Psychological SciencePub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-05-22DOI: 10.1177/09567976251335585
Sandra J Geiger, Jana K Köhler, Zenith N C Delabrida, Karla A Garduño-Realivazquez, Christian A P Haugestad, Hirotaka Imada, Aishwarya Iyer, Carya Maharja, Daniel C Mann, Michalina Marczak, Olivia Melville, Sari R R Nijssen, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Radisti A Praptiwi, Gargi Ranade, Claudio D Rosa, Valeria Vitale, Małgorzata Winkowska, Lei Zhang, Mathew P White
{"title":"What We Think Others Think and Do About Climate Change: A Multicountry Test of Pluralistic Ignorance and Public-Consensus Messaging.","authors":"Sandra J Geiger, Jana K Köhler, Zenith N C Delabrida, Karla A Garduño-Realivazquez, Christian A P Haugestad, Hirotaka Imada, Aishwarya Iyer, Carya Maharja, Daniel C Mann, Michalina Marczak, Olivia Melville, Sari R R Nijssen, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Radisti A Praptiwi, Gargi Ranade, Claudio D Rosa, Valeria Vitale, Małgorzata Winkowska, Lei Zhang, Mathew P White","doi":"10.1177/09567976251335585","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976251335585","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Most people believe in human-caused climate change, yet this public consensus can be collectively underestimated (<i>pluralistic ignorance</i>). Across two studies using primary data (<i>n</i> = 3,653 adult participants; 11 countries) and secondary data (<i>n</i>s = 60,230 and 22,496 adult participants; 55 countries), we tested (a) the generalizability of pluralistic ignorance about climate-change beliefs, (b) the effects of a public-consensus intervention on climate action, and (c) the possibility that cultural tightness-looseness might serve as a country-level predictor of pluralistic ignorance. In Study 1, people across 11 countries underestimated the prevalence of proclimate views by at least 7.5% in Indonesia (90% credible interval, or CrI = [5.0, 10.1]), and up to 20.8% in Brazil (90% CrI = [18.2, 23.4]. Providing information about the actual public consensus on climate change was largely ineffective, except for a slight increase in willingness to express one's proclimate opinion, δ = 0.05 (90% CrI = [-0.02, 0.11]). In Study 2, pluralistic ignorance about willingness to contribute financially to fight climate change was slightly more pronounced in looser than tighter cultures, highlighting the particular need for pluralistic-ignorance research in these countries.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"421-442"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13428961/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144128423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychological SciencePub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-05-07DOI: 10.1177/09567976251336246
Simine Vazire
{"title":"Why Should You Trust Research Published in <i>Psychological Science</i>?","authors":"Simine Vazire","doi":"10.1177/09567976251336246","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976251336246","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"311-315"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144041881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychological SciencePub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-05-12DOI: 10.1177/09567976251335578
Gabrielle N Pfund, Bryan D James, Emily C Willroth
{"title":"Bidirectional Relationships Between Well-Being and Cognitive Function.","authors":"Gabrielle N Pfund, Bryan D James, Emily C Willroth","doi":"10.1177/09567976251335578","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976251335578","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current study examined bidirectional relationships between well-being and cognitive function using up to 10 annual assessments (<i>M =</i> 5.67, <i>SD =</i> 3.43) of different types of well-being and a comprehensive cognitive battery from a sample of older adults living in the Chicago metropolitan area (<i>N</i> = 1,702; mean age = 81.07 years, <i>SD</i> = 8.04; 75.1% White Americans, 23.9% Black Americans). Bivariate latent growth curve models indicated older adults who started out with better well-being also had better cognitive function, and sharper decreases in well-being were associated with sharper declines in cognitive function. Random-intercept cross-lagged panel models indicated older adults with better well-being on average had better cognitive function on average. Further, well-being change at one time point predicted subsequent cognitive change and vice versa. These findings were stronger for eudaimonic well-being and sense of purpose than for life satisfaction. Findings highlight the role of well-being in the goal to combat cognitive decline, as well as the importance of supporting well-being in individuals experiencing cognitive decline.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"350-366"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12321248/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144008678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychological SciencePub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-05-12DOI: 10.1177/09567976251335567
Emily C Willroth, Gerald Young, Brett Q Ford, Allison Troy, Dorota Swierzewicz, Iris B Mauss
{"title":"Preregistered Direct Replication and Extension of \"The Wisdom to Know the Difference: Strategy-Situation Fit in Emotion Regulation in Daily Life Is Associated With Well-Being\".","authors":"Emily C Willroth, Gerald Young, Brett Q Ford, Allison Troy, Dorota Swierzewicz, Iris B Mauss","doi":"10.1177/09567976251335567","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976251335567","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Certain emotion-regulation strategies (e.g., reappraisal) are associated with better well-being and are therefore seen as adaptive (health-promoting) strategies. However, it is unlikely that any strategy is adaptive regardless of context. Indeed, reappraisal is associated with positive outcomes in the context of uncontrollable life stress but negative outcomes in the context of controllable life stress. It follows that individuals who have better \"strategy-situation fit\" (use reappraisal more during uncontrollable vs. controllable situations) should have better well-being beyond their habitual reappraisal use. A previous test of this hypothesis found that strategy-situation fit in daily life was associated with greater well-being (<i>N</i> = 74). We conducted a well-powered preregistered direct replication of this study in 285 U.S. adults. We failed to replicate the original findings and found no evidence for the strategy-situation fit hypothesis, including when accounting for key confounders and moderators. We discuss implications for theory and future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"367-383"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143977052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychological SciencePub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-05-12DOI: 10.1177/09567976251327217
Krishnan Nair, Marlon Mooijman, Maryam Kouchaki
{"title":"*The Ethnic and Political Divide in the Preference for Strong Leaders.","authors":"Krishnan Nair, Marlon Mooijman, Maryam Kouchaki","doi":"10.1177/09567976251327217","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976251327217","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The prevailing view among scholars has been that the preference for strong leaders is an idiosyncratic feature of right-wing individuals. However, it is unclear whether this inference is accurate given that prior research has largely overlooked the role of ethnicity. We analyzed data from the United States and Western Europe (<i>N</i> = 34,443) and found that ethnic minorities (and right-wing individuals) preferred strong leaders to a greater extent than Whites (and left-wing individuals). Notably, ethnic minorities across diverse ethnic and political backgrounds were closer to right-wing Whites on strong-leader preference than to left-wing Whites. Our work also provides some evidence, using both measurement-of-mediation (Studies 1-4) and experimental mediation (preregistered Studies 5 and 6), that generalized trust helps explain group differences in strong-leader preference. In sum, our research illustrates the unique nature of left-wing Whites' leadership preferences, and highlights the importance of testing social science theories using diverse participant samples.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"384-403"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144042043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychological SciencePub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-05-05DOI: 10.1177/09567976251331039
Ziyao Zhang, Jarrod A Lewis-Peacock
{"title":"Signal Intrusion Explains Divergent Effects of Visual Distraction on Working Memory.","authors":"Ziyao Zhang, Jarrod A Lewis-Peacock","doi":"10.1177/09567976251331039","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976251331039","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Perceptual distraction distorts visual working memories. Recent research has shown divergent effects of distraction on memory performance, including attractive biases, impairment of memory precision, and an increase in the guess rate, indicating multiple mechanisms of distraction interference. Here we propose a novel signal-intrusion model based on the TCC (target-confusability-competition) framework to reconcile those discrepant results. We hypothesized that sensory interference is driven by the integration of a target signal and an intrusive distractor signal. Model comparisons showed that this TCC-intrusion model had a superior fit to memory error distributions across three delayed-estimation tasks with distraction (<i>N</i> = 220 adults) compared with other candidate models. According to the model, distractor intrusions decreased along with target-distractor dissimilarity, in accordance with the sensory-recruitment hypothesis. Moreover, TCC-intrusion successfully replicated divergent effects of distraction on memory bias, precision, and guess rate using this one intrusion mechanism. Together, these results suggest that perceptual distractors affect working memories through a unified mechanism of signal intrusion.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"316-331"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12369972/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143977162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychological SciencePub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-05-09DOI: 10.1177/09567976251331053
Kristine Y Cho, Clayton R Critcher
{"title":"Doubling-Back Aversion: A Reluctance to Make Progress by Undoing It.","authors":"Kristine Y Cho, Clayton R Critcher","doi":"10.1177/09567976251331053","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976251331053","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Four studies (<i>N</i> = 2,524 U.S.-based adults recruited from the University of California, Berkeley, or Amazon Mechanical Turk) provide support for doubling-back aversion, a reluctance to pursue more efficient means to a goal when they entail undoing progress already made. These effects emerged in diverse contexts, both as participants physically navigated a virtual-reality world and as they completed different performance tasks. Doubling back was decomposed into two components: the deletion of progress already made and the addition to the proportion of a task that was left to complete. Each contributed independently to doubling-back aversion. These effects were robustly explained by shifts in subjective construals of both one's past and future efforts that would result from doubling back, not by changes in perceptions of the relative length of different routes to an end state. Participants' aversion to feeling their past efforts were a waste encouraged them to pursue less efficient means. We end by discussing how doubling-back aversion is distinct from established phenomena (e.g., the sunk-cost fallacy).</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"332-349"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13428862/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144043892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychological SciencePub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-04-02DOI: 10.1177/09567976251325789
Anastasiya Lopukhina, Walter J B van Heuven, Rebecca Crowley, Kathleen Rastle
{"title":"Where Do Children Look When Watching Videos With Same-Language Subtitles?","authors":"Anastasiya Lopukhina, Walter J B van Heuven, Rebecca Crowley, Kathleen Rastle","doi":"10.1177/09567976251325789","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976251325789","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Influential campaigns in the United Kingdom and the United States have argued that same-language television subtitles may help children learn to read. In this study, we investigated the extent to which primary-school children pay attention to and read subtitles and whether this is related to their reading proficiency. We tracked the eye movements of 180 British children in Years 1 to 6 who watched videos with and without subtitles. Results showed that attention to subtitles was associated with reading proficiency: Superior readers were more likely to look at subtitles than less proficient readers and spent more time on them. When children looked at words in the subtitles, they showed evidence of reading them. We conclude that some degree of reading fluency may be necessary before children pay attention to subtitles. However, by the third or fourth year of reading instruction, most children read sufficiently quickly to follow same-language subtitles and potentially learn from them.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"223-236"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13428831/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143764985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Participating in a Digital-History Project Mobilizes People for Symbolic Justice and Better Intergroup Relations Today.","authors":"Ruth Ditlmann, Berenike Firestone, Oguzhan Turkoglu","doi":"10.1177/09567976251331040","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976251331040","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Awareness of past atrocities is widely seen as critical for restoring justice and building resilient democracies. Going beyond information provision, an increasing number of memorial sites, museums, and historical archives offer opportunities for public participation. Yet little empirical evidence exists on the impact of participation in the collective remembrance of past atrocities. Two experimental studies, a field-in-the-lab study with 552 university students in Germany and an online randomized control trial with 900 digital workers in Germany, showed that participating in a large-scale, digital-history project about Nazi persecution increased peoples' collective-action intentions for further commemoration activities and for activities that strengthen intergroup relations today. These effects persisted for 2 weeks. The findings suggest that digital-history projects can motivate collective action that is critical for symbolic justice and positive intergroup relations, thus contributing to well-functioning, pluralistic democracies.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":"36 4","pages":"249-264"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13428924/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144043893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychological SciencePub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-04-21DOI: 10.1177/09567976251331042
Gustaf Gredebäck, Kim Astor, Herbert Ainamani, Linda van den Berg, Linda Forssman, Jonathan Hall, Joshua Juvrud, Ben Kenward, Samson Mhizha, Wangchuk, Pär Nyström
{"title":"Infant Gaze Following Is Stable Across Markedly Different Cultures and Resilient to Family Adversities Associated With War and Climate Change.","authors":"Gustaf Gredebäck, Kim Astor, Herbert Ainamani, Linda van den Berg, Linda Forssman, Jonathan Hall, Joshua Juvrud, Ben Kenward, Samson Mhizha, Wangchuk, Pär Nyström","doi":"10.1177/09567976251331042","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976251331042","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Gaze following in infancy allows triadic social interactions and a comprehension of other individuals and their surroundings. Despite its importance for early development, its ontology is debated, with theories suggesting that gaze following is either a universal core capacity or an experience-dependent learned behavior. A critical test of these theories among 809 nine-month-olds from Africa (Uganda and Zimbabwe), Europe (Sweden), and Asia (Bhutan) demonstrated that infants follow gaze to a similar degree regardless of environmental factors such as culture, maternal well-being (postpartum depression, well-being), or traumatic family events (related to war and/or climate change). These findings suggest that gaze following may be a universal, experience-expectant process that is resilient to adversity and similar across a wide range of human experiences-a core foundation for social development.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":"36 4","pages":"296-307"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13428878/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144042144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}