Psychological SciencePub Date : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-05-28DOI: 10.1177/09567976241251766
Michael Prinzing
{"title":"Proenvironmental Behavior Increases Subjective Well-Being: Evidence From an Experience-Sampling Study and a Randomized Experiment.","authors":"Michael Prinzing","doi":"10.1177/09567976241251766","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976241251766","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two preregistered studies investigated whether engaging in proenvironmental behavior increases a person's well-being. A 10-day experience-sampling study (7,161 observations from 181 adults in 14 countries, primarily the United States) revealed positive within-person and between-person associations, and a randomized controlled experiment (<i>N</i> = 545 U.S. undergraduates) found that incorporating proenvironmental behavior into individuals' daily activities increased their experiences of happiness and meaning in life. Indeed, the effect was comparable to incorporating activities selected specifically to elicit such positive states, though these results may be affected by demand characteristics. The studies also offered some tentative preliminary evidence about why such an effect might emerge. There was some support for the hypothesis that proenvironmental behavior affects well-being by creating a \"warm glow.\" But overall the findings align more closely with the hypothesis that proenvironmental behavior helps to satisfy individuals' basic psychological needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"951-961"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141162451","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 : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-08-14DOI: 10.1177/09567976241260247
Alexandra D W Sullivan, Sarah M Merrill, Chaini Konwar, Michael Coccia, Luisa Rivera, Julia L MacIsaac, Alicia F Lieberman, Michael S Kobor, Nicole R Bush
{"title":"Intervening After Trauma: Child-Parent Psychotherapy Treatment Is Associated With Lower Pediatric Epigenetic Age Acceleration.","authors":"Alexandra D W Sullivan, Sarah M Merrill, Chaini Konwar, Michael Coccia, Luisa Rivera, Julia L MacIsaac, Alicia F Lieberman, Michael S Kobor, Nicole R Bush","doi":"10.1177/09567976241260247","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976241260247","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Early-life adversity increases the risk of health problems. Interventions supporting protective and responsive caregiving offer a promising approach to attenuating adversity-induced changes in stress-sensitive biomarkers. This study tested whether participation in an evidence-based dyadic psychosocial intervention, child-parent psychotherapy (CPP), was related to lower epigenetic age acceleration, a trauma-sensitive biomarker of accelerated biological aging that is associated with later health impairment, in a sample of children with trauma histories. Within this quasi-experimental, repeated-measures study, we examined epigenetic age acceleration at baseline and postintervention in a low-income sample of children receiving CPP treatment (<i>n</i> = 45; age range = 2-6 years; 76% Latino) compared with a weighted, propensity-matched community-comparison sample (<i>n</i> = 110; age range = 3-6 years; 40% Latino). Baseline epigenetic age acceleration was equivalent across groups. However, posttreatment, epigenetic age acceleration in the treatment group was lower than in the matched community sample. Findings highlight the potential for a dyadic psychosocial intervention to ameliorate accelerated biological aging in trauma-exposed children.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"1062-1073"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141976473","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 : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-06-20DOI: 10.1177/09567976241256961
Kate Nussenbaum, Perri L Katzman, Hanxiao Lu, Samuel Zorowitz, Catherine A Hartley
{"title":"Sensitivity to the Instrumental Value of Choice Increases Across Development.","authors":"Kate Nussenbaum, Perri L Katzman, Hanxiao Lu, Samuel Zorowitz, Catherine A Hartley","doi":"10.1177/09567976241256961","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976241256961","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Across development, people tend to demonstrate a preference for contexts in which they have the opportunity to make choices. However, it is not clear how children, adolescents, and adults learn to calibrate this preference based on the costs and benefits of agentic choice. Here, in both a primary, in-person, reinforcement-learning experiment (<i>N</i> = 92; age range = 10-25 years) and a preregistered online replication study (<i>N</i> = 150; age range = 8-25 years), we found that participants overvalued agentic choice but also calibrated their agency decisions to the reward structure of the environment, increasingly selecting agentic choice when choice had greater instrumental value. Regression analyses and computational modeling of participant choices revealed that participants' bias toward agentic choice-reflecting its intrinsic value-remained consistent across age, whereas sensitivity to the instrumental value of agentic choice increased from childhood to early adulthood.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"933-947"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141432650","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 : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-05-14DOI: 10.1177/09567976241237699
Xin Zhou, Xuancu Hong, Patrick C M Wong
{"title":"Autistic Traits Modulate Social Synchronizations Between School-Aged Children: Insights From Three fNIRS Hyperscanning Experiments.","authors":"Xin Zhou, Xuancu Hong, Patrick C M Wong","doi":"10.1177/09567976241237699","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976241237699","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current study investigated how autistic traits modulate peer interactions using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) hyperscanning. Across three experiments, we tested the effect of copresence, joint activity, and a tangible goal during cooperative interactions on interbrain coherence (IBC) in school-aged children between 9 and 11 years old. Twenty-three dyads of children watched a video alone or together in Experiment 1, engaged in joint or self-paced book reading in Experiment 2, and pretended to play a Jenga game or played for real in Experiment 3. We found that all three formats of social interactions increased IBC in the frontotemporoparietal networks, which have been reported to support social interaction. Further, our results revealed the shared and unique interbrain connections that were predictive of the lower and higher parent-reported autism-spectrum quotient scores, which indicated child autistic traits. Results from a convergence of three experiments provide the first evidence to date that IBC is modulated by child autistic traits.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"840-857"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140922940","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 : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-06-18DOI: 10.1177/09567976241235930
William J Villano, Noah I Kraus, T Rick Reneau, Brittany A Jaso, A Ross Otto, Aaron S Heller
{"title":"The Causes and Consequences of Drifting Expectations.","authors":"William J Villano, Noah I Kraus, T Rick Reneau, Brittany A Jaso, A Ross Otto, Aaron S Heller","doi":"10.1177/09567976241235930","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976241235930","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Awaiting news of uncertain outcomes is distressing because the news might be disappointing. To prevent such disappointments, people often \"brace for the worst,\" pessimistically lowering expectations before news arrives to decrease the possibility of surprising disappointment (a negative <i>prediction error</i>, or PE). Computational decision-making research commonly assumes that expectations do not drift within trials, yet it is unclear whether expectations pessimistically drift in real-world, high-stakes settings, what factors influence expectation drift, and whether it effectively buffers emotional responses to goal-relevant outcomes. Moreover, individuals learn from PEs to accurately anticipate future outcomes, but it is unknown whether expectation drift also impedes PE-based learning. In a sample of students awaiting exam grades (<i>N</i> = 625), we found that expectations often drift and tend to drift pessimistically. We demonstrate that bracing is preferentially modulated by uncertainty; it transiently buffers the initial emotional impact of negative PEs but impairs PE-based learning, counterintuitively sustaining uncertainty into the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"900-917"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141420564","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 : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-06-18DOI: 10.1177/09567976241237700
Steven Shepherd, Rowena Crabbe, Tanya L Chartrand, Gavan J Fitzsimons, Aaron C Kay
{"title":"When and Why Antiegalitarianism Affects Resistance to Supporting Black-Owned Businesses.","authors":"Steven Shepherd, Rowena Crabbe, Tanya L Chartrand, Gavan J Fitzsimons, Aaron C Kay","doi":"10.1177/09567976241237700","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976241237700","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding how initiatives to support Black-owned businesses are received, and why, has important social and economic implications. To address this, we designed three experiments to investigate the role of antiegalitarian versus egalitarian ideologies among White American adults. In Study 1 (<i>N</i> = 199), antiegalitarianism (vs. egalitarianism) predicted viewing initiatives supporting a Black-owned business as less fair, but only when the business was competing with other (presumably White-owned) businesses. In Study 2 (<i>N =</i> 801), antiegalitarianism predicted applying survival-of-the-fittest market beliefs, particularly to Black-owned businesses. Antiegalitarianism also predicted viewing initiatives supporting Black-owned businesses as less fair than initiatives that targeted other (presumably White-owned) businesses, especially for tangible (vs. symbolic) support that directly impacts the success of a business. In Study 3 (<i>N</i> = 590), antiegalitarianism predicted rejecting a program investing in Black-owned businesses. These insights demonstrate how antiegalitarian ideology can have the effect of maintaining race-based inequality, hindering programs designed to reduce that inequality.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"827-839"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141420565","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}
{"title":"The Basic Units of Working Memory Manipulation Are Boolean Maps, Not Objects.","authors":"Huichao Ji, Kaiyue Wang, Garry Kong, Xiaodan Zhang, Wenzhen He, Xiaowei Ding","doi":"10.1177/09567976241257443","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976241257443","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Determining the manipulation unit of working memory is one of the fundamental questions in understanding how working memory functions. The prevalent object-based theory in cognitive research predicts that memory manipulation is performed on the level of objects. Here we show instead that the basic units of working memory manipulation are <i>Boolean maps</i>, a data structure describing what can be perceived in an instant. We developed four new manipulation tasks (with data from 80 adults) and showed that manipulation times only increased when the number of Boolean maps manipulated increased. Increasing the number of orientations manipulated did not induce longer manipulation times, consistent with a key prediction of the Boolean map theory. Our results show that Boolean maps are the manipulation unit of working memory.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"887-899"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141420563","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 : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-06-18DOI: 10.1177/09567976241249183
Michael L DeKay, Shiyu Dou
{"title":"Risky-Choice Framing Effects Result Partly From Mismatched Option Descriptions in Gains and Losses.","authors":"Michael L DeKay, Shiyu Dou","doi":"10.1177/09567976241249183","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976241249183","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Textbook psychology holds that people usually prefer a certain option over a risky one when options are framed as gains but prefer the opposite when options are framed as losses. However, this pattern can be amplified, eliminated, or reversed depending on whether option descriptions include only positive information (e.g., \"200 people will be saved\"), only negative information (e.g., \"400 people will not be saved\"), or both. Previous studies suggest that framing effects arise only when option descriptions are mismatched across frames. Using online and student samples (<i>N</i>s = 906 and 521), we investigated 81 framing-effect variants created from matched and mismatched pairs of 18 option descriptions (nine in each frame). Description valence or gist explained substantial variation in risk preferences (prospect theory does not predict such variation), but a considerable framing effect remained in our balanced design. Risky-choice framing effects appear to be partly-but not completely-the result of mismatched comparisons.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"918-932"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141420562","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 : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-05-14DOI: 10.1177/09567976241240424
Xiuyuan Zhang, Paul Bloom, Julian Jara-Ettinger
{"title":"People Have Systematically Different Ownership Intuitions in Seemingly Simple Cases.","authors":"Xiuyuan Zhang, Paul Bloom, Julian Jara-Ettinger","doi":"10.1177/09567976241240424","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976241240424","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Our understanding of ownership influences how we interact with objects and with each other. Here, we studied people's intuitions about ownership transfer using a set of simple, parametrically varied events. We found that people (<i>N</i> = 120 U.S. adults) had similar intuitions about ownership for some events but sharply opposing intuitions for others (Experiment 1). People (<i>N</i> = 120 U.S. adults) were unaware of these conflicts and overestimated ownership consensus (Experiment 2). Moreover, differences in people's ownership intuitions predicted their intuitions about the acceptability of using, altering, controlling, and destroying the owned object (<i>N</i> = 130 U.S. adults; Experiment 3), even when ownership was not explicitly mentioned (<i>N</i> = 130 U.S. adults; Experiment 4). Subject-level analyses suggest that these disagreements reflect at least two underlying intuitive theories, one in which intentions are central to ownership and another in which physical possession is prioritized.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"858-871"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140922942","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 : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-06-12DOI: 10.1177/09567976241252138
Federico Barrera-Lemarchand, Pablo Balenzuela, Bahador Bahrami, Ophelia Deroy, Joaquin Navajas
{"title":"Promoting Erroneous Divergent Opinions Increases the Wisdom of Crowds.","authors":"Federico Barrera-Lemarchand, Pablo Balenzuela, Bahador Bahrami, Ophelia Deroy, Joaquin Navajas","doi":"10.1177/09567976241252138","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976241252138","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aggregation of many lay judgments generates surprisingly accurate estimates. This phenomenon, called the \"wisdom of crowds,\" has been demonstrated in domains such as medical decision-making and financial forecasting. Previous research identified two factors driving this effect: the accuracy of individual assessments and the diversity of opinions. Most available strategies to enhance the wisdom of crowds have focused on improving individual accuracy while neglecting the potential of increasing opinion diversity. Here, we study a complementary approach to reduce collective error by promoting erroneous divergent opinions. This strategy proposes to anchor half of the crowd to a small value and the other half to a large value before eliciting and averaging all estimates. Consistent with our mathematical modeling, four experiments (<i>N</i> = 1,362 adults) demonstrated that this method is effective for estimation and forecasting tasks. Beyond the practical implications, these findings offer new theoretical insights into the epistemic value of collective decision-making.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"872-886"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141311529","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}