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Science literacy and the acceptance of scientific facts 科学素养和对科学事实的接受
IF 6.9 2区 心理学
Current Opinion in Psychology Pub Date : 2025-09-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102183
Aart van Stekelenburg
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Meaning maintenance drives science rejection 意味着维护驱动科学排斥
IF 6.9 2区 心理学
Current Opinion in Psychology Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102184
Natalia Zarzeczna , Travis Proulx
{"title":"Meaning maintenance drives science rejection","authors":"Natalia Zarzeczna ,&nbsp;Travis Proulx","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102184","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102184","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Currently, ideologically-motivated discourses are actively undermining perceived value of science, with evidence-based policy-making being increasingly replaced with antiscience agendas shaped by political, spiritual, or conspiratorial ideologies. We propose that motivated science rejection is driven by compensatory mechanisms serving to maintain a coherent understanding of reality when this understanding conflicts with science. Drawing on the meaning maintenance model and the assumption of fluid compensation—any belief framework can be replaced with another to restore meaning—we argue that when science violates meaning, it is rejected in favour of an alternative framework of ideological beliefs, regardless of their epistemic validity. Interventions that align science with meaning-maintenance needs to minimise compensatory responses may prove promising in reducing science rejection.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"67 ","pages":"Article 102184"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145181232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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When honesty checks-out: Willful ignorance and the persistence of unethical environments 当诚实被淘汰时：故意的无知和不道德环境的持续存在
IF 6.9 2区 心理学
Current Opinion in Psychology Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102185
Petr Houdek, Štěpán Bahník
{"title":"When honesty checks-out: Willful ignorance and the persistence of unethical environments","authors":"Petr Houdek,&nbsp;Štěpán Bahník","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102185","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102185","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines how willful ignorance among (mostly) honest individuals contributes to the persistence and escalation of unethical behavior within certain environments. When individuals choose to avoid morally relevant information, they disengage from situations that would compel ethical action. This disengagement not only permits dishonesty to continue but also drives selection and sorting processes by which ethically flexible individuals are drawn to and retained in ever-more-corrupt environments. Over time, this dynamic cements systemic corruption and makes it more difficult for honest individuals to intervene. The article presents a conceptual framework outlining these self-reinforcing mechanisms and discusses implications for organizational and societal ethics. The framework clarifies why common countermeasures against dishonesty (entry barriers, shaming, or transparency) often backfire. The described self-reinforcing dynamics (where environments shape who enters, and the entrants then solidify the environment) are often overlooked in experimental psychological research, which focuses on emphasizing random assignment over self-selection, sorting, and endogenous-emergence designs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"67 ","pages":"Article 102185"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145181246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Choosing not to know: The emotional and sociocultural architecture of pension willful ignorance 选择不知道：养老的情感和社会文化结构故意无知
IF 6.9 2区 心理学
Current Opinion in Psychology Pub Date : 2025-09-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102181
G. Hochman , T. Kalagy , S. Malul , R. Yosef
{"title":"Choosing not to know: The emotional and sociocultural architecture of pension willful ignorance","authors":"G. Hochman ,&nbsp;T. Kalagy ,&nbsp;S. Malul ,&nbsp;R. Yosef","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102181","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102181","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Willful ignorance is the motivated avoidance of information. This robust behavioral tendency is typically explained through individual psychological mechanisms like self-image protection, emotional regulation, and moral leniency. However, existing theories underemphasize the social, cultural, and institutional contexts that fundamentally shape what people choose not to know. Drawing on extant literature and cross-cultural data from pension planning in Israel's three primary sociocultural groups, we demonstrate that willful ignorance often functions as a socially embedded practice, not merely an individual bias. For marginalized communities, such avoidance may represent adaptive responses to structural barriers, distrust, and cultural misalignment. To account for these dynamics, we propose the Sociocultural Architecture Model of Willful Ignorance. This integrative framework conceptualizes the meaning and adaptive function of willful ignorance as emerging from the interplay of individual, emotional, cultural, and structural factors. Addressing these factors is crucial for designing interventions that provide genuine inclusion for all.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"67 ","pages":"Article 102181"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145181234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Attitude strength as a novel predictor of willful ignorance 态度强度作为任性无知的新预测因子
IF 6.9 2区 心理学
Current Opinion in Psychology Pub Date : 2025-09-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102182
Guy Itzchakov , Geoff Haddock
{"title":"Attitude strength as a novel predictor of willful ignorance","authors":"Guy Itzchakov ,&nbsp;Geoff Haddock","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102182","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102182","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Willful ignorance is a pervasive phenomenon with significant consequences for decision-making, belief maintenance, and social polarization. While past research has identified various motivational and contextual factors underlying this behavior, less attention has been paid to attitude characteristics that shape the likelihood of engaging in willful ignorance. Addressing this gap, this paper introduces attitude strength as a critical and heretofore unexplored psychological factor that should affect when and why individuals engage in willful ignorance. We argue that strong attitudes, such as those held with certainty, are highly accessible, or are perceived as morally relevant, are particularly likely to elicit willful ignorance. Drawing on cognitive dissonance theory and motivated reasoning, we synthesize findings across domains, from political partisanship to responses to misinformation and AI-mediated communication.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"67 ","pages":"Article 102182"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145181233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The cultural authority of science and religion 科学和宗教的文化权威
IF 6.9 2区 心理学
Current Opinion in Psychology Pub Date : 2025-09-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102180
Shiri Noy , Timothy L. O'Brien
{"title":"The cultural authority of science and religion","authors":"Shiri Noy ,&nbsp;Timothy L. O'Brien","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102180","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102180","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As two of society's most influential cultural authorities, science and religion shape perceptions of both truth and morality. While science is often linked to factual knowledge and religion to moral judgment, their boundaries are often blurred and contested. This review integrates insights from sociology and psychology to examine how science and religion assert, sustain, and lose authority in contemporary societies. Drawing on recent empirical research, including cross-national comparisons, time-trend analysis, and the role of moral framing, we show that trust in science and religion is context-dependent and shaped by institutional settings, social identities, and moral resonance. We argue that cultural authority is not fixed but constructed through interactions among individuals, institutions, and widely shared narratives about empirical truth and moral values. Future research should engage comparative, intersectional, and moral dimensions to better understand how science and religion function as competing or complementary sources of cultural authority.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"67 ","pages":"Article 102180"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145181235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Blinded by bad identity: The role of collective narcissism, need for cognitive closure and willful ignorance in fostering intergroup bias and hostility among catholics and atheists 被糟糕的身份蒙蔽：集体自恋的作用，认知封闭的需要和故意无知在助长群体间偏见和天主教徒和无神论者之间的敌意
IF 5.9 2区 心理学
Current Opinion in Psychology Pub Date : 2025-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102179
Paula Pyrcz, Marta Marchlewska, Piotr Michalski
{"title":"Blinded by bad identity: The role of collective narcissism, need for cognitive closure and willful ignorance in fostering intergroup bias and hostility among catholics and atheists","authors":"Paula Pyrcz, Marta Marchlewska, Piotr Michalski","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102179","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes a theoretical model linking collective narcissism, need for cognitive closure, and willful ignorance as important mechanisms driving intergroup bias and conspiracy beliefs. The model suggests that individuals strongly identified with their group in a narcissistic way are motivated to avoid information threatening ingroup image, especially when they also seek cognitive certainty. This deliberate ignorance serves to protect group image and reinforce prejudice. The framework applies symmetrically to both religious (Catholics) and non-religious (atheists) groups, highlighting a universal psychological mechanism. Secure group identification, in contrast, is posited to buffer against these effects.","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145181236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Memory of violence 暴力记忆
IF 6.9 2区 心理学
Current Opinion in Psychology Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102174
Rodoljub Jovanović , Angela Bermúdez
{"title":"Memory of violence","authors":"Rodoljub Jovanović ,&nbsp;Angela Bermúdez","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102174","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102174","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Starting from Galtung's typology of violence, we first track differing ways in which direct violence on one hand, and structural and cultural violence on the other, are remembered and represented. Following this, we examine research demonstrating how narratives of past violence are constructed in various cultural products, with the focus on history textbooks narratives, their tendency to distort, normalize and justify violence, as well as potential to do the opposite. Furthermore, we explore history education and its potential to help students engage with the memory of violence in a critical way. Finally, we look at how assuming the role of victim or being assigned a role of the perpetrator critically determines a sophisticated interplay between the memory of violence, social identities and moral perspectives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"67 ","pages":"Article 102174"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145094162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Editorial overview: The psychology of misinformation 编辑概述：错误信息的心理学
IF 6.9 2区 心理学
Current Opinion in Psychology Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102178
Gordon Pennycook, Lisa Fazio
{"title":"Editorial overview: The psychology of misinformation","authors":"Gordon Pennycook,&nbsp;Lisa Fazio","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102178","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102178","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"67 ","pages":"Article 102178"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145093992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Clients' negative experiences in psychological treatment 心理治疗中来访者的负面体验
IF 6.9 2区 心理学
Current Opinion in Psychology Pub Date : 2025-09-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102175
Z. Vybíral , T. Řiháček , P. Borovička , B. Ogles
{"title":"Clients' negative experiences in psychological treatment","authors":"Z. Vybíral ,&nbsp;T. Řiháček ,&nbsp;P. Borovička ,&nbsp;B. Ogles","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102175","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102175","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Negative experiences (NEs) in psychotherapy, such as feelings of misunderstanding, boundary violations, or symptom worsening, are reported across diverse populations and treatment modalities. The prevalence estimates vary widely (7-96%) due to differences in study designs, populations, and definitions. Such experiences can negatively impact treatment engagement, satisfaction, and outcomes, sometimes resulting in premature termination or deterioration. Although awareness of NEs has increased, systematic assessment and identification of predictors remain limited. This short review presents an overview of current knowledge regarding NEs, emphasizing their diversity and potential influence on treatment outcomes and client well-being. It also underscores the need for improved assessment approaches and the development of personalized interventions to better manage these adverse experiences and optimize therapeutic effectiveness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"67 ","pages":"Article 102175"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145059818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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