{"title":"Game-related personality assessment","authors":"Ard J. Barends , Marie L. Ohlms","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102095","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102095","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In recent years, various different types of game-related personality assessments have been developed such as gamified and game-based personality assessments. These game-related personality assessments are generally developed for personnel selection purposes and often have significant convergent correlations with self-reports of the targeted personality traits. In this review, we critically evaluate the state-of-the-art in game-related personality assessment. Specifically, we discuss findings with respect to discriminant validity, faking, applicant reactions, fairness, test-retest reliability, and criterion validity. Although game-related personality assessments are a welcome new tool to assess personality, more research is needed to establish their added value.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 102095"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144565756","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}
Lindsay Gibson , Carla L. Peck , James Miles , Catherine Duquette
{"title":"Historical thinking: Trends, critiques, and future directions","authors":"Lindsay Gibson , Carla L. Peck , James Miles , Catherine Duquette","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102088","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102088","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Historical thinking, which is defined as the cognitive process of analyzing and interpreting historical evidence to construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct historical narratives about the past, is a central concept for teaching, learning, and researching history education around the world. In this article we discuss four popular historical thinking frameworks from England, the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands that have influenced teaching, learning, and researching history education globally. We also identify three general trends in historical thinking research over time: cognition and epistemology, historical literacy, and identity and socio-cultural influences. We also describe common disciplinary, epistemological, decolonial, and political critiques of historical thinking. We conclude by outlining potential future directions for historical thinking theory, research, and practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 102088"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144570137","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}
{"title":"Psychometric properties of personality assessment using machine learning","authors":"Antonis Koutsoumpis","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102093","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102093","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Technological advancements have enabled personality psychologists to move beyond traditional questionnaire-based assessment toward machine learning-based personality assessment (ML-PA). This manuscript provides a non-systematic overview of the validity and reliability of ML-PA, where behavioral features (e.g., text, voice, digital footprints) serve as predictors of personality traits. ML-PA shows promising construct validity, particularly for observer reports, and ML-PA values are similarly correlated with external variables as questionnaire-based values. However, reliability indices, especially for self-report-based ML-PAs, have been found to be lower. Factors such as sample size, input data quantity, and trait activation significantly impact ML-PA accuracy. Algorithmic bias might pose a threat to ML-PA, and there is a trade-off between applying bias mitigation techniques and maximizing ML-PA performance. Future advancements, including the use of large language models and a focus on explainability, are expected to further enhance personality measurement using computational methods.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 102093"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144565675","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}
{"title":"Symptom overreporting and its consequences for treatment","authors":"Harald Merckelbach , Brechje Dandachi-FitzGerald","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102091","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102091","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This review examines the effects of patients overreporting symptoms, which can be identified through validity tests. Such overreporting may reflect concerns about being denied care, difficulty describing experiences, or pursuit of external incentives. Regardless of the reason, it has meaningful clinical implications. Research shows links between overreporting and lower treatment adherence, higher dropout rates, and challenges in building strong therapeutic relationships. When clinicians cannot fully understand the nature or severity of symptoms, misdiagnosis and reduced trust may result. To reduce these risks, it is important to view validity test results as informative and use them to support thoughtful, collaborative conversations with patients and their support networks, ultimately enhancing treatment planning and outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 102091"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144513204","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}
{"title":"Consequences of adding context in personality assessment","authors":"Djurre Holtrop, Janneke K. Oostrom","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102092","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102092","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Contextualized personality inventories and situational judgement tests (SJTs) display relatively high predictive validity for context-specific outcomes. However, their effectiveness can vary significantly depending on the degree of contextualization and the development method used. For personality inventories, gains in predictive validity tend to be lowest for instructional contextualization, higher for tagged contextualization, and highest for full contextualization. Moreover, test–taker reactions seem most favorable to fully contextualized inventories. However, the benefits of contextualization might vary across personality traits. Unlike traditionally developed SJTs, construct-driven SJTs can also measure specific personality traits, making them fully contextualized personality assessments. This approach opens new avenues for investigating the interplay between situations and personality. Moreover, construct-driven SJTs offer multiple advantages over traditional SJTs, including higher internal consistency, higher construct validity, and broader applicability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 102092"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144513216","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}
{"title":"Narratives and collective memory","authors":"Cesar Lopez, Floor van Alphen, Laura Carmona","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102087","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102087","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Current research continues to emphasize the role of narratives as a key cultural mediator for collective memory. Recent studies examine how narratives shape collective identities—not in isolation, but by integrating them with other mediators such as symbols, monuments, or rituals. Key concepts for understanding how narratives function, such as schematic narrative templates, have been refined to account for increasingly heterogeneous and dynamic identities in societies today. The study of narratives must also consider the rise of counter- and alternative narratives that coexist with—and sometimes challenge—master narratives. Narrative approaches are making significant contributions at the intersection of memory and history, contributions that are especially relevant to fostering critical and historical thinking in our societies. Critical thinking about narratives is essential for citizens to negotiate and interrogate them, as well as generate their own. To better understand the role of narratives in collective memory it is crucial to investigate the points of tension and interrelation between their production and consumption, between memory and history, and between dominant and alternative narratives. All of this occurs in a context that presents new challenges for narrative research—such as the rise of extremist political discourse and use of national narratives, and the emergence of new narrative-production mechanisms like artificial intelligence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 102087"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144513202","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}
{"title":"Bridging the gap between personality and stereotypes: A conceptual and methodological integration","authors":"Daniele Romano , Marco Perugini","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102085","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102085","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the conceptual and methodological overlaps between personality judgment and stereotype evaluation, traditionally treated as distinct domains. Drawing from models like the Big Five, HEXACO, and the Stereotype Content Model, we show that both fields rely on similar dimensional structures and evaluative processes. Despite a few differences in the measurement approaches—person-focused questionnaires versus group-level adjective ratings—both domains share core cognitive mechanisms and are subject to similar biases and accuracies. We argue for an integrative framework that views personality and stereotypes as complementary facets of (social) perception. Such integration not only enriches theoretical understanding of person perception but can also inform practical interventions, from personalized assessment to prejudice reduction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 102085"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144513205","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}
{"title":"Deliberate ignorance in resource allocations to others: The role of entitlement","authors":"Ilana Ritov , Stephen M. Garcia","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102089","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102089","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the role of self-image concerns and a sense of entitlement in decisions involving resource allocation, when individuals can choose to seek or avoid information about the needs of others. We review research showing that people often engage in willful ignorance to protect their moral self-image while pursuing their self-interest. We propose, however, that to fully understand self-image protection as a driver of deliberate ignorance, it is essential to examine the underlying attitudes that support and sustain this motivation. As an example, we highlight the moderating role of entitlement, showing that individuals with a high sense of entitlement are less likely to avoid information and more likely to help. These findings underscore the interplay between moral self-concept and worldview in shaping social behavior.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 102089"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144513208","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}
{"title":"Four big problems of big five agreeableness","authors":"Benjamin E. Hilbig , Morten Moshagen","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102086","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102086","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We review four major problems of Big Five Agreeableness (B5A). First, whereas aspects of pro-sociality and ethicality are shared across theoretical definitions of B5A, B5A as it is typically measured insufficiently accounts for corresponding behaviors and other relevant outcomes. Second, an alternative model of personality structure – the HEXACO and its Honesty-Humility dimension in particular – does account for these gaps. Third, invalidating the counter-argument that broader traits are necessarily inferior at predicting specific outcomes, a single broad trait – the dark factor of personality – also accounts for outcomes insufficiently covered by B5A. Fourth and finally, there are considerable discrepancies between B5A operationalizations, leading to multiple jingle-fallacies. We conclude by summarizing the steps necessary to salvage B5A.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 102086"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144513198","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}
{"title":"How to measure negative effects of psychological interventions","authors":"Alexander Rozental , Tomáš Řiháček","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102084","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102084","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Negative effects of psychological interventions, such as deterioration, non-response, and novel symptoms, remain underexamined despite their ethical and clinical significance. This commentary reviews current methods for assessing such effects, highlighting the limitations of relying solely on symptom deterioration and the need for more direct patient-reported measures. Eight commonly used instruments are described and compared in terms of content, coverage, and psychometric properties. Methodological challenges, such as timing of assessment, measurement reactivity, and patients' reluctance to disclose harm, are also discussed. Recommendations are provided for improving the monitoring and reporting of negative effects in both clinical and research settings, with an emphasis on transparency, patient safety, and the inclusion of diverse populations and treatment modalities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 102084"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144513200","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}