Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society最新文献

{"title":"Fraud in the Age of AI: Commentary on \"The Scammers' Psychological Warfare\".","authors":"Jacob M Stanley, David V Smith","doi":"10.1177/15291006261442103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15291006261442103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37882,"journal":{"name":"Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society","volume":"26 3","pages":"133-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148158359","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 Scammers' Psychological Warfare: A Call to Arms.","authors":"Yaniv Hanoch, Stacey Wood, Marguerite DeLiema, S Duke Han, Peter A Lichtenberg","doi":"10.1177/15291006261431553","DOIUrl":"10.1177/15291006261431553","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fraud and scams are some of the most common crimes in the world, inflicting staggering emotional, financial, health, and psychological suffering on millions of individuals each year. Despite this widespread and extensive impact, the psychological research on what renders some individuals more susceptible to fraudulent solicitations, what mechanisms scammers use to lure potential victims, what therapeutic programs can help victims, what educational/preventive programs can reduce compliance, what can be done to increase reporting, and what policies are needed to safeguard the public is just emerging. To address this pressing social problem, this article has several goals. First, it is designed to provide readers with state-of-the-art insights into fraud research: what has been done thus far and what is urgently missing. Its second purpose is to highlight the urgency of the problem and encourage researchers to conduct relevant research in their domain of expertise. Our primary goal, however, is to reach beyond the academic sphere. To fight fraud, we must unite forces with private and not-for-profit organizations, education providers, financial institutions, government entities, grassroots organizations, international organizations, law enforcement agencies, and many more. To that end, we hope this article draws the attention of a wide range of stakeholders and encourages collaborations that produce direct action.</p>","PeriodicalId":37882,"journal":{"name":"Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society","volume":"26 3","pages":"136-177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13237212/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148158368","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":"A PUBLIC Framework for the Political Psychology of Inequality.","authors":"Michael W Kraus, Quincy T Lherisson, Alana M Smutz, Megan E Burns, Daniel J Sanji, Kylie M Davis, A Chyei Vinluan, Cydney H Dupree","doi":"10.1177/15291006261438701","DOIUrl":"10.1177/15291006261438701","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychological approaches to the study of the politics of inequality are welcome and warranted because psychology is foundational to understanding inequality, including ways to rectify it. Whereas some approaches narrow political psychology's focus through a lens of a particular discipline and definition of inequality (Connolly et al., 2026), our focus is to center the public. That is, psychology is best situated to study the politics of inequality if it approaches the problem of inequality from a broader perspective: that of people-a perspective that goes well beyond a small handful of academic disciplines or socioeconomic strata. To accomplish this goal, we propose a <b>p</b>luralistic, <b>u</b>n<b>b</b>iased, <b>l</b>ocal, <b>i</b>ntersectional, and <b>c</b>ritical (PUBLIC) approach to the political psychology of inequality. A PUBLIC approach should be pluralistic in its application of evidence and ways of knowing; unbiased in the perspectives that it centers; local in its focus on psychology, politics, and impact; intersectional in its understanding of inequality and solidarity; and critical in its analysis of power and advantage. Implications for policy and collective action are highlighted.</p>","PeriodicalId":37882,"journal":{"name":"Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society","volume":"26 2","pages":"65-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148043831","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 Political Psychology of Economic Inequality.","authors":"Daniel J Connolly, Nick Chater, George Loewenstein","doi":"10.1177/15291006261431555","DOIUrl":"10.1177/15291006261431555","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The high level of inequality of income and wealth across individuals, groups, and nations is widely regarded as among the most fundamental problems facing humanity. Yet democracies often elect and reelect politicians who deliver policies that exacerbate rather than reduce inequality. We argue that this disconnect arises from three basic features of human social cognition that evolved for interpersonal interactions in small groups rather than for navigating the vast political, economic, and technological systems that shape contemporary life: a focus on local notions of equality and equity between socially connected individuals rather than across society at large; group identification, which directs attention to inequality between groups rather than \"pure\" inequality across the broader population; and what we call the \"i-frame bias\"-a tendency to explain social outcomes, including inequality, as the product of individual behaviors, taking the system within which those individuals operate as a given. We extend our analysis to examine how economic elites exploit these features of social cognition to shape the political and policy landscape and examine the role psychology can play in reducing inequality.</p>","PeriodicalId":37882,"journal":{"name":"Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society","volume":"26 2","pages":"76-126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148043898","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 Psychology of Framing: How Everyday Language Shapes the Way We Think, Feel, and Act.","authors":"Stephen J Flusberg, Kevin J Holmes, Paul H Thibodeau, Robin L Nabi, Teenie Matlock","doi":"10.1177/15291006241246966","DOIUrl":"10.1177/15291006241246966","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When we use language to communicate, we must choose what to say, what not to say, and how to say it. That is, we must decide how to <i>frame</i> the message. These linguistic choices matter: Framing a discussion one way or another can influence how people think, feel, and act in many important domains, including politics, health, business, journalism, law, and even conversations with loved ones. The ubiquity of <i>framing effects</i> raises several important questions relevant to the public interest: What makes certain messages so potent and others so ineffectual? Do framing effects pose a threat to our autonomy, or are they a rational response to variation in linguistic content? Can we learn to use language more effectively to promote policy reforms or other causes we believe in, or is this an overly idealistic goal? In this article, we address these questions by providing an integrative review of the psychology of framing. We begin with a brief history of the concept of framing and a survey of common framing effects. We then outline the cognitive, social-pragmatic, and emotional mechanisms underlying such effects. This discussion centers on the view that framing is a natural-and unavoidable-feature of human communication. From this perspective, framing effects reflect a sensible response to messages that communicate different information. In the second half of the article, we provide a taxonomy of linguistic framing techniques, describing various ways that the structure or content of a message can be altered to shape people's mental models of what is being described. Some framing manipulations are subtle, involving a slight shift in grammar or wording. Others are more overt, involving wholesale changes to a message. Finally, we consider factors that moderate the impact of framing, gaps in the current empirical literature, and opportunities for future research. We conclude by offering general recommendations for effective framing and reflecting on the place of framing in society. Linguistic framing is powerful, but its effects are not inevitable-we can always reframe an issue to ourselves or other people.</p>","PeriodicalId":37882,"journal":{"name":"Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society","volume":"25 3","pages":"105-161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142865831","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":"How Frames Can Promote Agency: Response to Flusberg et al. (2024).","authors":"James Walsh","doi":"10.1177/15291006241296035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15291006241296035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37882,"journal":{"name":"Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society","volume":"25 3","pages":"95-100"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142865823","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":"About the Authors.","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/15291006241300527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15291006241300527","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37882,"journal":{"name":"Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society","volume":"25 3","pages":"iii"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142865816","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":"About the Authors.","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/15291006241300527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15291006241300527","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37882,"journal":{"name":"Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society","volume":"25 3","pages":"iii"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143013159","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":"Addiction: Where Framing Can Be a Matter of Life and Death: Response to Flusberg et al. (2024).","authors":"Maia Szalavitz","doi":"10.1177/15291006241299319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15291006241299319","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37882,"journal":{"name":"Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society","volume":"25 3","pages":"101-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142865820","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":"COVID and Cultural Defaults: A Public Health Officer's Personal Perspective.","authors":"Sara H Cody","doi":"10.1177/15291006241280948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15291006241280948","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37882,"journal":{"name":"Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society","volume":"25 2","pages":"31-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142855938","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}