psychology

Brief Report: Physician Narcissism, Ego Threats, and Confidence in the Face of Uncertainty G. Caleb Alexander; Jennifer Humensky; Cesar Guerrero; Hannah Park; George Loewenstein Although adequate self-esteem is essential for psychological health, people with high but fragile self-esteem have...

I’m so sorry for psychology’s loss, whatever it is "Apparently is possible to reach the stratosphere of scientific achievement, to publish over and over again in “high impact” journals, to rack up tens of thousands of citations, and for none of it to matter"...

Rating scales institutionalise a network of logical errors and conceptual problems in research practices: A rigorous analysis showing ways to tackle psychology’s crises Jana Uher This article explores in-depth the metatheoretical and methodological foundations on which rating scales—by their...

Princess Syndrome/Harley Therapy A depressing aspect of the role of psychology in ME/CFS is that as profession psychology and associated disciplines have a high percentage of female practitioners yet this doesn't translate into positive support for patients in a disease in which women are...

I came across this on Psychology tools. https://www.psychologytools.com/resource/performance-and-the-yerkes-dodson-law/ given that many examples of its use come up on a general google search, I'm assuming that it is taken as 'evidence based' fact in psychology. But take a look at it's...

Things Could Be Better Adam Mastroianni, Ethan Ludwin-Peery Eight studies document what may be a fundamental and universal bias in human imagination: people think things could be better. When we ask people how things could be different, they imagine how things could be better (Study 1). The...

Cronbach and Meehl (1955) introduced the concept of construct validity and described how researchers can demonstrate that their measures have construct validity. Although the term construct validity is widely used, few researchers follow Cronbach and Meehl’s recommendation to quantify construct...

Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside Cesario, Johnson and Eisthen https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963721420917687 full article free e pub Abstract A widespread misconception in much of psychology is that (a) as vertebrate animals evolved, “newer” brain...

PNAS Letter: Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Maier, Bartos, Stanley, Wagenmakers, 2022 First para: Thaler and Sunstein’s “nudge” (1) has spawned a revolution in behavioral science research. Despite its popularity, the “nudge approach” has been criticized for having a “limited evidence...

Frontiers Psychology, 13 June 2022 The Reproducibility Movement in Psychology: Does Researcher Gender Affect How People Perceive Scientists With a Failed Replication ? Leslie Ashburn-Nardo, Corinne A. Moss-Racusin, Jessi L. Smith, Christina M. Sanzari, Theresa K. Vescio and Peter Glick...

Psychology needs to get tired of winning Gerald J. Haeffel Psychological science is on an extraordinary winning streak. A review of the published literature shows that nearly all study hypotheses are supported. This means that either all the theories are correct, or the literature is biased...

Kinds of Replication: Examining the Meanings of “Conceptual Replication” and “Direct Replication Maarten Derksen, Jill Morawski Abstract Although psychology’s recent crisis has been attributed to various scientific practices, it has come to be called a “replication crisis,” prompting extensive...

Middle class sprawl: Locating the psychologesque in the history of psychology, 2021, David C Devonis Abstract To add to the system of classes already present in the recent historiography of psychology, a new and broader class is proposed, the psychologesque. This class includes, along with...

ABSTRACT Introduction: Research regarding students with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME)/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) has been limited. This study aimed to understand how their subjective well-being had been affected by their condition by exploring their experiences and sense-making processes...

Abstract (1) Background: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is a complex, multifaceted illness. The pathomechanism, severity and progression of this illness is still being investigated. Stressors have been implicated in symptom exacerbation for ME/CFS, however, there is...

Not new but thought it might be of interest. (the Peer Review report is also available , one of the reviewers is Chew-Graham) Abstract Background Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) can cause profound and prolonged illness and disability, and poses significant problems...

Health, Wellbeing, and Prognosis of Australian Adolescents with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): A Case-Controlled Follow-Up Study Abstract Background: The purpose of this study was to follow-up an Australian cohort of adolescents newly-diagnosed with ME/CFS at a...

https://theconversation.com/flawed-data-led-to-findings-of-a-connection-between-time-spent-on-devices-and-mental-health-problems-new-research-162585 Craig Sewall is a Postdoctoral Scholar of Child and Adolescent Mental Health at the University of Pittsburgh. He explains that studies on the...

I have no idea what this is like. Free full text https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23743735211034962 Successful Psychological Strategies of Experienced Chronic Fatigue Patients: A Qualitative Study Katherine H Hall, BSc(Med), BA, MBBS, PhD, FRNZCGP, Claire Amos, BSc(Hons)...

Main article is paywalled but this abstract is worthy just for the phrase: "synthetic certainties" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34240651/ Travis Proulx, Richard D. Morey First Published July 9, 2021; pp. 671–681 PMID: 34240651 DOI: 10.1177/17456916211017098 Abstract More than 40...