Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Cognitive Processes Underpinning Resilience in Individuals Exposed to Adversity

Dear Colleagues,

Exposure to adversity is an almost inevitable life experience. Whether acutely traumatic, chronic, or cumulative, adversity can have detrimental effects on mental health and wellbeing. However, there exists large variation in the degree to which individuals are affected by adverse experiences. When individuals demonstrate more positive outcomes than would be expected given the adversity they experienced, we call them resilient. Understanding the mechanisms though which individuals can demonstrate such resilient outcomes is critical to taking a strength-based approach to tackling today’s worrying rise in mental health problems. While there is increased attention to the cognitive mechanisms that could contribute to resilience, there exists a wide scope for accelerating our understanding of resilience through multidisciplinary research which examines candidate cognitive mechanisms from a range of different perspectives. For this reason, this Special Issue aims to integrate diverse perspectives, methodologies, and knowledge bases from a variety of disciplines. This can include but is not limited to the following topics:

• Cognition and neuroscience/neuropsychology: Elucidating the neural mechanisms and brain networks involved in resilient cognition.
• Cognition and clinical and counseling psychology: Understanding adaptive thought patterns, cognitive biases, and coping strategies after trauma.
• Cognition and developmental psychology: Tracking the emergence, trajectories, environmental influences, critical periods, and malleability of resilient cognition.
• Cognition and social and cultural psychology: Exploring how resilient cognition is shaped by interpersonal and sociocultural factors.
• Cognition and computer science and artificial intelligence: Leveraging computational modeling, machine learning, and AI techniques to understand cognitive processes underlying resilience.

Dr. Lies Notebaert
Guest Editor

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• resilience
• adversity
• wellbeing
• cognition
• cognitive processes
• neuropsychology
• clinical psychology
• developmental psychology
• social psychology
• computer science