Psychology

19 open-access papers in Psychology, free to watch.

Little evidence for cultural differences in automatic imitation

Little evidence for cultural differences in automatic imitation

Oliver Genschow, Mareike Westfal, Angela Rachael Dorrough, Emiel Cracco, Tobias Wingen, Jan Crusius

When someone across from you lifts a finger, your own hand may be pulled toward copying them before you decide anything. The surprising question is whether that hidden pull changes with culture.

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Family accommodation is associated with childhood social anxiety disorder and anxiety symptom severity

Family accommodation is associated with childhood social anxiety disorder and anxiety symptom severity

Nadine Vietmeier, David Phan, Eva-Maria Fassot, Vera Hauffe, Anna-Lina Rauschenbach, Julian Schmitz, Brunna Tuschen‐Caffier, Julia Asbrand

When a child is afraid, a parent naturally tries to make things easier. But this study suggests that repeatedly changing family life around that fear may be tied to more severe childhood social anxiety.

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With whom you elaborate matters: how learning orientation impacts cross-culture and same-culture information elaboration in culturally diverse teams

With whom you elaborate matters: how learning orientation impacts cross-culture and same-culture information elaboration in culturally diverse teams

Yongkang Yang, Daan van Knippenberg, Anne Nederveen Pieterse, Jia Li

A culturally diverse team can contain more knowledge and still perform poorly. The missing ingredient may be whether people actually exchange ideas across cultural lines, rather than staying inside familiar circles.

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Depression, anxiety, stress and coping strategies among undergraduates in a public and a private university in Osun State Nigeria using a comparative cross-sectional design

Depression, anxiety, stress and coping strategies among undergraduates in a public and a private university in Osun State Nigeria using a comparative cross-sectional design

Adeyinka Oluyide Ayodeji, Oluwaseyi Isaiah Olabisi, Lois Temitope Oguntunnbi, Ajibola Olayemi Omokanye

University can open doors to a future, but the pressure of getting there may weigh differently depending on where a student studies. In this study, depression stood out as the clearest difference between two universities.

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Considering Autism in Binge-Type Eating Disorders: Broadening Beyond an Anorexia Nervosa-Focused Model

Considering Autism in Binge-Type Eating Disorders: Broadening Beyond an Anorexia Nervosa-Focused Model

Lauren Makin, Kate Tchanturia

What if binge eating is being treated with a model built mainly around anorexia? This review suggests that autism can be missed in binge-type eating disorders, leaving important needs unaddressed.

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Views of German mental health professionals on the use of digital mental health interventions for eating disorders: a qualitative interview study

Views of German mental health professionals on the use of digital mental health interventions for eating disorders: a qualitative interview study

Gwendolyn Mayer, Diana Lemmer, Ina Michelsen, Pauline Schrader, Hans‐Christoph Friederich, Stéphanie Bauer

Digital tools could make eating-disorder support easier to reach, but the professionals in this study did not see an app replacing therapy. They saw something more careful: digital help working alongside a human relationship.

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Parents’ self-reporting of Child Physical Maltreatment (CPM) in a low-middle-income country

Parents’ self-reporting of Child Physical Maltreatment (CPM) in a low-middle-income country

Mai SeifElDin Abdeen, Mostafa Ahmad Hashim, Marwa Mohamed Ghanem, Nouran Yousef Salah, Zeinab Mohamed El Nagar

During the pandemic, official reports of child harm went down, but that did not necessarily mean children were safer. A survey of Egyptian parents found a much darker picture inside the home.

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Incidence of prostate cancer in transgender women in the US: a large database analysis

Incidence of prostate cancer in transgender women in the US: a large database analysis

Matthew Loria, DAVID R. GILBERT, Tomasz Tabernacki, Mart Andrew Maravillas, Megan Ann McNamara, Shubham Gupta, Kirtishri Mishra

For transgender women, gender-affirming surgery does not remove the prostate. This study finds prostate cancer is less common than in cisgender men, but still common enough that it cannot simply be ignored.

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Cultural tightrope walkers: a qualitative study of being a young refugee in quest for identity and belonging in Norway

Cultural tightrope walkers: a qualitative study of being a young refugee in quest for identity and belonging in Norway

Per‐Einar Binder, Hanna Heggen, Elisabeth Buer Vase, Gro Mjeldheim Sandal

Imagine growing up with one set of expectations at home and another outside, and feeling like a stranger in both places. This study finds that painful position can also become a source of unusual strength.

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Populations Digitally Excluded from Education: Issues, Factors, Contributions and Actions for Policy, Practice and Research in a Post-Pandemic Era

Populations Digitally Excluded from Education: Issues, Factors, Contributions and Actions for Policy, Practice and Research in a Post-Pandemic Era

Don Passey, Jean Gabin Ntebutse, Manal Yazbak Abu Ahmad, Janet Cochrane, Simon Collin, Asmaa Ganayem, Elizabeth Langran, Sadaqat Mulla, Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo, Toshinori Saito, Miri Shonfeld, Saunand Somasi

A laptop or internet connection can look like a ticket into education. But this paper argues that access alone may leave people just as excluded, because the surrounding choices can quietly reproduce the barriers they were meant to remove.

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Impostor phenomenon short scale (IPSS-3): a novel measure to capture impostor feelings in large-scale and longitudinal surveys

Impostor phenomenon short scale (IPSS-3): a novel measure to capture impostor feelings in large-scale and longitudinal surveys

M. Jansen

Many people can succeed and still feel like frauds. The challenge is finding out how common those feelings are, and whether social circumstances help shape them, without making people answer a long questionnaire.

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Bullying prevalence in Pakistan’s educational institutes: Preclusion to the framework for a teacher-led antibullying intervention

Bullying prevalence in Pakistan’s educational institutes: Preclusion to the framework for a teacher-led antibullying intervention

Sohni Siddiqui, Anja Schultze‐Krumbholz

Bullying in Pakistani schools is not only about punches or online posts. Teachers most often notice something quieter: words and social exclusion, and what they see changes with students’ age and where the school is located.

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