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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 1h

Nature Reviews Psychology is encouraging authors to include a citation diversity statement to draw attention to citation imbalances and confirm that they made efforts to cite publications from a diverse group of researchers.

Read more in our editorial: go.nature.com/4mTIpr2

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 1h

📣Our October issue is live!

Cover: The cost of eye movements 👀

Also in this issue:
⚠️Social threat & adolescent mental health
🧠How insights from PTSD can inform treatment of functional neurological disorder
⚖️A functional approach to the psychology of inequality

Read more: go.nature.com/47fVLZV

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Bella Fascendini @bellafascendini.bsky.social · 2d

Honored to contribute a Journal Club piece to @natrevpsychol.nature.com!

I explore Robert White's seminal "competence motivation" framework (1959) and why it remains relevant over 60 years later—from why toddlers insist on doing things themselves to designing intrinsically motivated AI. 🤖

Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 2d

‘Motivation reconsidered’ reconsidered

Journal Club by Bella Fascendini

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 2d

‘Motivation reconsidered’ reconsidered

Journal Club by Bella Fascendini

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 5d

Bridging individual-level and system-level approaches to advance psychology-based diversity initiatives

Review by Joyce C. He, Benjamin B. Keller & Sonia K. Kang

Web: go.nature.com/3ISa2mg
PDF: rdcu.be/eJbnh

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 7d

The behavioural essence of episodic memory

Journal Club by Tyler Wayne Ross

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Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · 13d

My PhD student @qinyuxiao.bsky.social has written a wonderful tribute to Gary Bornstein’s influential paper on team games (doi.org/10.1207/S153...) — a paper that remains as relevant today as it was over 20 years ago. You can read Qinyu’s short piece here: doi.org/10.1038/s441...

The multi-level social dilemmas of intergroup interactions - Nature Reviews Psychology

Nature Reviews Psychology - The multi-level social dilemmas of intergroup interactions

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Qinyu Xiao @qinyuxiao.bsky.social · 11d

When asked who beyond my immediate circle has shaped my thinking the most, I often point to two names: Toshio Yamagishi and Gary Bornstein. It was an honour for me to write this short piece to pay tribute to Bornstein's classic work on intergroup conflicts.

Open-access link: rdcu.be/eH8te

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 13d

The multi-level social dilemmas of intergroup interactions

Journal Club by Qinyu Xiao
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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 13d

A social ecological approach to social contagion of self-harm among young people

Review by Xue Wen, Shufang Sun, Danhua Lin, Weihua Yue & Runsen Chen

Web: go.nature.com/4nTGV0V
PDF: rdcu.be/eH9T2

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 15d

Great webinar today from @nationalacademies.org - Opportunities for Doing Social-Environmental Research with Little to No Funding. Full recording will be up sometime next week.

Four takeaways for me.. 1/

www.nationalacademies.org/event/1072_0...

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 19d

Bridging fair-aware artificial intelligence and co-creation for equitable mental healthcare

Perspective by A.C. Timmons, J.B. Duong, S.N. Walters, K.E. Carta, G.A. Jumonville, A.S. Carrasco, D.N. Romero, M.W. Ahle, J.S. Comer, I.P. Khurd & T. Chaspari

Web: go.nature.com/47RInw6
PDF: rdcu.be/eHehH

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 19d

Bridging fair-aware artificial intelligence and co-creation for equitable mental healthcare

Perspective by A.C. Timmons, J.B. Duong, S.N. Walters, K.E. Carta, G.A. Jumonville, A.S. Carrasco, D.N. Romero, M.W. Ahle, J.S. Comer, I.P. Khurd & T. Chaspari

Web: go.nature.com/47RInw6
PDF: rdcu.be/eHehH

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 20d

Finding the optimal retention parameters for learning

Journal Club by Ewan Murray

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 20d

Happy birthday, @natrevneuro.nature.com! 🥳

Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · 20d

Nature Reviews Neuroscience has turned 25!

To mark the anniversary, the October issue features an expanded selection of Comments and Journal Clubs, and our first World View and Tools of the Trade articles. Check out the issue here: www.nature.com/nrn/volumes/...

#neuroscience #neuroskyence

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 23d

Material perception connects vision, cognition and action

Review by Bei Xiao & Chenxi Liao

Web: go.nature.com/46qSq8Y
PDF: rdcu.be/eGrss

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Social Development and Wellbeing Lab @socialdevlab.bsky.social · 26d

🚨 Check out a new review paper in Nature Reviews Psychology co-authored by Alex Rodman.

Sequeira, S.L., Rodman, A.M., Nesi, J. et al. Social threat and adolescent mental health. Nat Rev Psychol (2025). doi-org.ezproxy.neu.edu/10.1038/s441...

🔗 rdcu.be/eFQD7

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Apr 8

Human navigation involves encoding spatial relationships among places. A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology examines the use of cognitive maps for navigation and the circumstances in which both place and orientation information are encoded. https://go.nature.com/4lsJpmC 🔒

This is figure 2, which shows the orientations in cognitive maps.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Apr 30

Perception of emotional stimuli involves a mix of bottom-up stimulus information and top-down information. A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology explores how top-down processes — including attention, expectations and context — shape the perception of emotional stimuli. 🔒

Top-down influences on the perception of emotional stimuli - Nature Reviews Psychology

Perception of emotional stimuli involves a mix of bottom-up stimulus information and top-down information. In this Review, Mohanty and colleague explore how top-down processes, including attention, expectations and context, shape the perception of emotional stimuli.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Jul 29

There is extensive debate about whether and how social media use affects well-being. A Perspective in Nature Reviews Psychology outlines key methodological issues in experimental intervention studies on social media use and how they could be addressed. 🔒

Methodological considerations for social media intervention studies - Nature Reviews Psychology

There is extensive debate about whether and how social media use affects well-being. In this Perspective, Vanden Abeele et al. outline key methodological issues in experimental intervention studies on social media use and how they could be addressed.

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 28d

Inclusive writing in the social sciences

Comment by Carolyn Quam & Teresa Roberts

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Kaitlyn M. Werner, PhD @kaitlynmwerner.bsky.social · 29d

#AffectSci - check out Brett Ford's interesting new review, "The individual, relational and societal costs of striving to feel good." Fabulous, as always!

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 29d

📣Back to school with our September issue!

Cover: Numerical cognition in birds🐥

Also in this issue:
👩‍⚕️🗣️negative effects of psychotherapy
❎😁costs of striving to feel good
📱📵methodological considerations for social media intervention studies

Read more: go.nature.com/4m8bbno

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Veronica Diveica @veronicadiveica.bsky.social · 29d

🧠 Interested in how the brain constructs and uses meaning?
 In my Journal Club piece for @natrevpsychol.nature.com, I summarize the Controlled Semantic Cognition Framework by Lambon Ralph et al. — a leading model of how the brain represents and flexibly applies semantic knowledge.

👉🏼 rdcu.be/eE31i

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 29d

📣Back to school with our September issue!

Cover: Numerical cognition in birds🐥

Also in this issue:
👩‍⚕️🗣️negative effects of psychotherapy
❎😁costs of striving to feel good
📱📵methodological considerations for social media intervention studies

Read more: go.nature.com/4m8bbno

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · Sep 3

White supremacy as context

Journal Club by Kun Wang
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