Published bimonthly, the journal appears online and in print with online articles appearing weekly on the journal website. The skills needed to produce logically sound arguments, for. Current directions in psychological science 51 tuitions about the stability of per sonality be reconciled with the evidence for its variability across situations. Fisher1, rebecca milne2, and ray bull3 1florida international university, 2university of portsmouth, and 3university of leicester abstract police interviews of witnesses are critical for solving crimes, yet police are poorly trained and often make mistakes when. Current directions in psychological threat, politics, and. Current directions in psychological science 1999 8. History and future directions of human brain mapping and functional neuroimaging. Current directions in psychological science 2010 19. Pdf toward a taxonomy of dark personalities researchgate. Indeed, cited as some of the strongest evidence supporting an underlying human nature, ekmans and izards findings laid critical groundwork for the eventual development of an evolutioninformed psychology addressing the ultimate ori. Valentine eliminate gender differences in sexuality.
The epub format is best viewed in the ibooks reader. Access to society journal content varies across our titles. Buddhist and psychological perspectives on emotions and well. Abstract eyewitnesses are often called upon to report information about what they have seen. Acknowledgmentspreparation of this article was supported by grant ns31443 from the national institutes of health. Instructions for authors association for psychological science.
Current directions in psychological science published by the american. Current directions in psychological science is ranked among the top 10 psychology journals worldwide. Funder department of psychology university of california, riverside. Using social psychological science to protect the environment. A social psychological perspective on rich slatcher. On the one hand, first impressions from faces are present from an early age. Current directions in psychological science 2014 23. Hezlett fact and fiction in cognitive ability testing for admissions and hiring. You can be signed in via any or all of the methods shown below at the same time. Finkel and madoka kumashiro the michelangelo phenomenon. 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.
Fortunately, the past half decade has witnessed a surge of research on this longneglected topic, including two selfcontrolinformed integrative theories of aggression. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link page. Pdf selfesteem development across the lifespan researchgate. 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. Address correspondence to brian hare, hominoid psychology research group, max planck institute for evolutionary anthropology, deutscher platz 6, leipzig d04103, germany. Current directions in psychological science 81 an infant makes remarkable progress toward mastering the sound struc ture of the native language. Current directions in psychological science 103 luminous beads either in the frontal plane perpendicular to the line of sight. Current directions in psychological science, 21, 177 182. Cohen1 and julio garcia2 1university of colorado, boulder, and 2yale university abstractin this article we discuss how social or group identities affect achievement. Association for psychological science can be found at. Awareness of the past tulvings 2002 current formulation of episodic memory emphasizes the conscious awareness of prior experience, the capacity to mentally travel back in time and relive experiences. Mentoring relationships and programs for youth jean e.
This is an electronic version of an article published in current directions in psychological science. Current directions in psychological science music and cognitive abilities e. Current directions in psychological improving acute stress. More specifically, it examines judgments about psychological. Current directions in psychological how do simple positive. Narrative identity 235 maturity o ver the following 2 years. Current directions in psychological science 2008 17. Additional services and information for current directions in psychological science can be found at. Parallels between gca and human height height is not a psychological trait, but it shares many similari. 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. Graesser, haiying li and carol forsyth learning by communicating in natural language with conversational agents. Department of psychology university of california riverside, ca 92521 sonja.
Importantly, every individual with a current lifetime history of some adversity must have at one point had a history of no adversity. 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. Published version differs slightly accurate personality judgment david c. Current directions in psychological science, 7, 5459. Current directions in psychological science 201 6367. Current directions in psychological science presents the latest advances in theory and research in psychology. Current directions in psychological science, 8, 156159. Current directions in psychological science 2009 18. Current directions in psychological science 2012 21. A wealth of research from the past century has demonstrated, however, that eyewitness memory is malleable and vulnerable to distorting influences, including.
Funder university of california, riverside word count abstract and body. Its about time howard eichenbaum 1 and norbert fortin. 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. Current directions in psychological myside bias, rational. If you have access to a journal via a society or association membership, please browse to your society journal, select an article to view, and follow the instructions in this box. Human activities are responsible for depleting natural resources, polluting the environment, and reducing biodiversity. Current directions in psychological science 1995 4. Myside bias occurs when people evaluate evidence, generate evidence, and test hypotheses in a manner biased toward their own prior opinions and attitudes.
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. Slatcher1 and emre selcuk2 1department of psychology, wayne state university, and 2department of psychology. Current directions in psychological science 53 episodic memory and the hippocampus. Current directions in psychological science 2011 20. Identity, belonging, and achievement a model, interventions, implications geoffrey l. Our model offers several testable predictions that are different from those made by these securitybased models of threat. 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.
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. Current directions in psychological science in press. Richard slatcher, department of psychology, wayne state university, 5057 woodward ave. Current directions in psychological science 2007 16. Siegler1 psychology department, carnegie mellon university, usa siegler center for innovative learning and advanced technology center, beijing normal university, china and. The development of selfesteem ulrich orth, richard w.
Despite the likely negative immediate effects of those first adversities, such people nonetheless experienced. Current directions in psychological science, 21, 177. Seidenberg university of wisconsinmadison abstract connectionistmodels of wordreading attempt to explain the computational mechanisms underlying this important skill. Browse all issues of current directions in psychological science.
Article pdf available in current directions in psychological science 236. Current directions in psychological science xxx 16. Siegler1 psychology department, carnegie mellon university, usa siegler center for innovative learning and. Then we focus on a third characteristic that may be more fruitfully employed. Loftus current issues and advances in misinformation research. Psychological science has largely neglected the role of selfcontrol in studying aggression. Why do significant numbers of people engage in the unpaid helping activities known as volunteerism. Current directions in psychological science volume 29.
Assessing jury decisions the greatest difficulty in assessing jury decisionsfrom either a psychological or a legal perspectiveis the impossibility, in. We conclude with some future directions and recommendations for improving jury performance in light of what psychology can offer. Current directions in psychological science association for. Research across a wide variety of myside bias paradigms has revealed a somewhat surprising finding regarding individual differences. Importantly, both sheltering from all stressors and continuous exposure to stressors should fail to develop toughness. The magnitude of the myside bias shows very little. Achieving enduring happiness the buddhist view buddhists and psychologists alike believe that emotions strongly in. Lisa feldman barrett, department of psychology, boston college, chestnut hill ma 02467 email. Current directions in psychological science 221 5156. Current directions in psychological jury decision making. Bauer and colleagues have examined negative accounts of lifestory low points as well as stories about difficult life transitions. Current directions in psychological science wikipedia. Current directions in psychological science all issues. Pdf current directions in psychological science semantic scholar.
For example, as with any medical or psychological treatment, the dosage i. Why people fail to recognize their own incompetence. 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 association. Current directions in psychological science in press manuscript 6 together, infants performance on the change detection task suggests a structure for visual wm representations. Each bimonthly issue of current directions features. Volunteer functions inventory vfi fetzer institute. We are grateful to margaret funnell, paul corballis, and michael corballis for in. The bi ases and proclivities that allow the neonate to detect regularities in the speech stream are, by 1 year of age, exquisitely tuned to the properties of. Current directions in psychological science rg journal. Current directions in psychological science 101 for females because relational victimization within the dyadic context has been shown to be particu. Journal of personality and social psychology, 75, 751765. 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. Glenn schellenberg university of toronto, mississauga, ontario, canada abstract.
Current directions in psychological science 2003 12. Music listening and music lessons have been claimed to confer intellectual advantages. Bornstein1 and edie greene2 1university of nebraskalincoln and 2university of coloradocolorado springs abstract. Current directions in psychological science sage publications ltd. In terms of psychological characteristics associated with adjustment to divorce, individual differences in attachment anxiety are associated with poor outcomes. Emerging work in the field of health psychology suggests that earlylife stress also. Instructions for authors association for psychological. The goal of this research is an integrated theory of reading and its brain bases, with the computa. 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. Cdps has an avid readership because its articles pay big informational dividends for relatively small. Why rational number arithmetic is so difficult for so many people robert s. Are there sex differences, and are the smart getting.
179 992 1081 799 69 45 1192 282 344 269 127 1447 617 1384 948 1490 1531 343 357 152 1431 1062 222 469 92 1397 427 139 884 295 1194 450 321 332 1308