American PsychologistPub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-12-12DOI: 10.1037/amp0001465
Scott R Woolley
{"title":"Susan M. Johnson (1947-2024).","authors":"Scott R Woolley","doi":"10.1037/amp0001465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001465","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Memorializes Susan M. Johnson (1947-2024). Johnson was a world-leading researcher, therapist, and the primary developer of emotionally focused therapy (EFT), the leading form of couple therapy. Her innovative approach to therapy, which is also used with individuals and families, focuses on the power of emotion to create change and is based in attachment science. Johnson actively used research to develop, refine, and advance EFT. She was a distinguished research professor at Alliant International University, a professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, and a professor emeritus of clinical psychology at the University of Ottawa. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"80 2","pages":"289"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143442404","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 : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-05-06DOI: 10.1037/amp0001335
Peggy M Zoccola, Andrew Manigault, Gabrielle Decastro, Courtney Taylor, Sally S Dickerson
{"title":"The role of social-evaluative threat for cortisol profiles in response to psychosocial stress: A person-centered approach.","authors":"Peggy M Zoccola, Andrew Manigault, Gabrielle Decastro, Courtney Taylor, Sally S Dickerson","doi":"10.1037/amp0001335","DOIUrl":"10.1037/amp0001335","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Heterogeneity in individuals' physiological stress responses is central to theories linking stress with vulnerability to disease. Although multiple cortisol profiles have been reported in response to acute psychological stress, most prior work focuses on a single, average pattern and relative deviations from it, such as greater or lesser response peaks or reactivity. The present aims were to identify cortisol stress response trajectory classes using a data-driven approach and test whether social-evaluative threat (SET), a reliable elicitor of cortisol, predicted a greater likelihood of membership in the more reactive profiles. Data were pooled from 13 acute laboratory stressor studies from two geographically distinct U.S. university communities. Participants included 1,258 adults ranging from 18 to 52 years (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 20.5; 62% women; 38% men) with diverse racial/ethnic identities and socioeconomic statuses. Studies included a version of the Trier Social Stress Test and at least three salivary cortisol assessments. SET was tested in three ways: study conditions with evaluators present, perceptions of evaluation, and ratings of shame-related emotions. Latent group-based trajectory modeling was applied to identify cortisol response patterns that best fit the data. Results revealed five unique cortisol response profiles. Consistent with hypotheses, SET conditions, greater perceived evaluation, and greater shame-related emotions predicted membership in the most reactive response trajectories. The findings highlight the high degree of heterogeneity that characterizes cortisol stress response profiles, which has important implications for theories of stress and health and methodological approaches in future research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":" ","pages":"165-179"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140858922","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 : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-12-12DOI: 10.1037/amp0001457
Susan Weinberg Margulis
{"title":"Douglas Candland (1934-2023).","authors":"Susan Weinberg Margulis","doi":"10.1037/amp0001457","DOIUrl":"10.1037/amp0001457","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Douglas Candland, founder of the first undergraduate major in animal behavior and long-time editor of the <i>Review in General Psychology</i>, passed away on April 16, 2023. Doug's influence in the fields of psychology and animal behavior was enormous. Doug was born on July 9, 1934, and grew up in Southern California. He completed his undergraduate degree at Pomona College in 1956, with a very interdisciplinary suite of majors in psychology, philosophy, and history. He then traveled across the country to Princeton University where he completed his PhD in psychology in 1959, and after a year's postdoc at the University of Virginia, he began a faculty position in psychology at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. It was here that Doug spent his entire academic career, retiring in 2003. In 1968, Doug established the animal behavior major at Bucknell. For many years, this remained the only undergraduate major in animal behavior in the United States. Doug was a gifted teacher and was recognized by both the Animal Behavior Society and the American Psychological Foundation for his outstanding mentorship and creativity in the classroom. It was not at all unusual for students to gather at his home for a potluck and conversation. Doug had a sharp wit and an infectious laugh. He was gifted at seeing the potential in his students and nurturing it in all ways. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":" ","pages":"287"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142819865","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 involuntary experience of digital exclusion among older adults: A taxonomy and theoretical framework.","authors":"Yanran Fang,Yiduo Shao,Mo Wang","doi":"10.1037/amp0001502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001502","url":null,"abstract":"The emerging phenomenon of digital exclusion raises an important issue that not everyone is equally engaged in and can benefit from the digital world. Older adults are particularly susceptible to digital exclusion, but a comprehensive conceptual treatment of digital exclusion in older adults is lacking in the psychology literature. In this article, we provide a taxonomy to advance the literature on digital exclusion in older adults, identifying key conceptual attributes of older adults' digital exclusion experiences by articulating both structural (i.e., technology deficit) and psychological (i.e., social and information isolation) challenges that they face. On the basis of this taxonomy, we integrate insights from lifespan development theories to develop a theoretical model that considers the antecedents of digital exclusion among older adults at micro, meso, and macrolevels and outlines the potential consequences for successful aging in life and work domains. We also suggest directions for future research, aiming to address issues of digital exclusions among older adults and promote digital equality in societies. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143062050","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}
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. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","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}
Zheng Liu,X T XiaoTian Wang,Zhonghan Wang,Weijin Yan,Mengzhen Hu
{"title":"Registered reports in psychology across scholarly citations and public dissemination: A comparative metaevaluation of more than a decade of practice.","authors":"Zheng Liu,X T XiaoTian Wang,Zhonghan Wang,Weijin Yan,Mengzhen Hu","doi":"10.1037/amp0001503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001503","url":null,"abstract":"After more than a decade of practice, registered reports (RRs) are widely adopted in psychology. However, the acceptance of RRs in terms of postpublication academic recognition and public dissemination, compared with nonregistered reports (non-RR), remained largely unexplored. This matched meta-evaluation identified and analyzed 119 pairs of original research articles (RR vs. non-RR) from 33 psychology journals, matched for the journal of publication, time of publication, and research topic. The exploratory results show that RRs significantly reduced publication bias against null results and improved method and data transparency. However, RRs had lower citation counts than non-RRs, with a small effect size when controlling for days since publication. Additional exploratory analyses found that this effect remained significant after controlling for null-result reporting, transparency, the number of studies in an article and length of method and result sections, article title perception, open access, and authorship metrics (including the number of authors, the h-index of the first or corresponding authors). The overall public impact indexed by Altmetric attention scores and the number of Twitter posts were not significantly different between RRs and non-RRs. However, Twitter posts, but not citations and Altmetric attention scores, were moderated by journal reputation, with RRs receiving more attention in lower impact journals (5-year impact factor below 4.5). These exploratory findings help generate testable hypotheses about the potential differential effects of RRs on academic recognition and public attention, informing future directions for open science practice. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"121 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143062049","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":"Arthur (Andy) M. Horne (1942-2024).","authors":"Robert K Conyne","doi":"10.1037/amp0001504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001504","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Memorializes Arthur (Andy) M. Horne (1942-2024), esteemed counseling psychologist, lauded for his contributions to group counseling, bullying prevention, violence reduction, and prevention. Andy served the University of Georgia in the Department of Counseling and Human Development Services from 1989 to 2012 as training director, department chair, distinguished research professor, and dean (2008-2012). Prior, he was a professor for 18 years at Indiana State University (1971-1989), received his PhD in counseling and educational psychology from Southern Illinois University (1971), a post-master's in counseling from Miami University (1969), a masters of education (counseling) from the University of Florida (1967), and a bachelor's degree in English/journalism from the University of Florida (1965). A prolific researcher, Dr. Horne's scholarship focused on the prevention of bullying and violence in schools. His advocacy for prevention was legendary. Dogged persistence and collaboration led to the adoption by APA of the seminal Prevention Guidelines and led to the creation of the <i>Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion</i>, two significant prevention triumphs. Andy's work earned him broad recognition. His devotion to his family--his wife of nearly 60 years, Gayle; his two children, Sharon and Kevin; a brother, Charles; and four grandchildren (Lucy, Natalia, Eden, and Joshua) enriched his life. He enjoyed nature, hiking, and international traveling. Andy Horne's legacy will endure through his accomplishments and the thousands of lives he touched. He will be remembered and appreciated for his intellectual contributions and will be deeply loved because of his empathy, integrity, humanity, and gratitude for life. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144053511","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":"Arthur (Andy) M. Horne (1942-2024).","authors":"Robert K Conyne","doi":"10.1037/amp0001504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001504","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Memorializes Arthur (Andy) M. Horne (1942-2024), esteemed counseling psychologist, lauded for his contributions to group counseling, bullying prevention, violence reduction, and prevention. Andy served the University of Georgia in the Department of Counseling and Human Development Services from 1989 to 2012 as training director, department chair, distinguished research professor, and dean (2008-2012). Prior, he was a professor for 18 years at Indiana State University (1971-1989), received his PhD in counseling and educational psychology from Southern Illinois University (1971), a post-master's in counseling from Miami University (1969), a masters of education (counseling) from the University of Florida (1967), and a bachelor's degree in English/journalism from the University of Florida (1965). A prolific researcher, Dr. Horne's scholarship focused on the prevention of bullying and violence in schools. His advocacy for prevention was legendary. Dogged persistence and collaboration led to the adoption by APA of the seminal Prevention Guidelines and led to the creation of the <i>Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion</i>, two significant prevention triumphs. Andy's work earned him broad recognition. His devotion to his family--his wife of nearly 60 years, Gayle; his two children, Sharon and Kevin; a brother, Charles; and four grandchildren (Lucy, Natalia, Eden, and Joshua) enriched his life. He enjoyed nature, hiking, and international traveling. Andy Horne's legacy will endure through his accomplishments and the thousands of lives he touched. He will be remembered and appreciated for his intellectual contributions and will be deeply loved because of his empathy, integrity, humanity, and gratitude for life. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143025363","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}
Juan Del Toro,Victoria Papke,Andrea Wiglesworth,Bonnie Klimes-Dougan
{"title":"Which comes first, puberty or identity? The longitudinal interrelations between pubertal timing and sexual minority self-identification among early adolescents.","authors":"Juan Del Toro,Victoria Papke,Andrea Wiglesworth,Bonnie Klimes-Dougan","doi":"10.1037/amp0001481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001481","url":null,"abstract":"Sexual minority adolescents experience puberty earlier than their heterosexual peers. Early puberty is an indicator of premature aging and can be partly driven by chronic stress linked to discrimination. Nonetheless, the neural, cognitive, and social development linked to puberty enables adolescents to explore and understand their sexual identities. For sexual minority youth, does the stress from identity-based discrimination make them more likely to experience advanced pubertal timing, or is early pubertal timing the impetus for their self-identification with a sexual minority identity? To answer this research question, the present study leveraged longitudinal and national data to test the temporal ordering between sexual minority self-identification and pubertal timing among one sample of 7,818 unrelated adolescents and another sample of 4,050 adolescent siblings nested across 1,989 households in the United States. Across both samples, results illustrated significant bidirectional relations between pubertal timing and sexual minority self-identification. Adolescents who self-identified as sexual minorities experienced more advanced pubertal timing 1 year later, and adolescents who experienced more advanced pubertal timing were more likely to identify as sexual minorities 1 year later. While the longitudinal link between pubertal timing and later sexual minority self-identification may be a normal developmental process, the longitudinal link between sexual minority self-identification and subsequent advanced pubertal timing may be attributable to heterosexist stigma. The present findings underscore the need to mitigate prejudice so that all adolescents have the freedom to explore their identities without risks to their development. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142991825","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":"Allen E. Bergin (1934-2024).","authors":"Michael J Lambert, M Sue Bergin","doi":"10.1037/amp0001496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001496","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Memorializes Allen E. Bergin, a leading pioneer in psychotherapy outcome research and cofounder of the Society of Psychotherapy Research, who died at home in St. George, Utah, on February 15, 2024. Bergin began his university education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology but soon became disenchanted with \"tech.\" He transferred to Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and later to Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where he received BA (1956) and MA (1957) degrees in psychology. For his PhD in clinical psychology, Allen studied at Stanford under his beloved mentor Albert Bandura. He took his first academic position at Columbia University at the age of 26. In 1955 at Brigham Young University, he became a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), which motivated and informed much of his research and advocacy for integrating spirituality into the mental health professions. Allen earned many awards, including the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Knowledge. He published prolifically and is perhaps best known for <i>Bergin and Garfield's Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change</i>, now in its seventh edition. The 50-year history of the <i>Handbook</i> speaks to its impact on the field and to the original editor's vision of psychotherapy as a science-based endeavor. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144054700","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}