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Behavioral Sciences, Volume 15, Issue 8

August 2025 - 149 articles

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Cover Story: Concentration difficulties and negative attention biases are significant cognitive and emotional vulnerabilities in depression; however, their interactions remain unclear, hindering our understanding of the disorder’s risk mechanisms. This study expands upon existing depression models by exploring how rumination connects dysregulated cognitive and emotional processing. Using an electrophysiological working memory task, it was found that an analytical form of rumination, reflection, was linked to reduced attention to negative, rather than neutral, distractors. However, this reduction in attention to distractors did not correspond to an improvement in memory performance. These results may indicate an adverse effect of rumination on the efficiency of neurocognitive function. View this paper

Articles (149)

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Orthorexia Nervosa and Its Associations with Novel Foods and Body Image Concerns

  • Mirko Duradoni,
  • Giulia Colombini,
  • Noemi Gori and
  • Andrea Guazzini

21 August 2025

Research on food-related behaviors has increasingly focused on orthorexia nervosa, but the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood, especially with the rise of new types of healthy foods. This study examines the associations between orthorexic...

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Emotional Intelligence and Adolescents’ Use of Artificial Intelligence: A Parent–Adolescent Study

  • Marco Andrea Piombo,
  • Sabina La Grutta,
  • Maria Stella Epifanio,
  • Gaetano Di Napoli and
  • Cinzia Novara

21 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) profoundly shapes adolescents’ digital experiences, presenting both developmental opportunities and risks related to privacy and psychological well-being. This study investigates first the possible generational gap...

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25 Pages

21 August 2025

Young children’s problematic media use (PMU) is a growing concern, and parents are critical in shaping early digital habits. However, research often overlooks the dyadic interplay between mothers’ and fathers’ attitudes and parentin...

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1,014 Views
28 Pages

21 August 2025

Despite the rapid growth of knowledge-based short videos, monetizing this content remains a significant challenge. Grounded in social presence theory, this study investigates how social presence influences users’ purchase intentions by incorpor...

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448 Views
21 Pages

21 August 2025

This study examined how a socioeconomically and linguistically diverse sample of Latine mothers (n = 20) and fathers (n = 20) of children under age five perceive the role of mobile screen technologies in their parenting experiences, using semi-struct...

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1,298 Views
21 Pages

21 August 2025

Emotion-regulation ability and strategy (i.e., the specific behaviors used to manage feelings) are crucial for preschoolers’ socioemotional development. This study investigated whether a structured picture-book intervention could enhance these...

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489 Views
20 Pages

21 August 2025

Migrant children’s discrimination perceptions directly affect their cultural adaptation in the city of influx. In response to migrant children, cities in China have issued relevant urban education policies such as the different-location college...

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802 Views
16 Pages

21 August 2025

Although a wealth of research has examined the predictors influencing the discrepancies between individual-set and parent-set career goals (DBIPCG), investigations grounded in collectivist cultural perspectives remain relatively scarce. Within collec...

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727 Views
19 Pages

20 August 2025

Grounded in the person–environment fit theory and an identity-based perspective, this study investigated the relationship between perceived overqualification and knowledge hiding, focusing on the mediating role of future work self-salience and...

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1,012 Views
16 Pages

20 August 2025

Curiosity and anxiety are critical emotional factors influencing language learning; yet, existing studies often overlook their combined effects and the mechanisms through which they shape academic achievements. This study aimed to explore the relatio...

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