviors, advanced methodological approaches to capture dynamic interactions, and robust measurement tools. Prioritizing couple interventions that enhance communication, relational dynamics, and partner support for functional autonomy may lead to more holistic and effective chronic pain management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 101997"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143077451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-23DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.101996
Susan Clayton , McKenna F. Parnes
Increasing evidence for climate change is leading to increasing awareness of human impacts, including threats to mental health as well as to social relationships. Experiencing the impacts of climate change, such as extreme weather events or wildfires, as well as awareness of the threat that climate change presents, can lead to anxiety, loss of social connections and support, and relational challenges including aggression and conflict. However, climate change awareness also has the potential to increase engagement in activism designed to promote an effective societal response. Activism can help to mitigate environmental harm as well as promote the well-being of those involved. Further research is needed to understand the circumstances in which climate anxiety can encourage activism, and the conditions and limits surrounding the positive impacts of activism on climate anxiety. Policies and programs could also be established to encourage activism among those distressed about climate change.
{"title":"Anxiety and activism in response to climate change","authors":"Susan Clayton , McKenna F. Parnes","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.101996","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.101996","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Increasing evidence for climate change is leading to increasing awareness of human impacts, including threats to mental health as well as to social relationships. Experiencing the impacts of climate change, such as extreme weather events or wildfires, as well as awareness of the threat that climate change presents, can lead to anxiety, loss of social connections and support, and relational challenges including aggression and conflict. However, climate change awareness also has the potential to increase engagement in activism designed to promote an effective societal response. Activism can help to mitigate environmental harm as well as promote the well-being of those involved. Further research is needed to understand the circumstances in which climate anxiety can encourage activism, and the conditions and limits surrounding the positive impacts of activism on climate anxiety. Policies and programs could also be established to encourage activism among those distressed about climate change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 101996"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143075948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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