Venting makes people prefer—and preferentially support—us over those we vent about
Hormonal and cycle phase predictors of within-women shifts in self-perceived attractiveness: Tests of alternative functi...
Prior research has produced mixed findings regarding whether women feel more attractive during the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle. Here, we analyzed cycle phase and hormonal predictors of women's self-perceived attractiveness (SPA) assessed within a daily diary study. Forty-three women indicated their SPA, sexual desire, and interest in their...
Person-specific dynamics between negative emotions and suicidal thoughts
IntroductionRecent technology has enabled researchers to collect ecological momentary assessments (EMA) to examine within-person correlates of suicidal thoughts. Prior studies examined generalized temporal dynamics of emotions and suicidal thinking over brief periods, but it is not yet known how variable these processes are across people.MethodWe u...
On (Im)Patience: A New Approach to an Old Virtue.
Academic abstractPatience has been of great interest to religious scholars, philosophers, and psychological scientists. Their efforts have produced numerous insights but no cohesive theoretical approach to understanding the broad set of experiences people label as patience. I propose a novel view of patience, one that departs from but ties together...
A measure of reliability convergence to select and optimize cognitive tasks for individual differences research
Abstract: Surging interest in individual differences has faced setbacks in light of recent replication crises in psychology, for example in brain-wide association studies exploring brain-behavior correlations. A crucial component of replicability for individual differences studies, which is often assumed but not directly tested, is the reliability ...
Volatility in Expectations While Awaiting Important News
Waiting for important news is uniquely anxiety provoking, and expectations for one's outcome fluctuate throughout the wait. Emotional volatility is typically associated with negative outcomes, but little is known about volatility in expectations. In Study 1, law graduates (N = 248) estimated their chances of passing the bar exam every 2 weeks durin...
Adolescents’ Covitality Patterns: Relations with Student Demographic Characteristics and Proximal Academic and Mental He...
Abstract: Identifying and promoting students’ social-emotional strengths is essential in building their mental health. Covitality, representing the co-occurrence of psychological strengths, is a helpful framework for characterizing students’ well-being. This study used latent profile analysis to identify adolescents’ (n = 11,217; 50.3% female, 37.8...
Emotion expression salience and racially biased weapon identification: A diffusion modeling approach
Racial stereotypes are commonly activated by informational cues that are detectable in people's faces. Here, we used a sequential priming task to examine whether and how the salience of emotion (angry/scowling vs. happy/smiling expressions) or apparent race (Black vs. White) information in male face primes shapes racially biased weapon identificati...
The social aspects of illness: Children's and parents' explanations of the relation between social categories and illnes...
The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States has had a disproportionate impact on Black, low-income, and elderly individuals. We recruited 175 predominantly white children ages 5-12 and their parents (N = 112) and asked which of two individuals (differing in age, gender, race, social class, or personality) was more likely to get sick with either COVI...
Two notes on Wiezel et al.: Explaining why people disfavor dominant leaders and exploring overlooked sources of women's ...
