{"title":"How critics of racial hereditarian research (mis)categorize empirical studies: Commentary on Bird et al. (2024).","authors":"Federico R. León","doi":"10.1037/amp0001500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001500","url":null,"abstract":"According to Bird et al. (2024), racial hereditarian research (RHR) is scientific racism that should be curbed by the American Psychological Association. They presented an RHR bibliography in which I found eight works of Federico R. León addressing cognitive performance. The eight studies were animated by a socioecological rather than RHR perspective and two of them explicitly contradicted the racial/hereditarian position. I conclude that Bird et al.'s design of the RHR bibliographic classification was erroneous and counterproductive to their own aims and should be modified. I also suggest alternative ways to strengthen anti-RHR positions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"55 1","pages":"838-839"},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144701665","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":"Applying the lifestyle lens to population mental health science: A commentary on Dodge et al. (2024).","authors":"Austen R. Anderson","doi":"10.1037/amp0001536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001536","url":null,"abstract":"In response to Dodge et al.'s (2024) call for a new population mental health science, I propose that such an approach would be greatly benefited by focusing on the role of everyday lifestyle factors. In conjunction with the burgeoning evidence demonstrating the physical and mental health benefits of healthy lifestyles, applying a \"lifestyle lens\" to this endeavor would unify diverse providers and researchers in the common goal of healthy lifestyle promotion. A population health science built on a foundation of lifestyle could significantly impact many of the most common and pressing global physical and mental health challenges. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"81 1","pages":"835-837"},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144701663","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":"Applying rigorous standards is not a ban or censorship: A reply to León (2025) and Connor and Fuerst (2025).","authors":"Kevin A. Bird, John P. Jackson, Andrew S. Winston","doi":"10.1037/amp0001528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001528","url":null,"abstract":"In their commentaries on Bird et al. (2024), León (2025) and Connor and Fuerst (2025) misrepresent our position as supporting censorship or bans on racial hereditarian research. We explicitly rejected censorship and bans, and we warned against labeling researchers as \"racists.\" Instead, we argued for the application of stringent scientific standards from relevant disciplines. Connor and Fuerst's argument for using admixture regression to find a genetic basis for racial differences in test scores is rejected. Their focus on this specific method fails to address the scientific and ethical issues of racial hereditarian research that we raised in Bird et al. (2024). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"20 1","pages":"842-843"},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144701664","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 moralistic fallacy in a selective critique of admixture regression: Commentary on Bird et al. (2024).","authors":"Gregory Connor, John G. R. Fuerst","doi":"10.1037/amp0001493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001493","url":null,"abstract":"Bird et al. (2024) propose an effective ban on admixture regression research that uses cognitive test scores as the dependent variable. Their core argument is moral and political, but they also offer a scientific critique of the methodology. Many highly regarded admixture regression studies examining a wide range of medical and psychological traits fall within their scientific critique, despite a lack of moral or political salience. Rejecting the scientific legitimacy of admixture regression analysis if the dependent variable is politically sensitive but accepting it if the dependent variable is politically painless may entail the moralistic fallacy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"48 1","pages":"840-841"},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144701667","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":"APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Lauren B. Alloy and Lyn Y. Abramson.","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/amp0001567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001567","url":null,"abstract":"The American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology recognizes the work of a psychologist or group of psychologists that is impactful, innovative, and transformational. Lauren B. Alloy and Lyn Y. Abramson are recognized for their extraordinary 50-year collaboration, making significant contributions to clinical psychology in the understanding and intervention of mood disorders, both unipolar depression and bipolar disorders. In particular, they are recognized for three primary outstanding theoretical contributions and accompanying bodies of empirical work in applied psychological science: the hopelessness theory of depression, depressive realism, and the behavioral approach system/reward system hypersensitivity theory of bipolar disorder. They have had an immense impact on other psychologists throughout the field through their dedication to mentorship and developing future leaders in psychological science. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"115 1","pages":"697-700"},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144701669","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":"APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: The current and legacy leadership of Mt. Hope Family Center: Dante Cicchetti, Jennie G. Noll, and Sheree Toth.","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/amp0001566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001566","url":null,"abstract":"The American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology recognizes the work of a psychologist or group of psychologists that is impactful, innovative, and transformational. The current and legacy leadership of Mt. Hope Family Center (MHFC) is recognized for its immeasurable impacts on the field of psychology across domains of intellectual contributions, development, and implementation of evidence-based interventions, leveraging psychology toward the public good across policy and clinical arenas and training the next generation of psychologists. With more than $94 million in grant funding, the research approach advanced by MHFC leadership is transdisciplinary, leveraging multilevel and multimethod assessments to characterize the developmental course of early adversity across levels of analysis. As stewards of MHFC, Dante Cicchetti, Jennie G. Noll, and Sheree Toth have been leaders in formulating theories of developmental psychopathology, which have had long-reaching impact on understanding development and preventing child sexual abuse. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"20 1","pages":"701-704"},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144701668","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":"Rocky Mountain Sunflowers by Jan Bushart","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/amp0001551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001551","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"703 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144701405","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":"APF Charles L. Brewer Award for Distinguished Teaching of Psychology: Karen Brakke.","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/amp0001564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001564","url":null,"abstract":"The APF Charles L. Brewer Award for Distinguished Teaching of Psychology recognizes a significant career of contributions of a psychologist who has a proven track record as an exceptional teacher of psychology. Karen Brakke is recognized for her outstanding teaching of psychology, contributions to the scholarship and practice of the same, and her profound dedication to mentorship. Her consistent scholarly productivity both within her discipline of developmental psychology and the scholarship of teaching and learning has resulted in numerous articles in well-regarded journals as well as invited book chapters and other publications. Brakke's dedication to investing in the future of the field is clear through her direct mentorship and her involvement in other organizations and institutions, as is her unwavering commitment to exemplifying excellence in the teaching of psychology (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"20 1","pages":"709-711"},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144701666","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":"APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Ann S. Masten.","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/amp0001565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001565","url":null,"abstract":"The American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology recognizes the work of a psychologist or group of psychologists that is impactful, innovative, and transformational. Ann S. Masten is recognized for groundbreaking and sustained research on resilience, pioneering the idea that resilience emerges from ordinary, but powerful, adaptive processes in individuals, their relationships, and contexts. For decades, Masten's work has guided theory, methods, practice, and policy focused on understanding and fostering positive adaptation to adversity in children, youth, and families. Her highly published and cited work has yielded a more accurate and hopeful picture of how adversity influences development and what can be done about it, not only through efforts to prevent or mitigate harm but also by strategies to boost resources and opportunities and mobilize ordinary but powerful protective systems. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"21 1","pages":"705-708"},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144701713","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}