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Psychological understanding of misinformation and disinformation in the face of environmental crises: Introduction to the special issue 面对环境危机时对错误信息和虚假信息的心理理解：特刊导论。

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British journal of psychology Pub Date : 2026-09-04 Epub Date: 2026-07-30 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.70103

Hoi-Wing Chan, Kimin Eom, Pingping Liu, Kim-Pong Tam

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Embodied attention shapes temporal cognition. 具身注意塑造了时间认知。

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British journal of psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-30 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.70107

Angelo Pisani, Michela Candini, Marinella Cappelletti, Mariano D'Angelo

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Social mobility belief enhances fertility intention among childless individuals by bolstering fertility efficacy. 社会流动信念通过提高生育效能来提高无子女个体的生育意愿。

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British journal of psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-28 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.70108

Changlin Liu, Boqiang Zhao, Ping Hu

{"title":"Social mobility belief enhances fertility intention among childless individuals by bolstering fertility efficacy.","authors":"Changlin Liu, Boqiang Zhao, Ping Hu","doi":"10.1111/bjop.70108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.70108","url":null,"abstract":"Low fertility intentions among childless individuals constitute a critical factor underlying the low-fertility crisis. Drawing on an integrated theoretical framework, this study employs four studies to examine the mechanisms through which beliefs about social mobility influence fertility intentions. Results indicate that social mobility beliefs positively predict fertility intentions, though age-stratified analyses reveal that this direct association is driven by post-reproductive adults, consistent with the view that prospective fertility intentions among younger adults require a mediating mechanism (Study 1); experimental evidence confirms the causal effects of social mobility belief on fertility intention and fertility efficacy among reproductive-age childless adults (Studies 2 and 3); fertility efficacy mediates this relationship (Study 3); and a quasi-experimental design provides support for the proposed mediator's role (Study 4). These findings elucidate a 'social mobility beliefs, fertility efficacy, fertility intentions' mechanism, offering a novel perspective for understanding fertility intentions and important implications for enhancing them by fostering positive societal beliefs and strengthening individual efficacy.","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148849727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The world is an unjust place: The impact of lifetime adversity on belief in conspiracy theories. 世界是个不公正的地方：一生的逆境对阴谋论信仰的影响。

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British journal of psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-04 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.70101

Daniel Jolley, Anna Maughan, Laura E R Blackie

{"title":"The world is an unjust place: The impact of lifetime adversity on belief in conspiracy theories.","authors":"Daniel Jolley, Anna Maughan, Laura E R Blackie","doi":"10.1111/bjop.70101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.70101","url":null,"abstract":"Conspiracy mentality - the tendency to view important events as the product of secret plots by powerful groups - is known to arise from collective victimization and discrimination. Yet less is understood about how adversities such as illness, financial loss, or trauma, unrelated to social identity, foster such beliefs. Drawing on social and clinical perspectives, we conducted three preregistered studies (total n = 1284) to test whether lifetime adversity contributes to conspiracy mentality via perceived injustice. Study 1 (n = 275) supported this hypothesis, showing an indirect link between lifetime adversity and conspiracy mentality through injustice perceptions. Study 2 (n = 471) employed a controlled comparison group design, showing that victims of violence (vs. non-victims) reported stronger perceptions of injustice, which were positively associated with conspiracy mentality. Study 3 (n = 538) experimentally manipulated perceptions of justice, demonstrating that perceived injustice (vs. justice) increased conspiracy beliefs. While the effect was not significantly moderated by lifetime adversity, exploratory analyses replicated Study 1's mediation pattern. Additional analyses revealed that adversity predicted institutional distrust via injustice and political conspiracy beliefs. These findings advance interdisciplinary understanding and identify the psychological mechanisms linking adversity to conspiracy beliefs, with relevance for understanding social trust and resilience.","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148700812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Culture and conceptual influences on first impressions from body shape. 文化和观念对体形第一印象的影响。

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British journal of psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-02 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.70106

Ying Hu, Lan Chen, Natalie Kate Bendiksen, Xiaolan Fu, Alice J O'Toole

{"title":"Culture and conceptual influences on first impressions from body shape.","authors":"Ying Hu, Lan Chen, Natalie Kate Bendiksen, Xiaolan Fu, Alice J O'Toole","doi":"10.1111/bjop.70106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.70106","url":null,"abstract":"Prior work shows that body shape contributes to first impressions in a Western population; here, we test whether these impressions generalize to an East Asian culture and whether any observed differences are affected by nonperceptual factors. Across two studies, we examined how body shape is mapped onto personality traits among American and Chinese participants. In Study 1, participants rated 3D body models on a shared set of Big Five-derived trait descriptors to map trait spaces within a common measurement framework. Although the primary dimension linking Conscientiousness with valence was shared by both groups, the groups differed more clearly on the secondary dimension. Americans emphasized agency and mapped Extraversion onto thinner bodies, whereas Chinese participants emphasized sociability and linked Extraversion to average/sturdier bodies. Study 2 tested whether these differences were driven by trait associations or weight stereotypes. Results aligned with Dynamic Interactive Theory, finding that culturally and linguistically embedded trait associations mirrored body impressions more closely than weight stereotypes alone. These findings reveal how shared perceptual heuristics and nonperceptual knowledge jointly shape impressions from bodies. This extends classic face-based models of person perception to bodies and underscores the role of sociocultural context in the architecture of first impressions.","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148663252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Spatial memory under emotion: Effects across encoding, maintenance and retrieval. 情绪下的空间记忆：编码、维持和检索的影响。

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British journal of psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-23 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.70059

Francesco Ruotolo, Filomena Leonela Sbordone, Tina Iachini, Gennaro Ruggiero

{"title":"Spatial memory under emotion: Effects across encoding, maintenance and retrieval.","authors":"Francesco Ruotolo, Filomena Leonela Sbordone, Tina Iachini, Gennaro Ruggiero","doi":"10.1111/bjop.70059","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjop.70059","url":null,"abstract":"Emotions modulate spatial memory, yet their impact remains inconsistent across contexts. For example, fear may enhance attention to landmarks or induce spatial disorientation. Traditional emotion-memory models, mainly focused on episodic memory, fail to account for these mixed effects. We propose that emotional valence affects spatial memory as a function of both the memory phase (encoding, maintenance, retrieval) and the reference frame: egocentric (body-centred) or allocentric (environment-based). In three experiments, we manipulated the timing of emotional stimuli while participants performed spatial memory tasks. Negative emotion impaired egocentric encoding, whereas positive emotion reduced allocentric encoding. During maintenance, both valences broadly disrupted spatial performance, suggesting interference with cognitive control. At retrieval, only allocentric judgements were affected. Moreover, individual traits such as mood, interoception and alexithymia predicted egocentric more than allocentric performance. These findings support a stage-dependent model in which emotional stimuli interact dynamically with spatial representations. This framework offers a novel perspective to reconcile conflicting results in the literature and advances understanding of how affective states shape adaptive and maladaptive spatial behaviours.","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1208-1239"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13353253/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146040476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The holistic view of compassion: A meta-analysis on the association of self-compassion, other-compassion, well-being and psychological distress. 同情的整体观：自我同情、他人同情、幸福感与心理困扰关系的元分析。

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British journal of psychology Pub Date : 2026-07-31 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.70102

Floria H N Chio, Ben C L Yu, Yuke Fu, Jasmine H M Chio, Winnie W S Mak

{"title":"The holistic view of compassion: A meta-analysis on the association of self-compassion, other-compassion, well-being and psychological distress.","authors":"Floria H N Chio, Ben C L Yu, Yuke Fu, Jasmine H M Chio, Winnie W S Mak","doi":"10.1111/bjop.70102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.70102","url":null,"abstract":"While ample evidence has demonstrated the beneficial effects of self-compassion and other-compassion on the promotion of well-being and reduction of psychological distress independently, the effects of their co-occurrence have been less examined. By employing a three-level meta-analysis, the present study synthesized 193 studies across 31 cultural contexts. Results showed that the effect size of the association between self-compassion and other-compassion was small (r = .19), and that the cultural values of collectivism-individualism moderated the association, with stronger effects shown in cultures with higher collectivistic orientation. Additionally, self-compassion and other-compassion showed a stronger effect size on mental well-being when there was a higher congruence (higher correlation) between self-compassion and other-compassion. Other-compassion also showed a stronger effect size on psychological distress when congruence between self-compassion and other-compassion was high. These findings underscore the dual importance of cultivating both self- and other-compassion to maximize their effects on the enhancement of mental well-being and the alleviation of psychological distress.","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148629524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How do visual and conceptual factors predict the object content in typical scene drawings? 在典型的场景图中，视觉和概念因素如何预测对象内容？

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British journal of psychology Pub Date : 2026-07-31 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.70105

Gongting Wang, Ilker Duymaz, Matthew J Foxwell, Micha Engeser, David Pitcher, Radoslaw M Cichy, Daniel Kaiser

{"title":"How do visual and conceptual factors predict the object content in typical scene drawings?","authors":"Gongting Wang, Ilker Duymaz, Matthew J Foxwell, Micha Engeser, David Pitcher, Radoslaw M Cichy, Daniel Kaiser","doi":"10.1111/bjop.70105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.70105","url":null,"abstract":"Imagine you draw a typical bedroom, your choice of objects is likely to depend on visual occurrence statistics (i.e. the objects present in previously encountered bedrooms) and semantic relations between objects and scenes (i.e. the semantic relationship between the bedroom and its constituent objects). To investigate how these two factors contribute to the composition of typical scene drawings, we analysed 1192 drawings of six indoor scene categories, obtained from 303 participants. For each object featured in the drawings, we estimated its visual occurrence frequency from the ADE20K dataset, and its semantic relatedness to the scene concept from a word2vec model. Across all scenes of a given category, generalized linear models revealed that visual and conceptual factors both predicted the likelihood of an object featuring in the scene drawings, with a combined model outperforming both single-factor models. We further computed the visual and semantic specificity of objects for a given scene, that is, how diagnostic an object is for the scene. Object specificity offered only weak predictive power when predicting the selection of objects, yet even infrequently drawn objects remained diagnostic of their scenes. Taken together, we show that visual and conceptual factors jointly shape the composition of typical scene drawings.","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148629518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Intrinsic potency of biological motion in guiding attention: A conflict-based assessment across autistic traits. 生物运动在引导注意力中的内在效力：一种基于冲突的自闭症特征评估。

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British journal of psychology Pub Date : 2026-07-28 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.70104

Xinyi Huang, Li Wang, Yi Jiang

{"title":"Intrinsic potency of biological motion in guiding attention: A conflict-based assessment across autistic traits.","authors":"Xinyi Huang, Li Wang, Yi Jiang","doi":"10.1111/bjop.70104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.70104","url":null,"abstract":"Biological motion (BM) is a potent social signal capable of guiding human attention, a phenomenon termed social attention that underpins adaptive behaviour and interpersonal interaction. Although extensively studied in laboratory settings, social attention is typically examined using simplified, isolated cues, leaving unresolved whether it possesses reflexive properties distinct from nonsocial attention. This study developed a dual-cue paradigm that embedded oppositely oriented arrow cues within BM sequences, directly assessing the reflexive nature of BM-induced attention using a conflict-resilience criterion. Results confirmed that BM cues, despite being reduced to kinematic information within incongruent directional signals, robustly directed attention. Furthermore, this potency persisted even for local BM signals lacking global configuration but disappeared upon removal of essential biological characteristics, highlighting the crucial role of local motion cues in guiding attention under perceptual conflict. Crucially, BM-driven reflexive attention was negatively correlated with autistic traits. Individuals with higher autistic traits failed to utilize BM cues to direct attention, yet showed intact arrow-driven attention, manifesting specific deficits in social rather than nonsocial attention. These findings uncover an intrinsic processing advantage for social signals in complex contexts that appears compromised with increasing autism-like characteristics, providing a novel paradigm with promising implications for precisely assessing social attention ability in autism.","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148599234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Happy me: Asymmetric bidirectional links between the self and positivity underpin biased processing. 快乐的我：自我和积极性之间的不对称双向联系支撑着偏见处理。

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British journal of psychology Pub Date : 2026-07-23 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.70100

Naomi A Lee, Douglas Martin, Jie Sui

{"title":"Happy me: Asymmetric bidirectional links between the self and positivity underpin biased processing.","authors":"Naomi A Lee, Douglas Martin, Jie Sui","doi":"10.1111/bjop.70100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.70100","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding how the self relates to emotional valence is fundamental to theories of self-concept and cognitive bias. While separate literatures have documented advantages for information associated with the self and information of positive valence, the mechanisms and directionality of their interaction remain poorly understood. Across three experiments combining evaluative priming and shape-label matching tasks, the current research examined whether self-positivity and self-negativity reflect bidirectional expectations between self and emotional information. Results revealed an asymmetric bidirectional relationship: positive emotion primes enhanced self-stranger bias magnitudes by inhibiting processing of stranger-related targets rather than facilitating self-associated targets (Experiment 1a), while self-primes facilitated positivity-bias magnitudes by enhancing processing of positive emotional targets (Experiment 2). Critically, no analogous effects emerged for negative valence (Experiment 1b). These findings suggest that the dominant mechanism linking self and positivity depends on the direction in which the association is activated: emotional context shapes self-prioritization through inhibition of distal-other representations, while self-context shapes emotional processing through direct facilitation of positive information. The theoretical implications for self-concept maintenance and predictive processing accounts of social cognition are discussed.","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148560923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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