Behavioral Sciences, Volume 15, Issue 9

Psychopathy in women remains understudied, particularly regarding the role of early relational experiences such as attachment. This systematic review aims to synthesize the current evidence on the association between attachment-related factors and ps...

Negative social feedback can cause social pain and may damage physical and mental health. In particular, negative social feedback from acquaintances deeply activates the social pain brain network between the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), t...

Providing feedback is a key instructional strategy in motor learning. Recently, interest has grown in self-controlled (SC) feedback, which allows learners to choose when to receive feedback. However, evidence on its effectiveness remains mixed, and i...

A cascading coaching model was used to teach bilingual speech-language pathology (SLP) graduate student clinicians and Spanish-speaking caregivers to implement naturalistic developmental behavioral intervention (NDBI) techniques with autistic prescho...

The present study examined the relationship between sleep duration and eating behaviours, stress symptoms, and burnout in healthcare professionals. Objective: The present study aimed to examine whether sleep duration influenced the psychosocial well-...

The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to examine burnout profiles and organizational variables that impact burnout in school mental health providers, such as school counselors, school psychologists, social workers, and interventionists. We di...

This study examines differences in comprehension between drivers and non-drivers when interpreting variable message signs (VMSs) combining three elements—a pictogram, an arrow, and a city name—to indicate temporary traffic events (e.g., &...

Transdiagnostic psychotherapies were developed to address multiple diagnostic presentations via a single, easier-to-implement protocol. However, despite advances, these protocols are largely limited to longer formats designed for mental health settin...

This study examines how life satisfaction and personality traits are intergenerationally transmitted from fathers to their adolescent children. The sample comprised 144 father-child dyads (mean child age = 13.65; 55.9% male; mean father age = 43.06)....

The death of a loved one has been identified as one of the most commonly reported traumatic experiences among refugees. This phenomenon can lead to the development of prolonged grief disorder (PGD), for which particularly elevated PGD rates were obse...

Background: While LLM chatbots are gaining popularity in medical education, their pedagogical impact remains under-evaluated. This study examined the effects of a domain-specific chatbot on performance, perception, and cognitive engagement among medi...

Over the last few years, the number of Brazilian immigrants living in Portugal has risen significantly, motivated by expectations of safety, prosperity, and professional success. However, the integration into the labor market frequently involves adve...

The COVID-19 pandemic increased mental health issues and heavily affected the academic performance of college students. The study aimed to assess the association of psychological health and behavioral factors with academic performance among undergrad...

In school settings, nomophobia—a newly identified form of problematic mobile phone use characterized by anxiety and discomfort experienced when an individual is unable to use or access their smartphone—poses significant challenges to stud...

University students face various stressors that may jeopardize their mental health. The aim of this study was to adapt the concept of organizational justice to universities, develop and validate a corresponding questionnaire (UFair: University Fairne...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by cognitive and behavioural impairments. This study aimed to identify cognitive patterns associated with ADHD in a sample of 719 children and ad...

University counselors in China are anticipated to demonstrate professional conduct as an integral aspect of their vocational responsibilities. Although the existing literature primarily emphasizes normative professional behaviors, there is a notable...

In contrast to jurisdictions with bifurcated criminal justice proceedings, in Belgium and the Netherlands a defendant’s assessed risk of recidivism is known to triers of fact prior to making decisions about guilt. In three experiments conducted...

This study examined how perceptions of artificial intelligence (AI) relate to technostress in healthcare professionals, testing whether AI acceptance mediates this relationship and whether self-efficacy moderates the formation of acceptance. Seventy-...

Evidence from the international literature indicates alarming prevalence rates associated with various forms of intimate partner violence since adolescence. To prevent gender-based violence and increase psychological well-being in intimate relationsh...

Selection history significantly influences attentional processes. Current debates center on whether different components of selection history influence attention through shared learning-dependent mechanisms or via independent mechanisms. Recent resea...

Understanding the dynamics of leisure experiences is essential for promoting well-being among university students, particularly those studying sports sciences. The study aimed to explore the predictive relationship between perceived freedom in leisur...

Exercise is a promising intervention for reducing drug craving, but recent studies have shown inconsistent effects. This meta-analysis aims to evaluate the effect of exercise interventions on drug craving and identify the key exercise factors that af...

Background: This study aims to examine the relationship between Kinesiophobia and Rumination in athletes, and to reveal the mediating roles of Coping Responses and Psychological Flexibility in this relationship. Methods: Three hundred ninety licensed...

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the further development of a coherent theory of music performance anxiety (MPA) and its treatment. I have previously proposed three forms of MPA-focal, MPA with social anxiety, and MPA with panic and/or depre...

Objective: U.S. courts have implemented interventions educating jurors about implicit bias, although evidence for their effectiveness remains limited. We explored public perceptions of these interventions that might influence their ability to improve...

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with alterations in emotion processing. To date, no study has tested automatic emotion perception under conditions of unawareness of emotion stimuli. We administered a priming paradigm based on faci...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has become an indispensable resource in contemporary higher education, providing substantial benefits to both students and institutions. As its adoption accelerates, it is important to balance these advantages...

UPB elicits various and heterogeneous subsequent behaviors through positive and negative emotions, a phenomenon that warrants a comprehensive meta-analysis. This study synthesized 34 studies from both English and Chinese databases (49 independent sam...

This study investigated the asymmetrical effects of intentions and outcomes on moral blame and praise within scenarios involving harm and help. By manipulating self–other perspective differences and the severity of outcomes, it further explored...

Adolescents often face interpersonal and adjustment challenges when transitioning from a family-centered to a school-based environment, especially without a supportive group climate. To address these challenges, this study used football, the world&rs...

After the COVID-19 pandemic, online and blended learning (BL) have been very popular worldwide. They have become as important as face-to-face (F2F) learning. Previous meta-analyses examined the effects of BL and online learning (OL) compared to F2F l...

Suicide is a significant public health concern associated with multiple risk factors. Among these factors, a history of trauma and impulsivity has recently received particular attention. Nevertheless, the relationship between trauma, impulsivity, and...

Despite the growing recognition of emotional intelligence (EI) and its significant associations with academic outcomes, less is known about the underlying mechanisms through which EI mindsets affect academic engagement and burnout. Drawing on regulat...

In today’s dynamic organizational landscape, workplace communication has become an essential competency for leaders at all levels. With a focus on the narratives used during and after organizational crises—specifically, public examples of...

Children’s prospective memory is not yet mature, and setting reminders is an effective method to improve their prospective memory. This study aimed to explore how reminders, placed at different distances from prospective memory cues, affect chi...

Objective: Emerging adulthood often involves a greater degree of disordered eating behaviors, especially among women. In this psychosocial context, extant evidence suggests that psychological distress is a major contributing factor to disordered eati...

This study used latent transition analysis to explore the categories of self-concept clarity transformation and their influencing factors among adolescents. A total of 3010 adolescents (Mage = 17.56, SD = 2.61, ranging from 12 to 23 years, 41.23% mal...

Antecedents: From a functional perspective, executive functions—such as self-regulation and meta-cognition—emerge as key dimensions affected transversally across various neurodevelopmental disorders. Aim: The aim of this study is to analy...

In light of a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) world, the need for employee adaptability is a critical capacity to navigate challenges and facilitate employees thriving in organizations. One important capacity, systems intelligence,...

More than 5 million students in U.S. public schools are immigrants or the children of immigrants, highlighting the urgent need for educational practices that honor their lived experiences and promote both emotional and academic growth. This article d...

Men and women differ in the manifestation of depression. At the same time, there is a lack of gender-sensitive depression questionnaires in Germany. This study investigated the Gender-specific binary depression screening version (GIDS-15) in a furthe...

Little research has studied verb inflection and argument structure complexity effects in teenagers with developmental language disorders (DLDs). However, verb production and comprehension deficits that characterize younger children with DLD might per...

Extremist narratives combine two relational dynamics: the in-group is portrayed as both socially superior and simultaneously victimized by an antagonistic out-group, which legitimizes hostility or defensive solutions. Despite their relevance, such na...

Case order effects, where decision-makers resolve dilemmas differently depending on the order in which cases are presented, are well established in the psychology of moral decision-making. Yet this type of order effect has rarely been studied in a le...

Systemic racism, high turnovers of teachers and administrators, and deindustrialization in Flint, Michigan, have created an environment that limits the opportunities of Flint youth to engage in and succeed in STEM. This paper describes a partnership...

Safety behaviors are mental processes and behaviors associated with the onset, maintenance, and treatment of anxiety-related disorders. But these behaviors are understudied in the context of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). One reason is the lac...

This study investigates the effects of digital media usage, specifically photo-taking and video recording, on memory retention in the context of museum education. Utilizing a quasi-experimental design, this research involved three groups, each expose...

This study investigated how moral elevation affects children’s prosocial behavior through two experiments. In Experiment 1 (n = 99; M_age = 10.48 ± 0.86 years), children were randomly assigned to Moral Elevation, Joy, or Neutral groups. P...

The expansion of emotional labor into the human services sector has raised concerns about emotional exhaustion and gender inequality, yet the potential for emotional work to serve as a source of motivation and meaning remains underexplored. This stud...