{"title":"Confirmatory Person-Oriented Mediation Analysis in Categorical Variables-Options and Limitations.","authors":"Alexander von Eye, Wolfgang Wiedermann","doi":"10.1007/s12124-026-10023-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12124-026-10023-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article, we propose three new approaches to analyzing person-oriented mediation hypotheses. First, we propose using relevance logic instead of classical logic. Relevance logic (1) rejects the ex falso sequitur quodlibet (\"from a falsehood anything follows\") rule and (2) requires that the premise and the outcome of an implication exhibit variable sharing, that is, possess a substantive link. Propositions are declared irrelevant when the premise is false, when there is no substantive link, or both. Second, we discuss, based on relevance logic, alternative concepts of mediation. Specifically, we discuss that mediation can be based on conjunctive as well as on implicative relations. In contrast to conjunctive mediation models, implicative mediation models do allow one to distinguish between full and partial mediation. Third, we propose using confirmatory Configural Frequency Analysis to test hypotheses of full or partial mediation. This is illustrated using data on adolescent development.</p>","PeriodicalId":50356,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science","volume":"60 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13457245/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148702648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Generative, Homeostatic Account of Psychological Experience: Reinterpreting Resilience, Distress, and Recovery Across the Lifespan.","authors":"Thomas Kelley","doi":"10.1007/s12124-026-10022-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12124-026-10022-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research across developmental and lifespan psychology has identified a recurring pattern in psychological well-being: relatively high emotional flexibility in early childhood, increased vulnerability to distress across adolescence and midlife, and partial improvement in later adulthood. Prevailing explanations typically attribute these shifts to the acquisition, calibration, and eventual decline of regulatory capacities and psychosocial resources. This paper proposes an alternative, integrative account grounded in a generative, homeostatic framework of psychological experience. Within this perspective, experience is understood as continuously constructed through ongoing interpretive activity and rendered subjectively real through conscious awareness, while an intrinsic regulatory capacity supports adaptive reorganization. Psychological health is conceptualized as reflecting the system's baseline flexibility, whereas distress corresponds to the stabilization of self-referential interpretive patterns that narrow experiential and behavioral possibilities. Drawing on research from developmental, affective, and systems-oriented psychology, the paper reinterprets lifespan trends as emergent properties of changing constraints on experiential organization rather than as cumulative gains or losses in psychological assets. This framework offers a unifying account of resilience, vulnerability, and recovery, and suggests new directions for research and intervention focused on the conditions that support adaptive reorganization across the lifespan.</p>","PeriodicalId":50356,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science","volume":"60 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148654938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond Perceptual Heuristics: A Biosemiotic Reinterpretation of Gestalt Laws in Human Meaning Construction.","authors":"Prashant Shukla","doi":"10.1007/s12124-026-10018-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12124-026-10018-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Gestalt psychology has long demonstrated that human perception involves active organization rather than passive registration of sensory information. However, although Gestalt principles successfully explain how fragmented sensory inputs become organized into coherent perceptual structures, they provide comparatively limited explanation regarding how such organized structures become meaningful experiences. This study develops a biosemiotic reinterpretation of Gestalt laws within the context of human meaning construction by proposing that these principles function not merely as perceptual heuristics but as constraints operating within human semiosis. Drawing upon biosemiotic perspectives on sign processes, embodiment, and organism-environment interactions, the study reinterprets similarity, proximity, closure, continuity, and figure-ground segregation as organizational constraints shaping categorization, association, interpretive completion, sign trajectories, and selective meaning formation. Building upon these reinterpretations, a conceptual model of Gestalt-mediated human semiosis is proposed linking perceptual organization with semiotic interpretation and meaning construction. The framework suggests that semiosis may begin during perceptual organization rather than exclusively after it, thereby reducing the conceptual separation between perception and meaning. Rather than replacing classical Gestalt theory, this reinterpretation extends its explanatory scope by integrating perceptual organization more directly within processes of human meaning construction.</p>","PeriodicalId":50356,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science","volume":"60 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148609631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Scientist as a Discoverer and Explorer of Unknown Lands\": Quo Vadis?","authors":"Joseph Glicksohn","doi":"10.1007/s12124-026-10021-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12124-026-10021-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Heinz Werner contrasted the consensual preoccupation with hypothesis testing in experimental research and his own emphasis on the process of exploration. In this paper, the type of exploratory process that Werner is referring to is addressed, using his classic study on contour formation to exemplify this. In that study, Werner explored the phenomenon of contour formation, without testing any particular hypothesis. To further consider the distinction between the systematic exploration of a phenomenon, with a study designed to prove or disprove a specific hypothesis, I consider a study exemplifying the latter. I argue that Werner's thinking has relevance for active researchers today and conclude that the present concern regarding the 'replication crisis' and the complementary advocacy of the pre-registration of studies is inherently detrimental to the process of exploration and discovery that Werner promoted for psychological research.</p>","PeriodicalId":50356,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science","volume":"60 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13384973/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148521636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Roulette Metaphor in Living with Type 1 Diabetes: Semiotic Dynamics and the Regulation of Self-Experience in Christin's Case.","authors":"Juan José Cleves-Valencia","doi":"10.1007/s12124-026-10016-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12124-026-10016-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Different theoretical developments in Cultural Psychology have advanced the understanding of the semiotic mediation of human experience, with particular emphasis on how cognition and affect are intertwined. Simultaneously, the application of Cultural Psychology to health contexts remains notably less developed, particularly in relation to the study of conditions involving multiple therapeutic demands within medical treatment. In this context, the present study aims to understand the configuration of the experience of medical treatment in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus through the analysis of the organization, regulation, and interaction of affective semiosis and meaning-making processes. Methodologically, an idiographic perspective was adopted through the microgenetic analysis of in-depth interviews within a case study. The analysis is developed through the use of metaphors, understood as semiotic configurations that articulate the experience of the Self. A central metaphor, \"the daily roulette\", and four peripheral metaphors serving structuring and operational functions were identified. Results show that experience is organized around an affective field of contingency that guides the interpretation of bodily variations. Processes of meaning-making are identified as operating through micro-stabilizations of meaning making orienting action in concrete situations. The study deepens the theoretical understanding of the articulation between the body, affective semiosis, and meaning-making, suggesting specific properties of signs regulation of experience. Within Cultural Psychology applied to the field of health, it also offers insights into how individuals regulate their experience of treatment in contexts of bodily uncertainty, thereby informing the development of approaches more attuned to patients' affective dynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":50356,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science","volume":"60 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13372864/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148457635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bhavna Negi, Shashi Shukla, Deepti Gupta, Mila Tuli, Nandita Chaudhary
{"title":"Ethics as Epistemology: Rethinking Research on Children and Families through Care, Reflexivity, and Relational Practice.","authors":"Bhavna Negi, Shashi Shukla, Deepti Gupta, Mila Tuli, Nandita Chaudhary","doi":"10.1007/s12124-026-10017-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-026-10017-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research with children and families is shaped by epistemic assumptions, methodological choices and ethical responsibilities. Each of these influence how human lives are rendered knowable. This paper examines the ethical and epistemological foundations of research practice by drawing on empirical work conducted across three distinct contexts from India: street dwelling Pamaria families, children in government school classrooms, and the seasonal life worlds of Agariya salt-pan workers. Across these settings, research emerges not as a neutral process of data collection but as a relational, interpretive and ethically charged encounter. The paper advances four interrelated commitments for research in the human sciences. Ethics is approached as epistemic ground rather than procedural compliance; Care is a foundational stance that structures attentiveness and humility; Methodology is understood as emergent and responsive to fluid and often precarious conditions, and Reflexivity is positioned as an ongoing ethical practice that shapes interpretation and representation. Together these commitments reframe research as a situated process of co-presence and meaning-making rather than extraction. While some of these may already be a part of global research, it is critical to acknowledge that such practices are not the norm across diverse geographical settings. By foregrounding relational ethics, care and epistemic responsibility, the paper contributes to debates in cultural psychology and research on how knowledge about children and families can be produced.</p>","PeriodicalId":50356,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science","volume":"60 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148438778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning Under Uncertainty: Predictive Processing as an Integrative Framework for Educational Research.","authors":"Sabrina Trapp, Dezso Németh, Karolina Janacsek","doi":"10.1007/s12124-026-10019-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12124-026-10019-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research at the intersection of neuroscience and education has generated substantial empirical findings but has often lacked a unifying theoretical framework capable of explaining why those findings belong together. Predictive processing, a family of accounts characterizing the brain as a hierarchical system that continuously generates expectations and updates internal models in response to prediction errors, has been proposed as a candidate umbrella framework for the cognitive sciences, though it remains actively debated. We examine whether its core concepts transfer meaningfully to educational contexts. Rather than deriving concrete instructional prescriptions, we propose four constraints that are especially relevant when instruction aims to produce conceptual model revision under uncertainty. We further suggest that developmental differences between children and adults can be interpreted as systematic variations in these inferential parameters. The contribution of this paper is primarily integrative: findings from educational research have largely been articulated within separate paradigms, and we argue that predictive processing may offer a common inferential vocabulary for describing them. Future work may derive empirically testable predictions from this framework, though the limitations of these accounts must be kept carefully in view.</p>","PeriodicalId":50356,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science","volume":"60 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148406496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Empathy as a Risk Factor: A Theoretical Review on Depression-Induced Decline in Reading Performance Through the Mediation of Personality Dimensions.","authors":"Sofiya Karimova","doi":"10.1007/s12124-026-10020-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12124-026-10020-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Empathy is frequently studied in isolation in research-yet when considered alongside other psychological components, an entirely different picture emerges of how it operates. Its interaction with personality dimension and its potential role as a risk factor for depression have received limited attention. This theoretical review argues that empathy operates along a spectrum - both excess and deficiency carry distinct risks -and that these risks manifest differently depending on whether affective or cognitive empathy predominates in an individual's personality spectrum.Drawing on a synthesis of literature retrieved from PsycINFO, PubMed, and Google Scholar with no year restriction, this paper examines how empathy intersects with introversion-extraversion continuum and creates different pathways toward depression. In individuals high in introversion, where affective empathy predominates, the tendency to experience others' feelings as one's own leads to emotional overload, gradual numbing, and identity loss. In individuals with higher extraversion levels, where cognitive empathy predominates, reliance on external validation as an emotional resource creates vulnerability when social attention diminishes. In both cases, the resulting depression is not acute but cumulative and insidious in character - advancing unnoticed until the individual has already drifted significantly from their prior level of functioning.This paper further argues that one of the most observable consequences of this process is a decline in reading performance. Individuals scoring high on the extraversion scale continue to read but without comprehension; those at the introverted end of the spectrum find sustained reading increasingly difficult due to fragmented attention. This paper proposes a theoretical framework examining the effect of functional depression - which empathy may give rise to through certain personality dimensions - on cognitive functioning, and in particular on a process as fundamental as reading.</p>","PeriodicalId":50356,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science","volume":"60 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148363708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Dynamics of Emotional Regulation in Aversive Social Interactions: A Review of the Rationalization Trap and the Impact of Affect Labeling.","authors":"Darine Fayz Ahmad","doi":"10.1007/s12124-026-10015-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-026-10015-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This theoretical review explores the intricate dynamics of emotional regulation within social interactions, specifically focusing on aversive contexts where social threats necessitate regulatory intervention. Drawing on the Dual-Process Model and Pessoa's integrative neurobiological framework, the article examines how the brain negotiates between the \"impulsive system\" and the \"reflective system.\" While classical literature promotes affect labeling as an effective implicit regulator that dampens physiological arousal, recent findings suggest a potential paradoxical effect: emotional crystallization. It is hypothesized that this process can transform fluid emotional experiences into rigid categories, potentially increasing cognitive load and hindering social flexibility. By integrating Bourdieu's Habitus with neuro-sociological insights, the review proposes a shift toward \"Plural Rationality.\" It concludes that successful social regulation may require maintaining \"cognitive fluidity\" rather than mere linguistic categorization, ensuring that rationalization serves as a tool for cooperation rather than a shackle that fossilizes emotional responses.</p>","PeriodicalId":50356,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science","volume":"60 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148340834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}