{"title":"Anand C. Paranjpe (1936-2025).","authors":"Gira Bhatt, Randal G Tonks","doi":"10.1037/amp0001684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001684","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Memorializes Anand C. Paranjpe (1936-2025). Anand was best known for his rigorous scholarship connecting and contrasting India's philosophical treatise on human nature with Western psychology. His excellence in articulating common themes between Indian and Western psychologies remains unparalleled. In 1967, Anand joined the psychology department at Simon Fraser University, Canada, as an associate professor. His 30-plus years at the university were marked by publications of several books, book chapters, and journal articles. Anand's 1984 groundbreaking book Theoretical Psychology: The Meeting of the East and West was followed by his seminal work Self and Identity in Modern Psychology and Indian Thought (1998), which is considered a gold standard for psychology curriculum in India's universities. He coedited The Handbook of Indian Psychology (2008) and later published Yoga and Psychoanalysis (2022). His last book Understanding Yoga Psychology: Indigenous Psychology With Global Perspective was published in 2024, a year before his death. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"81 3","pages":"429"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147575952","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}
American PsychologistPub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2024-08-15DOI: 10.1037/amp0001391
Stephen J Ceci, Cory J Clark, Lee Jussim, Wendy M Williams
{"title":"Adversarial collaboration: An undervalued approach in behavioral science.","authors":"Stephen J Ceci, Cory J Clark, Lee Jussim, Wendy M Williams","doi":"10.1037/amp0001391","DOIUrl":"10.1037/amp0001391","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Open Science initiatives such as preregistration, publicly available procedures and data, and power analyses have rightly been lauded for increasing the <i>reliability</i> of findings. However, a potentially equally important initiative-aimed at increasing the <i>validity</i> of science-has largely been ignored. Adversarial collaborations (ACs) refer to team science in which members are chosen to represent diverse (and even contradictory) perspectives and hypotheses, with or without a neutral team member to referee disputes. Here, we provide background about ACs and argue that they are effective, essential, and underutilized. We explain how and why ACs can enhance both the reliability and validity of science and why their benefit extends beyond the realm of team science to include venues such as fact-checking, wisdom of crowds, journal reviewing, and sequential editing. Improving scientific validity would increase the efficacy of policy and interventions stemming from behavioral science research, and over time, it could help salvage the reputation of our discipline because its products would be perceived as resulting from a serious, open-minded consideration of diverse views. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":" ","pages":"374-390"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141989207","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}
Nayeli Y Chavez-Dueñas,Hector Y Adames,Kenneth S Pope,Melba J T Vasquez
{"title":"How much time do you want for your progress? The urgency for decoloniality in psychology persists: Reply to Cobb et al. (2026).","authors":"Nayeli Y Chavez-Dueñas,Hector Y Adames,Kenneth S Pope,Melba J T Vasquez","doi":"10.1037/amp0001686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001686","url":null,"abstract":"In response to the commentary on our article, \"The Fierce Ethical Urgency of Decoloniality in Therapy: From Understanding to Action\" (Chavez-Dueñas et al., 2025), we assert that true progress in epistemological liberation, decolonial praxis, and institutional reform demands more than acknowledgment of prior achievements. While it is important to recognize our collective advancements as a field, a point we emphasized in our article, despite contrary assertions by Cobb et al. (2026), we must also resist complacency. It is important to critically question what we label as progress, resist celebrating achievements prematurely, and never forget history. This vigilance is especially important now, as prior advances are being undermined or reversed in both the field of psychology and the broader society. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"63 1","pages":"420-422"},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147536508","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":"Ellen Berscheid (1936-2025).","authors":"Jeffry A Simpson, Eugene Borgida, Mark Snyder","doi":"10.1037/amp0001690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001690","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Memorializes Ellen Berscheid (1936-2025), one of the cofounders of relationship science and a trailblazing pioneer for women in psychology. In 1965, she became the first woman hired in the business school at the University of Minnesota. In 1967, Jack Darley, chair of psychology at Minnesota, realized that Ellen had star potential and hired her. She rose to the rank of full professor in just 4 years. Over the next 4 decades, Ellen published many seminal articles and game-changing books that laid the foundation for relationship science. She received many of the most important awards in psychology, including the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award and the Association for Psychological Science's William James Award. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"81 3","pages":"428"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147575942","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}
American PsychologistPub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2025-01-30DOI: 10.1037/amp0001506
Laura Smith, Oliver Yimeng Xu, Kacey Short, Erin Montion, Brooke Gordon
{"title":"Psychology and whiteness itself.","authors":"Laura Smith, Oliver Yimeng Xu, Kacey Short, Erin Montion, Brooke Gordon","doi":"10.1037/amp0001506","DOIUrl":"10.1037/amp0001506","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the aftermath of its Apology to People of Color (American Psychological Association, 2021b), the American Psychological Association recently committed itself to a long-term process by which it aims to address racial equity within the field of psychology as well as society more broadly (Andoh, 2022). In service of these ends, what can psychology learn from an analysis of the discursive framework within which it conducts its racism-related work? This critical conceptual article begins with the premise that all professional discourse-the concepts, language, and logic structures by which a field creates and communicates knowledge-inevitably bears the markings of the society in which it was established. Examination of psychological discourse, therefore, can reveal information not only about social hierarchies but also about the field's potential reproduction of them (even when the field intends to do otherwise). Proceeding from a multidisciplinary perspective that includes decolonial premises, a Foucauldian discursive framework, and a sociohistorical approach to whiteness, the article will show how psychological scholarship on racism is constrained by the delimited representations of whiteness that are featured in its discourse.</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":" ","pages":"316-330"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143068783","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":"Reconciling psychology's past and present: Commentary on Chavez-Dueñas et al. (2025).","authors":"Cory L Cobb,Lawrence G Watkins,Seth J Schwartz","doi":"10.1037/amp0001641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001641","url":null,"abstract":"Chavez-Dueñas et al. (2025) provide an insightful critique of psychology's colonial legacy and call for an urgent decolonization of psychological ethics, theory, and practice. Although we agree with the ethical imperative to dismantle oppressive structures and practices within the discipline, the present commentary offers a complementary perspective that highlights the substantial progress psychology has made over the past several decades. We argue that many of the concerns raised by Chavez-Dueñas et al. have been, and continue to be, addressed through theoretical innovation, institutional reform, and the development of subfields grounded in decolonial and antioppressive frameworks. Examples include the establishment of liberation psychology, multicultural and Indigenous psychologies, and feminist therapies, along with organizational shifts such as the American Psychological Association's public apologies for historical harm, ongoing ethical code revisions, and integration of culturally adapted evidence-based practices into therapy. Training programs now emphasize cultural humility and critical consciousness, and professional guidelines embed equity and plural epistemologies. Although significant work remains, psychology is not static; it is actively evolving in response to critiques from within and beyond the field. We argue that a balanced account-one that recognizes both past harm and ongoing progress-better supports the transformation that decolonial scholars and practitioners seek. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"1 1","pages":"417-419"},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147536506","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 evolving portrait of psychologists: A commentary on Xu et al. (2026).","authors":"Wei Zhang","doi":"10.1037/amp0001694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001694","url":null,"abstract":"Xu et al.'s (2026) portrayal of the evolving portrait of psychologists is valuable, yet several points merit further discussion or refinement. When interpreting the \"decline of conscientiousness and rise of openness,\" additional factors should be considered-such as psychology's growing applied attribute, the public impact of psychoanalysis, transformations in book publishing, and the increasing number of female psychologists. The analysis could also benefit from: A stronger account of psychology's own disciplinary self-positioning, cross-cultural extensions and comparative findings, and comparisons with personality assessments of actual psychologists. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"106 1","pages":"423-425"},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147536507","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}
American PsychologistPub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2025-03-27DOI: 10.1037/amp0001513
Anthony D Ong, Frank D Mann
{"title":"Cumulative social advantage across the lifespan: Examining the convergent and predictive validity of a multidimensional hierarchical construct for health and longevity.","authors":"Anthony D Ong, Frank D Mann","doi":"10.1037/amp0001513","DOIUrl":"10.1037/amp0001513","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study introduces the concept of cumulative social advantage as a hierarchical construct encompassing multiple aspects of social connection, including religious, psychosocial, familial, and emotional dimensions. Using data from the Midlife Development in the United States-II (<i>n</i> = 4,028) and Refresher (<i>n</i> = 2,586) cohorts, we assessed the dimensionality, replicability, measurement invariance, and validity of a hierarchical model. Results support measurement invariance across demographic groups and demonstrate the model's convergent and predictive validity. Cumulative social advantage was associated with lower multimorbidity (β = -.17 [-.22, -.13], <i>p</i> < .001), reduced adiposity (β = -.12 [-.16, -.08], <i>p</i> < .001), fewer difficulties with moderate (β = -.18 [-.22, -.14], <i>p</i> < .001) and basic activities of daily living (β = -.20 [-.24, -.16], <i>p</i> < .001), and a decreased hazard rate for all-cause mortality (adjusted hazard ratio = 0.67 [0.47, 0.95], <i>p</i> < .001), with a standard deviation increase in cumulative social advantage predicting a 33% reduction in the hazard rate. The ameliorative influence of cumulative social advantage was consistent across sex, race, and education. These findings highlight the complex relationship between social connections and critical health outcomes, emphasizing the importance of considering cumulative social advantage as a potential explanation for understanding individual differences in health across the lifespan. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":" ","pages":"299-315"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143732428","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":"Arresting the whiteness pandemic? Changes in whiteness socialization in Minneapolis following Chauvin's arrest and conviction for murdering #GeorgeFloyd.","authors":"Gail M Ferguson,Lauren Eales","doi":"10.1037/amp0001682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001682","url":null,"abstract":"This article reports the results of a mixed methods 1-year longitudinal follow-up of the original Whiteness pandemic study among non-Hispanic White Minneapolis families immediately after George Floyd's murder in 2020 (Time 1 [T1]: Ferguson et al., 2022). We tested if 1 year of continuous dissonance events afterward, including Derek Chauvin's arrest and televised trial-conviction alongside high visibility antiracist media and movements, could prompt the deep and sustained antiracist change required to arrest the Whiteness pandemic in these families. At Time 2 (T2: 2021), mothers' White racial identity development (WRID) and Whiteness socialization (WS) of their children were measured both qualitatively and quantitatively (N = 203, Mage = 39.35 years, SDage = 4.05, average family income $125,000-$149,999; no differences from nonreturning mothers). Findings exceeded our expectations: Content-analyzed qualitative codes revealed that 73% of mothers advanced in WRID (18% in WRID Phase 2 at T1 → 78% at T2). At T2, we replicated and expanded the WRID-WS association both qualitatively and quantitatively. Hierarchical regression analyses confirmed that T1-T2 WRID growth predicted T2 WS scale scores, and case studies illustrated different trajectories of antiracist change including relevant daily activities. Overall, findings demonstrate that deep and sustained antiracist change is possible for White parents, and this change is often gradual, occurring in stages. Knowing that walking the antiracist walk (WRID) goes hand in hand with talking the antiracist talk (WS) both cross-sectionally and longitudinally illuminates two compatible family-level targets for antiracist parenting intervention capable of arresting the Whiteness pandemic. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147483540","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":"Purpose and agency in evolutionary biology and psychology.","authors":"Frank Masterpasqua","doi":"10.1037/amp0001675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001675","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147380547","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}