Sarah K. Schäfer, Jutta Stoffers-Winterling, Klaus Lieb
{"title":"Towards mechanism-focused and scalable resilience interventions","authors":"Sarah K. Schäfer, Jutta Stoffers-Winterling, Klaus Lieb","doi":"10.1038/s44159-026-00573-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-026-00573-y","url":null,"abstract":"Resilience interventions promote mental health by preparing individuals for adversity or building resilient outcomes during or after stress exposure. In this Review, we describe how currently available resilience interventions, focused on training individual psychosocial factors and lacking real-world implementation evidence, yield only small-to-medium favourable effects. Our synthesis of the literature supports a shift in resilience interventions research from training individual factors to training resilience mechanisms, in line with current theories of resilience. The effectiveness and reach of resilience interventions could be enhanced by targeting the mental, physiological and behavioural processes that occur during stressor exposure and by identifying the conditions under which different individuals benefit. We discuss an integrated approach for developing, testing and adapting resilience interventions in real-world settings. Theoretical models of resilience have shifted from a focus on factors to a focus on mechanisms. In this Review, Schäfer et al. discuss concrete pathways for updating resilience interventions to reflect current theories and to enhance their effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"5 7","pages":"458-475"},"PeriodicalIF":22.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148409563","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":"Reaching consensus","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s44159-026-00567-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-026-00567-w","url":null,"abstract":"This month we introduce Consensus Statement articles, which present formally derived expert recommendations for a research field, methodological approach or clinical practice.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"5 5","pages":"303-303"},"PeriodicalIF":21.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-026-00567-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147924284","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":"What research can and cannot do when violence unfolds","authors":"Eran Halperin","doi":"10.1038/s44159-026-00575-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-026-00575-w","url":null,"abstract":"When killing and war unfold — however difficult and overwhelming the moment — social psychologists must keep searching for ways to curb violence and influence reality, even while recognizing how limited their power is and how difficult it is to shift minds amid ongoing violence.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"5 7","pages":"433-434"},"PeriodicalIF":22.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148409554","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":"Adolescent identity development processes, implications and interventions","authors":"Elisabetta Crocetti","doi":"10.1038/s44159-026-00569-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-026-00569-8","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding oneself is a fascinating yet challenging process that entails dealing with identity questions. The answers to such questions can be revealed through the commitments one makes in various life domains (such as educational paths, career choices and interpersonal relationships) and the social groups with which one identifies. Dynamics of identity formation and consolidation are particularly salient in adolescence, a period marked by biological, cognitive and social changes that prompt individuals to question their sense of self. In this Review, I discuss theoretical models of how personal and social identity develop and change. Next, I describe how personal and social identity processes vary across life domains and individuals, and over time. I then examine the implications of identity processes for individual mental health and well-being, interpersonal relationships, and coping with transitions, as well as social and collective outcomes. Finally, I review intervention studies designed to foster identity development and propose an agenda for future basic and applied research aimed at understanding how identity can be supported and leveraged to promote both personal well-being and more inclusive and cohesive societies. The dynamics of identity formation and consolidation are particularly salient in adolescence, and identity processes later in life are strongly rooted in the choices made in adolescence. In this Review, Crocetti describes the theoretical models and processes that underlie the development of adolescent identity, their implications for personal and collective outcomes, and potential interventions.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"5 7","pages":"441-457"},"PeriodicalIF":22.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148409559","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":"The hidden costs of being in sync","authors":"Hadar Fisher","doi":"10.1038/s44159-026-00572-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-026-00572-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"5 6","pages":"374-374"},"PeriodicalIF":21.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148215289","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":"Spatiotemporal routines in visual perception","authors":"David Pascucci, Árni Kristjánsson","doi":"10.1038/s44159-026-00568-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-026-00568-9","url":null,"abstract":"Although many perceptual experiments use simplified and isolated stimuli, perception and cognition unfold within richly structured spatiotemporal environments. In this Perspective, we argue that even the most fundamental perceptual functions are inherently shaped by spatial and temporal context. Drawing on converging evidence from vision, attention, memory and decision-making, we outline shared computational principles for how spatiotemporal context governs perception and cognition. We introduce the concept of spatiotemporal routines — mechanisms that integrate spatial and temporal structure to guide perception and behaviour. Within this framework, we advocate for a paradigm shift away from reductionist, context-free paradigms towards approaches that place spatiotemporal context at the core of experimental and theoretical frameworks. Perception unfolds within richly structured spatiotemporal environments but is often studied in simplified contexts. In this Perspective, Pascucci and Kristjánsson describe how spatial and temporal context guide perception and behaviour through spatiotemporal routines.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"5 6","pages":"420-432"},"PeriodicalIF":21.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148215286","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":"The explicit-Bayes hypothesis for cognition","authors":"Kai Xue, Dobromir Rahnev","doi":"10.1038/s44159-026-00570-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-026-00570-1","url":null,"abstract":"It is often asserted that human cognition is Bayesian, but that broad claim is difficult to test in a falsifiable way. We suggest that researchers specifically assess a narrower, falsifiable hypothesis: that cognition explicitly uses Bayes’ rule at the algorithmic level.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"5 6","pages":"369-370"},"PeriodicalIF":21.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148215280","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}
Jim A. C. Everett, Scott Claessens, Tim-Dorian Knöchel, Madeline G. Reinecke
{"title":"Principles for understanding trust in artificial intelligence","authors":"Jim A. C. Everett, Scott Claessens, Tim-Dorian Knöchel, Madeline G. Reinecke","doi":"10.1038/s44159-026-00562-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-026-00562-1","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly performs tasks once reserved for humans, raising questions about when, why and how people trust machines — and whether they should do so in the first place. In this Review, we identify six principles that help to structure an understanding of trust in AI and highlight its socially embedded nature: that trust in AI is inferred; that trustworthiness, trust and trusting behaviour are distinct; that trust in AI is about both morality and performance; and that trust in AI is agent-specific; individually variable; and strategically motivated. The inferred, multidimensional, dynamic and contextual nature of trust in AI illustrates that ‘trust in AI’ is not one thing, but varies across different systems, individuals and contexts. We end by considering broader ethical implications of studying trust in AI and argue that trust in AI requires both studying how people think and reflecting on the kind of world that trust in AI serves to create. The growing prevalence of artificial intelligence raises questions about when, why and how people trust machines — and whether they should do so in the first place. In this Review, Everett et al. identify six principles that can structure an understanding of trust in AI and consider the ethical implications of studying trust in AI.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"5 6","pages":"388-401"},"PeriodicalIF":21.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148215287","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}
Nichole E. Scheerer, M. Zachary Rosenthal, Elina Birmingham, Tana B. Carson, Natalia Van Esch, Zachary Williams, Grace Iarocci, Kelly N. Jahn
{"title":"Transdiagnostic mechanisms of decreased sound tolerance","authors":"Nichole E. Scheerer, M. Zachary Rosenthal, Elina Birmingham, Tana B. Carson, Natalia Van Esch, Zachary Williams, Grace Iarocci, Kelly N. Jahn","doi":"10.1038/s44159-026-00565-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44159-026-00565-y","url":null,"abstract":"Decreased sound tolerance — a group of conditions characterized by a reduced ability to cope with everyday sounds that are tolerable for most people — often co-occurs with mental health disorders such as autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety disorders and obsessive–compulsive disorder. However, studying decreased sound tolerance within siloed diagnostic entities has limited advances in this field. In this Review, we focus on hyperacusis and misophonia (two frequent subtypes of decreased sound tolerance) to synthesize findings across diagnostic boundaries and to offer a transdiagnostic view of these subtypes’ prevalence, potential underlying mechanisms, tools for diagnosis and treatment, mental health correlates and impact. We argue for a holistic approach that delineates shared and unique features of decreased sound tolerance subtypes and the relationship between sensory processing and differences in mental health disorders. Moving towards an integrated understanding of how decreased sound tolerance emerges across different clinical presentations requires recognizing the transdiagnostic nature of these mechanisms. Decreased sound tolerance refers to alterations in a person’s ability to cope with everyday sounds that do not bother most people. In this Review, Scheerer et al. synthesize evidence supporting that two frequent subtypes of these alterations, hyperacusis and misophonia, are transdiagnostic to psychopathology.","PeriodicalId":74249,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews psychology","volume":"5 6","pages":"402-419"},"PeriodicalIF":21.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148215259","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}