Lukas Kirchner , Anna-Lena Eckert , Max Berg , Dominik Endres , Benjamin Straube , Winfried Rief
{"title":"An active inference approach to interpersonal differences in depression","authors":"Lukas Kirchner , Anna-Lena Eckert , Max Berg , Dominik Endres , Benjamin Straube , Winfried Rief","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101092","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Depression is characterized by different distortions in interpersonal experience and behavior, ranging from social withdrawal to overt hostility. However, clinical psychological research has largely neglected the need for an integrative framework to operationalize these different phenomena and their dynamic change more accurately in depression. In this article, we draw on active inference theory, a comprehensive theory of perception, action, and learning, to provide a formal model explaining how variations in patients' internal belief-systems lead to differences in social experience and behavior. In this context, we assume that individuals cannot directly grasp the characteristics of their social environment. Instead, they must infer them indirectly from ambiguous social observations, which they themselves generate and alter through their actions. Differences in interpersonal experience and behavior arise from the interplay of patients’ prior expectations, their propensity to infer particular social states from certain observations, and their beliefs in their ability to influence these situations through specific actions. We then use concrete examples to demonstrate how future research can take our approach to identify systematic differences in interpersonal experiences and behaviors among depressed patients (or patient subgroups) and to investigate their changes in response to new social experiences. We also discuss potential applications of our approach in diagnosing and treating depression. This work is a move towards understanding the interpersonal aspects of depression in more detail, recognizing their importance in etiology, diagnosis, and treatment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101092"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732118X24000205/pdfft?md5=39e750ed89e78d021268cc41cf6935e0&pid=1-s2.0-S0732118X24000205-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140646861","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":"Does mental toughness predict happiness over and above resilience, self-efficacy and grit?","authors":"Helen St Clair-Thompson, Jessica London","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101093","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is conceptual overlap between mental toughness and resilience, self-efficacy, and grit, although few studies have empirically examined the overlap between them. In addition, little research has examined the extent to which there is an empirical advantage of using the mental toughness framework to predict outcomes of interest. The current study therefore explored the predictive validity of mental toughness, specifically in terms of the extent to which it predicts happiness over and above the cognate constructs of resilience, self-efficacy, and grit. Three hundred and sixty-seven participants completed measures of mental toughness, resilience, self-efficacy, grit, and happiness. The correlations between the variables were explored, and a hierarchical regression analysis was conducted to examine the extent to which mental toughness predicted happiness over and above resilience, self-efficacy, and grit. There were significant correlations between mental toughness, resilience, self-efficacy, and grit. When resilience, self-efficacy and grit were entered into the regression each of them was a significant predictor of happiness, but when mental toughness was added they were no longer significant predictors, with the commitment, control of emotion, control of life, confidence in abilities, and interpersonal confidence components of mental toughness being significant predictors. Therefore, despite conceptual overlap, if the aim of research or practice is to identify individuals at risk of poor wellbeing, then this aim is better met when using the construct of mental toughness. The role of mental toughness in happiness also suggests value in examining the impact of mental toughness interventions in the domain of wellbeing.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101093"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732118X24000217/pdfft?md5=71d4adabaaa71a63f6ca2944cf7d7063&pid=1-s2.0-S0732118X24000217-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140646816","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":"A theoretical analysis of the implications of self-determination theory in explaining the effectiveness of feedback-seeking behaviors and the seeker's reaction to feedback: A research agenda","authors":"Seyyed Babak Alavi","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101091","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper proposes that Self-Determination Theory (SDT) has considerable potential for filling some crucial feedback-seeking behavior (FSB) literature gaps. Some key issues are theoretically addressed. First, the influence mechanism of FSB on performance improvement may be explained by the role of motivational factors introduced by this theory in forming positive feedback reactions and the quality of feedback received by the feedback seeker. Second, SDT can be used to explain the feedback seekers' subjective well-being during the FSB process, which is almost overlooked in the FSB literature despite its importance. Third, this paper also relates motivational self-regulation mechanisms to FSB dimensions (e.g., method, sign, type) beyond the popular dimension of FSB frequency analyzed in the literature. The paper also suggests that the quality of FSB, based on these dimensions, is related to the quality of the feedback-seeker's motivation. This paper presents avenues for future empirical studies on different aspects of FSB based on SDT.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101091"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140621129","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":"A new perspective on trends in psychology","authors":"Andrea Zagaria, Luigi Lombardi","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101078","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The current paper aimed to analyze quantitatively the trends of four major schools of thought in scientific Psychology (neuroscience, cognitivism, behaviorism, psychoanalysis) and their intersections, covering the period from 1979 to 2020. We utilized a rigorous methodology across three distinct sources: Mainstream Psychology (MP), Highly Influential Journal (HIJ), and non-English papers (NEP). Our findings align with previous research in two aspects: psychoanalysis and behaviorism have significantly declined, cognitivism remains a prominent trend. However, we deviate from prior studies by recognizing that neuroscience may be considered the most influential trend and that trends exhibit less linearity than previously assumed. We also acknowledge the significance of NEP, which manifest an independent pattern as compared to the other sources and that may reveal what happens in the “periphery” of Psychology. It is noteworthy that NEP demonstrated a still lively contribution from psychoanalysis. Our study also highlights the insularity and lack of cross-fertilization among psychological subdisciplines, despite the widespread claims to the contrary. It eventually supports the inference that scientific Psychology is a non-paradigmatic or pre-paradigmatic discipline, pointing out the dominance of applied psychology and confuting the notion of overarching \"grand theories\".</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101078"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732118X24000060/pdfft?md5=3d82c8fa3ccc288962716ed94dd2f5c9&pid=1-s2.0-S0732118X24000060-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140297057","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}
E. Hards , C.J. Rathbone , J.A. Ellis , S. Reynolds
{"title":"‘What is the self anyway?’ towards a more parsimonious conceptualisation of the self: A review","authors":"E. Hards , C.J. Rathbone , J.A. Ellis , S. Reynolds","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101080","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The ‘self’ is of interest across multiple psychological, cognitive, and social sciences. Unhelpfully, a plethora of terms are used across different theoretical and empirical areas. This leads to inconsistency, confusion and lack of clarity and impedes cross-disciplinary communication and progress. To improve clarity, increase parsimony and support theoretical and empirical advances, it is important to establish clear terms that can be applied consistently across psychology. The aim of this paper is to present a comprehensive initial inventory of synthesised self-terms that can be used by, and across psychology. We review self-terms used across different areas in psychology and identify a set of terms that are most frequently and consistently used across these domains. We then present a synthesis of commonly used ‘self-terms’ that are specifically related to six psychological sub-disciplines; Cognitive, Social, Developmental, Neuroscience, Clinical and Personality psychology. A glossary of self-terms, together with frequently used synonymous self-terms are presented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101080"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140191556","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":"Exploring Children's representations of work: A review investigating content and influences","authors":"Mathilde Taghon, Hélène Maire, Anne Pignault","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101082","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Middle childhood has been identified as a critical period regarding the exploration and construction of the self, with strong implications for future vocational choices and occupational trajectories. Due to a shortage of both theoretical models and empirical data, a knowledge gap remains as regards children's perceptions and understandings of the concept of work between the ages of 5–8, and the differential variables influencing these representations. This review aims to fill this gap by providing relevant information with respect to the investigation of the content of children's representations of work, as well as the factors influencing them. Considering the lack of papers covering this topic, this article approaches the subject through adjacent angles such as adult and adolescent representations of work, children's representations of occupations, and children's vocational preferences or career development. A theoretical model of children's mental representations of work is presented, and general methodological avenues are proposed to pursue further investigation on this research topic.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101082"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140145161","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":"Chiastic thinking: A cognitive process closely related to Janusian thinking","authors":"Chen-Yao Kao","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101081","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article aims to explore a way of thinking based on chiastic structure (X-shaped structure), chiastic thinking. Characterized by its juxtaposition of opposite structure, chiastic thinking has an intriguing connection to Janusian thinking. This is because Janusian thinking is deemed a creative process wherein two opposite concepts or images are conceived simultaneously. At the beginning of the article, conceptual combination and Janusian thinking are presented, along with empirical research data to support the effectiveness of Janusian thinking. The paper then shifts to a discussion of chiastic thinking, which occupies a unique place in human culture and civilization but does not receive due attention. In the last part of this article, the examples of chiastic thinking in literature, science, and art are provided. Across diverse disciplines, the combination of opposites manifests in various ways, often adopting different technical terms that give rise to different theories. These terms and theories may share fundamental commonalities but differ in certain aspects. The main purpose of this review article is to examine the close relation between Chiastic and Janusian thinking. Hopefully, this review article can rekindle the academic interest in these two thinking processes and give them new meaning.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101081"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140134374","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":"Embodiment as a synthesis of having a body and being a body, and its role in self-identity and mental health","authors":"Lars-Gunnar Lundh, Lo Foster","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101083","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The experience of embodiment is a central theme in phenomenological philosophy and has recently received increasing attention also within psychological science. In the present paper we argue (1) that the experience of embodiment represents a fundamental synthesis of <em>having</em> a body (the body as an object) and <em>being</em> a body (the body as felt “from within”); (2) that this synthesis is basic to an individual's experience of self-identity; (3) that each individual, as an existential task, has to develop their specific version of the embodiment synthesis; (4) that these syntheses can be more or less harmonious or disharmonious, and that disharmonious syntheses are associated with psychological distress and psychopathology. Different phenomenological accounts of possible variants of disharmonious embodiment, as found in the literature on eating disorders, are discussed and compared. Finally, some research implications and clinical implications are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101083"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732118X24000114/pdfft?md5=4969361bcb11c43b48e65d4192d4d082&pid=1-s2.0-S0732118X24000114-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140069499","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":"On ecological literacy through implicated participation","authors":"Carl T. Woods , Keith Davids , Duarte Araújo","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101079","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Philosopher-activist Heather Menzies advocates for an approach to ecological literacy that goes beyond knowing about the interconnected goings on of the world from afar by foregrounding the import of relating <em>with</em> a locale through prolonged periods of <em>implicated participation</em>. Here, we offer further insight to these views across three sections. First, following a brief excursus, we show how Menzies' views of implicated participation focus less on the explication of facts <em>about</em> the world, more as enabling us to be taught <em>by</em> its goings on. It is, in other words, to study <em>with</em> and learn <em>from</em> the beings and things which surround us. Second, we incorporate Menzies' views with the ecological approach to psychology, drawing specifically on the concept of <em>affordance</em>. This helps us take up with the practical challenge of fostering Menzies' views in places tightened by privatisation, commodification and homogenisation: factors over-constraining the ways people can engage with the affordances of a locale. Thus, section three leans on key ideas from Karen Franck and Quentin Stevens to reposition ‘leftover spaces’ as <em>arenas for ecological literacy</em>: thrivingly loose ecologies enriched with affordances determined over varying timescales of implicated participation. To think with these ideas, two cases are presented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101079"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732118X24000072/pdfft?md5=e192c74dda684089176e4c0cf940a69d&pid=1-s2.0-S0732118X24000072-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140015941","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":"Combining theoretical modelling and machine learning approaches: The case of teamwork effects on individual effort expenditure","authors":"Simon Eisbach , Oliver Mai , Guido Hertel","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101077","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Machine learning modelling of psychological processes is often considered as competing alternative to theoretical modelling. In contrast, the current study explores potential synergetic effects of these two general approaches both for predictive accuracy and theoretical understanding. Theoretical models have high explanatory value but can have weak predictive power. Machine learning models have high predictive power but low transparency and require large amounts of data and computational power. The combination of machine learning and theoretical models may yield both higher predictive accuracy as well as higher explanatory value and lower requirements of data and computational power as compared to either of the two approaches alone. We examine our assumptions in the field of team motivation, using archival performance data from 1,425,926 individual and relay races of swimming competitions. While the results revealed better prediction of the machine learning model, an exploration of the machine learning model with explainable artificial intelligence methods offered new insights also for the theoretical model. Finally, the combination of machine learning and theoretical modelling required less computational power than the machine learning approach alone, but not less data for building the model.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101077"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732118X24000059/pdfft?md5=907ddafb617c621310f557901c81a4b4&pid=1-s2.0-S0732118X24000059-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139935367","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}