New Ideas in PsychologyPub Date : 2026-08-01Epub Date: 2026-02-02DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2026.101239
Abby Jo Adams
{"title":"The triad of intelligence: A dynamic model of cognitive, emotional, and integrative balance","authors":"Abby Jo Adams","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2026.101239","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2026.101239","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Contemporary theories of intelligence have expanded beyond unitary cognitive models to include emotional, metacognitive, and contextual dimensions. Despite this progress, the field remains fragmented, lacking a unified framework that specifies how analytic reasoning, affective information, and regulatory coordination interact to sustain adaptive functioning. The present paper introduces the Triad of Intelligence (TOI) and the Convergent–Divergent–Integrative (CDI) thinking model as a constrained, theory-development framework addressing this gap.</div><div>The TOI delineates three interdependent domains of intelligence—Cognitive Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, and Integrative Intelligence—each contributing distinct functional roles within an adaptive regulatory system. Cognitive Intelligence supports analytic precision and constraint, Emotional Intelligence provides affective salience and contextual meaning, and Integrative Intelligence governs the coordination, timing, and sequencing of these processes. The CDI model specifies the dynamic process through which these domains are regulated over time. Intelligence is conceptualized as an oscillatory system characterized by transitions among convergent, divergent, and integrative processing modes.</div><div>Rather than defining intelligence as a static capacity or a collection of abilities, the TOI–CDI framework conceptualizes intelligence as regulated balance in motion, emerging from the efficient coordination of structure and process under changing demands. The manuscript clarifies the theoretical scope and limits of the framework, explicitly distinguishing it from personality typologies, moral hierarchies, and trait-based accounts. It further outlines empirically tractable predictions across behavioral, physiological, and neurobiological levels, emphasizing coordination and transition efficiency rather than isolated performance maxima.</div><div>By integrating structural and dynamic perspectives within a bounded theoretical architecture, the TOI–CDI framework advances a unified account of intelligence that accommodates individual variability, neurodivergence, and contextual sensitivity. This approach provides a foundation for future empirical investigation and interdisciplinary dialogue concerning the nature of adaptive intelligence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 101239"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146098844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is emesis a part of antenatal depression? A proposal of emesis-depression complex during pregnancy","authors":"Toshinori Kitamura , Ayako Hada , Yuriko Usui , Mizuki Takegata , Mariko Minatani , Mikiyo Wakamatsu , Satoru Takeda","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101235","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101235","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Both depression and emesis (nausea and vomiting) are commonly seen during pregnancy. The two often coexist but their symptomatic structure and causal relationships remain unclear. Using two independent follow-up data (Study 1 with women of 10–13 weeks of gestation [<em>N</em> = initially 382 and follow-up 129] and Study 2 with women of 12–15 weeks of gestation [<em>N</em> = initially 696 and follow-up 245]) sets of pregnant women, we measured depressed mood, loss of interest and three emesis symptoms (nausea, vomiting, and retching). The samples were re-examined with an interval. The 5 symptoms were substantially correlated with each other at each time point and factor analyses identified two factors reflecting depression and emesis. However, depression and emesis were associated with clinical correlates in a very similar manner. Two-step cluster analysis yielded only two clusters: one with and another without depression and emesis simultaneously. Taxometrics indicated dimensionality rather than taxonicity. Findings suggest that emesis and depression during pregnancy are two discrete aspects of a single clinical phenomenon that we propose to name emesis-depression complex.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 101235"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145790930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New Ideas in PsychologyPub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2025-12-05DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101232
Miriam Belluzzo , Veronica Giaquinto , Vittoria Molisso
{"title":"Symbolic narratives and embodied selves: Exploring identity and affective expression in neurodivergent youth","authors":"Miriam Belluzzo , Veronica Giaquinto , Vittoria Molisso","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101232","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101232","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores how neurodivergent young adults with psychiatric, developmental, and intellectual disabilities construct symbolic self-representations through a multimodal narrative-visual workshop using evocative image cards. Conducted in an inclusive and semi-structured setting with 12 participants, the workshop enabled participants to explore themes of identity, emotional growth, and relationality through metaphorical language, visual association, and affective dialogue.</div><div>Thematic analysis revealed a dense constellation of symbolic self-constructions and narrative improvisations, including ambivalent emotional states, fragmented self-images, fantastical identifications, and internalized cultural scripts. The use of symbolic proxies—animals, celestial bodies, archetypal figures—enabled participants to express embodied affect, relational positioning, and developmental transitions beyond conventional communicative modes. The self emerged not as fixed, but as relational, visually mediated, and emotionally negotiated.</div><div>Drawing on embodiment theory, narrative psychology, and disability studies, the paper conceptualizes these narratives as acts of creative authorship and affective epistemology. Rather than treating symbolic discontinuities as clinical deficits, they are reframed as expressive resources for navigating vulnerability, internal conflict, and social norms. This research affirms the narrative agency of neurodivergent individuals and emphasizes the value of symbolic, visual, and affective spaces for inclusive psychosocial practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 101232"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145665381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New Ideas in PsychologyPub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2025-12-06DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101234
Ana Moreno-Núñez
{"title":"Co-constructing layers of meaning: Early triadic interactions at the threshold of intentionality","authors":"Ana Moreno-Núñez","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101234","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101234","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article advances a conceptual reorientation of early communication by placing early triadic interactions—those involving infant, adult, and the material environment—at the center of analysis. Prevailing developmental models typically frame triadicity as a late milestone, emerging only once infants display intentional signals such as pointing or joint attention. In contrast, we argue that triadic configurations are already present from the earliest months of life and should be understood as constitutive conditions for meaning-making rather than preparatory scaffolds.</div><div>Drawing on semiotic, relational, and multimodal perspectives, we outline how materiality, rhythm, and affective attunement function as core dimensions through which communication emerges. Instead of treating gestures or words as sudden cognitive leaps, these forms are better seen as visible consolidations of longer histories of embodied coordination. Triadic encounters thus reveal communication as a distributed and situated ecology, shaped not only by the infant's initiative but also by the caregiver's configurational role and the affordances of objects and environments.</div><div>The implications of this reconceptualization extend beyond developmental psychology. By reframing communication as relational and processual, we open interdisciplinary connections with philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and educational theory. We also highlight the need for methodological approaches that can capture the temporally extended and multimodal dynamics of everyday interaction. Overall, this article proposes a shift in how early communication is defined, studied, and supported: not as the achievement of individual skills, but as the generative ground of human meaning-making.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 101234"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145738447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New Ideas in PsychologyPub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2026-01-09DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2026.101237
Cole A. Denisen
{"title":"Speaking from the in-between: Neurotypical perspectivelessness, neurodivergent authority, and the politics of knowledge","authors":"Cole A. Denisen","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2026.101237","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2026.101237","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines how neurodivergent undergraduates navigate higher education by theorizing <em>neurotypical perspectivelessness</em>—the institutional erasure of neurotypicality as a cultural standpoint that allows its sensory, cognitive, and communicative norms to appear neutral and universally shared. Grounded in critical neurodiversity, disability studies, and the embodied theorizing of Anzaldúa, Okello, Walker, and other marginalized scholars, I conceptualize neurodiversity as a <em>theory of flesh</em>: an account of how power, knowledge, and resistance are lived through the bodymind. Drawing on critical narrative inquiry with ten neurodivergent students at a large Midwestern research university, I analyze how institutional structures, policies, and interpersonal interactions reproduce epistemic marginalization by naturalizing neurotypical modes of time, communication, affect, and executive functioning.</div><div>Findings demonstrate that students encountered a pervasive neutrality claim that positioned neurotypical interpretations as the only legitimate readings of behavior, knowledge, and presence. This perspectivelessness intersected with race, gender, sexuality, and class, shaping how neurodivergence was made hypervisible, invisible, or morally suspect. Yet participants also enacted neuroqueered praxes which reveal neurodivergent students as theorists and expert knowers whose embodied insights expose the limits of neurotypical common sense.</div><div>Overall, this study reframes neurodivergent struggle not as individual deficit but as the predictable outcome of perspectiveless institutional design. Meaningful inclusion requires moving beyond accommodations toward dismantling the epistemic frameworks that render neurotypicality invisible. Centering neurodivergent expertise reveals the borderlands of institutional life as generative spaces of critique, creativity, and resistance, offering pathways toward more just educational futures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 101237"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145926167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New Ideas in PsychologyPub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2026-01-09DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2026.101236
Thanh Thao Le , Trut Thuy Pham
{"title":"From with-ness to readiness: Writing-With and the Spiral Ethics Protocol-Fourfold (SEP-4) for generative-AI writing","authors":"Thanh Thao Le , Trut Thuy Pham","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2026.101236","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2026.101236","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A committee toggles an artificial intelligence (AI) “flag” while, across campus, a teacher invites students to sit with a sentence that refuses to settle; both rooms are stewarding learning under generative AI, but only one keeps relation and return in view. This paper translates <em>Writing-With</em>, a spiral stance that is relational, recursive, reflexive, and re-forming, into a stance-faithful classroom infrastructure: the Spiral Ethics Protocol-Fourfold (SEP-4). Rather than prescribing steps, SEP-4 embeds four minimal traces in ordinary learning-management submissions so that with-ness becomes legible without becoming a compliance regime: a two-to-three-line note situating collaborators and languages, a time-stamped return to a stubborn line, a compact recognition of a shift in stance, and a brief account of how consequences will travel. Implemented across two educational sites, the protocol changed what teachers could see and therefore what they could credit. Relational notes thickened from inventories into situated scenes, returns moved from awkwardness to lines judged central yet unresolved, reflexive entries recorded movements in posture toward audience, risk, and register, and re-forming notes carried small changes from a single draft into course routines. Assessment conversations shifted from origin-guessing to reading reasons already on the page, and multilingual rationales became recognized intellectual labor rather than invisible scaffolding. The contribution is a practical route from stance to infrastructure: a way to keep <em>Writing-With</em> alive at program scale while meeting everyday obligations to transparency, authorship accountability, and language justice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 101236"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145926244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New Ideas in PsychologyPub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2025-12-09DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101233
Marshawn Brewer
{"title":"Up in a flash: On the narratological and epistemic aspects of flashbulb memories","authors":"Marshawn Brewer","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101233","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101233","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the phenomenological and epistemic dimensions of flashbulb memories, advancing beyond traditional cognitive-mechanistic accounts to explore their constitutive role in autobiographical consciousness. Through a critical analysis of the literature on flashbulb memory formation, I argue that consequentiality—understood as a compound factor incorporating both personal and social dimensions—functions as a necessary though not sufficient condition for these distinctive mnemonic phenomena. Drawing from phenomenological frameworks, particularly the notion of primal institution of sense, I develop novel conceptual tools of mnemonic reactivation and retroactive supersession to illuminate how flashbulb memories serve as hermeneutic touchstones that orient autobiographical understanding. These memories, I contend, transcend their status as mere psychological artifacts to become fundamental structures of temporal and affective self-interpretation. The paper introduces the function of affective periodization to theorize how flashbulb memories demarcate and infuse meaning into distinct life periods, while also exploring their role in periodic initiation and closure. This analysis synthesizes empirical findings with phenomenological insights to advance our understanding of how these vivid recollections shape the architecture of autobiographical consciousness and contribute to the narrative coherence of lived experience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 101233"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145738448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New Ideas in PsychologyPub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2026-01-13DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2026.101238
Andrew J. Guydish , Jean E. Fox Tree
{"title":"How expectations affect conversational assessment and memory formation","authors":"Andrew J. Guydish , Jean E. Fox Tree","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2026.101238","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2026.101238","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Conversations are complex. During a conversation, individuals must assess what is said, how it is said, as well as whether expectations about the conversation were met. These components influence our interpersonal experiences and memory formation of those experiences. We discuss conversational expectations through the lens of five theoretical approaches: the interactive alignment model, the collaborative theory, communication accommodation theory, interaction adaptation theory, and expectancy violations theory. We then discuss how expectations affect assessments and memories. We propose a sociocognitive model that incorporates both cognitive and social components of conversation theories. The sociocognitive model integrates informational elements, interactional elements, and social information. The model makes predictions about what makes conversations feel like they were good conversations and what makes conversations memorable. It also helps explain misunderstandings in conversations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 101238"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145977173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New Ideas in PsychologyPub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2025-12-06DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101231
Sergio E. Chaigneau , Nicolás Marchant , Bob Rehder
{"title":"Breaking the chains of independence: A Bayesian uncertainty model of normative violations in human causal probabilistic reasoning","authors":"Sergio E. Chaigneau , Nicolás Marchant , Bob Rehder","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101231","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101231","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Empirical research in causal and probabilistic reasoning has revealed systematic deviations from normative principles, often interpreted as biases. We present the Bayesian Uncertainty Model (BUM), a computational approach that explains these deviations through Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA). BUM posits that people do not reason with a single causal model but instead weigh multiple hypotheses, incorporating uncertainty into their probabilistic inferences. Our mathematical derivations demonstrate that this mixture process necessarily disrupts independence constraints, naturally generating well-known causal reasoning normative violations such as Markov violations with generative and independent causes, and weak explaining away effects. Additionally, BUM accounts for negative Markov violations and conservatism by assuming that individuals often consider an uninformative baseline model alongside the provided causal structure. This formulation provides an alternative to existing models that account for normative violations and challenges the notion that deviations from normative principles reflect irrationality or cognitive limitations. Instead, BUM suggests that human causal reasoning reflects an adaptive response to ambiguity, shaping causal probabilistic judgments in systematic and predictable ways.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 101231"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145685599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New Ideas in PsychologyPub Date : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-10-10DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101212
Leyla Loued-Khenissi , David Pascucci
{"title":"Probabilistic processing: Possible, probable, or preposterous? A dialectical essay","authors":"Leyla Loued-Khenissi , David Pascucci","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101212","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101212","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Does the brain operate probabilistically, or are probabilistic models merely useful tools for approximating brain function? This dialectical essay addresses this foundational question by presenting two opposing viewpoints. The <em>Thesis</em> defends the view that the brain engages in genuine probabilistic inference, drawing on empirical findings from studies of predictive coding in perception and cognition. The <em>Antithesis</em> challenges this view, arguing that the question is ill-posed and warns against conflating abstract computational principles with the intractable complexity of neural processes. In the <em>Synthesis</em>, the authors identify areas of conceptual overlap, highlight persistent theoretical tensions, and emphasize that the central issue is not whether the brain encodes full probability distributions, but how it supports the computations formalized by probabilistic models. This exchange aims to sharpen the terms of the debate and provide a more nuanced perspective on the promise and limits of probabilistic approaches in neuroscience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 101212"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145267507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}