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Psychology must grapple with Whiteness — the social context of power and privilege unique to white participants — to achieve racial justice goals; however, psychologists are incentivized to conceal its influence.
A new study distinguishes between the effects of narcissistic and non-narcissistic positive ingroup evaluation on social identity threat and well-being.
Insular collaboration networks contribute to inequities in academic psychology by concentrating resources and reputation among members of majority groups. By actively diversifying their networks, researchers can improve their science and reduce inequity.
As we publish the first issue of Nature Reviews Psychology, we reflect on our ambitions to serve the entirety of psychological science and represent all psychological scientists.
Therapeutic interventions are typically evaluated in individual, parallel group trials, which are time consuming and provide limited information on comparative efficacy. Clinical psychology should leverage advances in other fields to improve and accelerate the evaluation process by adopting more efficient platform trials.
Science–service integration is a key tenet of clinical psychology. However, precisely whom clinical psychology research serves, and how successfully, often goes unexamined. Without defining and systematically prioritizing service-centred research, clinical psychology will fall short of the profession’s goal: to understand and reduce mental illness in individuals and communities.
Applied behavioural science tends to overvalue interventions that can be readily tested using experiments. This experimental validation bias drives the popularity of light interventions and nudges and unnecessarily limits the scope and ambition of the field.
