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Journal of personality and social psychology, 75, 751765. Current directions in psychological science xxx 16. Current directions in psychological science is ranked among the top 10 psychology journals worldwide. Why rational number arithmetic is so difficult for so many people robert s. Current directions in psychological science association. Current directions in psychological science 51 tuitions about the stability of per sonality be reconciled with the evidence for its variability across situations. Abstract eyewitnesses are often called upon to report information about what they have seen. Hezlett fact and fiction in cognitive ability testing for admissions and hiring. For example, as with any medical or psychological treatment, the dosage i. Identity, belonging, and achievement a model, interventions, implications geoffrey l. Current directions in psychological science 1999 8. Drawing on functional theorizing about the reasons, purposes, and motivations underlying human behavior, we have identified six personal and social functions potentially served by volunteering.
Current directions in psychological science, 8, 156159. We conclude with some future directions and recommendations for improving jury performance in light of what psychology can offer. Based on a robust literature indicating that happy couples tend to think and behave more positively in their relationships than less happy couples do, most. Current directions in psychological science in press manuscript 6 together, infants performance on the change detection task suggests a structure for visual wm representations. Current directions in psychological science 101 for females because relational victimization within the dyadic context has been shown to be particu. Funder department of psychology university of california, riverside. Current directions in psychological science rg journal. Funder university of california, riverside word count abstract and body. Loftus current issues and advances in misinformation research. Despite the likely negative immediate effects of those first adversities, such people nonetheless experienced. Instructions for authors association for psychological science. Current directions in psychological science wikipedia. Are there sex differences, and are the smart getting.
Current directions in psychological science 103 luminous beads either in the frontal plane perpendicular to the line of sight. Current directions in psychological myside bias, rational. Access to society journal content varies across our titles. Neuroeconomics is a new, interdisciplinary field in which economics, psychology, computational science, and neuroscience converge to allow for examinations of the neural basis of rewardrelated decision making in social and nonsocial contexts. Bauer and colleagues have examined negative accounts of lifestory low points as well as stories about difficult life transitions. Current directions in psychological science 85 cial domains, the skills needed to produce correct responses are virtually identical to those needed to evaluate the accuracy of ones responses. Parallels between gca and human height height is not a psychological trait, but it shares many similari. Current directions in psychological science 2010 19. Myside bias occurs when people evaluate evidence, generate evidence, and test hypotheses in a manner biased toward their own prior opinions and attitudes. Current directions in psychological science 201 6367. On the one hand, first impressions from faces are present from an early age. Current directions in psychological science 2014 23. The goal of this research is an integrated theory of reading and its brain bases, with the computa.
History and future directions of human brain mapping and functional neuroimaging. Slatcher1 and emre selcuk2 1department of psychology, wayne state university, and 2department of psychology. While studies of clinical depression in infants have not yet been pursued, a relatively large body of research on highrisk infants has reported alterations in emo. Emerging work in the field of health psychology suggests that earlylife stress also.
Current directions in psychological science 2008 17. Current directions in psychological science 2011 20. Cohen1 and julio garcia2 1university of colorado, boulder, and 2yale university abstractin this article we discuss how social or group identities affect achievement. Assessing jury decisions the greatest difficulty in assessing jury decisionsfrom either a psychological or a legal perspectiveis the impossibility, in.
Current directions in psychological science 1995 4. Current directions in psychological science 221 5156. Using social psychological science to protect the environment. Article pdf available in current directions in psychological science 236. Current directions in psychological science 81 an infant makes remarkable progress toward mastering the sound struc ture of the native language. A wealth of research from the past century has demonstrated, however, that eyewitness memory is malleable and vulnerable to distorting influences, including. Anderson cancer center and 2department of psychology, the ohio state university abstract the origins of modern psychology are deeply rooted in the notion that stressful earlylife experiences negatively impact peoples mental health. The development of selfesteem ulrich orth, richard w. Current directions in psychological science 2009 18. Importantly, every individual with a current lifetime history of some adversity must have at one point had a history of no adversity. Current directions in psychological science sage publications ltd. Department of psychology university of california riverside, ca 92521 sonja. In terms of psychological characteristics associated with adjustment to divorce, individual differences in attachment anxiety are associated with poor outcomes. Human activities are responsible for depleting natural resources, polluting the environment, and reducing biodiversity.
Association for psychological science can be found at. Bornstein1 and edie greene2 1university of nebraskalincoln and 2university of coloradocolorado springs abstract. The skills needed to produce logically sound arguments, for. Siegler1 psychology department, carnegie mellon university, usa siegler center for innovative learning and advanced technology center, beijing normal university, china and. Cdps has an avid readership because its articles pay big informational dividends for relatively small. Published version differs slightly accurate personality judgment david c. Graesser, haiying li and carol forsyth learning by communicating in natural language with conversational agents. A social psychological perspective on rich slatcher. Each bimonthly issue of current directions features a diverse mix of reports on various topics such as language, memory and cognition, development, the neural basis of behavior and.
Buddhist and psychological perspectives on emotions and well. Current directions in psychological science 2007 16. Even if it later would be to our advantage to view the information differently, if we learned it mindlessly, it will not occur to us to reconsider it. Dubois2 1university of massachusetts, boston, and 2university of illinois at chicago abstractmentoring is one of the most popular social interventions in american society, with an estimated three million youth in formal onetoone relationships. Published bimonthly, the journal appears online and in print with online articles appearing weekly on the journal website. Thus, thinking more deeply about reasons for those difficulties may be of benefit in the search for the specific genes involved in psychological traits more generally. Its about time howard eichenbaum 1 and norbert fortin. Acknowledgmentspreparation of this article was supported by grant ns31443 from the national institutes of health. Address correspondence to brian hare, hominoid psychology research group, max planck institute for evolutionary anthropology, deutscher platz 6, leipzig d04103, germany. Our model offers several testable predictions that are different from those made by these securitybased models of threat. Why people fail to recognize their own incompetence. Mentoring relationships and programs for youth jean e.
Current directions in psychological improving acute stress. Browse all issues of current directions in psychological science. Instructions for authors association for psychological. Lisa feldman barrett, department of psychology, boston college, chestnut hill ma 02467 email. In one study, performing five kind acts in one day each week for 6 weeks resulted in larger increases in wellbeing than did performing five kind acts throughout the week. Current directions in psychological science 53 episodic memory and the hippocampus. More specifically, it examines judgments about psychological. Fortunately, the past half decade has witnessed a surge of research on this longneglected topic, including two selfcontrolinformed integrative theories of aggression. This is an electronic version of an article published in current directions in psychological science. Current directions in psychological threat, politics, and. Narrative identity 235 maturity o ver the following 2 years. Seidenberg university of wisconsinmadison abstract connectionistmodels of wordreading attempt to explain the computational mechanisms underlying this important skill.