Pub Date : 2024-06-19DOI: 10.1038/s44159-024-00333-w
Alexandra Paxton
Naturally occurring data are not always covered by today’s ethical regulations. However, scientists can adapt the foundational ethical principles of research using human subjects to meet their obligations to science and society.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-18DOI: 10.1038/s44159-024-00328-7
Tina Malti, Ruth Speidel
Understanding how children become kind and caring prosocial adults matters for the survival and thriving of humanity. However, adversity can impact children’s prosocial potential in multifaceted ways. In this Review, we provide critical insights into how humans become prosocial from a developmental-relational perspective. We begin by discussing central factors underlying the development of prosociality in children. Next, we summarize research on the effects of adversity on prosocial development, including the effects of exposure to traumatic life events and everyday hurts and stressors, as well as protective factors that help children to find, remain on, or return to a prosocial path. Then we discuss interventions to nurture prosociality from an early age in every individual, emphasizing the role of practices of care to create positive change at community levels. Finally, we make recommendations for future research. Prosocial behaviour involves acting with care towards oneself and others. In this Review, Malti and Speidel detail the development of prosociality, the effects of adversity on this development, and interventions to foster prosocial outcomes.
{"title":"Development of prosociality and the effects of adversity","authors":"Tina Malti, Ruth Speidel","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00328-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00328-7","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding how children become kind and caring prosocial adults matters for the survival and thriving of humanity. However, adversity can impact children’s prosocial potential in multifaceted ways. In this Review, we provide critical insights into how humans become prosocial from a developmental-relational perspective. We begin by discussing central factors underlying the development of prosociality in children. Next, we summarize research on the effects of adversity on prosocial development, including the effects of exposure to traumatic life events and everyday hurts and stressors, as well as protective factors that help children to find, remain on, or return to a prosocial path. Then we discuss interventions to nurture prosociality from an early age in every individual, emphasizing the role of practices of care to create positive change at community levels. Finally, we make recommendations for future research. Prosocial behaviour involves acting with care towards oneself and others. In this Review, Malti and Speidel detail the development of prosociality, the effects of adversity on this development, and interventions to foster prosocial outcomes.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-12DOI: 10.1038/s44159-024-00327-8
The debate about the negative impact of social media use is heated. Psychology research must avoid the noise and remain focused on improving adolescent mental health.
{"title":"Social media needs science-based guidelines","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00327-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00327-8","url":null,"abstract":"The debate about the negative impact of social media use is heated. Psychology research must avoid the noise and remain focused on improving adolescent mental health.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-024-00327-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141308931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-11DOI: 10.1038/s44159-024-00332-x
Teresa Schubert
Nature Reviews Psychology is interviewing individuals with doctoral degrees in psychology who pursued non-academic careers. We spoke with Xiao Wang about her journey from PhD student to professional editor.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-11DOI: 10.1038/s44159-024-00331-y
Ellicott C. Matthay
Research into clinical interventions rarely translates to improved mental health at the population level. Adequately powered studies leveraging advances in statistical methods to assess and translate multicomponent interventions will be better positioned to yield improvements in population mental health.
{"title":"Why clinical research fails to improve population mental health","authors":"Ellicott C. Matthay","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00331-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00331-y","url":null,"abstract":"Research into clinical interventions rarely translates to improved mental health at the population level. Adequately powered studies leveraging advances in statistical methods to assess and translate multicomponent interventions will be better positioned to yield improvements in population mental health.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141358556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-10DOI: 10.1038/s44159-024-00324-x
Joel M. Le Forestier, Neil A. Lewis Jr
Many people conceal identities as a strategy for managing the impressions others have of them. They do so because they believe that managing those impressions can be consequential for their ability to pursue their goals. However, the scope of when people engage in identity concealment, and the process by which that concealment unfolds, are unclear. In this Perspective, we review the literature on identity concealment and synthesize it into a model of concealment that specifies the conditions under which people conceal identities. This model advances theory by explicitly modelling the role of concealability (including differences in concealability attributable to identities, individuals, contexts and interactions between them), accounting for multiple motives for concealment that are related to different levels of the ecological systems in which people are embedded (including goals beyond stigma management), and specifying the social-cognitive process by which these abilities and goals result in concealment. Many people conceal some of their identities to successfully navigate intergroup contexts. In this Perspective, Le Forestier and Lewis propose a model of identity concealment that makes specific predictions about when people choose to engage in concealment that applies to a broad range of motives and identities.
{"title":"When and why people conceal their identities","authors":"Joel M. Le Forestier, Neil A. Lewis Jr","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00324-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00324-x","url":null,"abstract":"Many people conceal identities as a strategy for managing the impressions others have of them. They do so because they believe that managing those impressions can be consequential for their ability to pursue their goals. However, the scope of when people engage in identity concealment, and the process by which that concealment unfolds, are unclear. In this Perspective, we review the literature on identity concealment and synthesize it into a model of concealment that specifies the conditions under which people conceal identities. This model advances theory by explicitly modelling the role of concealability (including differences in concealability attributable to identities, individuals, contexts and interactions between them), accounting for multiple motives for concealment that are related to different levels of the ecological systems in which people are embedded (including goals beyond stigma management), and specifying the social-cognitive process by which these abilities and goals result in concealment. Many people conceal some of their identities to successfully navigate intergroup contexts. In this Perspective, Le Forestier and Lewis propose a model of identity concealment that makes specific predictions about when people choose to engage in concealment that applies to a broad range of motives and identities.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141363644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-07DOI: 10.1038/s44159-024-00329-6
Jolene A. Cox
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Pub Date : 2024-06-07DOI: 10.1038/s44159-024-00322-z
Tonglin Jiang, Joshua A. Hicks, Wenying Yuan, Yige Yin, Lydia Needy, Matthew Vess
Psychological research has explored awe’s intricate nature and far-reaching consequences. Awe profoundly influences the sense of self (which has considerable psychosocial implications), but there are complexities across the literature regarding how awe impacts the self. In this Review, we synthesize the literature about awe and suggest an integrative approach to understanding awe’s psychosocial implications. We begin by introducing awe as defined by an established theoretical model and examining the methodological challenges to the scientific study of awe. We then discuss discrepancies in current research on awe’s impacts on the self and consider an alternative approach in which awe promotes a broad, non-egocentric perspective on the self. We argue that this approach offers deep insight into the implications of awe and review related findings focusing on cognition and motivation, social dynamics and well-being. Finally, we examine cultural commonalities and diversity in experiences of awe and conclude by suggesting avenues for future inquiry. Awe has considerable psychological implications, but its multifaceted nature has hindered researchers in understanding the underlying processes. In this Review, Jiang et al. discuss how awe impacts the self and provide an integrative framework of the psychological consequences of awe.
{"title":"The unique nature and psychosocial implications of awe","authors":"Tonglin Jiang, Joshua A. Hicks, Wenying Yuan, Yige Yin, Lydia Needy, Matthew Vess","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00322-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00322-z","url":null,"abstract":"Psychological research has explored awe’s intricate nature and far-reaching consequences. Awe profoundly influences the sense of self (which has considerable psychosocial implications), but there are complexities across the literature regarding how awe impacts the self. In this Review, we synthesize the literature about awe and suggest an integrative approach to understanding awe’s psychosocial implications. We begin by introducing awe as defined by an established theoretical model and examining the methodological challenges to the scientific study of awe. We then discuss discrepancies in current research on awe’s impacts on the self and consider an alternative approach in which awe promotes a broad, non-egocentric perspective on the self. We argue that this approach offers deep insight into the implications of awe and review related findings focusing on cognition and motivation, social dynamics and well-being. Finally, we examine cultural commonalities and diversity in experiences of awe and conclude by suggesting avenues for future inquiry. Awe has considerable psychological implications, but its multifaceted nature has hindered researchers in understanding the underlying processes. In this Review, Jiang et al. discuss how awe impacts the self and provide an integrative framework of the psychological consequences of awe.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141373431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-04DOI: 10.1038/s44159-024-00317-w
Mireille Babineau, Monica Barbir, Alex de Carvalho, Naomi Havron, Isabelle Dautriche, Anne Christophe
Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain how young children solve the puzzle of mapping spoken words to their meanings. The influential syntactic bootstrapping theory postulates that children learn the meanings of words (particularly verbs) by paying attention to the syntactic structures in which they occur. In this Review, we first look at the scholarly climate and pivotal experimental findings that gave rise to syntactic bootstrapping theory, how the postulated word-learning mechanism has been investigated, and the role for this mechanism in current and future research. We discuss the prerequisites behind such a powerful learning and inference process and connect it to contemporary learning frameworks that examine how humans build and update their knowledge about the world. Syntactic bootstrapping theory has shaped the landscape of language-acquisition research, and this research has reshaped syntactic bootstrapping in turn — leading to ground-breaking insights into how children assign meanings to words and learn the complex network of language. Young children learn the meanings of the words from limited information. In this Review, Babineau and colleagues synthesize the word-learning research landscape and detail the role of syntactic bootstrapping and related learning mechanisms.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-30DOI: 10.1038/s44159-024-00326-9
Taylor A. Braund
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