{"title":"Irwin G. Sarason (1929-2025).","authors":"Jonathan B Bricker, Ronald E Smith","doi":"10.1037/amp0001720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001720","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Irwin G. Sarason (1929-2025), professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Washington, was a leading scholar whose pioneering work shaped contemporary understanding of anxiety, stress, and social support. Over a career spanning more than six decades, he produced influential empirical research, developed widely used psychological assessment instruments-including the Test Anxiety Scale, the Life Experiences Survey, and the Social Support Questionnaire-and coauthored enduring textbooks that educated generations of students worldwide. Sarason played a central role in the growth and leadership of the University of Washington's psychology department, including service as department chair. His scholarship bridged clinical, social, and cognitive psychology and helped establish test anxiety and social support as core constructs in psychological science. A fellow of major scientific organizations and recipient of multiple honors, Sarason also contributed internationally as a lecturer and visiting scholar. Colleagues and students remember him as an exacting thinker, dedicated mentor, and gifted communicator whose wide-ranging humanistic interests complemented his scientific achievements. His legacy endures through his research, his students, and his extensive contributions to psychological education. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147610283","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":"L. Rowell Huesmann (1943-2025).","authors":"Eric F Dubow, Paul Boxer","doi":"10.1037/amp0001725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001725","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>L. Rowell Huesmann, Amos N. Tversky collegiate emeritus professor of communication studies and psychology and research professor in the Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research, the University of Michigan, passed away peacefully at his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on December 21, 2025. Rowell was an internationally recognized scholar. His research focused on understanding the causes of aggressive and violent behavior and how those causes exert influence. He developed an integrated social-cognitive model to explain how aggression is learned over time from childhood onward and how it transmits across generations. Rowell achieved many academic honors during his distinguished career and his greatest academic enjoyment was in mentoring the next generation of aggression researchers, whom he trained and then treated as collaborators. Rowell was intellectually intense, organized, determined, detail oriented, and generous with his time and energy for his family, friends, and students. He was a die-hard fan of the Michigan Wolverines, a sports enthusiast and life-long athlete, and a world traveler a few times over and well read. Rowell was preceded in death by the love of his life, Penny, to whom he was married for 60 years, and he is survived by his children, Kimberly (John) Larsen and Graham Rowell, and grandchildren, Nicholas, Ryan, and McKenna. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147610277","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":"Supplemental Material for Linking Psychological Distress and Multilevel Socioeconomic Disadvantage: A Representative Population-Based Study of 15,851 U.K. Adults","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/amp0001705.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001705.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147619877","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: 2025-05-12DOI: 10.1037/amp0001531
Mark Levine, Chris Walton, Richard Philpot, Tina Keil
{"title":"Bystanders and the murder of George Floyd: Analyzing bystander intervention in the course of a police killing.","authors":"Mark Levine, Chris Walton, Richard Philpot, Tina Keil","doi":"10.1037/amp0001531","DOIUrl":"10.1037/amp0001531","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using a detailed transcription, obtained from body-camera, CCTV, and smartphone footage of the murder of George Floyd, we examine the behavior of bystanders as events unfolded. Analysis reveals 205 direct verbal bystander interventions comprised of five forms (declaratives, assessments, interrogatives, imperatives, insults). We also describe the key physical intervention strategies deployed by the bystanders. We show that bystanders prioritize interventions based on what they \"know\" (rather than asking questions or making demands). We suggest that this is because assessment-based strategies are less likely to be seen as a direct challenge to the power of the police and therefore have more chance of inducing constructive engagement. Although bystanders were ultimately unsuccessful in persuading the police to change course, we identify five moments in the action sequences where the assessment concerns of the bystanders were taken up by the officers-albeit fleetingly. We argue that these bystander interventions create the opportunity for officers to break the pattern of behavior that will lead to murder. It is a failure of the officers and not the bystanders that the police are unable to take those opportunities. We argue that assessment-based interventions have the potential to breach structural and situational power dynamics that usually lead to bystander interventions being overridden or ignored. We conclude by drawing some wider implications for the way bystanders and police officers can be trained to improve the safety of individuals caught up in police arrests. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":" ","pages":"331-343"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13037210/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144053242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflections on the changing image of psychologists' personality: Reply to Zhang (2026).","authors":"Liang Xu,Zehua Jiang,Eka Roivainen","doi":"10.1037/amp0001696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001696","url":null,"abstract":"We respond to Zhang's (2026) commentary on our study concerning the 170-year evolution of psychologists' personality portraits (Xu et al., 2026). We acknowledge the effects of the growth of the publishing industry on the composition of the corpus and its linguistic limitations. Furthermore, we discuss how large language models offer a promising avenue for comparing public professional images with actual personality traits. Regarding the rise of therapists, we clarify that the observed increase in openness is likely not a direct consequence of this trend, as agreeableness and extraversion remained stable post-World War II. Separately, while this is an intriguing possibility, how the increasing presence of female psychologists may shape the profession's image remains a question for future inquiry, which we hope will stimulate further discussion in the field. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"20 1","pages":"426-427"},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147536505","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":"James H. Korn (1938-2025).","authors":"Stephanie E Afful","doi":"10.1037/amp0001691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001691","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Memorializes James H. Korn (1938-2025). Jim joined the faculty at Saint Louis University (SLU) in 1974, initially serving as chair of the psychology department, and remained at SLU as teacher, mentor, and colleague until his retirement in 2006. For more than 3 decades, he championed teaching excellence across the university, believing deeply in helping teachers become better educators. His influence is reflected in the many students and colleagues he mentored- challenging them to think critically about their teaching, stay active in the classroom, question the \"why,\" and learn from mistakes. Jim's impact extended well beyond the classroom. He was an early advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion, helping establish the department's Diversity and Inclusion Committee in the early 1990. Jim's leadership extended to the national stage. He served as president of American Psychological Association Division 2 (1987-1988) and was instrumental in creating the Fund for Excellence in the Teaching of Psychology, championing recognition and support for outstanding educators. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"81 3","pages":"430"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147575911","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":"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}