Pub Date : 2024-12-12DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101975
Eva Vriens , Giulia Andrighetto
Where social norms are the ‘glue’ guiding behavior, people hardly think of their behavior as an act of norm compliance. They do consciously look for social norms in situations of environmental or social uncertainty, because i) norms provide behavioral cues that reduce uncertainty and ii) the uncertainty is partially induced by the lack or instability of social norms themselves—creating the (flawed) perception that social norms often fail us when we need them most. We discuss several state-of-the-art conceptualizations of social norms—abstract and specific norms, the social norms life cycle, and social norms in changing contexts—to highlight where and how uncertainty comes into play within each of these approaches, and consequently where the success of social norms might be hindered.
{"title":"Why social norms may fail us when we need them most","authors":"Eva Vriens , Giulia Andrighetto","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101975","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101975","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Where social norms are the ‘glue’ guiding behavior, people hardly think of their behavior as an act of norm compliance. They do consciously look for social norms in situations of environmental or social uncertainty, because i) norms provide behavioral cues that reduce uncertainty and ii) the uncertainty is partially induced by the lack or instability of social norms themselves—creating the (flawed) perception that social norms often fail us when we need them most. We discuss several state-of-the-art conceptualizations of social norms—abstract and specific norms, the social norms life cycle, and social norms in changing contexts—to highlight where and how uncertainty comes into play within each of these approaches, and consequently where the success of social norms might be hindered.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 101975"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142874522","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 : 2024-12-12DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101976
Sara Laureen Bartels , Angeliki Pelika , Afra S. Taygar , Rikard K. Wicksell
Digital approaches to chronic pain are emerging worldwide and rapidly gaining increased empirical support. This brief meta-review aims at providing a comprehensive overview of evidence and recommendations reported in recent reviews (2023–2024) on eHealth interventions for chronic pain promoting self-management. A systematic search provided 2041 records, of which 225 reviews were screened and 20 were synthesized. Existing reviews show that eHealth interventions for chronic pain are beneficial for patients, healthcare professionals, and society at large. However, long-term effects, change mechanisms, cost-effectiveness, and real-world utility are understudied. Moreover, quality, safety, relevance, and sustainable use are key targets for future research. Future researchers should utilize existing implementation frameworks and make explicit efforts to include diverse patient populations to advance digital approaches to chronic pain.
{"title":"Digital approaches to chronic pain: A brief meta-review of eHealth interventions - Current evidence and future directions","authors":"Sara Laureen Bartels , Angeliki Pelika , Afra S. Taygar , Rikard K. Wicksell","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101976","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101976","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Digital approaches to chronic pain are emerging worldwide and rapidly gaining increased empirical support. This brief meta-review aims at providing a comprehensive overview of evidence and recommendations reported in recent reviews (2023–2024) on eHealth interventions for chronic pain promoting self-management. A systematic search provided 2041 records, of which 225 reviews were screened and 20 were synthesized. Existing reviews show that eHealth interventions for chronic pain are beneficial for patients, healthcare professionals, and society at large. However, long-term effects, change mechanisms, cost-effectiveness, and real-world utility are understudied. Moreover, quality, safety, relevance, and sustainable use are key targets for future research. Future researchers should utilize existing implementation frameworks and make explicit efforts to include diverse patient populations to advance digital approaches to chronic pain.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 101976"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142874521","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 : 2024-12-09DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101971
Astrid C. Homan, Yasmin Abbaszadeh
Rising to higher hierarchical positions is a struggle for those who do not fit the stereotypical leadership mold. Implicit Leadership Theories (ILTs) associate leadership with dominant groups (e.g., white, male), which limits opportunities of non-prototypical individuals (e.g., women, ethnic minorities) to claim or be granted leadership roles. We first review evidence of the barriers members of non-prototypical groups encounter in leadership advancement, and subsequently explore theoretical mechanisms explaining why these barriers persist. Finally, we advocate for a shift from bias awareness and affirmative action as potential solutions to an opportunity-threat approach that speaks directly to the cognitive nature of leadership categorization. We propose that by fostering an opportunity mindset—one that promotes open and flexible thinking—rather than a threat mindset—defined by rigidity and narrowmindedness—the traditional ‘leader’ profile can be broadened and made more inclusive and as such will stimulate leadership claiming by and granting to non-prototypical individuals.
{"title":"Obstacles for marginalized group members in obtaining leadership positions: Threats and opportunities","authors":"Astrid C. Homan, Yasmin Abbaszadeh","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101971","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101971","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rising to higher hierarchical positions is a struggle for those who do not fit the stereotypical leadership mold. Implicit Leadership Theories (ILTs) associate leadership with dominant groups (e.g., white, male), which limits opportunities of non-prototypical individuals (e.g., women, ethnic minorities) to claim or be granted leadership roles. We first review evidence of the barriers members of non-prototypical groups encounter in leadership advancement, and subsequently explore theoretical mechanisms explaining why these barriers persist. Finally, we advocate for a shift from bias awareness and affirmative action as potential solutions to an opportunity-threat approach that speaks directly to the cognitive nature of leadership categorization. We propose that by fostering an opportunity mindset—one that promotes open and flexible thinking—rather than a threat mindset—defined by rigidity and narrowmindedness—the traditional ‘leader’ profile can be broadened and made more inclusive and as such will stimulate leadership claiming by and granting to non-prototypical individuals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 101971"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142823256","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 : 2024-12-09DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101972
Lin Yu , Lance M. McCracken
Chronic pain can be highly distressing, disabling and complex. The experience of living with chronic pain often leads to a fundamental struggle with one's sense of self and identity. In this article, we briefly review the wide range of conceptualisations of self in pain research. We then introduce a contextual behavioural conceptualisation of self, a more recent approach to self, and discuss its application and relevant evidence in chronic pain. We recommend that it is time to organize and integrate perspectives on self in relation to chronic pain so that research can proceed with less potential confusion or contradiction, and the contextual behaviour science approach can potentially provide a basis for this.
{"title":"The self in pain","authors":"Lin Yu , Lance M. McCracken","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101972","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101972","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Chronic pain can be highly distressing, disabling and complex. The experience of living with chronic pain often leads to a fundamental struggle with one's sense of self and identity. In this article, we briefly review the wide range of conceptualisations of self in pain research. We then introduce a contextual behavioural conceptualisation of self, a more recent approach to self, and discuss its application and relevant evidence in chronic pain. We recommend that it is time to organize and integrate perspectives on self in relation to chronic pain so that research can proceed with less potential confusion or contradiction, and the contextual behaviour science approach can potentially provide a basis for this.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 101972"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142823260","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 : 2024-12-09DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101973
Nathan Hodson , Georgi Kirilov , Ivo Vlaev
The MINDSPACE framework has made it easier to incorporate insights from behavioral science into policy, including health policy, but lacks granularity. Difficult policy problems such as adherence to psychiatric medication can benefit from judicious selection of nudges. We present a MINDSPACE Expanded Framework including 34 insights from behavioral science in the 9 MINDSPACE principles to support a more detailed integration of behavioral science into policy. We illustrate the framework with examples relating to adherence to psychiatric mediation.
{"title":"The MINDSPACE Expanded Framework (MINDSPACE X): Behavioral insights to improve adherence to psychiatric medications","authors":"Nathan Hodson , Georgi Kirilov , Ivo Vlaev","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101973","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101973","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The MINDSPACE framework has made it easier to incorporate insights from behavioral science into policy, including health policy, but lacks granularity. Difficult policy problems such as adherence to psychiatric medication can benefit from judicious selection of nudges. We present a MINDSPACE Expanded Framework including 34 insights from behavioral science in the 9 MINDSPACE principles to support a more detailed integration of behavioral science into policy. We illustrate the framework with examples relating to adherence to psychiatric mediation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 101973"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142823292","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 : 2024-12-02DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101958
Saskia Scholten, Julia Anna Glombiewski
The heterogeneity of chronic pain and stagnating improvements in treatment effectiveness have prompted calls for a shift toward personalized and process-based approaches to the assessment and treatment of chronic pain. As this opens a new line of research, several fundamental questions arise. We begin by defining key terms and reviewing attempts to personalize treatment to date. Despite progress in personalization, long-term effects remain unclear. Existing studies are limited by group-based approaches that overlook individual variability. Future research should use idiographic methods and process-based therapy to tailor interventions to individual needs. A person- and process-oriented research agenda is needed that combines ambulatory assessment, network modeling, and single-case designs to advance personalized treatments for chronic pain and improve clinical decision-making.
{"title":"Enhancing psychological assessment and treatment of chronic pain: A research agenda for personalized and process-based approaches","authors":"Saskia Scholten, Julia Anna Glombiewski","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101958","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101958","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The heterogeneity of chronic pain and stagnating improvements in treatment effectiveness have prompted calls for a shift toward personalized and process-based approaches to the assessment and treatment of chronic pain. As this opens a new line of research, several fundamental questions arise. We begin by defining key terms and reviewing attempts to personalize treatment to date. Despite progress in personalization, long-term effects remain unclear. Existing studies are limited by group-based approaches that overlook individual variability. Future research should use idiographic methods and process-based therapy to tailor interventions to individual needs. A person- and process-oriented research agenda is needed that combines ambulatory assessment, network modeling, and single-case designs to advance personalized treatments for chronic pain and improve clinical decision-making.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 101958"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142789988","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 : 2024-11-30DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101959
Tiffany D. Johnson , Aparna Joshi
{"title":"A stigma perspective on neurodiversity research: Lessons from autistic workers","authors":"Tiffany D. Johnson , Aparna Joshi","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101959","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101959","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 101959"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142789989","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 : 2024-11-28DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101957
Cristina Bicchieri, Luca Garzino Demo
In our review, we explore two different flavors of social norms: strength and stability. These two fundamental features are crucial for understanding norm change and designing effective interventions. Strong norms, which significantly influence behavior and are widely adopted, and stable norms, which endure over time, are essential for group coordination and addressing collective challenges. Using game theory, we discuss what constitutes norms' strength, drawing on Bicchieri's framework and tightness-looseness theory. Using the game-theoretic notion of evolutionary stable states, we also differentiate between strength and stability, listing possible enforcement mechanisms like punishment, gossip, and perceived legitimacy. Here we argue that stability is not a mere consequence of strength but a different feature of norms that is separate but linked. We conclude by highlighting the need for a theoretical definition of stability, incorporating various mechanisms from the literature to provide a robust theoretical framework for future research on social norms.
{"title":"Norm strength and norm stability","authors":"Cristina Bicchieri, Luca Garzino Demo","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101957","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101957","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In our review, we explore two different flavors of social norms: strength and stability. These two fundamental features are crucial for understanding norm change and designing effective interventions. Strong norms, which significantly influence behavior and are widely adopted, and stable norms, which endure over time, are essential for group coordination and addressing collective challenges. Using game theory, we discuss what constitutes norms' strength, drawing on Bicchieri's framework and tightness-looseness theory. Using the game-theoretic notion of evolutionary stable states, we also differentiate between strength and stability, listing possible enforcement mechanisms like punishment, gossip, and perceived legitimacy. Here we argue that stability is not a mere consequence of strength but a different feature of norms that is separate but linked. We conclude by highlighting the need for a theoretical definition of stability, incorporating various mechanisms from the literature to provide a robust theoretical framework for future research on social norms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 101957"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142789990","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 : 2024-11-23DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101945
Mehrad Moeini-Jazani, Sumaya Albalooshi, Bob M. Fennis
Traditional psychological models characterize self-control as an inherently effortful process, relying on deliberate and cognitively demanding strategies to resist impulsive temptations. Drawing on behavioral economics literature, we investigate opportunity cost salience as an effective intervention to enhance self-control with minimal effort. Specifically, we demonstrate that opportunity cost salience facilitates the intuitive detection of self-control conflicts and motivates the pursuit of valued long-term goals by altering the subjective value of present and future outcomes in self-control dilemmas. Moreover, we discuss future research directions and policy implications, exploring how this powerful yet simple economic concept can bolster self-control across diverse personality traits and in situations where self-control is critically needed.
{"title":"Harnessing opportunity cost salience for effortless self-control","authors":"Mehrad Moeini-Jazani, Sumaya Albalooshi, Bob M. Fennis","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101945","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101945","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Traditional psychological models characterize self-control as an inherently effortful process, relying on deliberate and cognitively demanding strategies to resist impulsive temptations. Drawing on behavioral economics literature, we investigate opportunity cost salience as an effective intervention to enhance self-control with minimal effort. Specifically, we demonstrate that opportunity cost salience facilitates the intuitive detection of self-control conflicts and motivates the pursuit of valued long-term goals by altering the subjective value of present and future outcomes in self-control dilemmas. Moreover, we discuss future research directions and policy implications, exploring how this powerful yet simple economic concept can bolster self-control across diverse personality traits and in situations where self-control is critically needed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"61 ","pages":"Article 101945"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142748514","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 : 2024-11-23DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101946
Amani Lavefjord, Felicia T.A. Sundström
Psychological treatments tend to be created based on group averaged results of how variables relate to each other. This means that treatments may not be applicable to individual people where variables may relate to each other in other ways than seen in the group models. While the personalization of psychological treatments is on the rise, such attempts need to be accompanied by idiographic research methods in order to achieve a high degree of personalization. Ideally, treatments can be formed targeting individual specific psychological processes of change. If personalization is conducted on the basis of subgroups, such subgrouping needs to be done using idiographic methods rather than using categories defined in nomothetic research.
{"title":"Considerations for idiographic chronic pain treatment","authors":"Amani Lavefjord, Felicia T.A. Sundström","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101946","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101946","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Psychological treatments tend to be created based on group averaged results of how variables relate to each other. This means that treatments may not be applicable to individual people where variables may relate to each other in other ways than seen in the group models. While the personalization of psychological treatments is on the rise, such attempts need to be accompanied by idiographic research methods in order to achieve a high degree of personalization. Ideally, treatments can be formed targeting individual specific psychological processes of change. If personalization is conducted on the basis of subgroups, such subgrouping needs to be done using idiographic methods rather than using categories defined in nomothetic research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"61 ","pages":"Article 101946"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142748513","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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