{"title":"\"Not Now, I Am Too Stressed\": Stress and Physical Intimacy in Early Marriage.","authors":"Alyssa M Sucrese, Lisa A Neff, Marci E J Gleason","doi":"10.1177/01461672241239134","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672241239134","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Stressful events can disrupt couples' emotional connection, yet prior research is mixed regarding whether stress also disrupts couples' physical intimacy. This study considered whether stress must reach a critical threshold before hindering couples' sexual activity and physical affection (i.e., a curvilinear association). Couples (<i>N =</i> 144 couples plus four additional wives) completed two 14-day daily diary tasks during the early years of marriage. Multilevel modeling revealed a within-person curvilinear association between daily stress and sexual activity. Contrary to expectations, the likelihood of sexual activity declined as stress increased from low to moderate, then leveled off as stress continued to increase. For physical affection, a linear effect emerged. On days of greater stress, women, but not men, reported less affection. Further analyses suggested that women's stress is more influential than men's stress for couple's physical intimacy. Findings highlight the nuanced ways in which stress is linked to a vital component of satisfying relationships.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1927-1941"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140288744","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":"People Reject Free Money and Cheap Deals Because They Infer Phantom Costs.","authors":"Andrew J Vonasch, Reyhane Mofradidoost, Kurt Gray","doi":"10.1177/01461672241235687","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672241235687","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>If money is good, then shouldn't more money always be better? Perhaps not. Traditional economic theories suggest that money is an ever-increasing incentivizer. If someone will accept a job for US$20/hr, they should be more likely to accept the same job for US$30/hr and especially for US$250/hr. However, 10 preregistered, high-powered studies (<i>N</i> = 4,205, in the United States and Iran) reveal how increasing incentives can backfire. Overly generous offers lead people to infer \"phantom costs\" that make them less likely to accept high job wages, cheap plane fares, and free money. We present a theory for understanding when and why people imagine these hidden drawbacks and show how phantom costs drive judgments, impact behavior, and intersect with individual differences. Phantom costs change how we should think about \"economic rationality.\" Economic exchanges are not merely about money, but instead are social interactions between people trying to perceive (and deceive) each others' minds.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"2050-2067"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12361704/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140865047","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}
{"title":"On the Role of Police Shootings, Recognition of Systemic Racism, and Empathy on White Americans' Support for Police Reform.","authors":"Diane-Jo Bart-Plange, Sophie Trawalter","doi":"10.1177/01461672241237286","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672241237286","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The police kill Black Americans at disproportionate rates. Despite this, White Americans remain mixed on support for policing-related policy reform. We examined whether bearing witness to police violence leads to support for policy reforms. Across three studies (<i>N</i> = 943), White participants either viewed a news video about an unarmed Black man killed at the hands of police or in a car accident due to a collision with another driver. Participants lower but not higher in symbolic racism reported more empathy after viewing a police shooting (vs. car accident) news video (Studies 1-3). Empathy predicted policing-related policy reform support (Studies 1-3) and mediated the relationship between condition and policy reform support (Studies 1 and 3), among those lower in symbolic racism (Studies 1-2). Results suggest that empathy for Black victims of police violence predicts policy support but only among those who recognize that such violence is systemic in nature.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1962-1986"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140306343","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":"Does Conceptual Abstraction Moderate Whether Past Moral Deeds Motivate Consistency or Compensatory Behavior? A Registered Replication and Extension of Conway and Peetz (2012).","authors":"Jareef Martuza, Olivia Kim","doi":"10.1177/01461672241238420","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672241238420","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A long-standing debate in psychology concerns whether doing something good or bad leads to more of the same or the opposite. Conway and Peetz proposed that <i>conceptual abstraction</i> moderates if past moral deeds lead to consistent or compensatory behavior. Although cited 384 times across disciplines, we did not find any direct replications. It was also unclear how increases or decreases from one's baseline prosociality might underlie the effect. A large-scale experiment (<i>N</i> = 5,091) in the registered report format tested Conway and Peetz's original hypothesis. The hypothesized interaction was <i>not</i> replicated: conceptual abstraction did not moderate the effect of recalling moral vs. immoral behavior on prosocial intentions. Our results show that recalling moral behavior led to higher prosocial intentions than recalling either immoral or neutral behavior, irrespective of recalling from the recent or distant past. Thus, the current research found no evidence for compensatory moral behavior, only for positive moral consistency.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"2002-2014"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140306341","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}
Psychological ReportsPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2023-08-24DOI: 10.1177/00332941231197167
İrem Akıncı, Tülin Gençöz
{"title":"How Do Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissism Relate to Psychological Symptoms?: The Role of Emotions.","authors":"İrem Akıncı, Tülin Gençöz","doi":"10.1177/00332941231197167","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00332941231197167","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Studies indicated a distinction between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism regarding their relationships with psychological symptoms. Internal processes occurring in grandiose and vulnerable narcissism must be considered to better understand the nature of this distinction. The current study aimed to investigate the role of self-conscious emotions (i.e., trait shame, guilt, pride) and anger (i.e., trait anger, internalized and externalized anger) in the association between the two types of narcissism (i.e., grandiose and vulnerable narcissism) and psychological symptoms. Five hundred and fifty-nine adult participants completed the self-report measures to assess for grandiose and vulnerable narcissism, emotions, and psychological symptoms. The results of parallel bootstrapping method indicated that individuals with grandiose traits had fewer psychological symptoms through the role of trait pride. Trait anger and externalization of anger toward others, on the other hand, contributed to the relationship between grandiose traits and heightened psychological symptoms. Vulnerable narcissism was found to be associated with increased psychological symptoms through the role of trait shame, pride, anger, and both internalized and externalized anger. These results indicated that although both forms of narcissism have an anger-prone structure, their distinctive relations with shame, pride, and suppressed anger may indicate different underlying dynamics. Possible implications for practice and suggestions for future studies have also been highlighted.</p>","PeriodicalId":21149,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Reports","volume":" ","pages":"3108-3128"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10050929","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}
Psychological ReportsPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1177/00332941231198511
Qiang Xie
{"title":"Are Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Related to Peace of Mind? The Mediating Role of Nonattachment.","authors":"Qiang Xie","doi":"10.1177/00332941231198511","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00332941231198511","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Peace of mind is an important affective well-being valued in Chinese culture. Mindfulness and self-compassion could potentially promote peace of mind. However, the mechanisms underlying these effects were not well understood. The current cross-sectional study aimed to investigate whether nonattachment explained the effects of mindfulness and self-compassion on peace of mind. A sample of 364 Chinese adults was recruited from WeChat, a popular Chinese social media platform. Participants filled out an online survey including measures of dispositional mindfulness, self-compassion, nonattachment, and peace of mind. The results of correlation analyses revealed significant and positive associations among mindfulness, self-compassion, nonattachment, and peace of mind. Furthermore, nonattachment significantly mediated the associations between mindfulness and self-compassion with peace of mind. Moderated mediation analyses indicated that the relationships between mindfulness and self-compassion with nonattachment were stronger for women than for men. Gender did not moderate the direct effects of mindfulness and self-compassion on peace of mind, the relationship between nonattachment and peace of mind, and the mediating effects of mindfulness and self-compassion on peace of mind through nonattachment. These findings suggest that nonattachment may be a potential mechanism through which mindfulness and self-compassion promote peace of mind among Chinese adults. If the mediating effects are confirmed in future longitudinal and experimental studies, mindfulness and self-compassion interventions can emphasize nonattachment to optimize their effects on peace of mind. It may also be important to tailor mindfulness and self-compassion training for men and women given the gender differences in the relationships between mindfulness and self-compassion with nonattachment.</p>","PeriodicalId":21149,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Reports","volume":" ","pages":"3143-3168"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10136246","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}
Katie J Paige, L M Cope, J E Hardee, M M Heitzeg, M E Soules, A S Weigard, Craig R Colder
{"title":"Leveraging bifactor modeling to test prospective direct and indirect effects of adolescent alcohol use and externalizing symptoms on the development of task-general executive functioning.","authors":"Katie J Paige, L M Cope, J E Hardee, M M Heitzeg, M E Soules, A S Weigard, Craig R Colder","doi":"10.1017/S095457942400138X","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S095457942400138X","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adolescence is a period of substantial maturation in brain regions underlying Executive Functioning (EF). Adolescence is also associated with initiation and escalation of Alcohol Use (AU), and adolescent AU has been proposed to produce physiological and neurobiological events that derail healthy EF development. However, support has been mixed, which may be due to (1) failure to consider co-occurring externalizing symptoms (including other drug use) and poor social adaptation, and (2) heterogeneity and psychometric limitations in EF measures. We aimed to clarify the AU-EF association by: (1) distinguishing general externalizing symptoms from specific symptoms (AU, aggression, drug use) using bifactor modeling, (2) testing prospective associations between general externalizing symptoms and specific symptoms, and task-general EF, as indexed by a well-validated computational modeling framework (diffusion decision model), and (3) examining indirect pathways from externalizing symptoms to deficits in task-general EF through poor social adaptation. A high-risk longitudinal sample (<i>N</i> = 919) from the Michigan Longitudinal Study was assessed at four time-points spanning early adolescence (10-13 years) to young adulthood (22-25). Results suggested a critical role of social adaptation within peer and school contexts in promoting healthy EF. There was no evidence that specific, neurotoxic effects of alcohol or drug use derailed task-general EF development.</p>","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"1782-1803"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12067474/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142281997","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}
Psychological ReportsPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2023-08-17DOI: 10.1177/00332941231197165
Mohammad Soliman, Rupa Sinha, Francesca Di Virgilio, Maria Jose Sousa, Ronnie Figueiredo
{"title":"Emotional Intelligence Outcomes in Higher Education Institutions: Empirical Evidence From a Western Context.","authors":"Mohammad Soliman, Rupa Sinha, Francesca Di Virgilio, Maria Jose Sousa, Ronnie Figueiredo","doi":"10.1177/00332941231197165","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00332941231197165","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The main outcomes of emotional intelligence (EMI) in the workplace have been researched in a variety of settings, however, few studies have focused on such consequences, particularly in the context of higher education institutions (HEIs). This research is therefore to empirically examine the impact of EMI on work-life balance, job insecurity, knowledge sharing behaviour, and workforce agility at HEIs. A total of 368 responses from academic staff members in Italy were analysed using PLS-SEM. The findings indicated that EMI has a significant impact on workforce agility, work-life balance, job insecurity, and knowledge sharing behaviour. In addition, work-life balance significantly impacted knowledge sharing behaviour, which in turn affected workforce agility. This article adds to the body of knowledge on the human resources management domain by highlighting the key consequences of EMI in HEIs within a western context. It also provides various managerial implications for concerned faculty members and senior managers at HEIs. Research limitations and avenues for further research are given.</p>","PeriodicalId":21149,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Reports","volume":" ","pages":"3497-3525"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10375136","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}
Brian W Haas, W Keith Campbell, Xiaobin Lou, Rowena J Xia
{"title":"All You Nonconformists Are (Not) All Alike: Dissociable Social Stereotypes of Mavericks and Contrarians.","authors":"Brian W Haas, W Keith Campbell, Xiaobin Lou, Rowena J Xia","doi":"10.1177/01461672231217630","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672231217630","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While some people easily align themselves with others, others find themselves less aligned with sociocultural norms (e.g., nonconformists). Though people outside the mainstream tend to capture societies' attention, very little is known regarding how nonconformists are construed. In these studies, we investigated how different types of nonconformists are stereotyped. We sought to elucidate common and dissociable social stereotypes of two types of nonconformity; <i>mavericks</i> and <i>contrarians</i>, driven toward independence versus being different, respectively. We found that mavericks are construed as highly competent and conscientious, well suited for leadership roles, and more likely to be male, older, and satisfied with their life. Contrarians are construed as highly social, low in warmth and agreeableness, highly neurotic, well suited for roles involving creativity and self-expression, and more likely to be female, younger, and less satisfied with their lives. We situate these findings within models linking cultural context with conformity.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1847-1864"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139032513","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":"Attitude Formation in More- and Less-Complex Social Environments.","authors":"Hans Alves, Vincent Yzerbyt, Christian Unkelbach","doi":"10.1177/01461672241235387","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672241235387","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigate how the complexity of the social environment (more vs. less groups) influences attitude formation. We hypothesize that facing a larger number of groups renders learning processes about these groups noisier and more regressive, which has two important implications. First, more-complex social environments should lead perceivers to underestimate actual group differences. Second, because most people usually behave positively, more-complex social environments produce negatively biased attitudes and cause perceivers to overestimate the frequency of \"negative\" individuals among groups. We tested these predictions in five attitude formation experiments (<i>N</i>=2,414). Participants' attitudes and learned base rates of positive and negative group members proved more regressive in complex social environments, that is, with multiple groups, compared with less-complex environments, that is, with fewer groups. In a predominantly positive social environment, this regression caused participants to form more negative group attitudes and more strongly overestimate negative individuals' prevalence among groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1987-2001"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12361684/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140318887","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}