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Annual Review of Psychology Jan 2015Today the Internet plays a role in the lives of nearly 40% of the world's population, and it is becoming increasingly entwined in daily life. This growing presence is... (Review)
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Today the Internet plays a role in the lives of nearly 40% of the world's population, and it is becoming increasingly entwined in daily life. This growing presence is transforming psychological science in terms of the topics studied and the methods used. We provide an overview of the literature, considering three broad domains of research: translational (implementing traditional methods online; e.g., surveys), phenomenological (topics spawned or mediated by the Internet; e.g., cyberbullying), and novel (new ways to study existing topics; e.g., rumors). We discuss issues (e.g., sampling, ethics) that arise when doing research online and point to emerging opportunities (e.g., smartphone sensing). Psychological research on the Internet comes with new challenges, but the opportunities far outweigh the costs. By integrating the Internet, psychological research has the ability to reach large, diverse samples and collect data on actual behaviors, which will ultimately increase the impact of psychological research on society.
Topics: Behavioral Research; Humans; Internet; Psychology
PubMed: 25251483
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-010814-015321 -
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 2023
Topics: Humans; Psychology, Clinical; Psychiatry; Psychology
PubMed: 36349788
DOI: 10.1159/000527462 -
Journal of Health Psychology Feb 2018
Topics: Female; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Humans; Male; Psychology; Reproductive Health; Sexual Behavior; Sexual Health
PubMed: 29333920
DOI: 10.1177/1359105317750162 -
The American Psychologist Sep 2019In the United States and around the world, economic inequality is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Psychological research is crucial to illuminating and...
In the United States and around the world, economic inequality is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Psychological research is crucial to illuminating and interrupting the damaging consequences of economic hardship and disparities, understanding interpersonal and institutional responses to poverty and economic inequality, and developing effective poverty alleviation programs and policies. The articles in this special section explore psychology's contributions to understanding and alleviating poverty and economic inequality, focusing on mitigating the effects of economic hardship on children and youth, how employment and work-related dynamics contribute to economic inequality, and psychology's presence in federal policymaking. Collectively, this body of work highlights the need for psychologists' engagement in a full spectrum of antipoverty and economic justice initiatives. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
Topics: Humans; Poverty; Psychology
PubMed: 31545637
DOI: 10.1037/amp0000532 -
Perspectives on Psychological Science :... Jul 2021In the face of unreplicable results, statistical anomalies, and outright fraud, introspection and changes in the psychological sciences have taken root. Vibrant reform...
In the face of unreplicable results, statistical anomalies, and outright fraud, introspection and changes in the psychological sciences have taken root. Vibrant reform and metascience movements have emerged. These are exciting developments and may point toward practical improvements in the future. Yet there is nothing so practical as good theory. This article outlines aspects of reform and metascience in psychology that are ripe for an injection of theory, including a lot of excellent and overlooked theoretical work from different disciplines. I review established frameworks that model the process of scientific discovery, the types of scientific networks that we ought to aspire to, and the processes by which problematic norms and institutions might evolve, focusing especially on modeling from the philosophy of science and cultural evolution. We have unwittingly evolved a toxic scientific ecosystem; existing interdisciplinary theory may help us intelligently design a better one.
Topics: Behavioral Research; Cultural Evolution; Humans; Philosophy; Psychology; Research Design
PubMed: 33513312
DOI: 10.1177/1745691620977471 -
Journal of the History of the... Jan 2023This paper presents a brief history of Yugoslav psychology and a review of the current state of psychological research and practice in the former Yugoslav countries.... (Review)
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This paper presents a brief history of Yugoslav psychology and a review of the current state of psychological research and practice in the former Yugoslav countries. Bibliometric mapping was used to explore the knowledge domain and international visibility of psychological research in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia. Judging by the number of papers visible in Scopus, psychological research activity in these countries is similar to the other former communist countries. In a relative sense, it is even higher in Slovenia and Croatia. However, psychologists still rely heavily on national journals indexed in Scopus when publishing their papers. Regarding psychological practice, former Yugoslav countries are facing challenges that are more or less typical for all small countries in the global scientific and economic market. Keeping in mind all the obstacles and traumas in the past decades, it should be considered a success that psychology in the former Yugoslav countries is now a fully established profession and a recognized scientific discipline.
Topics: Humans; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Montenegro; Republic of North Macedonia; Serbia; Yugoslavia; Psychology; Research
PubMed: 36179065
DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.22232 -
Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin Jun 2019The potential role of brief online studies in changing the types of research and theories likely to evolve is examined in the context of earlier changes in theory and...
The potential role of brief online studies in changing the types of research and theories likely to evolve is examined in the context of earlier changes in theory and methods in social and personality psychology, changes that favored low-difficulty, high-volume studies. An evolutionary metaphor suggests that the current publication environment of social and personality psychology is a highly competitive one, and that academic survival and reproduction processes (getting a job, tenure/promotion, grants, awards, good graduate students) can result in the extinction of important research domains. Tracking the prevalence of brief online studies, exemplified by studies using Amazon Mechanical Turk, in three top journals ( Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology) reveals a dramatic increase in their frequency and proportion. Implications, suggestions, and questions concerning this trend for the field and questions for its practitioners are discussed.
Topics: Behavioral Research; Bibliometrics; Humans; Online Systems; Personality; Psychology; Psychology, Social
PubMed: 30317918
DOI: 10.1177/0146167218798821 -
Current Biology : CB Dec 2020Interview with Aniruddh Patel, who studies the cognitive, neural, and evolutionary foundations of music at Tufts University.
Interview with Aniruddh Patel, who studies the cognitive, neural, and evolutionary foundations of music at Tufts University.
Topics: Faculty; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Humans; Male; Music; Psychology; Universities
PubMed: 33290698
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.09.065 -
Perspectives on Psychological Science :... Sep 2023The modern world is becoming increasingly integrated, and disciplines are frequently collaborating with each other. Following this trend, clinical psychologists are also...
The modern world is becoming increasingly integrated, and disciplines are frequently collaborating with each other. Following this trend, clinical psychologists are also often working within multidisciplinary teams and in settings outside of traditional mental health. To be competent and effective in these contexts, clinical psychologists could benefit from skills outside of psychology. The current psychology training model provides depth of training in psychology but could be improved by providing the breadth of training required of modern clinical psychologists working in these contexts. Other disciplines, such as engineering, business, and social work, have improved their breadth of training through the adoption of the T-shaped model. This model of training allows individuals to simultaneously acquire the depth of knowledge required for their discipline and the breadth required to work effectively in multidisciplinary contexts. This article discusses areas in which clinical psychologists could benefit from broad training and recommendations to implement the T-shaped model.
Topics: Humans; Mental Health; Psychology
PubMed: 36459685
DOI: 10.1177/17456916221135615 -
Integrative Psychological & Behavioral... Jun 2015Famously, Ebbinghaus declared that psychology has a long past, but only a short history. Psychology, as something implicit to human conduct, is as old as the human race,... (Review)
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Famously, Ebbinghaus declared that psychology has a long past, but only a short history. Psychology, as something implicit to human conduct, is as old as the human race, but the science, as an explicit investigative reflection upon that conduct, is a recent invention. Within the short history of psychology, we find an even shorter history of qualitative psychology specifically. Although most founding fathers (Freud, Piaget, Bartlett etc.) worked as "qualitative psychologists", they found no need to thematize their methods of inquiry in this manner. Since around 1980, however, a field has established itself that can be called qualitative psychology. In this paper, I discuss how this field can move sensibly into the future, and I highlight two perils and two potentials. The perils stem from neo-positivism and a threatening "McDonaldization" of qualitative research, while the potentials are related to proliferation of new forms of inquiry and a transcending of disciplinary boundaries.
Topics: Humans; Psychology; Qualitative Research
PubMed: 25537956
DOI: 10.1007/s12124-014-9293-z