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Biased information-seeking and information-integration in social anxiety
IF 6.3 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102002
Yukta Thyagaraj , Selin Topel , Caroline J. Charpentier
Social anxiety is associated with an intense fear of social evaluation and rejection, often leading to avoidance behaviors and distress. In this review, we summarize the current understanding of how various cognitive biases may lead to the development and maintenance of social anxiety. While early models of social anxiety have focused on negative biases in perception, attention, memory and emotion regulation, more recent literature has started to characterize biases in information-seeking and information-integration, especially in the context of self-referential information and social feedback. We also highlight directions for future work, including characterizing how different biases in social anxiety relate to each other, and how they may help dissociate social anxiety symptoms from co-occurring conditions such as generalized anxiety and depression.
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Key aspects concerning the role of emotion in the chronic pain experience
IF 6.3 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 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.
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Organisations that promote eco-human flourishing
IF 6.3 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 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.
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Psychological treatments for comorbid chronic pain and opioid use disorder: Current research and future directions
IF 6.3 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 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.
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Motivating support for workplace diversity policies: A mindsets framework
IF 6.3 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 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.
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Interpersonal dynamics in chronic pain: The role of partner behaviors and interactions in chronic pain adjustment
IF 6.3 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2025-01-25 DOI: 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.
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Anxiety and activism in response to climate change
IF 6.3 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2025-01-23 DOI: 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.
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Predicting norm change using threshold models
IF 6.3 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.101994
Moritz Janas , Nikos Nikiforakis , Simon Siegenthaler
Anticipating changes in social norms presents a significant challenge for social scientists. Historical instances when researchers failed to predict dramatic shifts in collective behavior, along with the persistence of norms that impede welfare, underscore the need for a deeper understanding of how norms evolve. This article reviews current advancements in predicting norm change using threshold models. We document the rise of empirical studies, emphasize recent methodological developments, and discuss open questions for future research.
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Current state of psychological therapies for children and adults with chronic pain: Where next?
IF 6.3 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.101993
Emma Fisher , Amanda C. de C Williams
Pain is influenced by biological, psychological and social factors. Whilst analgesics are often prescribed for chronic pain, they provide little benefit for most patients. Psychological therapies manage pain and disability in children and adults with chronic pain. Evidence for cognitive behavioural therapies is the most robust in the field, although benefits are modest. Technological innovation has led to Internet-delivered therapies, but innovation in research often lags behind technological developments due to funding and regulation. Despite the promising outlook, critical gaps in our knowledge of how to manage pain need addressing for both adults and children and their parents. Here we summarise the evidence base of psychological therapies using Cochrane reviews, gaps, and the role of preventing chronic pain onset.
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How therapist effects shape pain-related outcome improvement in psychological treatments for chronic pain
IF 6.3 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.101995
Melissa A. Day , Dawn M. Ehde , Michele Sterling , Mark P. Jensen
Psychological chronic pain treatments have variable efficacy across individual patients, and on average tend to produce modest effects. In order to improve treatment outcomes, the past decade has seen a rapid increase in research focused on determining the mechanisms underlying treatment-related gains. The near exclusive focus of this research has been on uncovering patient-related mediators and moderators. However, treatment is delivered within the context of a patient-therapist dyad, and the dynamic contribution of therapist-related factors in influencing this dyad and patient outcomes has remained largely unexamined. The purpose of the current paper is to consider the unique contributions of therapist-related factors within our proposed “Top 3” dynamic, candidate contextual mechanisms: therapeutic working alliance, group climate/cohesion (i.e., in group therapy), and therapist quality. We define these process variables, identify validated measures, and review research documenting their effects on outcomes, drawing from the pain and broader psychotherapy literature. It is well established that some therapists are more effective than others, with so-called exceptional (i.e., not merely competent) therapists shown to produce effect sizes twice as large and demonstrate up to ten times better patient response rates. We focus on identifying the behaviors that such exceptional therapists engage in to harness the working alliance, build and maintain group cohesion and skilfully deliver and train patients in various therapeutic techniques. Future pain treatment outcome research evaluating the role of therapists in these “Top 3” process variables has the potential to provide novel insights into treatment mechanisms, inform therapist training, and to advance precision medicine.
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