Emma K Bridger,John Maltby,Eiko I Fried,Omid V Ebrahimi,Ludvig Daae Bjørndal
{"title":"Linking psychological distress and multilevel socioeconomic disadvantage: A representative population-based study of 15,851 U.K. adults.","authors":"Emma K Bridger,John Maltby,Eiko I Fried,Omid V Ebrahimi,Ludvig Daae Bjørndal","doi":"10.1037/amp0001705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001705","url":null,"abstract":"Despite extensive attention on psychological distress and socioeconomic disadvantage, no study has mapped conditional associations between specific distress symptoms and disadvantage across both household and neighborhood levels. Here, we estimated a preregistered network analysis to examine the conditional associations between eight specific aspects of psychological distress on the one hand and 15 household- (e.g., household crowding, income, financial ability to keep house warm in winter) and neighborhood-level (e.g., area-level deprivation, perceptions of pollution, vandalism) disadvantage variables on the other, using the U.K. Household Longitudinal Study (N = 15,851). Limitations on social activities and daily roles as a result of emotional and physical health problems were most strongly interconnected with socioeconomic disadvantage while feeling depressed showed no conditional associations with disadvantage. Being unable to afford replacement of large electrical items was the disadvantage variable most associated with distress, including sleep loss and worthlessness. Distress variables were associated with aspects of disadvantage across both the neighborhood and household levels, although the latter associations were more frequent and stronger. Our findings highlight a core role for functional impairments due to emotional problems and underline the need to assess and address the psychological consequences of socioeconomic circumstances across multiple levels. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"115 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147641774","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":"Patrick W. Corrigan (1956-2026).","authors":"Amy C Watson, Valerie A Earnshaw, Jonathon Larson","doi":"10.1037/amp0001726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001726","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Memorializes Patrick W. Corrigan (1956-2026). Corrigan was an internationally recognized expert in psychiatric disability, rehabilitation, stigma, and mental health equity. He was a pioneer in research on the nature, causes, and consequences of mental illness stigma and strategies to reduce stigma and health disparities among people with psychiatric disabilities. His Chicago Health Disparities Center engaged people with serious mental illness in community-based participatory research to conduct research on peer navigators for people with psychiatric disabilities and interventions to promote healthy lifestyle behaviors. Pat was also an incredible educator and mentor to many graduate students, researchers, and practitioners. He was open about his own mental health struggles, which paved the way for others in the field. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147647135","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}
Clara E. Hill, Robert W. Lent, Mary Ann Hoffman, Dennis M. Kivlighan
{"title":"Charles J. Gelso (1941–2025).","authors":"Clara E. Hill, Robert W. Lent, Mary Ann Hoffman, Dennis M. Kivlighan","doi":"10.1037/amp0001716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001716","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147619875","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}
Alison Jane Martingano,Neema Trivedi-Bateman,Lance Gauger,Megan Huggett,Beth Allcock,Rebecca E Jackson,Grace Holschuh
{"title":"Still WEIRD, still underreported: An updated benchmark for psychological science.","authors":"Alison Jane Martingano,Neema Trivedi-Bateman,Lance Gauger,Megan Huggett,Beth Allcock,Rebecca E Jackson,Grace Holschuh","doi":"10.1037/amp0001703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001703","url":null,"abstract":"Psychological science has long been critiqued for relying on samples drawn primarily from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic societies. The present study examines the current state of this critique by integrating three lines of evaluation: national sample origins, demographic representativeness, and adherence to American Psychological Association reporting standards. We analyzed all human subjects research published in 2024 in six leading psychology journals (k = 1,217) and compared their samples with previous reviews. While the proportion of U.S.-based samples continues to decline, U.S. participants remain vastly overrepresented (59% of samples in 2024). For demographic representativeness, we found substantial improvements in demographic reporting since 2014, but participants' race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and education are still frequently omitted. For reporting standards, we evaluated compliance with Journal Article Reporting Standards for Race, Ethnicity, and Culture (APA, 2023). We find wide variation across journals in the adoption of practices, with some, such as including sample justifications, almost unanimously adopted, whereas others, such as conducting analyses of diversity, are much less common. Overall, our findings show that psychology still depends heavily on Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic samples, with only modest and uneven progress toward inclusivity and transparency. By combining three evaluation criteria, we establish a holistic benchmark that can be used to systematically monitor change in these research practices in the future. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147619525","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":"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}
{"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}
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":6.6,"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":"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}