Pub Date : 2025-06-26DOI: 10.1038/s44159-025-00473-7
Jonathan Han Loong Kuek
Although Western mental health research has started incorporating lived experience expertise, this approach has not been widely adopted in most Asian countries. Embracing the unique perspectives of Asian people with lived experience can provide a more nuanced understanding of mental health and recovery.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-25DOI: 10.1038/s44159-025-00469-3
Rezarta Bilali
Research into intergroup conflict often overlooks the sociopolitical and historical contexts that shape psychological processes. This lack of attention to context can lead to inaccurate understanding of drivers of conflict and ineffective or harmful strategies to address it. Research into intergroup conflict often overlooks the sociopolitical and historical contexts that shape psychological processes. This lack of attention to context can lead to inaccurate understanding of drivers of conflict and ineffective or harmful strategies to address it.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-20DOI: 10.1038/s44159-025-00463-9
Rebecca C. Thurston, Holly N. Thomas, Alana J. Castle, Carolyn J. Gibson
Midlife for women includes the menopause transition. Menopause can be accompanied by substantial symptoms, disruptions and health changes that can require specialized attention and intervention. However, midlife can be a time of psychological growth and well-being for women. A growing body of research underscores the complex interrelationships between mental health and well-being and menopausal symptoms such as vasomotor symptoms, sleep disturbances, problems with sexual function and cognitive symptoms. Similarly, an increasing number of behavioural interventions have become available that can help to manage symptom occurrence and enhance mental health. In this Review, we approach midlife and menopause as both a biological and a psychological transition. We summarize the changes in reproductive hormones and cessation of menstrual cycles that characterize menopause stages and detail the connections between the biological and psychological changes and symptoms that are common during these stages. We complement this information by discussing behavioural approaches that can help to manage menopausal symptoms and related mental health concerns. On the basis of this integrative approach, we finalize the Review with recommendations for research directions to optimize women’s health and functioning at midlife and beyond. There are complex interactions between physical changes during the menopause transition and mental health and wellbeing. In this Review, Thurston et al. integrate these interactions and outline behavioural approaches to managing menopausal symptoms and related mental health concerns.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-19DOI: 10.1038/s44159-025-00466-6
Wim De Neys
Deliberation, usually referred to as ‘system 2’ thinking, is a core component of popular dual-process models of reasoning. However, the precise conceptualization of this system has received limited attention. In this Perspective, I present a framework and organizing principles with which to think about deliberation and to avoid problematic misconceptions. I argue that deliberation should be understood as serving multiple, complementary functions. I highlight four such functions: response control, response generation, response justification and regulation. Throughout, I identify challenges in current theoretical and applied concepts of deliberation. Finally, I propose guiding principles and discuss critical outstanding questions. The resulting framework should help to advance the theoretical and empirical study of deliberation in the coming years. Dual-process models propose that reasoning involves intuition and deliberation, but the conceptualization of deliberation remains unclear. In this Perspective, De Neys presents four key functions of deliberation and proposes guiding principles for defining dual-process thinking.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-18DOI: 10.1038/s44159-025-00467-5
Lixiang Yan, Samuel Greiff, Jason M. Lodge, Dragan Gašević
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being integrated into education, where it can boost learners’ performance. However, these uses do not promote the deep cognitive and metacognitive processing that are required for high-quality learning.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-16DOI: 10.1038/s44159-025-00462-w
Bridget M. Waller, Olivia O’Callaghan, Jérôme Micheletta, Jamie Whitehouse
Facial expressions are ubiquitous among primates and many clear similarities across species suggest a shared evolutionary history for these behaviours. Investigations of non-human primate facial expressions are therefore vital to enable us to understand the form and function of human facial behaviour. Methodological developments over the past two decades enable fine-grained quantitative comparisons across species and have demonstrated that similar processes underpin facial expressions in non-human and human primates. However, there is a tendency to focus on facial expression as a repertoire of discrete, prototypical expressions that does not always reflect naturalistic behaviour. In this Review, we review the production and perception of non-human primate facial expressions, focusing on methodological approaches and how to address the challenges of studying dynamic facial expressions. Moving forwards, methods that enable the study of dynamic and variable communicative exchange within social interaction might provide a better understanding of how facial expressions function and what (if anything) about facial expression is unique to humans. Facial expressions are ubiquitous among primates and investigation of non-human primate facial behaviour is vital to an understanding of human facial behaviour. In this Review, Waller and colleagues discuss facial expression production and perception in non-human primates, focusing on methodological approaches and challenges.
{"title":"Facial expression production and perception in non-human primates","authors":"Bridget M. Waller, Olivia O’Callaghan, Jérôme Micheletta, Jamie Whitehouse","doi":"10.1038/s44159-025-00462-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-025-00462-w","url":null,"abstract":"Facial expressions are ubiquitous among primates and many clear similarities across species suggest a shared evolutionary history for these behaviours. Investigations of non-human primate facial expressions are therefore vital to enable us to understand the form and function of human facial behaviour. Methodological developments over the past two decades enable fine-grained quantitative comparisons across species and have demonstrated that similar processes underpin facial expressions in non-human and human primates. However, there is a tendency to focus on facial expression as a repertoire of discrete, prototypical expressions that does not always reflect naturalistic behaviour. In this Review, we review the production and perception of non-human primate facial expressions, focusing on methodological approaches and how to address the challenges of studying dynamic facial expressions. Moving forwards, methods that enable the study of dynamic and variable communicative exchange within social interaction might provide a better understanding of how facial expressions function and what (if anything) about facial expression is unique to humans. Facial expressions are ubiquitous among primates and investigation of non-human primate facial behaviour is vital to an understanding of human facial behaviour. In this Review, Waller and colleagues discuss facial expression production and perception in non-human primates, focusing on methodological approaches and challenges.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"4 7","pages":"457-469"},"PeriodicalIF":21.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123569","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 : 2025-06-16DOI: 10.1038/s44159-025-00464-8
Donald Sharpe
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Pub Date : 2025-06-16DOI: 10.1038/s44159-025-00455-9
Elisa C. Baek, Razieh Pourafshari, Joseph B. Bayer
Research on social connection has proliferated across psychology over the past two decades, with rapid growth in the past 10–15 years. However, this broad interest has led to ‘social connection’ becoming a catch-all term, such that disparate strands of work are based on different approaches to conceptualization and measurement. In this Review, we synthesize prior research and highlight four distinct uses of the term ‘social connection’ — as subjective perceptions, social networks, interpersonal synchrony and interpersonal behaviours — and describe how research based in each conceptualization has contributed to understanding of the concept. We also review how constant connectivity via smartphones and social media has changed and challenged the landscape of social connection research. We conclude by highlighting the complex links between the different conceptualizations of social connection (and constant connectivity) and discuss how fragmentation poses challenges to scientific progress and public communication. By categorizing and clarifying subsets of the literature, we aim to facilitate communication across areas of psychological science and thereby guide research towards a more holistic understanding of social connection. The term ‘social connection’ is operationalized differently across disparate strands of research. In this Review, Baek et al. highlight four distinct uses of the term ‘social connection’ — as subjective perceptions, social networks, synchrony and interpersonal behaviours — and describe how research based in each conceptualization has contributed to understanding of the concept.
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