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{"title":"Information, representation, and cognition","authors":"Renato T. Ramos ,&nbsp;José Roberto C. Piqueira","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101177","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101177","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article discusses the concept of information in the context of its application in theories of cognition mainly those based on the idea of consciousness as information processing. The concept of Natural Information is presented as a complement to the classic Shannon’s information model by shifting the focus of the information concept from the message to the entire communication system. This model proposes that: (1) Information is not something itself but it is always about something; (2) Information is not an object but a relationship; (3) Information is an emergent property of interfaces; (4) Information is the subset of elements of a given instance connected, related, caused, or paired with elements of another instance; (5) Information is present in the universe at all organizational levels including mental states; (6) Information is physically made of the same substance as the instance that acquires the information. We introduce the concepts of codable and non-codable elements of information to account for the emergence of meaning and qualia. The contribution of these concepts to the discussions about the emergence of meaning and the structure of self are discussed. We propose this model as a road map to describe information processing in mental processes locating classic ideas and old problems in the context of new concepts. Our model is still a work in progress aiming to contribute to the understanding of the role of information in computational, psychological, and social contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 101177"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144535928","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 dual metaphorical role of abstract symbols in symbolic mathematical processing","authors":"Omid Khatin-Zadeh","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101180","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101180","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The mechanisms through which abstract mathematical symbols and symbolic mathematical representation are processed have been discussed in many works. Some neuroimaging and behavioral studies have provided evidence for the active role of visuospatial networks and spatial abilities in the processing of symbolic mathematical representations. Based on these findings, it is suggested that the process of understanding mathematical entities in terms of abstract symbols involves an initial explicit metaphorical stage followed by a subsequent implicit metaphorical stage. In the initial explicit metaphorical stage, a mathematical entity is metaphorically described in terms of abstract symbols. Abstract symbols serve as the source domain of this metaphorical stage. In the subsequent implicit metaphorical stage, abstract symbols are metaphorically conceptualized and understood in terms of space and spatial elements. Abstract symbols serve as the target domain of this stage. While the explicit metaphorical stage has a clearly-observable manifestation in the semiotic system of abstract mathematical symbols, the implicit metaphorical stage does not have such a realization in any semiotic system or cultural artifact. This purely implicit metaphorical processing of abstract symbols in terms of space and spatial elements can be observed only through neural activities in areas of brain involved in spatial processing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 101180"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144365257","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":"Presenting a strengths-based ecological model for promoting well-being among LGBTQ+ adults","authors":"Alexandra Cowand ,&nbsp;Konrad Bresin ,&nbsp;Nathan R. Todd ,&nbsp;Yara Mekawi","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101178","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101178","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Models of LGBTQ+ health demonstrate factors influencing mental and physical health (e.g., unique stressors due to living in a heterosexist and cissexist society). However, current models of LGBTQ+ health do not adequately organize how strengths throughout multiple ecological levels influence the well-being of LGBTQ+ individuals. In this paper, we propose and describe an ecological model of LGBTQ+ strengths impacting the specific health outcome of LGBTQ+ well-being. This model integrates and organizes literature on intersectionality and LGBTQ+ experiences, LGBTQ+ individual well-being outcomes, and LGBTQ+ strengths across ecological levels of individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and structural. Model strengths, limitations, and applications are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 101178"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144331420","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":"Technopsychology: A new wave of psychological inquiry","authors":"Jesper Aagaard ,&nbsp;Rasmus Birk","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101176","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101176","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Technology plays an important role in human existence, yet its theoretical significance has seldom been explored in psychology. This article introduces <em>technopsychology</em>, a new framework for exploring human-technology relationships. In doing so, it traces three waves in the history of psychology: First, cognitive psychology, which treats technologies as distant objects that we ‘look-at’. Second, discursive psychology, which views technologies as passive symbols that we ‘talk-about’. Finally, the article presents technopsychology, which treats technologies as active mediators that we ‘interact-with’. Drawing on insights from science and technology studies (STS), the article goes on to present three tenets of technopsychology: 1) a rehabilitation of human embodiment, 2) an understanding that human bodies are materially situated, and 3) the recognition that human agency is technologically mediated. By highlighting the active role of material artifacts, technopsychology seeks to challenge earlier waves of inquiry and expand the study of psychology. Ultimately, technopsychology invites psychology to reimagine its core phenomena—such as attention, memory, racism, and sexism—not as occurring apart from technology, but as enacted through our everyday entanglements with it.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 101176"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144253687","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":"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}