Eva Pires, Marilia Fernandes, Carla Fernandes, António J. Santos, Brian E. Vaughn, Manuela Veríssimo
{"title":"Intersections Among Attachment, Empathy and Emotion Regulation in Middle Childhood","authors":"Eva Pires, Marilia Fernandes, Carla Fernandes, António J. Santos, Brian E. Vaughn, Manuela Veríssimo","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70257","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70257","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Within secure attachment relationships, caregivers function as primary sources of self-regulation and foster empathy. Affective empathy refers to the direct sharing of others' emotional states, whereas cognitive empathy involves understanding the meaning of others' affective displays. Although robust evidence links secure attachment to empathy, research examining the mediating role of emotion regulation (ER) during middle childhood remains limited. Participants were 214 children (108 girls) aged 8–12 years (M = 9.28 ± 1.09) and their parents (86.3% mothers). Children completed the Security Scale (SS), assessing Safe Haven (SH) and Secure Base (SB), as well the Questionnaire to Assess Affective and Cognitive Empathy in Children (QACE). Primary caregivers completed the Emotion Regulation Checklist assessing children's ER and lability/negativity. Results indicated that global ER was positively associated with cognitive (rCEcog = 0.17, <i>p</i> < 0.05) but not affective empathy. Mediation analyses revealed that attachment was significantly associated with children's empathy (<i>β</i> = 0.40–0.53, <i>p</i> < 0.001); however, ER did not mediate this association. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that maternal SH and paternal SB were strongly associated with cognitive and global empathy, whereas only maternal SH was strongly associated with affective empathy. These results underscore the robustness of attachment theory as an organising framework for socioemotional development regarding the processes during middle childhood.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148714322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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 Considering Others' Emotions on Children's Resource Distribution","authors":"Ha Na Yoo, Zi-hyun Lee, Hyun-joo Song","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70250","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70250","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Understanding how one's actions affect others' emotions is an important aspect of prosocial development. Extending prior findings with adults, this study investigated whether predicting future emotional messages from the recipient could enhance preschoolers' altruistic sharing. In Experiment 1, 4- to 6-year-old Korean children played a dictator game in which they allocated stickers between themselves and a monkey puppet. The children in the experimental condition were informed that the monkey would draw a picture of how he felt about the number of stickers received, while those in the control condition received no such information. Children in the experimental condition shared more generously overall, particularly among 4- and 5-year-olds. Six-year-olds allocated resources about equally between two conditions, resembling Korean adults' preference for equality observed in a pilot study. Experiment 2 tested whether the effect was driven specifically by considering others' emotions rather than anticipating feedback in general. Children were told they would receive an unspecified ‘message’ from the recipient, but no differences in sharing emerged between conditions. Thus, just anticipating any message or feedback from the recipient did not promote children's altruistic resource allocation. The results suggest that considering others' emotions promotes altruistic behaviours in young children.</p>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13443401/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148680479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ádám Putz, Zoë Marleen Cheryl Brinkert, Ayşe Naz Hazal Sezen, Amy E. Coren
{"title":"When Appearances Deceive: Rape Myth Schemas Influence Attractiveness Effects Across Cultures","authors":"Ádám Putz, Zoë Marleen Cheryl Brinkert, Ayşe Naz Hazal Sezen, Amy E. Coren","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70256","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70256","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research on sexual assault judgements has shown that extra-evidentiary cues influence perceptions of victims' credibility and responsibility. This study examined how physical attractiveness, rape myth acceptance (RMA), participant sex and cultural context shape victim blame judgements in samples from the United States, Hungary and Türkiye (<i>N</i> = 979). Participants evaluated sexual assault vignettes depicting different perpetrator-victim attractiveness pairings and completed the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale. Victim blame was highest when an unattractive victim was paired with an attractive perpetrator. Turkish participants attributed greater blame to victims than did participants from the United States and Hungary, whereas the participants' sex had no overall effect. Controlling for RMA eliminated the attractiveness effect, suggesting that appearance-based judgements are rooted in rape myth schemas rather than independent attractiveness biases. Mediation analyses showed that RMA explained the relationship between participant sex and victim blaming across nearly all conditions and accounted for the differences between the Hungarian and US samples. However, RMA did not explain the elevated victim blaming observed in the Turkish sample. These findings support a schema-based interpretation of rape myths and suggest that cultural differences in victim blaming reflect additional sociocultural influences beyond rape myth endorsement.</p>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13429343/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148664702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zilong Li, Zhaoji Yan, Wenming Xu, Xingyi Zheng, Ruiming Wang
{"title":"The Reverse Moral Foreign Language Effect in a Self-Driving Car Dilemma","authors":"Zilong Li, Zhaoji Yan, Wenming Xu, Xingyi Zheng, Ruiming Wang","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70255","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70255","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Research on the moral foreign language effect (MFLE) shows that using a foreign language can shift moral judgements, and sometimes this shift can reverse. The present study tested whether a reverse MFLE would appear in a self-driving-car dilemma that usually favours protecting the larger group (pedestrians). In Experiment 1 (<i>N</i> = 266; L1 Chinese vs. L2 English, between-subjects), a canonical sacrificial dilemma was used for benchmarking before introducing the self-driving-car dilemma; a reverse MFLE was observed in the latter (fewer utilitarian choices in L2 than in L1). Experiment 2 (<i>N</i> = 361) replicated the reverse MFLE in the self-driving-car dilemma and showed moderation by self-reported driving frequency: the reverse effect was clear among participants who drive less often and weaker or absent among those who drive more often. These findings extend MFLE research beyond the footbridge paradigm, reducing over-reliance on a single dilemma, and—together with prior work—strengthen the conclusion that using a foreign language can dampen fast, default processes (System 1) responses, which can lead to shifts, including reversals, in moral choice patterns.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148664654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender-Specific Networks in the Relationship Between Time Perspective and Short-Form Video Addiction Among Chinese Adolescents.","authors":"Yunhong Shen, Xiaohui Luo, Yuqiong Pang, Ruiqi Wang, Yuqin Deng, Yuyin Wang","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70247","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70247","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Short-form video addiction (SFVA) is increasingly prevalent among adolescents and closely related to time perspective, yet their associations at the symptom and dimensional levels, particularly gender differences, remain underexplored. This study applied network analysis to examine cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between time perspective dimensions and SFVA symptoms in Chinese adolescents, with attention to gender-specific patterns. A total of 1, 580 Chinese adolescents (55.1% female; M<sub>age</sub> = 15.86 ± 0.80 at T1) completed measures on two occasions at 6-month intervals. Cross-sectional network analysis showed that 'future' and 'sleep interference' were the central nodes in both male and female networks. In addition, 'present-fatalistic,' 'attentional disruption,' and 'social concern' were identified as bridge nodes linking time perspective and SFVA. Cross-lagged panel network analysis further highlighted the central roles of 'future'. Furthermore, gender-specific pathways also emerged. Among males, 'loss of control' functioned more as a driving symptom, whereas among females it was more strongly influenced by other symptoms. In girls, 'social impairment' and 'attentional disruption' were the main predictors of time-related dimensions, whereas in boys, 'sleep interference' and 'withdrawal' symptoms played a more prominent role. These findings clarify the complex mechanisms linking time perspective and SFVA and highlight potential gender-specific intervention targets.</p>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 4","pages":"e70247"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13369367/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148449825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wojciech Kulesza, Paweł Muniak, Dariusz Dolinski, Oliwia Marciszewska, Joanna Siemianowska
{"title":"The Impact of Mimicry on Tobacco Addiction.","authors":"Wojciech Kulesza, Paweł Muniak, Dariusz Dolinski, Oliwia Marciszewska, Joanna Siemianowska","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70248","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70248","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tobacco addiction, a major cause of preventable death, requires an understanding of how it develops and is maintained. This paper examines mimicry as a 'social glue' in smokers' social interactions and its influence on the development and maintenance of smoking behaviour. A first laboratory experiment showed that nonverbal mimicry (physical actions, hand and arm movements and body posture) increases cigarette consumption due to increased liking for the mimicker, proving that mimicry not only binds (smokers) but first and foremost reduces chances for quitting smoking. The second experiment, conducted in a natural setting, showed that mimicry of smoking behaviour reduced the desire to quit smoking. This suggests that whilst mimicry acts as a strong 'social glue' amongst smokers, it also impedes efforts to quit. Thus, it seems that mimicry maintains smoking addiction and overcoming tobacco addiction might require severing the social bonds created by mimicry (e.g., smoking in solitary).</p>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 4","pages":"e70248"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13352098/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148425508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparative Experimental Study on How Physical Education Influences Psychological Well-Being and Cognitive Development Among College Students","authors":"Shuguang Song, Chen Ye","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.70254","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Physical education (PE) plays an important role in improving the psychological well-being (PWB) and cognitive ability of college students (CS). In this study, a six-week intervention based on PE was applied to investigate its influence on psychological and cognitive variables of CS by employing the experimental method. Three-hundred CS were randomly selected as participants, an experimental group, and a control group, each containing 150 participants. Students in the experimental group underwent the PE intervention program, whereas the control group did not experience any such intervention. Data were collected by means of pre-post test questionnaires and interviews. Data analysis was done using Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) and NVivo. Results show that the experimental group performed significantly better than the control group in terms of the levels of PWB, self-esteem (SE), cognitive functioning, problem-solving skills (PSS), and resilience and adaptability (RA). Effects of intervention with respect to moderate-to-large magnitude were evident, RA (<i>d</i> = 0.988), PE-related PWB (<i>d</i> = 0.890), cognitive function (CF) (<i>d</i> = 0.785), and PSS (<i>d</i> = 0.715). The novelty lies in the use of both psychological and cognitive measures within a longitudinal mixed-methods research design. The results indicate that well-designed PE interventions effectively promote the psychological and cognitive development of students.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148617064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yanping He, Yutong Ma, Wenhao Lv, Haiqi Xiang, Xiangyu Yan, Yinfeng Tan, Fangfang Liu, Lu Gan, Yelan Zhang, Caiqing Chen, Peiyao Liu, Shuang Wei, Fan Xu, Hong Shi
{"title":"The Effect of Culture Mix or Not Conflict Against the Decision Making—A fNIRS Study","authors":"Yanping He, Yutong Ma, Wenhao Lv, Haiqi Xiang, Xiangyu Yan, Yinfeng Tan, Fangfang Liu, Lu Gan, Yelan Zhang, Caiqing Chen, Peiyao Liu, Shuang Wei, Fan Xu, Hong Shi","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70253","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70253","url":null,"abstract":"<p>With increasing globalisation and deepening integration of local cultures, a growing number of product advertisements incorporate diverse, mixed cultural elements, designed to attract consumer attention and enhance purchase interest. However, the underlying mechanisms by which visual stimuli successfully influence consumer purchase behaviour remain poorly understood. In the present study, 300 college students aged 18–22 were recruited and randomly assigned to one of three between-subjects experiments (A, B and C), each comparing a control group (<i>n</i> = 50) with an experimental group (<i>n</i> = 50). The experiment employed a single-exposure paradigm, using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to monitor changes in participant haemoglobin in brain cortical areas. Facial expressions and vital signs were simultaneously recorded in parallel. Based on these measurements, visual stimuli with mixed cultural elements collectively influence consumer decision-making through their intensity characteristics, potentially involving cognitive conflict processing and may be associated with enhanced emotional arousal and modulated autonomic nervous activity. These results provide exploratory evidence for the neural correlates underlying visual strategies in cross-cultural marketing and offer new methodological support for brand design and consumer cognition studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13400748/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148585788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fan Engagement on Social Media: Behavioural and Linguistic Insights From Sina Weibo Communities","authors":"Zaoyi Sun, Jie Dai, Shenshen Xie","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70251","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70251","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study investigates how fans with different levels of community engagement behave and use language in Sina Weibo's Super Topic Communities, integrating psycholinguistic analysis with machine learning. Analysing data from 9248 users, we compared high-level and low-level fans across behavioural indicators, simplified Chinese linguistic inquiry and word count categories, and fine-grained sentiment dimensions. Results show that highly engaged fans disclose more personal information, maintain substantially larger social networks, and produce richer content, suggesting stronger identification with their fan communities. Linguistically, they use more achievement-related words, motion verbs, quantifiers and first-person plural pronouns—patterns may reflecting collectivist orientations and enhanced group identity. Sentiment analysis reveals that high-level fans express more intense emotions, including both positive (joy, goodness) and negative (sadness, disgust) feelings, suggesting greater emotional involvement. Machine learning models trained on combined behavioural and linguistic features accurately predict users' community levels (support vector machine accuracy 83.8%, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve 0.917), outperforming models using linguistic features alone. These findings advance understanding of how online language and digital footprints signal social identity and emotional investment in fandom. They also highlight fans' evolving role in idol cultivation within Eastern collectivist cultures, offering practical implications for community management and marketing strategies.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148563287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imagining the Future or Recalling the Past: Effects on State Attachment Security Through Episodic Priming","authors":"Fan Yang, Kunjun Xie","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.70252","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The current study examined whether imagining a future secure relationship can increase state attachment security to a degree comparable to recalling a secure past or current relationship. In a within-subjects design, 88 participants completed three weekly tasks: future thinking, episodic recall, and a neutral shopping control. Each session involved a brief imagery-and-writing task followed immediately by state attachment measures. Compared with the neutral control, both relational priming tasks were associated with higher state attachment security, and the future and recall tasks did not differ. Effects on attachment anxiety and avoidance were small and did not reach conventional levels of statistical significance after correction. These findings provide preliminary evidence that episodic future thinking can prime felt security in the short term, while also indicating that stronger evidence is needed before drawing conclusions about functional or intervention-related significance.</p>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ijop.70252","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148534035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}