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On the significance of biogenic approach in comparative cognition 论生物成因方法在比较认知中的意义

IF 2.3 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

New Ideas in Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101186

Hiroshi Matsui , Yumi Hata

Comparative cognition is an interdisciplinary field of animal behavior, inherently premised on varying foundational perspectives, whether researchers acknowledge it or not. The distinction between anthropogenic and biogenic approaches serves as a useful framework for categorizing the two primary starting points in cognitive research. Based on these classifications, it becomes evident that comparative cognition research incorporates elements of both approaches. Based on empirical research on comparative cognition, it can be observed that comparative cognition tends to be biased towards the anthropogenic approach. While we do not advocate for abandoning the anthropogenic approach, embracing the biogenic approach offers substantial advantages. These advantages include not only practical benefits such as increased empirical research productivity but also significant intellectual gains. Although the biogenic approach does not imply a commitment to a specific philosophy, it shares a high degree of affinity with embodied cognition. We, thus, further suggest that the biogenic approach to comparative cognition can effectively align with the recent trends in ecological psychology and enactivism. Such a shift in approach has the potential to reshape the formulation of research questions and influence the underlying ontological commitments driving the research.

比较认知是动物行为的一个跨学科领域，无论研究者承认与否，其本质上都是以不同的基础观点为前提的。人为和生物方法之间的区别是对认知研究中两个主要起点进行分类的有用框架。基于这些分类，比较认知研究显然结合了这两种方法的元素。从比较认知的实证研究可以看出，比较认知倾向于人因方法。虽然我们不提倡放弃人为方法，但拥抱生物方法提供了实质性的优势。这些优势不仅包括实际利益，如提高实证研究生产力，而且还包括显著的智力收益。虽然生物成因方法并不意味着对特定哲学的承诺，但它与具身认知具有高度的亲和力。因此，我们进一步提出，比较认知的生物成因方法可以有效地与生态心理学和行动主义的最新趋势相一致。这种方法上的转变有可能重塑研究问题的表述，并影响推动研究的潜在本体论承诺。

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Happiness as a signal: The social functions of expressions of happiness in the context of culture and emotional tribes 作为信号的幸福：文化和情感部落背景下幸福表达的社会功能

IF 2.3 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

New Ideas in Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-07-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101184

Mohsen Joshanloo , Dan Weijers

Well-being research has traditionally focused on exploring the subjective experience of happiness. To broaden this perspective, this review examines the social and communicative functions of the expression of happiness. This analysis highlights the potential of expressions of happiness to elicit social rewards, induce positive emotions in others, shape favorable perceptions, and promote social cohesion. The review shows that expressions of happiness can significantly enhance an individual's social fitness in contemporary society. The contemporary societal pressure to appear happy is also discussed. This can lead to dissonance between authentic emotional experiences and emotional expressions. Attention is also drawn to the phenomenon of emotional tribalism, highlighting the potential prejudice and discrimination that individuals and groups may face as a result of their public displays of unhappiness.

传统上，幸福感研究的重点是探索幸福的主观体验。为了拓宽这一视角，本文考察了幸福表达的社会和交际功能。这一分析强调了幸福表达的潜力，它可以引发社会奖励，诱导他人产生积极情绪，形成良好的认知，促进社会凝聚力。研究表明，在当代社会中，快乐的表达可以显著提高个体的社会适应性。文章还讨论了当代社会对表现幸福的压力。这可能导致真实的情感体验和情感表达之间的不协调。情感部落主义现象也引起了人们的注意，它强调了个人和群体可能因公开表现不快乐而面临的潜在偏见和歧视。

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Disconnected from complexity: on nature exposure, sociality, and the self-organizing self 脱离复杂性：关于自然暴露、社会性和自我组织

IF 2.3 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

New Ideas in Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-07-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101182

Taylor Berrett

Connectedness to nature and connectedness in interpersonal relationships have both been shown to support human cognitive functioning as well as feelings of self-efficacy, well-being, and personal meaning. As modern urban lifestyles and digital-first sociality isolate us from natural environments and face-to-face connections, there is an associated reduction in these psychological markers of flourishing. One underexplored mechanism for this association is the way that built environments and digital social lives isolate us from appropriately challenging and perspective-shifting chance events and disorder which may be beneficial to our cognitive processes. This paper uses the lens of complexity science and self-organization to examine natural and social disconnection as disconnection from cognitively constructive complexity. It compares findings from multiple disciplines to propose that while built environments and digital isolation protect us from physical and social risks associated with chaotic systems, they also remove us from exposure to beneficial cognitive turbulences which may support positive perceptual shifts, psychological well-being, and meaningful self-expansion. Implications of this conceptualization for future research are also proposed.

与自然的连通性和人际关系中的连通性都被证明支持人类的认知功能，以及自我效能感、幸福感和个人意义。随着现代城市生活方式和数字优先的社交方式将我们与自然环境和面对面的联系隔离开来，这些繁荣的心理标志也随之减少。这种关联的一个未被充分探索的机制是，建筑环境和数字社会生活将我们与适当的挑战和视角转换的机会事件和混乱隔离开来，这可能对我们的认知过程有益。本文从复杂性科学和自组织的角度来考察自然和社会的断裂，即从认知建设性复杂性的断裂。它比较了多个学科的研究结果，提出虽然建筑环境和数字隔离保护我们免受与混沌系统相关的物理和社会风险，但它们也使我们远离了有益的认知动荡，这可能支持积极的感知转变、心理健康和有意义的自我扩展。本文还提出了这一概念对未来研究的意义。

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A cultural identity approach to the generational divide 代际差异的文化认同方法

IF 2.3 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

New Ideas in Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101183

Davelle Lee, Andree Hartanto

Some scholars have argued strongly against the idea that differences between generations are responsible for intergenerational conflict, calling for organisations and policymakers to do away with the notion of generations altogether. The current review argues that generations are an important social identity and makes the case for why generational identity should inform policy, despite inconsistent empirical evidence for generational differences. Drawing on cultural psychology and social identity theory, we find parallels between how racial and ethnic identities shape how people interpret and respond to racial diversity and so-called racial and ethnic “differences”, and how generational identity influences people's attitudes and behaviours in age-diverse environments. Comparing three intergroup ideologies relevant to cultural diversity, colourblindness, multiculturalism and polyculturalism, we contend that polyculturalism will best serve age-diverse workplaces by promoting positive intergenerational exchange through deeper appreciation for the dynamic nature of “generational culture” and the interconnectedness of generational groups.

一些学者强烈反对代际冲突是代际差异造成的观点，呼吁组织和政策制定者彻底废除代际概念。当前的评论认为，代际是一个重要的社会身份，并说明了为什么代际身份应该为政策提供信息，尽管代际差异的经验证据不一致。利用文化心理学和社会认同理论，我们发现种族和民族认同如何塑造人们如何解释和应对种族多样性和所谓的种族和民族“差异”，以及代际认同如何影响人们在不同年龄环境中的态度和行为之间的相似之处。通过比较与文化多样性相关的三种群体间意识形态——色盲、多元文化主义和多元文化主义，我们认为多元文化主义将通过对“代际文化”的动态本质和代际群体的相互联系的更深层次的理解，促进积极的代际交流，从而最好地服务于年龄多样化的工作场所。

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A tripartite perspective on self-evaluation: Three forms of self-regard and their social basis 自我评价的三方视角：自我关注的三种形式及其社会基础

IF 2.3 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

New Ideas in Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101181

Daniela Renger , Sophus Renger

What people (and scientists) mean when they talk about self-regard or self-esteem can be very different. It is not clear exactly what a person lacks who reports a deficit in self-esteem. In order to identify the substantive dimensions that should be distinguished when considering human self-evaluation, we first analyze theories from psychology and philosophy in order to identify the social basis, i.e., the relevant dimensions of social information transmitted in social exchanges. On the basis of three converging central dimensions (i.e., information about being liked by others, being positively appraised, and being regarded as an equal), we then propose to distinguish three corresponding forms of self-regard, namely self-love, self-appraisal, and equality-based self-respect. While self-love and self-appraisal (both competence- and character-based conceptions) have already been researched, self-respect, defined as a person's belief in possessing the same rights as others, has been neglected in psychological research. We outline the differential antecedents and consequences of these three dimensions and discuss the (dis)advantages of a tripartite approach compared to uni- and two-dimensional approaches, its intercultural applicability, and potential for future research and interventions.

当人们（和科学家）谈论自我关注或自尊时，他们的意思可能非常不同。目前还不清楚一个自称缺乏自尊的人究竟缺少什么。为了确定在考虑人类自我评价时应该区分的实质性维度，我们首先分析了心理学和哲学的理论，以确定社会基础，即社会交换中传递的社会信息的相关维度。在三个趋同的中心维度（即被他人喜欢的信息、被积极评价的信息和被视为平等的信息）的基础上，我们提出了三种相应的自尊形式，即自爱、自我评价和基于平等的自尊。虽然自爱和自我评价（以能力和性格为基础的概念）已经被研究过，但自尊（被定义为一个人拥有与他人相同权利的信念）在心理学研究中一直被忽视。我们概述了这三个维度的不同前因和后果，并讨论了与单一和二维方法相比，三方方法的优势，其跨文化适用性，以及未来研究和干预的潜力。

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Counterfactual imaginative culture as evidence hallucination in support of anxiety reduction 反事实的想象文化作为支持减少焦虑的幻觉证据

IF 2.3 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

New Ideas in Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-07-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101179

James Carney

Why do human beings invest work in creating representations of objects and situations that do not exist, cannot be proven to exist, or exist by cultural convention? This study offers an explanation of this phenomenon by identifying counterfactual cultural production as a form of evidence hallucination, where anxiety-reducing cultural and cognitive models are made to be ‘true’ by flooding the perceptual environment with fabricated evidence of their truth. The theoretical framework builds on concepts from information theory, thermodynamics, and active-inference approaches to agent—environment interactions; it is tested against two cultural phenomena—religious evangelism as articulated in the four Gospels of the King James Version (KJV) Bible and symbols of collective identity in the form of national flags. The first study encodes English words into 64 categories using their sensorimotor associations, and predicts that the KJV should address existential anxiety by over-sampling positively valenced words with large semantic size from each sensory category—and in doing so, generate an implicit world-model that is lower in unpredictability than that of background English. The second study predicts that the visual entropy of national flags will positively scale with endogenous anxiety (collective worry about internal conflict) and that internal contrast will negatively scale with exogenous anxiety (collective worry about external threats)—with contrast anchoring entropy in the low contrast position. These studies are consistent with the view (but do not prove) that it is possible to predict detailed features of high-level cultural activity from affective dispositions using a straightforward formalism and without a ‘thick’ model of human cognition.

为什么人类要投入精力去创造不存在的、不能被证明存在的、或因文化习俗而存在的物体和情境的表征？本研究通过将反事实文化生产确定为证据幻觉的一种形式，为这一现象提供了一种解释，在这种幻觉中，通过向感知环境中注入关于其真实性的捏造证据，使减少焦虑的文化和认知模型成为“真实的”。理论框架建立在信息论、热力学和主动推理方法的概念上，以实现代理与环境的相互作用；它受到了两种文化现象的考验——詹姆斯国王版（KJV）圣经的四福音书中所阐述的宗教福音主义和国旗形式的集体身份象征。第一项研究利用感觉运动关联将英语单词编码为64个类别，并预测KJV应该通过从每个感觉类别中过度取样具有大语义大小的正价值单词来解决存在焦虑——这样做，产生一个内隐的世界模型，其不可预测性低于背景英语。第二项研究预测，国旗的视觉熵与内源性焦虑（集体担心内部冲突）呈正相关，而内部对比与外源性焦虑（集体担心外部威胁）呈负相关，对比度锚定熵处于低对比度位置。这些研究与一种观点（但没有证明）是一致的，即使用简单的形式主义，无需人类认知的“厚”模型，就可以从情感倾向中预测高水平文化活动的详细特征。

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Information, representation, and cognition 信息、表征和认知

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New Ideas in Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101177

Renato T. Ramos , José Roberto C. Piqueira

This article discusses the concept of information in the context of its application in theories of cognition mainly those based on the idea of consciousness as information processing. The concept of Natural Information is presented as a complement to the classic Shannon’s information model by shifting the focus of the information concept from the message to the entire communication system. This model proposes that: (1) Information is not something itself but it is always about something; (2) Information is not an object but a relationship; (3) Information is an emergent property of interfaces; (4) Information is the subset of elements of a given instance connected, related, caused, or paired with elements of another instance; (5) Information is present in the universe at all organizational levels including mental states; (6) Information is physically made of the same substance as the instance that acquires the information. We introduce the concepts of codable and non-codable elements of information to account for the emergence of meaning and qualia. The contribution of these concepts to the discussions about the emergence of meaning and the structure of self are discussed. We propose this model as a road map to describe information processing in mental processes locating classic ideas and old problems in the context of new concepts. Our model is still a work in progress aiming to contribute to the understanding of the role of information in computational, psychological, and social contexts.

本文讨论了信息概念在认知理论中的应用，主要是基于意识作为信息加工的观点。自然信息的概念是对经典香农信息模型的补充，将信息概念的焦点从消息转移到整个通信系统。该模型提出：(1)信息本身不是某物，但总是与某物有关；(2)信息不是对象，而是关系；(3)信息是接口的紧急属性；(4)信息是给定实例的元素与另一个实例的元素连接、相关、产生或配对的子集；(5)信息存在于宇宙的所有组织层面，包括精神状态；(6)信息在物理上由与获取信息的实例相同的物质构成。我们引入信息的可编码和不可编码元素的概念来解释意义和质的出现。讨论了这些概念对意义的出现和自我结构的讨论的贡献。我们提出这个模型作为描述在新概念背景下定位经典思想和旧问题的心理过程中的信息处理的路线图。我们的模型仍在进行中，旨在帮助理解信息在计算、心理和社会环境中的作用。

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The dual metaphorical role of abstract symbols in symbolic mathematical processing 抽象符号在符号数学处理中的双重隐喻作用

IF 2.3 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

New Ideas in Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-06-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101180

Omid Khatin-Zadeh

The mechanisms through which abstract mathematical symbols and symbolic mathematical representation are processed have been discussed in many works. Some neuroimaging and behavioral studies have provided evidence for the active role of visuospatial networks and spatial abilities in the processing of symbolic mathematical representations. Based on these findings, it is suggested that the process of understanding mathematical entities in terms of abstract symbols involves an initial explicit metaphorical stage followed by a subsequent implicit metaphorical stage. In the initial explicit metaphorical stage, a mathematical entity is metaphorically described in terms of abstract symbols. Abstract symbols serve as the source domain of this metaphorical stage. In the subsequent implicit metaphorical stage, abstract symbols are metaphorically conceptualized and understood in terms of space and spatial elements. Abstract symbols serve as the target domain of this stage. While the explicit metaphorical stage has a clearly-observable manifestation in the semiotic system of abstract mathematical symbols, the implicit metaphorical stage does not have such a realization in any semiotic system or cultural artifact. This purely implicit metaphorical processing of abstract symbols in terms of space and spatial elements can be observed only through neural activities in areas of brain involved in spatial processing.

抽象数学符号和符号数学表示的处理机制已在许多著作中得到讨论。一些神经影像学和行为学研究已经为视觉空间网络和空间能力在符号数学表征的处理中发挥积极作用提供了证据。基于这些发现，我们认为用抽象符号理解数学实体的过程包括一个初始的外显隐喻阶段和随后的内隐隐喻阶段。在最初的显性隐喻阶段，数学实体是用抽象符号来隐喻描述的。抽象符号是这一隐喻阶段的源域。在随后的内隐隐喻阶段，抽象符号被隐喻地概念化，并从空间和空间元素的角度来理解。抽象符号是这一阶段的目标域。外显隐喻阶段在抽象数学符号的符号系统中有清晰可见的表现，而内隐隐喻阶段在任何符号系统或文化产物中都没有这样的实现。这种对空间和空间要素的抽象符号的纯内隐隐喻处理只能通过参与空间处理的大脑区域的神经活动来观察。

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Presenting a strengths-based ecological model for promoting well-being among LGBTQ+ adults 提出了一个基于优势的生态模型，以促进LGBTQ+成年人的福祉

IF 2.3 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

New Ideas in Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-06-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101178

Alexandra Cowand , Konrad Bresin , Nathan R. Todd , Yara Mekawi

Models of LGBTQ+ health demonstrate factors influencing mental and physical health (e.g., unique stressors due to living in a heterosexist and cissexist society). However, current models of LGBTQ+ health do not adequately organize how strengths throughout multiple ecological levels influence the well-being of LGBTQ+ individuals. In this paper, we propose and describe an ecological model of LGBTQ+ strengths impacting the specific health outcome of LGBTQ+ well-being. This model integrates and organizes literature on intersectionality and LGBTQ+ experiences, LGBTQ+ individual well-being outcomes, and LGBTQ+ strengths across ecological levels of individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and structural. Model strengths, limitations, and applications are discussed.

LGBTQ+健康模型展示了影响心理和身体健康的因素（例如，由于生活在异性恋和异性恋社会中而产生的独特压力源）。然而，目前的LGBTQ+健康模型并没有充分组织跨多个生态水平的优势如何影响LGBTQ+个体的健康。在本文中，我们提出并描述了LGBTQ+优势影响LGBTQ+福祉的特定健康结果的生态模型。该模型整合并组织了有关交叉性和LGBTQ+经验、LGBTQ+个人福祉结果以及LGBTQ+在个人、人际、组织、社区和结构生态层面上的优势的文献。讨论了模型的优点、局限性和应用。

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Technopsychology: A new wave of psychological inquiry 技术心理学：心理学研究的新浪潮

IF 2.3 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

New Ideas in Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-06-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101176

Jesper Aagaard , Rasmus Birk

Technology plays an important role in human existence, yet its theoretical significance has seldom been explored in psychology. This article introduces technopsychology, a new framework for exploring human-technology relationships. In doing so, it traces three waves in the history of psychology: First, cognitive psychology, which treats technologies as distant objects that we ‘look-at’. Second, discursive psychology, which views technologies as passive symbols that we ‘talk-about’. Finally, the article presents technopsychology, which treats technologies as active mediators that we ‘interact-with’. Drawing on insights from science and technology studies (STS), the article goes on to present three tenets of technopsychology: 1) a rehabilitation of human embodiment, 2) an understanding that human bodies are materially situated, and 3) the recognition that human agency is technologically mediated. By highlighting the active role of material artifacts, technopsychology seeks to challenge earlier waves of inquiry and expand the study of psychology. Ultimately, technopsychology invites psychology to reimagine its core phenomena—such as attention, memory, racism, and sexism—not as occurring apart from technology, but as enacted through our everyday entanglements with it.

技术在人类生存中扮演着重要的角色，但心理学对其理论意义的探讨却很少。本文介绍了技术心理学，这是一种探索人与技术关系的新框架。在此过程中，它追溯了心理学历史上的三个浪潮：首先是认知心理学，它将技术视为我们“注视”的遥远物体。第二，话语心理学，将技术视为我们“谈论”的被动符号。最后，本文介绍了技术心理学，它将技术视为我们“互动”的主动中介。根据科学和技术研究（STS）的见解，文章接着提出了技术心理学的三个原则：1)人类化身的康复，2)对人体物质位置的理解，以及3)认识到人类能动性是技术中介的。通过强调物质人工制品的积极作用，技术心理学试图挑战早期的调查浪潮并扩展心理学的研究。最终，技术心理学邀请心理学重新想象它的核心现象，如注意力、记忆、种族主义和性别主义，这些现象不是在技术之外发生的，而是通过我们与技术的日常纠缠而发生的。

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