Davis-Stober, Clintin P Dana, Jason Kellen, David McMullin, Sara D Bonifay, Wes
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Conducting research with human subjects can be difficult because of limited sample sizes and small empirical effects. We demonstrate that this problem can yield patterns of results that are practically indistinguishable from flipping a coin to determine the direction of treatment effects. We use this idea of random conclusions to establish a baseli...
Eppinger, Ben Ruel, Alexa Bolenz, Florian
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Many new technologies, such as smartphones, computers, or public-access systems (like ticket-vending machines), are a challenge for older adults. One feature that these technologies have in common is that they involve underlying, partially observable, structures (state spaces) that determine the actions that are necessary to reach a certain goal (e...
Rimé, Bernard Páez, Dario
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For Durkheim, individuals' survival and well-being rest on cultural resources and social belonging that must be revived periodically in collective assemblies. Durkheim's concern was to clarify how these assemblies achieve this revitalization. An intensive examination of primitive religions led him to identify successive levels of engagement experie...
Røysamb, Espen Moffitt, Terrie E Caspi, Avshalom Ystrøm, Eivind Nes, Ragnhild Bang
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What are the major sources of worldwide variability in subjective well-being (SWB)? Twin and family studies of SWB have found substantial heritability and strong effects from unique environments but virtually no effects from shared environments. However, extant findings are not necessarily valid at the global level. Prior studies have examined with...
Savolainen, Jukka Casey, Patrick J McBrayer, Justin P Schwerdtle, Patricia Nayna
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There has been a remarkable push for the use of positionality statements-also known as reflexivity statements-in scientific-journal articles and other research literatures. Grounded in reputable philosophical traditions, positionality statements are meant to address genuine concerns about the limits of knowledge production. However, there are at le...
Auguste, Evan Bowdring, Molly Kasparek, Steven W McPhee, Jeanne Tabachnick, Alexandra R Tung, Irene Galán, Chardée A
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The mass incarceration of Black people in the United States is gaining attention as a public-health crisis with extreme mental-health implications. Although it is well documented that historical efforts to oppress and control Black people in the United States helped shape definitions of mental illness and crime, many psychologists are unaware of th...
McFayden, Tyler C Culbertson, Shannon DeRamus, Margaret Kramer, Christine Roush, Jackson Mankowski, Jean
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Autism spectrum disorders are more prevalent in children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (D/HH) than in the general population. This potential for diagnostic overlap underscores the importance of understanding the best approaches for assessing autism spectrum disorder in D/HH youths. Despite the recognition of clinical significance, youths who are ...
Zucker, Nancy L Strauss, Gregory P Smyth, Joshua M Scherf, K Suzanne Brotman, Melissa A Boyd, Rhonda C Choi, Jimmy Davila, Maria Ajilore, Olusola A Gunning, Faith
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There has been slow progress in the development of interventions that prevent and/or reduce mental-health morbidity and mortality. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) launched an experimental-therapeutics initiative with the goal of accelerating the development of effective interventions. The emphasis is on interventions designed to enga...
Van Bavel, Jay J Pretus, Clara Rathje, Steve Pärnamets, Philip Vlasceanu, Madalina Knowles, Eric D
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Polarization has been rising in the United States of America for the past few decades and now poses a significant-and growing-public-health risk. One of the signature features of the American response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been the degree to which perceptions of risk and willingness to follow public-health recommendations have been political...
Sznajd-Weron, Katarzyna Je Drzejewski, Arkadiusz Kamińska, Barbara
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Hysteresis has been used to understand various social phenomena, such as political polarization, the persistence of the vaccination-compliance problem, or the delayed response of employees in a firm to wage incentives. The aim of this article is to show the insights that can be gained from using agent-based models (ABMs) to study hysteresis. To bui...
