{"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}
Zhansheng Chen, Kai-Tak Poon, Tonglin Jiang, Fei Teng
{"title":"Psychosocial and behavioural consequences of ostracism across contexts","authors":"Zhansheng Chen, Kai-Tak Poon, Tonglin Jiang, Fei Teng","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00393-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00393-y","url":null,"abstract":"Ostracism (being ignored and excluded) thwarts basic psychological needs fundamental for human survival. As a painful experience, ostracism has various mental health, cognitive and behavioural consequences. In this Review, we outline the main psychosocial and behavioural consequences of ostracism and consider how these consequences might be unique within specific contexts, including workplace, school and online settings. Using a multiple-process framework, we integrate the existing theoretical models and original evidence to capture the mechanisms involved in the consequences of ostracism. Based on this framework, we elaborate on potential interventions targeting the underlying processes and focusing on individual and contextual moderators to reduce the detrimental effects of ostracism. We summarize challenges in the field and outline recommendations for future research. Ostracism has specific psychosocial and behavioural consequences that might vary according to context. In this Review, Chen and colleagues elaborate on a multiple-processes framework of ostracism and propose intervention targets to reduce its detrimental consequences.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"4 2","pages":"112-126"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143381106","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}
Stefan Feuerriegel, Abdurahman Maarouf, Dominik Bär, Dominique Geissler, Jonas Schweisthal, Nicolas Pröllochs, Claire E. Robertson, Steve Rathje, Jochen Hartmann, Saif M. Mohammad, Oded Netzer, Alexandra A. Siegel, Barbara Plank, Jay J. Van Bavel
{"title":"Using natural language processing to analyse text data in behavioural science","authors":"Stefan Feuerriegel, Abdurahman Maarouf, Dominik Bär, Dominique Geissler, Jonas Schweisthal, Nicolas Pröllochs, Claire E. Robertson, Steve Rathje, Jochen Hartmann, Saif M. Mohammad, Oded Netzer, Alexandra A. Siegel, Barbara Plank, Jay J. Van Bavel","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00392-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00392-z","url":null,"abstract":"Language is a uniquely human trait at the core of human interactions. The language people use often reflects their personality, intentions and state of mind. With the integration of the Internet and social media into everyday life, much of human communication is documented as written text. These online forms of communication (for example, blogs, reviews, social media posts and emails) provide a window into human behaviour and therefore present abundant research opportunities for behavioural science. In this Review, we describe how natural language processing (NLP) can be used to analyse text data in behavioural science. First, we review applications of text data in behavioural science. Second, we describe the NLP pipeline and explain the underlying modelling approaches (for example, dictionary-based approaches and large language models). We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of these methods for behavioural science, in particular with respect to the trade-off between interpretability and accuracy. Finally, we provide actionable recommendations for using NLP to ensure rigour and reproducibility. Natural language processing (NLP) methods are growing in popularity as they become cheaper to implement and easier to use. In this Review, Feuerriegel et al. describe NLP methods and provide recommendations for the use of NLP in behavioural science.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"4 2","pages":"96-111"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143381082","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":"Attachment as a target mechanism in the mental health of child refugees","authors":"Ximena Goldberg","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00401-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00401-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"4 1","pages":"5-5"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142963200","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":"Defining transdiagnostic constructs to advance clinical research","authors":"Hilde M. Geurts, Iris L. Rapoport","doi":"10.1038/s44159-024-00400-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-024-00400-2","url":null,"abstract":"Transdiagnostic research is often portrayed as having the potential to revolutionize mental health care, but what is meant by ‘transdiagnostic’ varies across studies. A clear definition of transdiagnostic concepts and consistent, broadly applied evidence thresholds are needed to make sense of existing findings.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"4 2","pages":"70-71"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143381113","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}