{"title":"Innovative approaches to organizing the learning process in an opera choir to increase student motivation and self-expression.","authors":"Lele Zhang, Zhidong Hu","doi":"10.1080/00221309.2025.2541590","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00221309.2025.2541590","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The main purpose of the current article is to empirically evaluate a set of innovative approaches to organizing the educational process in an opera choir and their effect on student motivation and self-expression. The sample included 100 second-year students of Suzhou Vocational University who studied at the Department of Music. The research tools were the Scale of Motivation to Study in an Opera Choir and the Scale of Self-expression in an Opera Choir. As an educational intervention, an influence program included a set of innovative ways to organize the learning of choral opera. The study revealed significant improvements in the motivation and self-expression of students using innovative approaches to learning choral opera. Regarding the indicators of self-expression in the influence group, the students increased <i>Emotional Expression</i> by 6.68 points, <i>Artistic Individuality</i> by 6.66 points, and <i>Creative Interpretation</i> by 7.08 points. These data demonstrate that innovative teaching methods can significantly improve the studied aspects of learning. Statistically significant results in the influence group, in contrast to the control group, confirm the effectiveness of integrating innovative approaches into the educational process. Therefore, integrated innovative methods can play a key role in shaping the future of choral opera. The results have practical value, confirming that the integration of innovative methods into the educational process in an opera choir can significantly improve the motivation and self-expression of students. The scientific value lies in the rationale for using innovative approaches in education. The study highlights their potential role in the development of choral opera.</p>","PeriodicalId":47581,"journal":{"name":"Journal of General Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"153-180"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144817925","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}
{"title":"How and when task proficiency benefits from leader negative feedback: The roles of mental preoccupation with work and rule climate.","authors":"Suosuo Jia, Wenli Zhang, Youqing Fan, Baofang Zhang","doi":"10.1080/00221309.2025.2587144","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00221309.2025.2587144","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The existing literature has yet to thoroughly explore how employees process leader negative feedback in the context of organizational climate. Drawing on social information processing theory, this study proposes and tests a model that clarifies how and when leader negative feedback enhances employee task proficiency. Based on two experiments and a multi-wave field study (<i>N</i><sub>total</sub> = 530), our findings show that leader negative feedback increases employees' mental preoccupation with work, which in turn enhances task proficiency. Furthermore, the perceived rule climate strengthens the mediating role of mental preoccupation with work in the relationship between leader negative feedback and task proficiency. These findings contribute to the theoretical understanding of the mechanisms and boundary conditions that shape employees' responses to leader negative feedback. This work offers practical insights for leaders on how to deliver negative feedback effectively, providing a robust theoretical foundation to inform organizational practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":47581,"journal":{"name":"Journal of General Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"250-271"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145745195","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}
{"title":"A longitudinal study of dispositional hope as a pathway from existential concerns to inner peace.","authors":"Yusuf Akyıl, Tuncay Oral, Beste Erdinç","doi":"10.1080/00221309.2025.2572563","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00221309.2025.2572563","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Existential concerns, an unavoidable aspect of human existence, are one of the key elements influencing people's quest for purpose in life. Individuals may experience inner turmoil and sorrow in this situation. However, hope may play a crucial part in mitigating this adverse circumstance, despite existential concerns, as it symbolizes the person's ability to cultivate optimistic hopes and beliefs toward the future. In this regard, the current study intends to investigate the longitudinal mediation role of hope between existential concerns and inner peace. The literature has never examined the linkages between these concepts and their design in a longitudinal study. A significant gap in the research was addressed in the current study by combining these factors for the first time and employing a longitudinal mediation analysis, which also avoided the drawbacks of mediational analysis in cross-sectional studies. As a result, by autoregressive analysis of the cross-lagged panel model in a half-longitudinal form, the connections among existential concerns, hope, and inner peace ideas are investigated. In the relationship between existential concerns and inner peace, the analysis's findings demonstrate the longitudinal mediation of hope. Existential concerns can be viewed as a normal state, yet they pose a threat to inner peace and necessitate optimism. If not, people may lose hope and experience inner turmoil as a result of existential concerns. Interventions with an existential viewpoint are therefore necessary to boost hope in this area.</p>","PeriodicalId":47581,"journal":{"name":"Journal of General Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"233-249"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145287312","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}
{"title":"Have introductory psychology textbooks gotten better at representing psychological science?","authors":"Jeffrey M Brown, Christopher J Ferguson","doi":"10.1080/00221309.2025.2587151","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00221309.2025.2587151","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent scholarship has identified that factual errors have been common in introductory psychology textbooks. These errors tend to be in the direction of making psychological research appear more consistent than it is, as well as promoting viewpoints consistent with politically progressive ideologies. Some famous experiments in psychology have also seen serious questions raised about their validity. Given that these conversations have gone on for about a decade, it is worth considering whether identification of these issues resulted in improved coverage in introductory textbooks. Textbooks were sampled at two time points. Sixteen textbooks were sampled in 2018, and 18 in 2023. Although some improvements are seen from earlier studies, results indicated that errors in textbooks have remained common even after this issue had been clearly identified in the published literature. Misreporting of basic scientific information remains common in introductory textbooks, despite improvements in some areas. Textbook authors should be alert to potential misinformation, particularly related to controversial topics. Introductory psychology teachers may need to be aware that not all information presented in textbooks is true.</p>","PeriodicalId":47581,"journal":{"name":"Journal of General Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"272-285"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145582694","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}
{"title":"Intending to Break Up: Exploring Romantic Relationship Dissolution from an Integrated Behavioral Intention Framework.","authors":"Anna M Semanko, Verlin B Hinsz","doi":"10.1080/00221309.2025.2572560","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00221309.2025.2572560","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite the importance of romantic relationships to the majority of individuals, romantic relationships end often. This article advances understanding of why romantic relationship dissolution occurs by considering dissolution through the lens of two prominent theories of intentional behavior: the reasoned action approach and the theory of interpersonal behavior. The components of each theory are explained and examined within the context of romantic relationship dissolution. Additional factors including anticipated affect, implementation intentions, and attitude toward the process, are considered to provide an integrative framework that can increase understanding and prediction of relationship dissolution. This article responds to calls for more theoretical integration of romantic relationship dissolution research. Future research using this integrative framework should explore the causal relationship among the proposed theoretical antecedents to relationship dissolution to reduce the negative outcomes of breaking up as well as to facilitate fulfilling romantic relationships. The integrative framework can also be applied to remedy relationship dissolution issues as well as to enhance the development and maintenance of romantic relationships.</p>","PeriodicalId":47581,"journal":{"name":"Journal of General Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"196-232"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145287267","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}
{"title":"Improving aerobics engagement and motivation with immersive virtual reality.","authors":"ChengCheng Niu, Wei Wang","doi":"10.1080/00221309.2025.2572558","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00221309.2025.2572558","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When searching for innovative means of fostering enthusiasm for sports and physical activity, the world has been increasingly diverting its gaze toward virtual reality (VR). This study aims to examine the impact of the VR instructional approach on students' Aerobics engagement and motivation levels. The study involved 112 students from Qingdao Huanghai University, divided into two groups of equal sizes: 56 students assigned to using the VR app, and 56 students exposed to the traditional teaching method. The results show that the VR-based intervention had significant positive effects on both the level of Aerobics engagement and the level of Aerobics motivation. The present findings can be used to develop engaging physical education programs and sports courses. Future research will examine the long-term effects of VR on physical activity and sports performance and will compare these effects against other teaching methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":47581,"journal":{"name":"Journal of General Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"181-195"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145287228","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}
{"title":"AI-powered technologies in physical education: impact on physical and psycho-emotional well-being of students.","authors":"Haibo Xu","doi":"10.1080/00221309.2025.2541585","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00221309.2025.2541585","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The main research goal is to analyze artificial intelligence (AI) technologies integrated into college physical education and their impact on the physical and psycho-emotional well-being of students, as well as their satisfaction with physical training. The research involved 328 students, randomly divided into control and training groups. The control group followed the traditional methods of physical education, and the training group used AI-powered technologies. The research used two assessments: the Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale and the Scale of Physical and Psycho-Emotional Well-Being. The participants who used AI-generated content had significant positive changes in all subscales, including the pleasure scale, which increased by 6.20, the perceived benefits scale, which increased by 4.30, and the commitment and consistency scale, which increased by 3.95. The research results will help educators develop new educational programmes as well as contribute to pedagogical and sports practice and psychology.</p>","PeriodicalId":47581,"journal":{"name":"Journal of General Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"130-151"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144785647","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}
{"title":"Recharging for the future: how micro-breaks shape work prospection among Chinese employees.","authors":"Pengcheng Yang, Suchuan Zhang","doi":"10.1080/00221309.2025.2502337","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00221309.2025.2502337","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite a surge of research on micro-breaks in recent years, the interactional nature of this recovery behavior during working hours still needs to be explored. Drawing on the Social Exchange Theory and Conservation of Resources Theory, first, we found from a study that included three online vignette experiments (Study 1, <i>N</i> = 551) that three micro-break support conditions (management support, supervisor norms, and coworker norms) enhanced the positive relationship between micro-breaks and three affective relationships (affective organizational commitment, affective supervisor-subordinate guanxi, and friendship prevalence), respectively. Second, a two-wave time-lag survey study (Study 2, <i>N</i> = 208) replicated the findings of Study 1 and verified the positive relationship between micro-breaks and positive affective work prospection and the mediating role of affective relationships therein and the moderating effect of micro-break support. Furthermore, through supplementary analyses, we found possible recursive relationships among the three affective relationships; supervisor-subordinate guanxi are likely to be antecedents of organizational commitment. This study's findings provide essential theoretical contributions to promote employee recovery in the workplace from a reciprocal perspective and provide insights into best practices in human resource management. Organizations and managers must provide an environment that supports micro-breaks for employees, as these supports help employees build affective relationships in the organization, leading to resource supplementation and, ultimately, resource gain. Finally, we discuss the limitations of the study and future research directions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47581,"journal":{"name":"Journal of General Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"46-74"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144051956","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}
{"title":"The influence of epidemic risk perception on impulse buying behavior and its internal mechanism.","authors":"Ying Li, Xiaoyun Guo, Jingyu Chen, Yue Wang","doi":"10.1080/00221309.2025.2489171","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00221309.2025.2489171","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates the impact of risk perception on impulse buying behavior during the epidemic, the mediating role of anxiety, and the moderating role of source credibility in order to reveal the internal mechanism under the relationship between risk perception and impulse buying behavior. Experiment 1 explored the cross-sectional relationship between risk perception and impulse buying behavior during the epidemic, as well as anxiety and sensation seeking. The results found that anxiety played a mediation role between risk perception and impulse buying behavior, and sensation seeking played a moderating role. Through manipulating the degree of risk perception and source credibility, Experiment 2 examined how risk perception and anxiety influence buying behavior, as well as the role of source credibility in this relationship. The results demonstrated that the main effect of impulse buying was substantial, and the interaction effect of risk perception and source credibility was significant. It further revealed that anxiety partially mediated the relationship between risk perception and impulse buying behavior. Overall, our study found that risk perception of the epidemic predicted impulse buying behavior. Anxiety mediates the effect of risk perception on impulse buying behavior. Sensation seeking and source credibility play a moderating role in the effect of risk perception on impulse buying behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":47581,"journal":{"name":"Journal of General Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143990944","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}
Aida Gutiérrez-García, Andrés Fernández-Martín, Sonia Alguacil, Manuel G Calvo
{"title":"Misperception of non-Happy Facial Features: Overshadowing and Priming by a Smiling Mouth.","authors":"Aida Gutiérrez-García, Andrés Fernández-Martín, Sonia Alguacil, Manuel G Calvo","doi":"10.1080/00221309.2025.2505015","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00221309.2025.2505015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A smile underlies the well-known recognition advantage of prototypical happy faces. However, a smiling mouth also has side effects: It biases a tendency to incorrectly judge as \"happy\" <i>blended</i> expressions with non-happy eyes (neutral, sad, etc.). This reveals interference with the processing of such mixed-smile expressions, which are otherwise ubiquitous in social settings (hence its practical importance). To account for this effect, we investigated two mechanisms: Perceptual overshadowing driven by the smile visual saliency, and categorical priming driven by the smile diagnostic value. In Experiment 1, we obtained diagnostic values for the mouth and eye regions of facial expressions of emotion. In Experiment 2, facilitation and interference effects of prime mouths on probe eyes were examined as a function of such values. In Experiment 3, overshadowing and priming were compared. Results showed, first, a high diagnostic value of the smiling mouth, followed by disgusted, sad, and angry mouths. Second, in correspondence with such values, the mouth expressions facilitated the recognition of congruent eyes. Importantly, the presence of a smiling mouth especially impaired the accurate recognition of non-happy eyes. This supports the categorical priming hypothesis. And, third, the smiling mouth still caused some (albeit limited) interference with the processing of facial information unrelated to expression (masculine/feminine appearance of the expresser). This is consistent with an overshadowing-inattentional blindness hypothesis. An alternative affective priming hypothesis is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47581,"journal":{"name":"Journal of General Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"75-105"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144079752","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}