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To mark International Women's Day on 8th March #IWD2026 the #NatureReviews Collection on women's health has been updated (go.nature.com/30kDWG3). The Collection covers various aspects of women's health & includes a Nat Rev Psych review on menopause as a biological & psychological transition
The culture-to-cognition transmission of inequality and the psychological necessity of consciousness-raising
Review by Karim Bettache
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Psycholinguistic perspectives on face-to-face conversation
Review by Judith Holler & Anna K. Kuhlen
Web: go.nature.com/4c1QRmq
PDF: rdcu.be/e4zP6
#psychscisky
Correlates of interpersonal physiological synchrony and sources of empirical heterogeneity
Review by Ilanit Gordon & Ronny P. Bartsch
Web: go.nature.com/4qCff1l
PDF: rdcu.be/e4pSE
#psychscisky #socialpsych
📣February issue is live!
Cover: Intergenerational transmission of mental health
Also in this issue:
👁️Development of spatial perception with & without vision
📐➗Math anxiety in children
📋🌏Monitoring of public mental health
🙎🧕Intergroup contact in everyday settings
Read more: go.nature.com/4rSRByT
A many model systems thinking approach to cyberbullying
Journal Club by Lia Mills
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Excited to share our new review on #adolescent #anhedonia and #reward processing, published in
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with my lab @XueqingMa @AngadSahni9
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This is figure 1, which shows possible impacts of mental health awareness campaigns.
A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology summarizes evidence for the positive and negative psychological impacts of mental health awareness efforts. go.nature.com/4kf6hW8 🔒
Subcomponents of reward processing in adolescent anhedonia
Review by Xueqing Ma, Angad Sahni & Ciara McCabe
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New review paper led by @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social: Mental health awareness campaigns reduce stigma but can also lead to problematic self-diagnosis and symptom misinterpretation. These trade-offs matter, especially for adolescents.
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This is figure 1, which shows nterventions and policies targeting risks for cardiovascular disease.
Behavioural and psychosocial interventions can effectively reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. A Perspective in Nature Reviews Psychology identifies the elements and actions needed for a broad implementation of these interventions in standard cardiovascular care. go.nature.com/45tN6lC 🔒
We are humbled!!! Thank you, Xinchi Yu!!!
It was such a privilege to introduce recent cool work from Lena Henke and Lars Meyer (@languagecycles.bsky.social) on time windows and language processing in a "Journal Club" piece on Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com! View-only link: rdcu.be/e1xaY
A very important review.
Was searching for one of my co-authors and this post came up! I was excited to be part of writing this review and think it will be helpful to others in the field, so re-posting it now.
The psychological consequences of mental health awareness efforts
Review by Lucy Foulkes, Isaac Winterburn, Dasha Sandra, Michael Inzlicht, Jack L. Andrews & Carolina Guzman Holst
go.nature.com/4r2UvRH
Patterns of healthcare access after cancer
Journal Club by Maja Furlan de Brito
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#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch
New paper out by Paolini et al. on habit-ruptures in intergroup contact
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
(If you like that, our also team has a related paper in press at American Psychologist, led by Rose Meleady)
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New publication co-authored by our colleague Sylvie Graf within the DIGIWELL project ✨
A novel habit–rupture model of everyday intergroup contact, now published in Nature Reviews Psychology.
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Abstract According to intergroup contact theory, meaningful interactions between members of different social identity groups can lead to decreases in prejudice. However, the literature on intergroup contact has generally emphasized contact-based interventions that involve positive contact experiences in highly controlled environments like research laboratories or classrooms, or infrequent intimate intergroup contact experiences, like intergroup friendships. In this Perspective, we review the literature on how intergroup contact manifests in everyday settings, which challenges established views that contact is readily available, positive and leads to consistently positive within-person changes. We describe how variations in contact valence and environmental affordances for self-selection influence individual- and macro-level segregation dynamics, which create conditions for stable trajectories of contact and intergroup bias, or contact habits. We then propose a habit–rupture model of contact, according to which changes in intergroup relations through lifespan and macro-level disruptions act as ruptures, leading to the development of new contact habits. Considering contact and its effects through a habit and rupture lens identifies realistic and ecologically valid opportunities to apply intergroup contact in the service of the social good.
New work by Stefania Paolini & Patrick Kotzur (@durhampsych.bsky.social) and international team proposes a rupture-habit model to make sense of emerging findings in everyday intergroup contact.
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Towards a habit-rupture model of intergroup contact in everyday settings
Perspective by S.Paolini, J.Dixon, P.F.Kotzur, M.-T.Friehs, C.Bracegirdle, A.Lauterbach, J.Köbrich, S.Graf, M Kauff, A.Stefaniak, S.C.Wright, F.K.Barlow, K.Luebbering & J.Harwood
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Influences of spoken and signed language on numerical cognition
Review by I. Berteletti, J. Andin, C. Langdon & D. B. Berch
go.nature.com/3NrjkaY
Advancing implementation of behavioural medicine in cardiovascular care
Perspective by Matthew M. Burg, Jesse C. Stewart, Allison E. Gaffey, Josefin Särnholm, Alyssa M. Vela & Christopher A. Crawford
go.nature.com/3LtG2P3
Opinion piece from me on brain-computer interfaces 🤖 🦿🦾, out now in Nature Reviews Psychology: Bodily self-consciousness supports motor imagery doi.org/10.1038/s441... read-only link here: rdcu.be/eXIhb
A person works on a math problem on a white page. Stock image.
A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology discusses individual, interpersonal and sociocultural influences on maths anxiety in children and their impacts on long-term engagement and achievement in mathematics. go.nature.com/3Z9kSbY 🔒
📣January issue is live!
Cover: How physical information is used to make sense of the psychological world
Also in this issue:
🧠metacognitive mechanisms in psychopathology
👥individual differences in violent extremism
👁️memorability of visual stimuli
Read more: go.nature.com/4qW1mMi
Bodily self-consciousness supports motor imagery
Journal Club by Diego Candia-Rivera
go.nature.com/4bmRMxc
Transdiagnostic stage-based monitoring of public mental health
Review by Claudia Buchweitz, Anna Viduani, Helen Herrman, Brandon A. Kohrt, Patrick McGorry, Giovanni Salum, Claudia Sartor, Shekhar Saxena & Christian Kieling
Web: go.nature.com/3YsOUHG
PDF: rdcu.be/eX0gz
Systemic forces in the replication crisis
Journal Club by Jiawei Zhao
go.nature.com/49mz5am
Intergenerational transmission of mental health during the first 1,000 days of life
Review by Angus MacBeth, M. Francisca Morales & Lisa Golds
Web: go.nature.com/4q5buSB
PDF: rdcu.be/eXOv9