{"title":"From the lab to a career in the video game industry","authors":"Teresa Schubert","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00377-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00377-y","url":null,"abstract":"Nature Reviews Psychology is interviewing individuals with doctoral degrees in psychology who pursued non-academic careers. We spoke with Denitza Dramkin about her journey from PhD student to senior user researcher.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142595717","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":"Modelling game-theoretic predictions in social interactions","authors":"Shawn A. Rhoads","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00373-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00373-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142595721","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":"Event perception and event memory in real-world experience","authors":"Heather Bailey, Maverick E. Smith","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00367-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00367-0","url":null,"abstract":"People remember events as a series of interconnected actions organized in time. The ability to perceive, represent and remember events is essential to understanding the world, adapting to changing circumstances and surviving. Extensive research has been conducted to understand memory representations of simple, static ‘events’ that often lack real-world contextual meaning. Although this work lays the foundation of current theories of cognition, it is disconnected from how memory functions in the real world. In this Review, we discuss how events are perceived from a continuous stream of experience, and how perceived events organize memory for real-world experiences. Further, we discuss how cognitive ageing, mental health conditions and neurodegenerative diseases impact event memory. We provide a cohesive overview of event memory for naturalistic stimuli and suggest future directions for the field. Memories often consist of interconnected events from daily life. In this Review, Bailey and Smith discuss how events are perceived, represented, and remembered and how these processes are impacted by ageing and certain clinical conditions.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142595709","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}
Marieke A. Helmich, Marieke J. Schreuder, Laura F. Bringmann, Harriëtte Riese, Evelien Snippe, Arnout C. Smit
{"title":"Slow down and be critical before using early warning signals in psychopathology","authors":"Marieke A. Helmich, Marieke J. Schreuder, Laura F. Bringmann, Harriëtte Riese, Evelien Snippe, Arnout C. Smit","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00369-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00369-y","url":null,"abstract":"Early warning signals are considered to be generic indicators of a system’s accumulating instability and ‘critical slowing down’ prior to substantial and abrupt transitions between stable states. In clinical psychology, these signals have been proposed to enable personalized predictions of the impending onset, recurrence and remission of mental health problems before changes in symptoms occur, thereby facilitating timely therapeutic interventions. In this Perspective, we question the idea that early warning signals in a person’s emotion time series can predict changes in mental health symptoms. Using the empirical findings to date and the theoretical and methodological limitations inherent in their application, we argue that there is little support for the use of early warning signals based on critical slowing down in clinical psychology. Deepening our knowledge of the theoretical foundations of these predictors and improving their measurement are key to clarifying the potential and boundaries for their use in psychopathology. It is necessary to build on the insights gained from early warning signal studies and to improve and evaluate alternative methods, keeping in mind that clinical applications require prospective, real-time predictions that not only indicate whether, but also when, a specific person is likely to experience changes in their mental health. Early warning signals have been proposed to predict symptom changes and to provide timely warnings of mental health risk and recovery. In this Perspective, Helmich et al. question the clinical utility of such signals and discuss alternative avenues for early change prediction.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142595711","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":"A tale of two competing theories on ingroup favouritism","authors":"Hirotaka Imada","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00371-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00371-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142595715","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}
Abigail A. Scholer, Candice Hubley, Kentaro Fujita
{"title":"A multiple-goal framework for exploring goal disengagement","authors":"Abigail A. Scholer, Candice Hubley, Kentaro Fujita","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00363-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00363-4","url":null,"abstract":"Although persistence and tenacity in goal pursuit are often vaunted, at times, it is also critical to walk away from or give up one’s goals. Indeed, research over the past two decades has revealed that goal disengagement is an important part of goal pursuit and has well-being benefits. In this Review, we consider goal disengagement from a multiple-goal perspective, according to which the need for goal disengagement arises because people hold multiple goals that cannot be pursued simultaneously owing to limited resources. A multiple-goal perspective suggests commonalities among phenomena that are often considered distinct but that all reduce goal-striving efforts towards a given goal: goal abandonment, goal freezing and goal switching. A multiple-goal perspective also suggests that the relative attainability, desirability or goal affordance for a given goal determines whether goal disengagement is adaptive, broadens understanding of when and how goal disengagement is beneficial, and provides a framework to examine what factors are most influential in the decision to disengage versus continuing with a goal. Goal disengagement is typically conceptualized in terms of total abandonment. In this Review, Scholer and colleagues examine goal disengagement at multiple timescales and consider when and how goal disengagement is beneficial in the context of multiple goals.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142595702","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":"Demand effects might influence research on violent video games","authors":"Jenn Richler","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00372-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00372-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142397588","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}
Andrea Danese, Kirsten Asmussen, Jelena MacLeod, Alan Meehan, Jessica Sears, Natalie Slopen, Patrick Smith, Angela Sweeney
{"title":"Revisiting the use of adverse childhood experience screening in healthcare settings","authors":"Andrea Danese, Kirsten Asmussen, Jelena MacLeod, Alan Meehan, Jessica Sears, Natalie Slopen, Patrick Smith, Angela Sweeney","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00362-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00362-5","url":null,"abstract":"Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are key modifiable risk factors for mental illness. The potential to detect and mitigate ACEs to improve population mental health has led to large public health efforts. However, basing public mental health decisions on ACE screening has revealed several conspicuous challenges. In this Review, we provide a critical overview of these challenges, focusing on the validity of ACE screening measures, their accuracy in classifying individuals at risk for poor mental health outcomes, their utility in facilitating the delivery of targeted interventions, their acceptability by respondents and interviewers, and the overall financial sustainability of this screening approach. There are clear research opportunities to address these challenges and improve current practices. For example, basic measurement research could improve the validity and acceptability of ACE measures, individual risk modelling approaches could be adopted to improve the accuracy of ACE screening to predict mental health conditions and guide intervention selection, and promising interventions could be tested to ensure that vulnerable individuals detected through ACE screening receive effective support. Screening for adverse childhood experiences can improve mental health outcomes through personalized treatments in at-risk individuals or preventative strategies at the population level. In this Review, Danese et al. synthesize the challenges and opportunities of these screening measures and related analytical methods.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142595735","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}