Giulia A Borriello, Tongyao Zhang, Victor Wei Wang, Peng Peng, Emily R Fyfe
{"title":"A meta-analytic review of the associations between patterning and academic achievement.","authors":"Giulia A Borriello, Tongyao Zhang, Victor Wei Wang, Peng Peng, Emily R Fyfe","doi":"10.1037/bul0000534","DOIUrl":"10.1037/bul0000534","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aimed to determine the magnitude of the associations between patterning skills and academic achievement. We conducted a meta-analysis of 71 studies with 82 independent samples and more than 16,500 participants. Primary results indicated a moderate, positive association between patterning and mathematics achievement (<i>r</i> = .42, 95% confidence interval [.37, .46]), which was significantly larger than the small, positive association between patterning and reading achievement (<i>r</i> = .26, 95% confidence interval [.19, .33]). Critically, these bivariate concurrent associations between patterning and the achievement domains were also present longitudinally after accounting for prior achievement, and the results of both two-stage meta-analytic structural equation modeling and meta-analytic incremental validity analyses consistently revealed that patterning showed incremental validity beyond related cognitive abilities for mathematics and reading achievement. Further analyses showed that the patterning effects on academic achievements were moderated by age, such that the effects were stronger for younger participants. These findings highlight that patterning has unique pathways to academic achievement in both mathematics and reading. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":20854,"journal":{"name":"Psychological bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149138078","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":"A social cascades model of addiction: Examining effects of psychological interventions on social and substance use outcomes via meta-analytic review.","authors":"Jiaxu Han, Catharine E Fairbairn, Camille Lansang","doi":"10.1037/bul0000533","DOIUrl":"10.1037/bul0000533","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Addiction has long been observed to manifest in social landscapes characterized by high levels of dysfunction, including interpersonal conflict, low social support, and a high density of substance-using peers. Two lines of work have emerged to understand these correlations-one examining how social environments might foster addiction and the other centered primarily around the detrimental effects of substance use on social life. Here, we test a novel cascades model positing bidirectional relationships between individuals' social environments and substance use, integrating theory from basic behavioral research with methods from intervention science. We explore both social and substance use outcomes derived from randomized intervention trials for participants with substance problems (<i>k</i> = 79 trials; <i>N</i> = 13,946 patients). Results indicate modest improvements in social outcomes from substance use intervention, <i>d</i> = 0.15 [0.08, 0.22]. Results further indicated that social and substance use outcomes were correlated at multiple levels, with intervention-related improvements in social outcomes temporally preceding improvements in substance use symptoms, <i>b</i> = 0.33, <i>p</i> = .007, and vice versa, <i>b</i> = 0.39, <i>p</i> < .001. Finally, targeted comparisons isolating effects of social versus substance use intervention components provided partial support for the cascades model, with significant cross-domain effects emerging selectively in models isolating social elements of randomized interventions, <i>d</i> = 0.12 [0.02, 0.22], and models further indicating superiority for therapies involving close social ties (e.g., family), <i>d</i> = 0.23 [0.05, 0.40]. In sum, results move toward an integrative view of social processes in relation to precursors and consequences of substance use, with potential implications for methodology, theory, and intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":20854,"journal":{"name":"Psychological bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13576085/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148970846","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}
Peter Haehner,Susanne Buecker,Marco J Altorfer,Vera V Bocklet,Wiebke Bleidorn
{"title":"Does the variance of personality traits change across the lifespan? A meta-analytic review of longitudinal studies.","authors":"Peter Haehner,Susanne Buecker,Marco J Altorfer,Vera V Bocklet,Wiebke Bleidorn","doi":"10.1037/bul0000523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000523","url":null,"abstract":"Although personality traits are relatively stable compared to other constructs, comprehensive meta-analyses have shown that the mean levels and rank orders of personality traits change throughout the lifespan. In contrast, relatively little is known about whether and how the variance of personality traits develops with age. Examining changes in personality trait variance is, however, critical to contextualize knowledge on mean-level changes, to identify disruptive life phases, to evaluate changes in the predictive utility of personality traits, and to advance personality development theories. The present meta-analysis thus integrated research from 362 longitudinal studies (Ntotal = 398,124) to identify changes in personality trait variance across time and age. We found remarkable stability of personality variance for all traits, indicating that, at the population level, people neither get more different nor more alike across the lifespan. The only deviations from this pattern were variance increases in neuroticism during late childhood and early adolescence (5-14 years) and variance decreases in extraversion during middle and late adulthood (45-80 years). Notably, though, effect sizes differed substantially across studies and measures. Our results provide novel insights into the lifespan development of personality traits that can be used to advance theoretical frameworks and inform practical applications. Furthermore, by providing benchmark values for the comparison of effect size estimates of future studies (https://personalityresearch.shinyapps.io/VarianceChange/), we aim to facilitate more systematic and cumulative research on variance changes in psychological traits. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":20854,"journal":{"name":"Psychological bulletin","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":22.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148388784","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":"Contributions of the general factor of intelligence to cognitive performance across ability levels and age: An individual participant data meta-analysis of child and adolescent norming data.","authors":"Moritz Breit,Martin Brunner,Julian Preuß,Monika Daseking,Günter Esser,Alexander Grob,Jan-Philipp Freudenstein,Ulf Kieschke,Ludwig Kreuzpointner,Franz Pauls,Christoph Perleth,Gabriele Ricken,Stefan Schipolowski,Ulrich Schroeders,Franziska Walter,Oliver Wilhelm,Anne Wyschkon,Franzis Preckel","doi":"10.1037/bul0000531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000531","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20854,"journal":{"name":"Psychological bulletin","volume":"21 1","pages":"598-622"},"PeriodicalIF":22.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149093353","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}
Noga Miron,Wendy M. D'Andrea,Eran Barzilai,Shoshana Krohner,Ellen H. Yates,Samuel G. Conner Self,E. Samuel Winer,Ashley M. Doukas,Joseph Spinazzola
{"title":"Childhood emotional abuse and adult psychopathology: A multilevel meta-analytic review.","authors":"Noga Miron,Wendy M. D'Andrea,Eran Barzilai,Shoshana Krohner,Ellen H. Yates,Samuel G. Conner Self,E. Samuel Winer,Ashley M. Doukas,Joseph Spinazzola","doi":"10.1037/bul0000530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000530","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20854,"journal":{"name":"Psychological bulletin","volume":"4 1","pages":"623-664"},"PeriodicalIF":22.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149093355","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}
Sarah F. Hatch,Noelle M. Suntheimer,Abigail W. Otwell,Laura Tang,Dana C. McCoy,Sharon Wolf
{"title":"A systematic review and meta-analysis of partial correlations between caregiver cognitive stimulation in early childhood and child development.","authors":"Sarah F. Hatch,Noelle M. Suntheimer,Abigail W. Otwell,Laura Tang,Dana C. McCoy,Sharon Wolf","doi":"10.1037/bul0000532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000532","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20854,"journal":{"name":"Psychological bulletin","volume":"9 1","pages":"575-597"},"PeriodicalIF":22.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149093351","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}
Maximilian Agostini,N. Pontus Leander,Jannis Kreienkamp,Justin König,Catharina Gerigk,Russell Spears
{"title":"Toward a unified process model of situational frustration, need deprivation, and behavioral compensation: A meta-analytic review.","authors":"Maximilian Agostini,N. Pontus Leander,Jannis Kreienkamp,Justin König,Catharina Gerigk,Russell Spears","doi":"10.1037/bul0000528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000528","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20854,"journal":{"name":"Psychological bulletin","volume":"36 1","pages":"665-707"},"PeriodicalIF":22.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149093354","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":"Do money and time change who you are? A continuous time meta-analysis and review of reciprocal relationships between personality traits and income.","authors":"Wen-Dong Li, Kaili Yu, Weiwen Yang, Zhen Zhang, Xin Zhang, Christian Dormann, Huanxi Zhang, Yanglei Zheng","doi":"10.1037/bul0000526","DOIUrl":"10.1037/bul0000526","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent research in personality science has highlighted influences of life experiences on personality trait development. Yet, the line of inquiry on how work experiences shape personality development has generally yielded mixed findings. Furthermore, prior work has yet to more systematically examine the role of time in shaping the influences of work experiences, to more appropriately tease apart within- and between-person effects, and to simultaneously model both the selection effect of personality and the socialization effect of work experiences at the within-person level. We conducted a preregistered continuous time meta-analysis of longitudinal studies (<i>k</i> = 11 large-scale archival studies, <i>N</i> ≈ 134,515) to investigate how income-one crucial form of work experience reflecting how people successfully fulfill work responsibilities to achieve high social status-influences employees' development of the Big Five personality traits at the within-person level. We simultaneously examined the selection effect of personality. We found, on average, positive lagged influences of income on subsequent changes of emotional stability and conscientiousness, and the influence on extraversion was generally negative. The lagged influences of conscientiousness and emotional stability on subsequent income changes were generally positive, and the influence was negative for extraversion, suggesting reciprocal relationships. The magnitude of the influences varied over time in an inverted U-shaped fashion with certain levels of between-study heterogeneity. As a more stringent test of the social investment and corresponsive principles, the findings provide more support to the Neo-Socioanalytic Model than the Five Factor Model. Our research showcases the importance of greater cross-fertilization among different areas of psychology for advancing research on personality development in the workplace. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":20854,"journal":{"name":"Psychological bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"509-543"},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148472489","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}
Brendan T Hutchinson, James E Pustejovsky, Kavindu Bandara, Hugh McGovern, Jolene Cox, Alexandra Voce, Michael Pitts, Heleen A Slagter
{"title":"The neural correlates of consciousness: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the visual awareness negativity and P3b.","authors":"Brendan T Hutchinson, James E Pustejovsky, Kavindu Bandara, Hugh McGovern, Jolene Cox, Alexandra Voce, Michael Pitts, Heleen A Slagter","doi":"10.1037/bul0000521","DOIUrl":"10.1037/bul0000521","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Isolating the neural correlates of consciousness is a paramount challenge in neuroscience. In electroencephalographic research, two event-related potentials have been identified as candidate markers of visual awareness: the visual awareness negativity (VAN) and the P3b (or late positivity). To rigorously evaluate their validity as neural correlates of consciousness, we conducted the first systematic review and meta-analysis of these signals, presented as a registered report. We assessed their necessity and sufficiency through meta-analysis of \"seen\" effect sizes (where consciousness was present) and \"unseen\" effect sizes (where consciousness was absent), while examining the influence of study quality, selective reporting, and theoretical and methodological moderators. From 117 studies contributing 547 effect sizes to our seen meta-analysis (322 VAN, 225 P3b) and 89 effect sizes to our unseen meta-analysis (55 VAN, 34 P3b), we estimated a standardized mean difference for the VAN at 0.37 (95% confidence interval [0.32, 0.43]) and the P3b standardized mean difference at 0.49 (95% confidence interval [0.41, 0.57]). Our findings show that the P3b is not a necessary marker for consciousness, as it is not reliably present under task-irrelevant conditions (standardized mean difference = -0.12, 95% confidence interval [-0.47, 0.23]), whereas the VAN is present even in the absence of consciousness, suggesting that it is not a sufficient marker for consciousness. While study quality did not influence outcomes, selective reporting may introduce upward bias in our estimates, although this does not impact our conclusions. Together, findings challenge prevailing theories of consciousness and underscore the need for refined models and methodologies in the search for neural correlates of consciousness. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":20854,"journal":{"name":"Psychological bulletin","volume":"152 5-6","pages":"449-483"},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148970865","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}
Alexandra T Tyra, Siobhán M Griffin, Sarah-Beth Garner, Orla T Muldoon, Ryan C Brindle, Sarah E Williams, Thomas A Fergus, Annie T Ginty
{"title":"Physiological responses to acute psychological stress as a biomarker for depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis.","authors":"Alexandra T Tyra, Siobhán M Griffin, Sarah-Beth Garner, Orla T Muldoon, Ryan C Brindle, Sarah E Williams, Thomas A Fergus, Annie T Ginty","doi":"10.1037/bul0000529","DOIUrl":"10.1037/bul0000529","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Exposure to psychological stress, as well as individual differences in stress responses, has consistently been implicated in the onset and prognosis of depression. Although stress and depression are closely linked, their underlying physiological mechanisms remain unclear. Given the heterogeneity of depressive symptoms, identifying physiological biomarkers may improve diagnosis and treatment. Prior reviews and meta-analyses suggest a connection between depression and physiological stress reactivity, but inconsistent findings across depression measures and physiological outcomes have limited comprehensive understanding. As such, the purpose of the present meta-analysis was to extend prior work investigating the relationship between depression and physiological responses (both the autonomic nervous system and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis) to standardized acute psychological stress tasks. A total of 126 studies were identified through PubMed, Embase, APA PsycInfo, and ProQuest. Included studies examined either clinically diagnosed depression (vs. healthy controls) or depressive symptomatology (i.e., continuous scores, high vs. low depression). Depression was associated with blunted overall physiological responses to active mental stress (Hg = -0.09, 95% CI [-0.14, -0.03]) driven primarily by cardiac (Hg = -0.17, 95% CI [-0.26, -0.07]) and hemodynamic (Hg = -0.08, 95% CI [-0.15, -0.02]) parameters. No statistically significant associations were found for heart rate variability or neuroendocrine reactivity. Depression was not associated with physiological reactivity to the cold pressor task. There was no significant association between remitted depression and physiological stress reactivity. These findings suggest that blunted cardiac and hemodynamic reactivity to active mental stress is a state-dependent systems marker and may serve as a treatment response indicator. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":20854,"journal":{"name":"Psychological bulletin","volume":"152 5-6","pages":"484-508"},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13576086/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148970887","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}