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{"title":"Large language models (LLMs) as research Subjects: Status, opportunities and challenges","authors":"Chenguang Zhao ,&nbsp;Meirewuti Habule ,&nbsp;Wei Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101167","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101167","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As large language models (LLMs) exhibit human-like cognitive abilities, their potential as participants in psychological studies is gaining attention. This paper reviewed recent research utilizing LLMs as subjects, analyzing their cognitive capacities and experimental applications. This study proposed a theoretical model to assess their feasibility, highlighting key considerations such as model parameters and biases. Using LLMs may help lower costs, enhance efficiency, and address sensitive topics. Future research may explore LLM-assisted questionnaire design, interactive dialogue agents, and task simulations for specific populations, offering new methodological tools for psychological research and beyond.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 101167"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144130893","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":"Aesthetic metaphor as a tool for enhancing perception and conception","authors":"Zahra Eskandari ,&nbsp;Omid Khatin-Zadeh ,&nbsp;Hassan Banaruee","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101166","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101166","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Human creates mental representations for world's phenomena by perception and conception. However, in normal conditions, people may not properly perceive and conceive some dimensions of phenomena. In this paper, we specifically focus on aesthetic dimensions to discuss this idea that aesthetic metaphor can be a tool for enhancing human's perception and conception of beauties in world's phenomena. We distinguish between perceptual and conceptual beauties. We suggest that enhanced perceptualization through aesthetic metaphor allows people to strongly embody and perceive beauties in the target of the metaphor. On the other hand, enhanced conceptualization through aesthetic metaphor enables people to conceive structural beauties in the target domain of the metaphor. Enhanced conceptualization is a higher and a more discovery-oriented process than enhanced perceptualization. In fact, enhanced perceptualization can be regarded as a part of enhanced conceptualization. Enhanced perceptualization and enhanced conceptualization through aesthetic metaphor can lead to the emergence of a new mental representation for target domain of an aesthetic metaphor. In this representation, beautiful dimensions, which are normally less perceivable and less conceivable, become more perceivable, conceivable, embodied, and acknowledgeable. Finally, we conclude that aesthetic metaphor can be a tool for stimulating sensory and cognitive systems to perceive and conceive beauties.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101166"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144089449","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":"The Circumplex Model of Stress: A model integrating stress appraisal constructs","authors":"Krzysztof Stanisławski","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101163","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101163","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Unraveling the structure of stress appraisal constructs is essential for a comprehensive understanding of how stress influences human health and well-being. The current paper presents the Circumplex Model of Stress (CMS), which is designed to organize the various stress appraisal categories and offers possibilities for resolving selected problems in stress psychology. The CMS posits that the space of stress appraisal forms is described by two dimensions: Controllability vs. Uncontrollability and Mitigation vs. Threat. These dimensions define a matrix within which other stress appraisal forms are located: Challenge vs. Hopelessness and Manageable pressure vs. Illusory relief. The model identifies eight stress appraisal forms constituting a circumplex: Mitigation, Challenge, Controllability, Manageable pressure, Threat, Hopelessness, Uncontrollability, and Illusory relief. The CMS provides an avenue for addressing certain unresolved questions in stress psychology by: (a) offering a theoretically meaningful integration of various stress appraisal constructs; (b) providing a comprehensive explanation of the relationships between stress appraisals and coping; and (c) elucidating the links between stress appraisals and health behaviors, which in turn may help modify health behaviors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101163"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143903828","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":"Developing the Narrating Identity Questionnaire: A measure of beneficial self-integration and change","authors":"Shawn Timothy Douglas","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101165","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101165","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present research introduces the Narrating Identity Questionnaire (NIQ), a new measure designed to capture how literary reading can temporally integrate self and other in autobiographical memory, distinguishing productive self-perceptual depth from rumination. The NIQ was developed and validated across three studies with university students. In Study 1, an initial NIQ item pool was administered after a meaningful literary reading experience, and exploratory factor analysis revealed three factors: Memory Transformation, Poignant Bivalent Self-Understanding, and Ruminative Separation and Isolation. In Study 2, the factor structure was cross-validated under a different questionnaire order to test for order effects, and in Study 3, it was confirmed with an added general metaphor comprehension task. The NIQ demonstrated adequate internal consistency and a stable three-factor structure across studies. Importantly, expressive engagement with a text (e.g., deeply identifying with metaphoric content) strongly predicted increased self-understanding (β ≈ 0.70, p &lt; .001) and also some ruminative thought (p &lt; .01), whereas integrative engagement (e.g., taking an analytical perspective on the text) did not directly predict either outcome (βs ∼ 0, n.s.). Expressive engagement accounted for a large portion of variance in self-understanding outcomes (approximately 45–60 %; 95 % CI of β [0.40, 0.98] in Study 1). Although integrative engagement did not directly predict rumination, group-level comparisons indicated a buffering effect: the sample with an added integrative task showed significantly lower rumination scores (M = 2.54) than the original sample (M = 3.21; difference ∼0.67 on a 5-point scale, 95 % CI [0.51, 0.83], p &lt; .001, Cohen's d ≈ 0.76). Together, these findings support the NIQ's capacity to distinguish between healthy self-perceptual depth and maladaptive rumination following literary reading. The discussion highlights theoretical implications for narrative identity development, the dual role of expressive reading in fostering insight versus rumination, and the potential of the NIQ for future research and practical applications. Key strengths, such as the multi-study design and integration of literary theory with psychological measurement, are discussed alongside limitations including sample characteristics and the need for broader validation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101165"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143894453","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":"Doing things intentionally: Probability raising and control","authors":"Tiffany Doan,&nbsp;Stephanie Denison,&nbsp;Ori Friedman","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101164","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101164","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Intentionality judgments can depend on probability raising—people are more likely to see a desired outcome as intentional if the agent who produced it did something to increase its odds. However, intentionality also depends on related factors such as the agent's skill, ability, and control over the outcome. In three experiments (total N = 1074), we investigated how probability raising relates to these factors, and whether it makes distinct contributions to judgments of intentionality. Participants saw vignettes where an agent got a winning ball from a lottery machine. In all experiments, participants gave higher ratings of both intentionality and control in conditions where the agent increased her odds of success than in conditions where she did not. This pattern suggests that probability raising and control are closely linked. The findings of our third experiment, though, also suggest that probability raising may uniquely contribute to attributions of intentionality. In this experiment, the agent received a winning ball after taking an action that unpredictably either increased or decreased her odds of success. Participants gave higher intentionality ratings when this action happened to increase the odds. But participants also showed this pattern when rating control, even though the agent's control did not vary across conditions. These results suggest that probability raising contributes to intentionality even when control does not, and moreover suggest that people may use probability raising to inform attributions of control. However, we also discuss the possibility that control and probability raising are not distinct, and amount to the same thing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101164"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143850299","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":"Environmental resource theory: An integrative perspective on human habitat preferences and emotional responses to the environment","authors":"Svein Åge Kjøs Johnsen","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101162","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101162","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although modern humans occupy many habitats, human habitat preferences are relatively specific. We tend to prefer environments containing resources and avoid barren environments. Much research has focused on comparing emotional, motivational, and cognitive responses to urban and natural environments, which may be a false dichotomy. Considering environmental resources explicitly, the present article argues that resource content and resource exploitability are evolutionary relevant aspects of any environment. Findings from studies on environmental preferences and responses to urban and natural environments are reinterpreted in terms of environmental resource theory. The dynamics of moving from low to high resource environments can explain most findings within this area of research and environmental resource theory offers a different perspective on affective and cognitive restoration in nature. The relevance for climate change and environmental degradation is discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101162"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143833685","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":"Examining the root of intergroup sensitivity: What is the norm underlying defensive reactions to criticism?","authors":"C.J. Erion,&nbsp;Sean M. McCrea","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101161","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101161","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Criticism is important for change and growth and is a common component of group-level interactions. One variable that influences how people react to criticism is the group membership of the person delivering it. Both targets and bystanders of critical comments respond with more sensitivity and defensiveness to intergroup criticism (i.e., criticism between groups) relative to intragroup criticism (i.e., criticism within a group), termed the Intergroup Sensitivity Effect (ISE). In this paper, we seek to explain why the ISE occurs, refining previous arguments that intergroup criticizers violate a norm. Research on prejudice, intergroup trust, intergroup cooperation, and the pragmatics of politeness and cooperation are referenced to inform a novel Norm Perspective explanation of the ISE. This perspective suggests that there is a general prescriptive cooperation norm that is violated when outgroup members criticize other groups. Namely, the combination of intergroup criticism that does not follow cooperation and politeness pragmatic principles as well as suspicion toward outgroup member motives leads to a perception of uncooperative behavior. We then review previously used strategies for decreasing the ISE in the context of this proposed cooperative norm. Future directions for testing this theory and implications for ISE reduction strategies are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101161"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143734572","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":"Examining the impact of reinforcement sensitivity theory on compulsive internet use through difficulty in emotion regulation","authors":"Ali Khoshfetrat ,&nbsp;Gretta Mohan","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101160","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101160","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory, encompassing Behavioural Inhibition and Activation Systems (BIS/BAS), may help us understand the modern-day phenomenon of compulsive Internet use. BAS, a neurologically appetitive system is sensitive to positive cues (e.g., rewards), and traditionally linked with addictive behaviours, whereas BIS is sensitive to negative cues (e.g., punishment), and inhibits behaviour. Analysing data on a sample of 209 young people attending university, BIS is found to be related to compulsive Internet use, not BAS. Furthermore, BIS is revealed to have a significant indirect effect on compulsive Internet use through difficulties in emotion regulation. The findings can be employed by practitioners, who work with compulsive Internet users, to try to weaken the patients’ inhibitory behaviours that may improve their emotion regulation skills, which in turn could help individuals reduce their need to be online. Longitudinal research is required to provide more reliable results and confirm the directionality of the effects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101160"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143734571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding the potential impact of ostracism on LGBTQ health disparities","authors":"Ellen D.B. Riggle","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101159","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101159","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research finds harmful impacts of ostracism on the health and well-being of the ostracized individual (as well as the ostracizer and members of the community). While often conceptualized as social (interpersonal), ostracism may originate at multiple levels of the socio-ecological system, including forms of political and institutional ostracism. The ostracism of LGBTQ people originates in cultural stigma and is reproduced and reinforced at all levels, from discriminatory laws and institutional policies (e.g., workplace, educational), to the actions of community or family members, to interactions with strangers. Ostracism, acute and chronic, creates increased risk for psychological and physical harm to LGBTQ individuals, including depression, suicidality, resignation, and physical pain. This paper presents an argument for the importance of recognizing the different types and potential harms of ostracism at multiple, concurrent levels of the environment for LGBTQ people, and understanding the activation of physical pain sensations in the brain, especially as part of chronic negative health impacts. Studying ostracism directly may lead to new conceptualizations for coping with minority stress involving ostracism, and for treatment protocols and interventions responding to the specific harms of ostracism for LGBTQ people.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101159"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143696833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Validating the concept of immediacy of strategy use for the regulation of collaborative learning: Results from an expert study","authors":"Laura Spang,&nbsp;Martin Greisel,&nbsp;Ingo Kollar","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101155","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101155","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>During collaborative learning, different types of regulation problems such as cognitive, metacognitive, motivational, and emotional problems between group members may hinder the learning process. Once groups have noticed a problem, they need to apply a regulation strategy for the problem to alleviate it. Yet, so far, it is unclear which regulation strategies to use in the light of what problem. Therefore, we propose the concept of <em>immediacy of strategy use</em>: A regulation strategy is considered immediate for a problem if it can solve this problem without further strategies necessary. In this study, we tested the content validity of this immediacy concept by using an expert study methodology. We explored (a) which regulation strategies experts regard as immediate for which problems, (b) to what extent they agree in their immediacy ratings, and (c) whether they distinctly categorize regulation strategies into immediate and non-immediate strategies for specific problems. <em>N</em> = 59 experts rated the immediacy of 27 regulation strategies for eight social regulation problems. Our results indicate that experts can concordantly identify an immediate regulation strategy for regulation problems. The only exceptions were the regulation problems “Incompatible Working Methods” and “Unfair Distribution of Work Load”. Additionally, for each problem, we could clearly differentiate between various immediate and non-immediate regulation strategies. In summary, our findings strongly support the content validity of the immediacy concept. Future research could implement and investigate the immediacy concept in educational practice to support immediate strategy use for problem regulation during collaborative learning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101155"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143644880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}