Emma Woodward, Sydney Fitzcharles, Laurence Coutellier
{"title":"The effects of prepubertal ovariectomy and chronic stress on activity of brain limbic regions in adult mice.","authors":"Emma Woodward, Sydney Fitzcharles, Laurence Coutellier","doi":"10.1080/10253890.2025.2514494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10253890.2025.2514494","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Women are twice as likely than men to develop an anxiety disorder after stress exposure stress, a sex-specific vulnerability that arises after puberty. This suggests that pubertal hormones could contribute to the central changes induced by stress and leading to behavioral deregulations. The main brain regions involved in stress-induced psychopathologies are part of the limbic system, including the prefrontal cortex (PFC), the basolateral amygdala (BLA) and the ventral hippocampus (vHipp). Changes in their activity are often reported after stress, contributing to appearance of behavioral symptoms. We aimed at determining whether female pubertal hormones modulate the effects of chronic stress on activity of these limbic regions to identify a potential mechanism underlying the female vulnerability to stress-induced pathologies. Prepubertal adolescent female mice underwent ovariectomy (OVX) or sham surgery. In late adolescence, they started 4 weeks of unpredictable chronic mild stress (UCMS). We used immunohistochemistry to quantify FosB/ΔFosB, a marker of chronic activity, in the PFC, BLA, and vHipp. Prepubertal OVX increased activity of the PFC and decreased activity of the BLA and vHipp, while UCMS had little impact. The PFC was more significantly impacted by both OVX and UCMS, with each of these manipulations increasing number of FosB/ΔFosB+ cells, however without interactive effects. Correlation analyses indicate that level of activity in the PFC and vHipp correlates with measures of anxiety. However, the gonadal status influences strongly these relationships. Our data indicate that pubertal hormones could play a role in the regulation of anxiety through their long-lasting impact on the limbic system.</p>","PeriodicalId":51173,"journal":{"name":"Stress-The International Journal on the Biology of Stress","volume":"28 1","pages":"2514494"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144235909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perceived Relational Support Is Associated With Everyday Positive, But Not Negative, Affectivity in a U.S. Sample.","authors":"Virginia Ulichney, Helen Schmidt, Chelsea Helion","doi":"10.1177/01461672231224991","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672231224991","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research suggests that perceived social support bolsters emotional well-being. We tested whether perceived support from friends, family, and spouses/partners was associated with reduced negative and greater positive affectivity (i.e., everyday affective baseline), and whether perceived strain in these relationships had opposite effects, accounting for age and relevant covariates. Using data from the third waves of the Midlife in the United States survey and National Study of Daily Experience (<i>n</i> = 1,124), we found negative affectivity was not tied to relational support nor strain, but instead was associated positively with neuroticism and negatively with conscientiousness. In contrast, positive affectivity was related positively to support from friends and family, conscientiousness, and extroversion, and negatively to strain among partners and neuroticism. Exploratory analyses within second-wave Midlife in Japan data (<i>n</i> = 657) suggest patterns for future cross-cultural study. Some relationship dynamics may vary, but perceived support might enhance emotional well-being by bolstering positive, rather than mitigating negative, emotionality.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1606-1630"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139698070","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}
Erin S Isbilen, Abigail Laver, Noam Siegelman, James S Magnuson, Richard N Aslin
{"title":"Finding words in a sea of text: Word search as a measure of sensitivity to statistical regularities in reading.","authors":"Erin S Isbilen, Abigail Laver, Noam Siegelman, James S Magnuson, Richard N Aslin","doi":"10.1037/xlm0001412","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xlm0001412","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Statistical learning (SL) is hypothesized to play a fundamental role in reading, yet the correlations between reading and SL are largely mixed. This inconsistency may result from the fact that most SL studies train participants to learn novel, nonlinguistic visual regularities, which overlooks two important factors: (a) SL performance varies across domains, and (b) most SL studies utilize tasks with short exposure phases with a limited set of novel structured stimuli. Rather than exposing participants to novel statistics, we explored how prior learning of the statistical regularities inherent in natural texts predicts individual differences in reading. We developed a novel measure of long-term orthographic SL by assessing participants' ability to chunk letter information based on its statistical properties. Adults were prompted to find high- and low-frequency English words (derived from written-language corpora) when a single target word was embedded in an array of background distractors comprising letters that do not form words. Performance on this task was compared against three established measures of component skills of reading: lexical decision, orthographic awareness, and spelling recognition. Participants were faster and more accurate at identifying high-frequency words, replicating classic psycholinguistic results. Performance was also impacted by semantic diversity-the variation of the semantic contexts a word appears in-independent of frequency. Critically, word search performance significantly predicted each reading subtest, suggesting that the task draws upon key reading-related skills. Sensitivity to orthographic statistical structure may serve as a crucial foundation that drives individual differences in reading, consistent with SL-based accounts of language. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition","volume":" ","pages":"1507-1528"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143416088","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}
E Kaariniemi, V Bosund, J Reichert, J Bjureberg, L Klintwall
{"title":"Perceived causal networks created using structured interviews: feasibility and reliability.","authors":"E Kaariniemi, V Bosund, J Reichert, J Bjureberg, L Klintwall","doi":"10.1080/16506073.2025.2464637","DOIUrl":"10.1080/16506073.2025.2464637","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The network approach to psychopathology postulates that it is more helpful to think of psychiatric problems to be caused by each other, rather than by underlying diseases. Personalized networks can be created using questionnaires asking participants about their perceptions of the causal links between symptoms, which is time-efficient but has shown low test-retest reliability. The present study explores whether perceptions of causal links can instead be assessed using interviews. The study investigates the feasibility, acceptability and test-retest reliability of such an interview format. 21 adolescents were interviewed twice within one week. Results showed an average test-retest reliability for node centrality of <i>r</i><sub><i>s</i></sub> = .703 (<i>SD</i> = .148), and for causal links <i>r</i><sub><i>s</i></sub> = .533 (<i>SD</i> = .198). A majority of participating adolescents rated the interview as easy to understand. On a group level, the node both most central and frequent was negative emotions. Future studies should evaluate the clinical utility of networks created in interviews, both in terms of face-validity and to guide clinicians in treatment choices.</p>","PeriodicalId":10535,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Behaviour Therapy","volume":" ","pages":"685-707"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143440214","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}
{"title":"Small Sample Size and Group Homogeneity: A Crucial Ingredient to Inter-Group Bias.","authors":"Johannes Ziegler, Klaus Fiedler","doi":"10.1177/01461672231223335","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672231223335","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Applying a recently developed framework for the study of sample-based person impressions to the level of group impressions resulted in convergent evidence for a highly robust judgment process. How stimulus traits mapped on the resulting group impressions was subject to two distinct moderators, diagnosticity of traits, and the amplifying impact of early sample truncation. Three indices of diagnosticity-negative valence, extremity, and distance to other traits in a density framework-determined participants' decision to truncate trait sampling early and hence the final group judgments. When trait samples were negative and extreme and when the distance between high-density traits was small, early truncation of the trait samples fostered high group homogeneity and polarized impressions. Granting that mental representations of in-groups and out-groups rely on systematically different samples, our sampling approach can account for various inter-group biases: out-group homogeneity, out-group polarization and (because negative traits are more diagnostic) out-group derogation.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1631-1647"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12276401/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139698073","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}
Franziska Magdalena Saxler, Angela R Dorrough, Laura Froehlich, Katharina Block, Alyssa Croft, Loes Meeussen, Maria I T Olsson, Toni Schmader, Carolin Schuster, Sanne van Grootel, Colette Van Laar, Ciara Atkinson, Tessa Benson-Greenwald, Andreea Birneanu, Vladimira Cavojova, Sapna Cheryan, Albert Lee Kai Chung, Ivan Danyliuk, Ilan Dar-Nimrod, Soledad de Lemus, Amanda Diekman, Léïla Eisner, Lucía Estevan-Reina, Denisa Fedáková, Alin Gavreliuc, Dana Gavreliuc, Adriana L Germano, Tabea Hässler, Levke Henningsen, Keiko Ishii, Eva Kundtová Klocová, Inna Kozytska, Clara Kulich, Christina Lapytskaia Aidy, Wilson López López, James Morandini, TamilSelvan Ramis, Carolin Scheifele, Jennifer Steele, Melanie C Steffens, Laura María Velásquez Díaz, Mar Venegas, Sarah E Martiny
{"title":"Did Descriptive and Prescriptive Norms About Gender Equality at Home Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Cross-National Investigation.","authors":"Franziska Magdalena Saxler, Angela R Dorrough, Laura Froehlich, Katharina Block, Alyssa Croft, Loes Meeussen, Maria I T Olsson, Toni Schmader, Carolin Schuster, Sanne van Grootel, Colette Van Laar, Ciara Atkinson, Tessa Benson-Greenwald, Andreea Birneanu, Vladimira Cavojova, Sapna Cheryan, Albert Lee Kai Chung, Ivan Danyliuk, Ilan Dar-Nimrod, Soledad de Lemus, Amanda Diekman, Léïla Eisner, Lucía Estevan-Reina, Denisa Fedáková, Alin Gavreliuc, Dana Gavreliuc, Adriana L Germano, Tabea Hässler, Levke Henningsen, Keiko Ishii, Eva Kundtová Klocová, Inna Kozytska, Clara Kulich, Christina Lapytskaia Aidy, Wilson López López, James Morandini, TamilSelvan Ramis, Carolin Scheifele, Jennifer Steele, Melanie C Steffens, Laura María Velásquez Díaz, Mar Venegas, Sarah E Martiny","doi":"10.1177/01461672231219719","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672231219719","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using data from 15 countries, this article investigates whether descriptive and prescriptive gender norms concerning housework and child care (domestic work) changed after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results of a total of 8,343 participants (<i>M</i> = 19.95, <i>SD</i> = 1.68) from two comparable student samples suggest that descriptive norms about unpaid domestic work have been affected by the pandemic, with individuals seeing mothers' relative to fathers' share of housework and child care as even larger. Moderation analyses revealed that the effect of the pandemic on descriptive norms about child care decreased with countries' increasing levels of gender equality; countries with stronger gender inequality showed a larger difference between pre- and post-pandemic. This study documents a shift in descriptive norms and discusses implications for gender equality-emphasizing the importance of addressing the additional challenges that mothers face during health-related crises.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1745-1759"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139570918","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}
{"title":"How Do Invested Partners Become Invested? A Prospective Investigation of Fledgling Relationship Development.","authors":"Samantha Joel, Laura Machia","doi":"10.1177/01461672231224351","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672231224351","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Investment-the feeling that one has put considerable resources into a relationship-is theorized to play a key role in relationship persistence. Yet, the development of investment is not well-understood. We recruited 256 individuals in new dating relationships and surveyed them each week for up to 25 weeks. This design allows us to test underlying theoretical assumptions about how people become invested in new dating partners. Some assumptions, such as the idea that investment increases over time, were confirmed. Other assumptions were not supported: Feelings of investment were quite high after only a few weeks of dating and were not strongly shaped by concrete relationship milestones. Rather, feelings of investment were strongly linked to other subjective indicators of relationship development, such as feeling attached to the partner and believing that the relationship had a good future. We discuss the implications of these findings for existing models of investment.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1689-1702"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139697948","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}
Sophie Dufour, Jonathan Mirault, Jonathan Grainger
{"title":"Phrase frequency does not modulate transposed-word effects in the visual and auditory modalities.","authors":"Sophie Dufour, Jonathan Mirault, Jonathan Grainger","doi":"10.1037/xlm0001436","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xlm0001436","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We provide a further examination of the influence of top-down sentence-level constraints on the transposed-word effect by manipulating a factor-phrase frequency-that directly implicates sentence-level representations. The focus was on ungrammatical transposed-word sequences, and under the assumption that top-down influences would play a role in driving transposed-word effects, we predicted that ungrammatical decisions would be harder (longer reaction times and higher error rates) when the ungrammatical transposed-word sequences were derived from high-frequency compared with low-frequency phrases. Five experiments were conducted in which participants performed a speeded grammatical decision task. The results are clear-cut. Although phrase frequency did influence grammatical decisions to grammatically correct phrases, with shorter reaction times and lower error rates for high-frequency phrases relative to low-frequency phrases (Experiment 4), ungrammatical decisions were not influenced by the frequency of the base sentences from which the transposed-word sequences were formed, neither in the auditory (Experiments 1 and 2) nor in the visual modality (Experiment 3). In Experiment 5, we show that a transposed-word effect is observed when comparing the transposed-word sequences of Experiment 3 with nontransposed control sequences. We conclude that frequency-sensitive sentence-level constraints, as measured as the frequency of occurrence of a sequence of words in corpora of spoken and written language, do not modulate transposed-word effects. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition","volume":" ","pages":"1497-1506"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143544114","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}
AssessmentPub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2024-09-11DOI: 10.1177/10731911241273446
Ronja A Runge, Renate Soellner
{"title":"Anchoring Vignettes: A Useful Tool to Measure and Correct for Cultural Bias in Parent Reports on Their Child's Mental Health?","authors":"Ronja A Runge, Renate Soellner","doi":"10.1177/10731911241273446","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10731911241273446","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Parent report measures developed in the Western world are commonly used to assess children's mental health, but their cross-cultural comparability is questionable. The present study examines the use of anchoring vignettes to assess and adjust for bias in five countries: the United States, Mexico, Germany, China, and Russia. Parents (<i>N</i> = 500) rated their child's mental health and vignettes depicting internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors in an online survey. Vignette ratings were used to assess bias and for rescaling. Cross-national comparisons of vignette scores revealed differences in the use of the scale range and overall level of vignette scores. Measurement invariance across countries improved after rescaling, resulting in weak invariance for internalizing and strong invariance for externalizing problem behavior. Rescaled scores revealed cross-national differences that were masked using the raw score. Results confirm the lacking cross-national comparability in parent reports of child mental health, and anchoring vignettes appear to be a useful tool for reducing bias.</p>","PeriodicalId":8577,"journal":{"name":"Assessment","volume":" ","pages":"878-898"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142279848","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}
Nathalie Claus, Barbara Cludius, Sarah J Egan, Roz Shafran, Thomas Ehring, Keisuke Takano, Karina Limburg
{"title":"Perfectionism as a risk factor for psychopathology in a community sample of young women: disorder-specific pathways to disordered eating or obsessive-compulsive symptoms.","authors":"Nathalie Claus, Barbara Cludius, Sarah J Egan, Roz Shafran, Thomas Ehring, Keisuke Takano, Karina Limburg","doi":"10.1080/16506073.2025.2461472","DOIUrl":"10.1080/16506073.2025.2461472","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Perfectionism has been suggested as a risk factor relevant to multiple psychological disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and eating disorders (ED). However, it remains unclear how perfectionism contributes to general and specific psychopathology. Disorder-specific processes (e.g. body dissatisfaction, responsibility) between perfectionism and subsequent symptoms may offer an explanation. The current study examined longitudinal associations between perfectionism, body dissatisfaction or responsibility, and symptoms of ED or OCD. A community sample of 499 women (18-30) completed a three-wave online study, assessing perfectionism, ED and OCD symptoms, body dissatisfaction, and responsibility/threat overestimation. Temporal relations between perfectionism and symptoms were analyzed using a structural equation model. Effects of body dissatisfaction and responsibility/threat overestimation were analyzed using multiple hierarchical regressions. Results showed that perfectionism predicted subsequent OCD symptoms, but not ED symptoms. ED symptoms, but not OCD symptoms, predicted subsequent perfectionism. No interaction effects between perfectionism and the disorder-specific processes were found. Instead, body dissatisfaction independently contributed to both ED and OCD symptoms, whereas inflated responsibility/threat overestimation predicted specifically OCD symptoms. To conclude, perfectionism appears to increase the risk of psychological symptoms. However, in this sample this was specific to OCD symptoms. Given ED symptoms predicted later perfectionism, bidirectional effects need to be considered.</p>","PeriodicalId":10535,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Behaviour Therapy","volume":" ","pages":"664-684"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143390453","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}