{"title":"Generative AI in psychology","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s44159-025-00416-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-025-00416-2","url":null,"abstract":"Research using generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been accelerating across many disciplines. In this issue, we publish a Viewpoint with reflections from six experts on the promises and risks of this technology.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"4 2","pages":"69-69"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-025-00416-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143381110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Training the self–other distinction","authors":"Juan Carlos Oliveros","doi":"10.1038/s44159-025-00409-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-025-00409-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"4 2","pages":"74-74"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143381105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monojit Choudhury, Zohar Elyoseph, Nathanael J. Fast, Desmond C. Ong, Elaine O. Nsoesie, Ellie Pavlick
{"title":"The promise and pitfalls of generative AI","authors":"Monojit Choudhury, Zohar Elyoseph, Nathanael J. Fast, Desmond C. Ong, Elaine O. Nsoesie, Ellie Pavlick","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00402-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00402-0","url":null,"abstract":"Nature Reviews Psychology invited six researchers from cognitive science, clinical psychology, social psychology, language science and public health to share their perspectives on current and future uses of generative artificial intelligence, including its impacts on research and humankind.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"4 2","pages":"75-80"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143381100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Repetitive negative thinking as a transdiagnostic cognitive process","authors":"Michelle L. Moulds, Peter M. McEvoy","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00399-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00399-6","url":null,"abstract":"Repetitive negative thinking processes such as rumination and worry — also referred to as ‘perseverative thinking’ or ‘perseverative cognition’ — have traditionally been conceptualized as distinct processes defined, measured and studied in the clinical literature from a disorder-specific stance (for example, rumination in relation to depression, worry in relation to anxiety). However, rumination and worry are highly correlated, share phenomenological features, load onto a common factor, and predict and maintain multiple psychopathologies. In this Review, we overview the evidence base that conceptualizes repetitive negative thinking as an overarching cognitive process unconstrained by disorder-related content or temporal focus. The related theories and the empirical literature covering measurement, treatment and prevention support repetitive negative thinking as a transdiagnostic process. Adopting a transdiagnostic approach can help advance a more nuanced understanding of the role of repetitive negative thinking in clinical presentations and their treatment. Transdiagnostic approaches to psychopathology are expected to overcome the assessment and treatment limitations of categorical diagnoses. In this Review, Moulds and McEvoy conceptualize repetitive negative thinking as a transdiagnostic process and advance a nuanced understanding of its diverse clinical presentations.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"4 2","pages":"127-141"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143381085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Casey L. Roark, John Paul Minda, Priya Kalra, Anthony Cruz
{"title":"Reply to ‘Structure-based dissociations provide agnostic evidence to the multiple-systems debate’","authors":"Casey L. Roark, John Paul Minda, Priya Kalra, Anthony Cruz","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00396-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00396-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"4 1","pages":"67-67"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142963194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Single and multiple systems in probabilistic categorization","authors":"Nicolás Marchant, Sergio E. Chaigneau","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00389-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00389-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"4 1","pages":"64-64"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142963195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Structure-based dissociations provide agnostic evidence to the multiple-systems debate","authors":"C. E. R. Edmunds, Andy J. Wills, Fraser Milton","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00395-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00395-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"4 1","pages":"66-66"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142963199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Priya Kalra, John Paul Minda, Casey L. Roark, Anthony Cruz
{"title":"Reply to ‘Single and multiple systems in probabilistic categorization’","authors":"Priya Kalra, John Paul Minda, Casey L. Roark, Anthony Cruz","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00390-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00390-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"4 1","pages":"65-65"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142963201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How aggregated opinions shape beliefs","authors":"Kerem Oktar, Tania Lombrozo","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00398-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00398-7","url":null,"abstract":"In today’s online world, the beliefs of people are shaped by aggregated opinions: the elicited, quantified and summarized judgements of many strangers. Ratings guide purchases, likes guide shares, and polls guide votes. In this Review, we consolidate cross-disciplinary research to clarify how individuals draw inductive inferences about the world based on the opinions of others. We draw on philosophy to clarify what conceptually distinguishes aggregated opinion from other forms of evidence, draw on political science to describe its functional origins in collective judgement and decision-making, and draw on psychology to shed light on the mechanisms that drive how individuals conform to, learn from and ignore the collected opinions of others. Finally, we highlight future directions to address important gaps in the literature, such as exploring how the causal history of opinion shapes the inferences that people draw, and how the mechanisms that drive responses to aggregated opinion can be leveraged in tailored interventions that are responsive to people’s individual reasons for maintaining their beliefs. Aggregated opinions, such as election results and product ratings, are prevalent in the modern world. In this Review, Oktar and Lombrozo describe the properties of aggregated opinion and the mechanisms by which it drives individuals to change or maintain their beliefs.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"4 2","pages":"81-95"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143381115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}