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Scholarly harassment, or repeated mistreatment or threats towards one’s scholarly work, conduct or capabilities, poses a threat to scholars and might disproportionately impact women. The field must acknowledge and challenge the routine practices that stifle scholars’ voices and contributions.
People can reason about the relationships between people and about other people’s emotions. In this Perspective, Smith-Flores and Powell review research in both domains and propose a framework of how people jointly reason about social affiliation and emotion.
People address societal problems by engaging in collective action to attempt to change underlying structural systems (cause-focused solutions) or prosocial behaviours to help those affected (consequence-focused solutions). In this Perspective, Brown and Craig draw on construal level theory and regulatory scope theory to understand why people engage in different forms of social action.
Debate exists regarding whether using multiple languages confers cognitive advantages beyond the language domain. In this Review, Lehtonen and colleagues contrast domain-generality and skill-learning accounts of bilingualism, considering how bilingual language use interacts with executive functions across levels of language proficiency.
Acculturation is the process of individual identity change owing to intercultural contact. In this Review, Ward and Szabó discuss approaches to the study of acculturation, the influence of context on cultural identities, and the relationship between cultural identities and well-being.
Mentoring is a core part of training the next generation of psychologists. Recognizing how culture and social identities inform mentorship and science is essential for creating a diverse and therefore robust workforce of psychologists.
Despite decades of research, suicide rates remain largely unchanged. In this Review, Kleiman et al. consider the promise and limitations of technology, such as smartphones, and statistical methods, such as machine learning, to predict and prevent suicide and thereby provide a realistic view of what might be possible.
Indigenous psychology draws on the oldest continuing knowledge systems but remains largely ignored by dominant Western psychological theories and practices. This exclusion results in ongoing negative effects on Indigenous social and emotional wellbeing and requires urgent decolonization efforts.
Most faces that people encounter move, yet most research on emotion recognition uses photographs of posed expressions. In this Review, Krumhuber et al. describe how dynamic information contributes to emotion recognition, beyond the information conveyed in static images.
Behavioural economic accounts of addiction suggest that drug consumption arises from overvaluation of small, immediate rewards and drug-specific reinforcement. In this Perspective, Acuff et al. propose an extension to this reinforcer pathology model that highlights the critical role of alternative reinforcers in addiction motivation.
People belong to multiple social categories (such as those based on race, ethnicity, or gender) simultaneously. In this Perspective, Lei et al. propose a sociohistorical model of intersectional social prototypes that reconciles existing theories and generates testable hypotheses about the development and structure of social prototypes.