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Behavioral Sciences, Volume 15, Issue 7

2025 July - 158 articles

Cover Story: For over a century, memory research has shown that the process of forgetting is initially rapid and becomes more gradual, following an exponential curve. We demonstrate that these empirical forgetting curves do not capture true rates of forgetting. While partially shaped by forgetting, forgetting rates are also influenced by the distribution of memory strengths relative to a recall threshold. We propose a distribution model of memory that explains this divergence between empirical forgetting curves and actual forgetting rates. This model has implications for education, indicating that the creation of memories barely above a recall threshold aids in short-term tests but does not lead to the formation of enduring memories. View this paper
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Articles (158)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,618 Views
16 Pages

12 July 2025

Using the behavioral model of engagement in health services, the current study assessed client characteristics that may contribute to treatment duration in trauma-focused psychotherapy in a community clinic setting. Participants (n = 893) were adults...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,750 Views
26 Pages

11 July 2025

Self-realization, a multifaceted concept, has long been a subject of interest in the scientific literature. Given its profound impact on overall well-being and work-related satisfaction, the development of instruments capturing its complexity assumes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,929 Views
26 Pages

11 July 2025

This study introduces and validates a novel instrument to measure aggressive gender backlash (AGB), a distinct and underexplored dimension of gender backlash (GB) within intimate partner relationships. Based on the General Aggression Model, a multidi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intimate Partner Violence: A Focus on Emotion Regulation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,585 Views
15 Pages

Factors Influencing the Relationship Between Sugar Consumption and Depression Among Women Under Breast Cancer Treatment

  • Yu-Chen Liu,
  • Wen-Hung Kuo,
  • Chiao Lo,
  • Chiun-Sheng Huang and ,
  • Meei-Shyuan Lee,
  • Jen-Ho Chang,
  • Chia-Chen Hsieh and
  • Fei-Hsiu Hsiao
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

11 July 2025

Objective: This study aimed to examine the mediating and moderating roles of quality of life, mindfulness, and savoring in the relationship between sugar intake and depression among women with breast cancer undergoing active treatment. Methods: This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Impact of the Mindfulness-Based and Compassion-Based Therapies on Well-Being: The New Findings of the Neuroscience, the Practices, and the Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,414 Views
22 Pages

Revisiting Public Trust and Media Influence During COVID-19 Post-Vaccination Era—Waning of Anxiety and Depression Levels Among Skilled Workers and Students in Serbia

  • Miljan Adamovic,
  • Srdjan Nikolovski,
  • Stefan Milojevic,
  • Nebojsa Zdravkovic and ,
  • Ivan Markovic,
  • Olivera Djokic,
  • Slobodan Tomic,
  • Ivana Burazor,
  • Dragoslava Zivkov Saponja and
  • Ana Adamovic
  • + 10 authors+ 5 authors

11 July 2025

Infectious disease outbreaks amplify the influence of stressors on psychological conditions. The purpose of this study was to analyze the disturbing influence of COVID-19 outbreak-related information and the influence of trust on the Serbian healthca...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,305 Views
20 Pages

11 July 2025

Evidence from the lab suggests that women perform less well than men under competitive conditions, but the majority of this evidence relates to Western countries. Our study explores gender differences in performance in competitive environments among...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,947 Views
21 Pages

10 July 2025

Innovative behavior is essential for maintaining an organization’s competitive edge. This study aimed to investigate the impact of job crafting on innovative behavior, focusing on the mediating role of organizational commitment and the moderati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
872 Views
13 Pages

10 July 2025

This study investigates syntactic parafoveal processing in Chinese reading using a boundary paradigm with two-character verb–object phrases. Participants (N = 120 undergraduates) viewed sentences with manipulated previews (identity, syntactical...

(This article belongs to the Section Cognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,189 Views
12 Pages

Bidirectional Relationship Between Insomnia and Depressive Symptoms in Family Caregivers of People with Dementia: A Longitudinal Study

  • Lucía Jiménez-Gonzalo,
  • María Márquez-González,
  • Carlos Vara-García,
  • Rosa Romero-Moreno and ,
  • Javier Olazarán,
  • Roland von Känel,
  • Brent T. Mausbach and
  • Andrés Losada-Baltar
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

10 July 2025

Bidirectionality between insomnia and depression is well documented in general and clinical populations but remains under-researched in family caregivers of people with dementia. This study aimed to explore this relationship using a longitudinal desi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Psychosocial Care and Support in Dementia)
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,830 Views
17 Pages

10 July 2025

Humans are inherently social beings, and the quality of their interactions is essential for maintaining physical and mental health. Effective social interaction involves understanding not just people’s visible behavior but also the underlying f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Understanding Other Intentions: Merging Evidence on Theory of Mind across Various Research Areas)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,346 Views
21 Pages

School Climate and Black Adolescents’ Psychological Functioning: The Roles of Parental Self-Efficacy and Parenting Practices

  • Fatima A. Varner,
  • Sophia J. Lamb,
  • Hin Wing Tse,
  • Ahniah R. Charles and ,
  • Naila A. Smith and
  • Sheretta T. Butler-Barnes
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 July 2025

Based on ecological systems theory, adolescents’ school climates can influence family interactions. In this study, it was tested whether associations between adolescents’ and parents’ perceptions of school climate in 7th grade (Wave...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Effects of the Interaction of Parenting Practices and Environment on Children’s Outcomes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,047 Views
13 Pages

Media Representations of Aging and Their Psychological Impact: Age Anxiety Among Older Korean Adults

  • Soondool Chung,
  • Miri Kim,
  • Yuri Jang,
  • Nan Sook Park and
  • Hyunwoo Yoon

10 July 2025

This study investigates the association between media representation, perceived age stereotypes, and aging anxiety among Korean older adults. A total of 600 older adults aged 65 years and older were analyzed via structural equation modelling and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,349 Views
19 Pages

10 July 2025

Interest in language-learning motivation has been growing recently, particularly in multilingual contexts where individuals acquire additional languages beyond English. Despite increasing the focus on multilingualism within second-language acquisitio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Role of Motivation and Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategies in Learning across the Lifespan)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
10,807 Views
17 Pages

10 July 2025

Short videos’ increasing popularity and increased user engagement have sparked concerns about time perception. While studies have linked gaming or watching TV series to time loss, research on short videos’ temporal impact is scarce. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
16,096 Views
17 Pages

9 July 2025

Emerging adulthood is a critical phase for emotional development and mental health. Psychological well-being has been associated with using emotion regulation strategies as well as high self-esteem and high optimism. The objective of this study was t...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
10,553 Views
29 Pages

Unveiling the Layers of Borderline Personality Disorder: A Systematic Review of Clinical Subtypes

  • Alexandra Triantafyllou,
  • Pentagiotissa Stefanatou,
  • George Konstantakopoulos,
  • Eleni Giannoulis and
  • Ioannis Malogiannis

9 July 2025

Background: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterised by significant clinical heterogeneity. Classifying subtypes of BPD may offer deeper insights into the disorder’s complexity and inform more tailored therapeutic strategies. The...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,993 Views
20 Pages

9 July 2025

Despite robust evidence linking career adaptability (CA) to positive vocational and psychosocial outcomes in general populations, research on the CA among individuals with special educational needs (SEN) remains limited. Prior reviews have largely ov...

(This article belongs to the Section Developmental Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,548 Views
16 Pages

9 July 2025

Although group network characteristics significantly influence a group’s ability to exchange and absorb knowledge by listening to group members’ opinions, previous research on voice behavior has not yet fully addressed the social and rela...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,662 Views
12 Pages

Knowledge and Education on Physical Activity Health Benefits and Prescription Principles Among Greek Medical Students

  • Eirini Kyriakoulakou,
  • Apostolos Z. Skouras,
  • Charilaos Tsolakis,
  • Panagiotis Koulouvaris and
  • Anastassios Philippou

9 July 2025

Physical activity (PA) is widely recognized as a therapeutic intervention for numerous non-communicable diseases. This study assessed Greek medical students’ knowledge and education on PA across seven medical schools. A structured questionnaire...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Behaviors in Educational Settings—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,461 Views
15 Pages

9 July 2025

For over a century, forgetting research has shown that recall decreases along a power or exponential function over time. It is tempting to assume that empirical forgetting curves are equivalent to the rate at which individual memories are forgotten....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Educational Applications of Cognitive Psychology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
11,722 Views
15 Pages

Understanding Selective Mutism in Very Young Children

  • Kimberly Renk,
  • Kaitlyn Daleandro,
  • Madison Verdone,
  • Haifa Al-Bassam and
  • Quiyara Murphy

9 July 2025

Although professionals who work with children and adolescents are well aware of psychological symptom presentations once children and adolescents are in school, such symptom presentations in very young children are less understood. Diagnoses like sel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Approaches to Overcoming Selective Mutism in Children and Youths)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,334 Views
13 Pages

8 July 2025

We investigated how participants’ humor styles impact their sarcasm use. English-speaking participants (N = 179) completed online self-report measures of humor styles and sarcasm use. We conducted linear regressions to test whether their humor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Humor Use in Interpersonal Relationships)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,158 Views
20 Pages

8 July 2025

Cumulative Ecological Resources Theory offers an integrative perspective for social–emotional interventions by overcoming the traditional dichotomy between internal and external resources. As a crucial ecological resource, perceived social supp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,181 Views
16 Pages

Psychometric Validation of the Romanian Version of the Adult Hope Scale (AHS)

  • Adriana Camelia Neagu,
  • Sorin Ursoniu,
  • Ion Papava,
  • Iuliana-Anamaria Trăilă and ,
  • Lavinia Palaghian,
  • Catalina Giurgi-Oncu and
  • Ana-Cristina Bredicean
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

8 July 2025

The present study aimed to adapt and validate the Adult Hope Scale (AHS) for the Romanian population, addressing a gap in culturally appropriate instruments for measuring dispositional hope. Based on Snyder’s theoretical model, the AHS was tran...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,297 Views
14 Pages

7 July 2025

Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children are often reported to show deficits on working memory (WM) tasks. These deficits are often characterized as contributing to their struggles to acquire spoken language. Here we report a longitudinal study of a l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Language and Cognitive Development in Deaf Children)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,964 Views
18 Pages

7 July 2025

Physical and mental health show strong associations with health-related behavior. University students are one of the at-risk groups who are in a vulnerable transition phase from adolescence to adulthood, significantly affecting their health-related l...

(This article belongs to the Topic Influence of Physical Activity, Nutrition, Educators and Parents on Children's Health Development)
  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,455 Views
31 Pages

7 July 2025

A significant development in pedagogical strategies which make use of the principles of embodied cognition can be found within the implementation of Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) into art and design education. This theoretical study investigates ho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Neurocognitive Foundations of Embodied Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,127 Views
14 Pages

7 July 2025

Enhancing and developing multicultural education is essential in today’s interconnected world, characterized by significant migration and refugee movements, as it serves as a fundamental element for effectively integrating migrant and refugee s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,138 Views
20 Pages

Impact of Socio-Demographic Factors, Financial Burden, and Social Support on Anxiety and Depression Symptoms in Puerto Rican Women with Breast Cancer

  • Paulette Ayala-Rodríguez,
  • Dayaneira Rivera-Alers,
  • Manuel Rivera-Vélez,
  • Jovanny Díaz-Rodríguez and ,
  • Mercedes Ramirez-Ruiz,
  • Carolina Quiles-Bengochea,
  • Cristina I. Peña-Vargas,
  • Zindie Rodriguez-Castro,
  • Cynthia Cortes-Castro and
  • Eida M. Castro-Figueroa
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

5 July 2025

Breast cancer (BC) is the leading cancer diagnosis among women in Puerto Rico. Psychological distress is prevalent in this population, and social determinants may exacerbate this risk. This study examines whether sociodemographic characteristics, fin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,901 Views
25 Pages

Microeconomic Losses Due to Intimate Partner Violence Against Women (IPVAW): Three Scenarios Based on Accounting Methodology Approach

  • Elena Mañas-Alcón,
  • María-Teresa Gallo-Rivera,
  • Luis-Felipe Rivera-Galicia and
  • Óscar Montes-Pineda

4 July 2025

This article thoroughly examines the multidimensional consequences of intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) and estimates the monetary costs associated with this kind of violence in Spain for 2022. Based on the accounting model approach, th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intimate Partner Violence Against Women)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,343 Views
24 Pages

4 July 2025

Evidentiality is a linguistic category whose primary meaning is the source of information, which is generally divided into firsthand perception, hearsay, and inference. Evidential markers are the linguistic devices that indicate information sources....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,963 Views
20 Pages

Scarcity and Cooperation: The Modulation of Social Norms

  • Qiuling Luo,
  • Changjin Qiu,
  • Sihan Dong,
  • Ronghui Tang and
  • Chunhua Kang

4 July 2025

Given the continued relevance of perceived scarcity, understanding how a scarcity mindset influences human cooperation remains critical. However, previous research has yielded mixed results regarding this relationship. To clarify these inconsistencie...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,112 Views
11 Pages

Psychometric Properties of the Self-as-Context Scale with a University Counseling Center Sample

  • Robert D. Zettle,
  • Grace A. Lyons,
  • Jonathan M. Larson and
  • Christopher Leonard

4 July 2025

The model upon which acceptance and commitment therapy is based posits that its outcomes are mediated by increased psychological flexibility as a core process. Of the six subprocesses contributing to psychological flexibility, self-as-context has bee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,205 Views
24 Pages

4 July 2025

The research on teaching scaffolding for preschool children’s oral language development (OLD) has become an important topic in the academic world. However, there remains a lack of evidence-based research on the integration of scaffolding strate...

(This article belongs to the Topic Educational and Health Development of Children and Youths)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,774 Views
23 Pages

4 July 2025

Research based on the theory of embodied cognition has revealed that the vertical position of target information in space influences individuals’ construal level, which in turn affects their ethical decision-making. However, previous studies ha...

(This article belongs to the Section Cognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,786 Views
25 Pages

4 July 2025

Police officers work in high-stress environments that demand emotional resilience, interpersonal skills, and effective communication. Occupational stress can negatively impact their motivation, conflict resolution abilities, and professional effectiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,389 Views
14 Pages

The Character Position Encoding of Parafoveal Semantic Previews Is Flexible in Chinese Reading

  • Min Chang,
  • Yun Ma,
  • Zhenying Pu,
  • Yanqun Zhu and ,
  • Jingxuan Li,
  • Lvqing Miao and
  • Xingguo Zhu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

4 July 2025

Extant Chinese studies have documented that transposing characters within two-character words (e.g., 西装 suit) yields greater parafoveal preview benefits for target words compared to replacing the characters with unrelated ones (e.g., &#...

(This article belongs to the Section Cognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,753 Views
19 Pages

Personal Growth and Wellbeing: An Iterative Mindset Assessment and Perspective

  • Kyra Bobinet,
  • Jeni L. Burnette,
  • Whitney Becker and
  • Mallory Rowell

4 July 2025

Interest in personal growth is expanding in both the popular press and the scientific literature. These expansions incorporate varied theoretical approaches and multiple areas of life. In the current work, we propose a novel perspective that focuses...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Experiences and Well-Being in Personal Growth)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,465 Views
15 Pages

3 July 2025

The present study examined how making judgments of learning (JOLs) vs. not making judgments of learning (no-JOLs) influences item and sequential memory in collaborative contexts. According to the item-order hypothesis, making JOLs improves memory for...

(This article belongs to the Section Cognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,344 Views
19 Pages

3 July 2025

Although previous studies have shown that parental burnout is a risk factor for adolescents’ development, much remains unknown about the associations between mothers’ parental burnout and adolescents’ aggression as well as the poten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,617 Views
31 Pages

3 July 2025

Chinese lacks explicit word boundary markers, creating frequent temporary segmental ambiguities where character sequences permit multiple plausible lexical analyses. Skilled native (L1) Chinese readers resolve these ambiguities efficiently. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,032 Views
30 Pages

3 July 2025

This study aims to explore the interrelationships among key factors influencing learning burnout, such as motivation and negative emotions (depression, anxiety, and stress) along with other factors influencing including problematic mobile phone use,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Role of Motivation and Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategies in Learning across the Lifespan)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,342 Views
19 Pages

Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a Musical Profile Questionnaire (MPQ): A Contribution for Music Education

  • José Salvador Blasco-Magraner,
  • Gemma Ruiz-Varela,
  • Pablo Marín-Liébana and
  • Gloria Bernabe-Valero

3 July 2025

The development of a Spanish musical profile questionnaire, designed to assess both objective aspects of musical engagement and psychological dimensions, represents a significant advancement in the fields of music psychology and music education. Grou...

(This article belongs to the Section Educational Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
10,950 Views
23 Pages

3 July 2025

Contemporary educational literature suggests that academic emotions and emotion regulation should be explored in tandem, while academic motivation has been discussed both as a self-regulation metacognitive construct and as a construct inherently tied...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Role of Motivation and Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategies in Learning across the Lifespan)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,366 Views
34 Pages

2 July 2025

Conflict adaptation reflects the dynamic modulation of information processing by the cognitive control system following conflict detection. A central question in language processing research concerns whether control elicited by non-linguistic tasks g...

(This article belongs to the Section Cognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,018 Views
13 Pages

1 July 2025

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in early childhood may increase the risk of emotional behavioral problems (EBPs); however, few studies have explored the longitudinal effect of ACEs in early childhood on later EBPs and their underlying mechanisms...

(This article belongs to the Section Psychiatric, Emotional and Behavioral Disorders)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,841 Views
10 Pages

Cross-Sectional Analysis of Factors Predicting Food Assistance Stigma

  • Frances Hardin-Fanning,
  • Ratchneewan Ross and
  • Shuying Sha

1 July 2025

The stigma associated with food assistance can be a barrier to resolving food insecurity. Self-reliance expectations likely contribute to this stigma. Aim: This cross-sectional study identified factors that predict perceptions of food assistance stig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Impact of Social Stigma on Marginalized Populations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,656 Views
14 Pages

30 June 2025

Mental health is an increasing concern, particularly among the younger population. Given that university life is a critical stage in the personal and academic development of some young individuals, identifying the factors that contribute to their wel...

(This article belongs to the Topic Risk and Protective Factors in Social Interactions: Behavioral and Neural Evidence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,575 Views
18 Pages

30 June 2025

Internet gaming disorder (IGD) has been a prominent social problem throughout the world, causing various physical health issues, and interoceptive sensibility—the ability to perceive internal bodily signals—may be a key factor in this pro...

(This article belongs to the Topic New Advances in Addiction Behavior)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,951 Views
20 Pages

30 June 2025

This study explored teacher agency and its impact on the motivation and perceptions of the teaching profession. This study employed a cross-sectional survey design, in which questionnaires were administered to a sample of 574 basic school teachers in...

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