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Kağan Kırcaburun, Pınar Özdemir · 2026 · Behavioral Sciences
The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) tools into academic and professional contexts has raised concerns regarding unethical use and the potential development of problematic usage patterns. Drawing on personality and moral psychology frameworks, the present study examined the associations between antagonistic personality traits (narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) and problematic (i.e., addictive) GAI use (PGAIU), as well as the chain mediating effect of moral disengagement and unethical GAI use (UGAIU). Data were collected from an adult sample (N = 491; 5
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Federico de Gregorio, Kasey Windels · 2020 · Journal of Advertising
This exploratory research tests two competing general predictions: the expert-performance literature predicting creatives will demonstrate greater creativity than others while the process-performance paradox literature predicting they will…
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Kory Floyd, Nathan T. Woo · 2020 · Personal Relationships
Abstract Contrary to the claim that loneliness routinely impairs the decoding of social cues such as emotion displays, Knowles, Lucas, Baumeister, and Gardner (2015) proposed that lonely adults “choke under pressure,” experiencing…
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Ryan K. McBain, Jonathan Cantor, J. Breslau et al. · 2026 · Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Importance: The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots has coincided with a persistent youth mental health crisis in the US, raising a question about the extent to which young people are turning to this technology for…
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Elena Hayoung Lee, Yidan Yin, Nan Jia et al. · 2026 · Scientific Reports
Artificial intelligence (AI) promises major productivity gains, but it also raises fundamental questions about how technology can reshape people's relationship to their work. Historical debates over industrialization warned that…
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Gerui Xu, Shruthi Venkatesha Murthy, Bochen Jia · 2025 · Informatics
As AI decision support systems play a growing role in high-stakes decision making, ensuring effective integration of human intuition with AI recommendations is essential. Despite advances in AI explainability, challenges persist in fostering appropriate reliance. This review explores AI decision support systems that enhance human intuition through the analysis of 84 studies addressing three questions: (1) What design strategies enable AI systems to support humans’ intuitive capabilities while maintaining decision-making autonomy? (2) How do AI presentation and interaction approaches influence
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Chantal A. Miller, Keshun Zhang, Ronald Hübner · 2025 · Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Abstract Aesthetic preferences vary widely among individuals and across cultures. These culture-specific aesthetic preferences are reflected in the environment, artistic behaviour, and consumer choices. People have the ability to infer the aesthetic preferences of others within their own culture through their Theory of Aesthetic Preferences , which is a subcategory of the Theory of Mind. An important question is whether people can also infer aesthetic preferences across different cultures. This study aimed to investigate aesthetic preference and aesthetic inference, as well as the underlying m
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Emanuela S. Gritti, Gregory J. Meyer, Robert F. Bornstein et al. · 2020 · Journal of Personality Assessment
We used self-reported narcissistic grandiosity and vulnerability and a component derived from 11 potential grandiosity and narcissism variables (GNVs) coded from Rorschach behavior to predict fluctuations in self-esteem and their links to…
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Yohsuke Ohtsubo, Miyu Higuchi · 2022 · Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science
This study aimed at replicating a previously reported pattern: costly apologies are perceived as more sincere than non-costly apologies even when the transgression was unintentional, while costly apologies do not foster forgiveness more than non-costly apologies when the transgression was unintentional. We conducted a vignette study with a 2 (apology cost: costly vs. non-costly) × 3 (intention: no vs. ambiguous vs. malicious intention) between-participants factorial design. We failed to replicate the aforementioned pattern. Instead, we found that costly apologies promote not only perceived sin
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Lujain Ibrahim, Franziska Sofia Hafner, Luc Rocher · 2026 · Nature
. Here we show how this can create a significant trade-off: optimizing language models for warmth can undermine their performance, especially when users express vulnerability. We conducted controlled experiments on five different language models, training them to produce warmer responses, then evaluating them on consequential tasks. Warm models showed substantially higher error rates (+10 to +30 percentage points) than their original counterparts, promoting conspiracy theories, providing inaccurate factual information and offering incorrect medical advice. They were also significantly more lik
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Pim Cuijpers, Mathias Harrer, Clara Miguel et al. · 2026 · Journal of Affective Disorders
It is not yet clear whether baseline severity is associated with the effects of psychotherapies. We examined baseline severity at the study level in a large sample of randomized controlled trials comparing psychotherapies against a control condition for the treatment of depression. We used an existing large database of randomized trials comparing psychotherapies for depression with control groups ( www.metapsy.org ). We converted baseline severity scores across different depression measures into a common metric. We ran bivariable and multivariable meta-regression analyses to examine the associ
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Sherry Towers, Anuj Mubayi, Carlos Castillo‐Chávez · 2018 · PLoS ONE
BACKGROUND: When attempting to statistically distinguish between a null and an alternative hypothesis, many researchers in the life and social sciences turn to binned statistical analysis methods, or methods that are simply based on the moments of a distribution (such as the mean, and variance). These methods have the advantage of simplicity of implementation, and simplicity of explanation. However, when null and alternative hypotheses manifest themselves in subtle differences in patterns in the data, binned analysis methods may be insensitive to these differences, and researchers may erroneou
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E. G. J. M. Arts, Bram Orobio de Castro, Ellen Luteijn et al. · 2024 · Social Development
Abstract This study investigated whether interactive virtual reality (VR) training of social and emotional abilities (InterAction) improves socio‐emotional functioning of youth with developmental language disorders (DLD). To this end we conducted a multiple baseline intervention study, comparing participants’ social abilities during a baseline phase with their changes in abilities during the intervention and posttest phase. The training group consisted of 29 adolescents ( 20 boys, 9 girls ) with DLD from the Netherlands. The training consisted of nine, weekly (45–50 min) individual sessions wi
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Gorn Huvanandana, Peerayuth Charoensukmongkol · 2026 · International Journal of Workplace Health Management
Purpose Grounded in conservation of resources theory, this study investigates how digital leadership influences AI-related job insecurity, AI use anxiety, technostress, and emotional exhaustion. Innovative climate is proposed as the work…
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Chang Hu, Wenying Huang, W. W. Zhang et al. · 2026 · BMC Psychiatry
BACKGROUND: Suicidal ideation is an emerging issue among athletes, posing significant risks to their mental health. The mechanisms linking psychological strain to suicidal ideation remain unclear. This study addresses this gap by examining…
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Marielle Demarais, Melissa Fisher, Anne Williams-Wengerd et al. · 2024 · BMC Psychiatry
BACKGROUND: Coordinated specialty care (CSC) programs for first episodes of psychosis are increasingly offered in the United States. A component of CSC programs is active family engagement in treatment, though research on the impact of…
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Daniel R. Espinas, Sharon Vaughn, Lynn S. Fuchs · 2025 · Pediatric Research
Interventions for individuals with specific learning disabilities (SLD) largely focus on performance within a single performance domain (e.g., reading). However, it is more the rule than the exception that individuals with SLD will experience difficulties that span multiple domains (e.g., reading and mathematics), and that co-occur with other disorders (e.g., attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder). In this article, we discuss what has been learned about supporting children and adolescents with SLD affecting multiple performance domains (i.e., reading and mathematics), and with common co-occ
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Steph F Suddell, Lili Zhang, Chi Tak Lee et al. · 2026 · Psychological Medicine
Abstract Background Prior research shows that humans adjust their learning rate based on environmental volatility. This adaptation has been shown to be reduced in individuals with high levels of anxious-depression, but past studies have been cross-sectional, making it unclear whether this adaptation is trait-like or responsive to treatment. There are also questions about the basic replicability of this effect with recent studies failing to find robust associations. Method In the Precision in Psychiatry study, we examined changes in learning rate adaptation in a points-loss task, following four
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Monalisa Muniz, Ricardo Primi, Fabiano Koich Miguel · 2007 · Psicologia
The Emotional intelligence supposedly is a mediator variable in the stress control although there is no sufficient empirical evidence supporting this relationship. The purpose of the present research was to study the correlation between emotional intelligence and stress. The participants were 24 city guards who answered the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Tests V2.0 (MSCEIT) and the Lipp’s Inventory of Stress Symptoms for Adults (ISSL). The results showed no significant correlation between stress and the general score of emotional intelligence. However, analyzing the subtasks score
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Bellany Barbosa Lopes, Terezinha Medeiros Gonçalves Loureiro, Felipe André da Costa Brito et al. · 2025 · Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica
Abstract Introduction Pseudoisochromatic stimuli are widely used in psychophysical color vision testing and the features of the luminance noise present on these stimuli have been reported modifying the psychophysical chromatic discrimination. Objective The present study investigated how modifications in the luminance noise features (luminance contrast and number of luminance values) affect chromatic visual evoked cortical potentials (VECP) elicited by pseudoisochromatic gratings, aiming to evaluate the influence of luminance contrast and the number of luminance values in the pseudoisochromatic
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Jing Fu, Xuanru Guo, Xiaoyu Tang et al. · 2021 · i-Perception
Attention contains three functional network subcomponents of alerting, orienting, and executive control. The attention network test (ANT) is usually used to measure the efficiency of three attention subcomponents. Previous researches have focused on examining the unimodal attention with visual or auditory ANT paradigms. However, it is still unclear how an auditory stimulus influences the visual attention networks. This study investigated the effects of bilateral auditory stimuli (Experiment 1) and ipsilateral auditory stimulus (Experiment 2) on the visual attention subcomponents. We employed a
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Siqi Zhang, Ping Wang, Weichen Wang et al. · 2026 · Behavioral Sciences
Prosocial behavior is an important manifestation of socialization in young children. As the primary setting for socialization of young children, the family bears the significant responsibility of fostering prosocial behavior in young children. Drawing on family systems theory and Goleman’s emotional intelligence theory, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between parenting styles and children’s prosocial behavior and the mediating role of children’s emotional intelligence in it. In this study, an online questionnaire was distributed to 869 young children’s parents usi
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Lili Liu, Shuang Li, Lin Tian et al. · 2024 · Behavioral Sciences
Joint attention (JA), a core deficit in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), is crucial for social interaction, emotional understanding, and cognitive development. This study aims to compare and analyze the eye-tracking data of ASD and typically developing children (TDC) during virtual games, exploring how different cue types affect JA performance in ASD children. A total of 31 TDC and 40 ASD children participated in the study. Using eye-tracking devices, we recorded the children’s eye movements as they played virtual games, selecting the correct target based on cues provided by virtu
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Erika C. S. Künstler, Melanie D. Penning, Natan Napiórkowski et al. · 2018 · Frontiers in Psychology
Older adults show higher dual task performance decrements than younger adults. While this is assumed to be related to attentional capacity reductions, the precise affected functions are not specified. Such specification is, however, possible based on the “theory of visual attention” (TVA) which allows for modeling of distinct attentional capacity parameters. Furthermore, it is unclear whether older adults show qualitatively different attentional effects or whether they show the same effects as younger adults experience under more challenging conditions. By varying the complexity of the seconda
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Miroslava Galasová, Matúš Grežo · 2021 · Studia Psychologica
The theory of action versus state orientation suggests that state-oriented people are more susceptible to sunk cost fallacy than action-oriented people because they ruminate about past costs and are reluctant to change their course of actions. However, research on the role of action versus state orientation in sunk cost fallacy is fairly limited. Therefore, the present paper aims to conceptually replicate the seminal study by van Putten et al. (2010) and verify whether action versus state orientation really matters in the susceptibility to sunk cost fallacy. We also examined the role of gender
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Sime Nkemeni Darrin, Hong Hao, Cheng Long et al. · 2026 · Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionThis study investigates the cognitive effects of long term (years of practice) Tai Chi practice, revealing mixed outcomes for executive functions. This study equally addresses the gap in research regarding the long term effects of Tai Chi, emphasizing its influence on the executive functions of young adults.MethodsUsing the BRIEFA scale and tasks like the Flanker task, More Odd Shift Task, and Nback tasks, significant differences emerged between Tai Chi students and nonstudents.ResultsIn the results, Tai Chi students demonstrated superior inhibitory control and working memory compa
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Anton P. Martinez, Elizabeth Milne, Georgina Rowse et al. · 2025 · Frontiers in Psychology
BackgroundInformation about the self and others is organized in cognitive-affective structures that influence and guide interpersonal behavior. These structures are referred to as relational schemas and are thought to be influenced by early interpersonal experiences with significant others leading to secure or insecure attachment patterns as adults. When insecure, these patterns appear to contribute to paranoid interpretations about the intentions of others by indirect pathways such as negative self-esteem and a bias toward untrustworthiness. Experimental studies employing classical conditioni
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Aiste Dirzyte, Aidas Perminas, Aiste Skarnulyte et al. · 2024 · European Journal of Mental Health
Introduction: While personality traits and early maladaptive schemas (EMSs) can affect an individual’s behavior and well-being, the links between these constructs are under-researched, especially in non-clinical samples. Aims: Two studies were conducted to address these links, intending to explore their specifics, as previous research evidenced various associations’ models. Methods: In Study 1, the sample consisted of 120 respondents (65.0% females) living in the UK and the USA. In Study 2, the sample consisted of 244 respondents (68.0% females) living in Lithuania. In both studies, most of th
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Alberto Manzi, Yana Durmysheva, Shannon K. Pinegar et al. · 2019 · Frontiers in Psychology
Recent research by Vohs et al. (2013) garnered media attention after reporting that disordered environments increase creativity. The present research was designed to conceptually replicate and extend this finding by exploring the effect of workspace disorder on creativity. Participants were randomly assigned to work at a neatly organized (Order condition) or a messy desk (Disorder condition), where they completed several paper-and-pencil and computerized tasks, including two validated creativity measures (Abbreviated Torrance Test for Adults; ATTA; Goff and Torrance, 2002; Alternative Uses Tas
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A. Norvilas, Miller J. C. · 2010 · Psichologija
D. Fernandez-Duque ir I. M. Thornton (2000) tariamai atrado, kad asmuo gali užfiksuoti pakitimą ir be sąmonės įsiterpimo. Tačiau šį atradimą gerokai menkina vienas pačių autorių pripažintas metodologinis trūkumas – kontrolinių bandymų nebuvimas. Siekdami tiksliau nustatyti, ar norint pastebėti pakitimą reikia sąmonės tarpininkavimo, ar jo užfiksavimas gali vykti ir be sąmonės įsiterpimo, dar kartą tyrėme, kaip matomame objekte aptinkamas pasikeitimas, tačiau šį kartą tyrėmė dvejopai: vienu atveju be kontrolinių bandymų, kaip ir D. Fernandez-Duque ir I. M. Thorntonas, o kitu atveju atlikome ir
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