{"title":"Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Rebecca l. Pearl.","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/amp0001411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001411","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Early Career Awards, given for the first time in 1974, recognize the large number of excellent early career psychologists. Recipients of this award may not have held a doctoral degree for more than nine years. For her compassionate illumination of the bias, stigma, and discrimination to which individuals with obesity are subjected in media portrayals and in their daily lives, Rebecca L. Pearl is a 2024 award winner. Pearl has thoroughly revealed the pernicious effects of weight stigma on physical and mental health, particularly in persons who have internalized society's stigmatization. Her stellar research has included population surveys, structured clinical interviews, and randomized controlled trials, which have captured the complexities of internalized weight stigma while creating a promising cognitive behavioral intervention to counteract society's weight-stigmatizing messages. With characteristic empathy and scientific rigor, she is now poised to address the stigmatization that erodes the quality of life in individuals who live with HIV, cancer, Type 2 diabetes, chronic pain, and other diseases. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"79 9","pages":"1305-1307"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142883239","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":"Award for Distinguished Senior Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Russell B. Lemle.","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/amp0001407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001407","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest recognize persons who have advanced psychology as a science and/or profession by a single extraordinary achievement or a lifetime of outstanding contributions in the public interest. The 2024 Award for Distinguished Senior Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest is bestowed to Russell B. Lemle in recognition of his sustained groundbreaking initiatives that moved firearm-related suicide prevention efforts inexorably forward. Dr. Lemle's achievements-the inaugural lethal means safety counseling training in the Department of Veterans Affairs, the first national veterans' firearm suicide conferences, the initial firearm industry stakeholder roundtables, unprecedented articles in popular gun magazines, and congressional legislation-have played a key role in fostering common ground across the firearm sociopolitical divide. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"79 9","pages":"1358-1360"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142883262","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":"Acceptance and commitment therapy versus trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy: A comparative study of the effects on the posttraumatic stress symptoms of female Afghan adolescents.","authors":"Sayed Jafar Ahmadi, Azadeh Tavoli, Zeinab Musavi, Justin Dainer-Best","doi":"10.1037/amp0001451","DOIUrl":"10.1037/amp0001451","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The objective of this study was to conduct a randomized control trial investigating the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) compared to a trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy (TF-CBT) in treating symptoms of posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in female Afghan adolescents. Participants were randomly assigned to the ACT (20 participants; M = 14.8 [SD = 1.93]), TF-CBT (20 participants; M = 14.80 [SD = 1.85]), or waiting control group (23 participants; M = 15.47 [SD = 1.75]). At baseline, all groups completed Persian versions of the Child Revised Impact of Event Scale-13. The intervention groups then had eight group sessions of ACT or seven group sessions of TF-CBT. The control group had no additional contact. The Child Revised Impact of Event Scale-13 was readministered to all participants after 3 weeks. Analyses used analysis of covariance, with effect sizes measured by Cohen's d. In terms of PTSS, the groups did not differ significantly at preintervention. At postintervention, only the ACT and TF-CBT groups had significantly lower levels of PTSS compared to the control group. While there was no significant difference between ACT and TF-CBT groups in avoidance or arousal symptoms, we found a significant difference between groups in intrusion symptoms. The findings suggest that ACT and TF-CBT may be promising interventions for the treatment of PTSS in female Afghan adolescents and that further research in the area is warranted. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"79 9","pages":"1452-1459"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142883481","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":"APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology: Shawntell Nicole Pace.","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/amp0001467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001467","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology is awarded on an annual basis by the APA Board of Professional Affairs and the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) to a graduate student who has demonstrated outstanding practice and application of psychology. Shawntell N. Pace is a joint winner of the 2024 award. Pace is a doctoral candidate in the Counseling Psychology program at the University of Georgia. Throughout her doctoral journey, she has conducted research and engaged in clinical practice that has cultivated sacred, transformative healing spaces for racially, ethnically, and culturally marginalized populations. She is at the forefront of engaging advocacy, where she collaborates with communities and other professionals to organize education, training, and community-serving programming that increases awareness of systemic inequities and mental health outcomes and increases awareness about how to harness community cultural strengths to foster wellness. Her scholarly research, clinical work, and professional service center on amplifying the stories, sociocultural histories, and cultural strengths of marginalized communities, with an emphasis on African descent and Chamorro populations, to continually enhance culturally responsive clinical practice and research. Her professional contributions reflect numerous examples of how she conceptualizes and creates sacred, healing spaces that encourage connection, reflection, rest, and resistance among marginalized people groups. As is reflected in the title of her dissertation, 'Finding Minagahet,' Shawntell's professional endeavors seek truth and provide a pathway for people to share their stories authentically. Indeed, Shawntell's efforts have made an impact on so many individuals, and she is well-deserving of this distinguished award. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"79 9","pages":"1440-1442"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142883487","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":"Bridging the sociopolitical divide: Transforming efforts to prevent firearm suicide.","authors":"Russell B Lemle","doi":"10.1037/amp0001426","DOIUrl":"10.1037/amp0001426","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Firearm-related suicide represents a significant public health concern in the United States, contributing to 55% of the approximately 49,000 suicide fatalities recorded in 2022. Research has demonstrated a robust link between firearm accessibility and suicide rates. These findings have prompted interest in developing interventions designed to increase the time and space between an individual's suicidal intent and access to firearms, allowing for acute impulses to subside. However, pursuing such measures has encountered resistance from factions within the firearm advocacy sphere, citing concerns about potential infringement on self-defense capabilities. Despite these apprehensions, an unprecedented alliance has emerged, bridging existing sociopolitical boundaries. The collaboration encompasses progun advocates, government officials, suicide prevention organizations, health care providers, and researchers, united in the shared objective of reducing firearm suicides. This article examines the evolution of this multifaceted collaboration and the supporting scientific literature over the past 2 decades. Notable initiatives include the development and dissemination of evidence-based lethal means safety counseling that is congruent with gun owners' values, as well as public education campaigns spearheaded by firearm leaders to promote voluntary secure storage practices among at-risk individuals. The review highlights the increasing willingness of firearm advocates, many of whom have personally experienced suicide within their social circle, to engage in partnerships with governmental agencies and other parties. Viewed through the lens of cultural markers, the landscape of firearm suicide prevention is undergoing a significant transformation, with the potential to positively affect population-level firearm storage practices and suicide rates. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"79 9","pages":"1361-1375"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142883284","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":"Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Gerald G. Carter.","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/amp0001472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001472","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Early Career Awards, given for the first time in 1974, recognize the large number of excellent early career psychologists. Recipients of this award may not have held a doctoral degree for more than nine years. Gerald G. Carter's innovative research on the food-sharing behavior of common vampire bats has advanced our understanding of cooperative behavior in animals. By conducting carefully designed experiments, he discovered how individuals identify food-sharing partners and how acceptance into an exchange network is a gradual process that can take months. Using proximity sensors and network analyses, he documented that social relationships formed among individuals in captivity persist even after those animals are released into the wild. His findings provide insights into the benefits associated with being part of a social group and have broad implications for understanding the social behavior of many other animals. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"79 9","pages":"1299-1301"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142883235","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":"Intergenerational transmission of depression risk and the developing brain.","authors":"Anna Weinberg, Aislinn Sandre","doi":"10.1037/amp0001482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001482","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Parental depression is a well-established risk factor for depression in offspring. This intergenerational transmission involves a diverse array of mechanisms, both familial and environmental, working at different levels to increase depression in offspring. To identify modifiable mechanisms for depression among this heterogeneity, recent work has turned to neurobiological measures as more proximal indicators of risk. Indeed, there is emerging evidence that one point of convergence for multiple proposed mechanisms of intergenerational transmission may be the effect they have on the developing brain. In this narrative review, we discuss research that has examined associations between familial and environmental influences and offspring brain function, focusing specifically on direct neural measures of cognitive control, motivation, and affective processing. We first survey evidence indicating that genes, gestational stress, parenting, and stress exposure are associated with alterations in these neural measures from infancy to young adulthood. We then present a preliminary conceptual model outlining the roles of altered neural indices of cognitive control, motivation, and affective processing in pathways from parental depression to offspring depression and discuss future research avenues addressing limitations of the existing research. Finally, we conclude by discussing the potential of this research to inform the development of targeted preventive interventions aimed at disrupting the intergenerational transmission of depression. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"79 9","pages":"1343-1356"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142883336","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":"Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research: Pim Cuijpers.","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/amp0001403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001403","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This award is given to a psychologist whose research has led to important discoveries or developments in the field of applied psychology. The 2024 award winner is Pim Cuijpers. When we try to determine how to serve our clients, the key question is 'What works?' Pim Cuijpers has done more to answer this for mental health disorders, particularly depression, than any other researcher in the world. He has transformed the use of meta-analysis for examining treatment outcomes and led the movement to systematically organize, rigorously evaluate, and interpret the vast research evaluating interventions for mental health disorders. The importance of his work is reflected in his over 950 publications and his recognition as the top author and expert in the world in psychiatry/psychology, psychotherapy, and depression. His work guides clinicians and policymakers throughout the world on how to best treat people dealing with mental health conditions. Dr. Cuijpers and his team have now created a database including all relevant randomized control trials in the treatment of depression and other areas that allows anyone to access and conduct meta-analyses instantly through a simple, user-friendly interface. This is truly a paradigm-shifting development that changes how we understand treatment and how quickly we can improve care using this growing body of research. These substantial contributions, as well as Dr. Cuijpers's mentorship, commitment to public service, and willingness to elevate others, demonstrate that none is more worthy of this honor. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"79 9","pages":"1404-1406"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142883472","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":"APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology: Sarah C. Leighton.","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/amp0001404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001404","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology is awarded on an annual basis by the APA Board of Professional Affairs and the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) to a graduate student who has demonstrated outstanding practice and application of psychology. Sarah C. Leighton is a joint winner of the 2024 awawrd, in recognition of her outstanding practice and application of psychology through her exemplary work with individuals with disabilities and service dogs. Her career spans both academic and practitioner settings, providing her with invaluable insights into the complexities of the complementary intervention of service dog partnership for people with disabilities. With a decade of experience as a leader at the world's largest service dog organization, Ms. Leighton is a knowledgeable expert in her field, recognized for her innovative thinking and strong work ethic. Thanks to her extensive hands-on experience, Ms. Leighton has helped spearhead collaborative partnerships with service dog providers and study advisory panels composed of community populations. Her work on this topic with an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Arizona has been published in a variety of interdisciplinary journals, presented at national and international conferences, and directly contributed to new and revised federal and state legislation. Ms. Leighton is active in her local community, bridging research and practice as a volunteer for the service dog puppy-raising program at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona. She is passionate about refining the service dog intervention to be as effective as possible, deeply committed to dismantling societal barriers to access and belonging, and dedicated to promoting a culture of inclusion. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"79 9","pages":"1437-1439"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142883485","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 detection of automatic behavior in other people.","authors":"Tomer D Ullman, Ilona Bass","doi":"10.1037/amp0001440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001440","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The standard model of theory of mind posits that we attribute mental states to other people to explain their behavior. However, what of cases in which we think the other person is being scripted, acting automatically with no goals or beliefs to recover? While a great deal of past work has distinguished between automatic and reflective behaviors in one's own decision making, here we argue that reasoning about automatic behavior in other people is an important and largely unexplored area in research into theory of mind. We report results from two studies (N = 4,528 total) that examine the detection of automatic behavior in others. In Study 1, we conducted a large-scale survey characterizing the ubiquity of rote interactions in people's daily lives. In Study 2, we showed participants short video clips from a variety of domains and found that people quickly and reliably attribute automaticity to others and that automaticity judgments are distinct from other related behavioral attributions. On the basis of our findings, we suggest that reasoning about scripted behavior in others is an important, frequent, intuitive inference and propose extensions to the current research in intuitive psychology to study it further. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"79 9","pages":"1322-1336"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142883400","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}