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Most present-day research on mindfulness treats mindfulness as a variable that is studied in relation to other variables. Although this research may provide us with important knowledge at the population level and mechanism level, it contributes little to our understanding of the phenomenon of mindfulness as it is experienced and enacted at the person level. The present paper takes a person-oriented phenomenological perspective on mindfulness, comparing this perspective with that of von Fircks' (2023). In a first part of the paper, mindfulness is discussed as a phenomenological practice that can be studied by means of experimental phenomenology. It is argued that there is room for the development of an immense variety of personalized mindfulness practices that may serve people's health and well-being. The second part of the paper contains a brief discussion of the possible role of mindful observation and reflection in psychological research. It is argued that mindfulness skills may be important both for improving the quality of phenomenological observation and to facilitate creative thinking in connection with the development of psychological theory. A main implication is that an integration between mindfulness and phenomenology may serve as an important part of this process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Investment and insurance constitute pivotal subjects in financial management, especially in an era characterized by inflation. Unit-Linked Insurance Plans (ULIPs), with a unique combination of investment risks and insurance protection, potentially trigger distinct psychological processes that have been inadequately explored. To bridge this gap, the current research aims to develop a cognitive model for decision-making in purchasing ULIPs. Utilizing structural equation modeling, our research manipulated information related to ULIP products (performance and dividends) while measuring participants’ perceptions, cognitive assessments, emotional states, and investment willingness concerning the products (bottom-up pathway), along with their traits such as risk tolerance (top-down pathway). Our results indicated that perceived performance and dividends affect cognitive assessment and positive emotions within the bottom-up pathway, thereby enhancing the willingness to invest in ULIPs. Conversely, risk tolerance negatively affects perceptions, evaluations, and emotions associated with ULIPs in the top-down pathway. Understanding the perception of product characteristics and individuals’ risk tolerance plays a crucial role in shaping financial decisions. These findings have significant implications for the ULIP decision-making processes.

This study investigated the impact of brand equity and the decoy effect on the purchase of insulated water flasks. This was done in order to address a gap in understanding the decoy effect’s effectiveness across sustainable alternatives like insulated water flasks and their influence on consumer purchasing behavior. The research involved 405 participants who completed an internet survey, distributed among different social media platforms. Findings analyzed using higher-order partial least square structural equation modeling with SMART PLS v3.0, revealed that both the marketing mix and the decoy effect significantly influenced actual purchase behavior. Promotion has the most substantial impact within the marketing mix factors while price has the least effect, suggesting that consumers are willing to invest in reusable insulated water flasks due to long-term savings and benefits. Additionally, attitude significantly influences purchasing intentions, highlighting consumers’ role in decision-making. The study underscored the importance of individual attitudes and perceived behavioral control in driving purchasing decisions.

This study aims to examine the effect of investor sentiment on stock market crash risk in the Asia–Pacific region. The research employs principal components analysis (PCA) to construct an investor sentiment index, while the Method of Moments Quantile Regression (MMQR) is used to analyze monthly data of 16 Asia-Pacific stock markets. The findings show that investor sentiment positively impacts on crash risk in the middle to higher quantities. Moreover, regional sentiment significantly increases stock market crash risk, particularly at higher quantiles, while local sentiment generally reduces crash risk at the lower to middle quantiles. Besides, the magnitude and direction impact of investor sentiment on stock market crash risk is heterogeneous across market levels. Specifically, the results indicate that at higher quantiles of risk, investor sentiment increases crash risk in developed and emerging markets, while it decreases crash risk in frontier markets.

Resilience is crucial for Indonesian Navy Wives who face unique stressors and challenges, mainly when their husbands are on duty. Resilience is positive adaptability in dealing with stressors and allows individuals to overcome the adverse effects of stressors. Research has shown that self-efficacy and social support from significant others play influential roles in enhancing the resilience of these wives. Self-efficacy is the confidence in one’s ability to achieve goals and handle challenges, while social support helps mitigate stress and maintain psychological balance. This study aims to determine the impact of self-efficacy, family, and significant others’ social support on the resilience of Indonesian Navy Wives. The research respondents were 907 Indonesian Navy Wives who had been or were being left on assignment by their husbands for 3-12 months. The measurement tools used are the modified Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA), the Indonesian general self-efficacy scale, and the modified Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS). Hierarchical regression analysis by Jamovi version 1.6. was used to analyze the data. The results showed that resilience was influenced by self-efficacy at 0.746 (p < .001), social support from significant others at 0.569 (p < .001), and a minor contribution from family social support at 0.506 (p < .001). To enhance the resilience of Indonesian Navy Wives, implementing targeted self-efficacy training and developing a comprehensive support system that reinforces the role of social support from significant others is essential.

This study investigates how socioeconomic status (SES) impacts student voice (SV) and its intermediary role in the relationship between SES, academic outcomes (AO), and well-being (WB) in Vietnamese educational settings. The research employed a cross-sectional design and a simple random sampling technique. Questionnaires were administered to 1171 students from nine Thai Nguyen universities, Vietnam. The study used Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to analyze data. Results showed significant correlations between factors: SES and AO; SES and WB. Moreover, SV appeared to mediate the relationships between SES and AO, and SES and WB. However, the moderating effects of gender and grade level on the relationships between SV and AO, and SV and WB were insignificant. We argue that advocating for SV in educational settings can positively influence the relationship between SES and AO. Specifically, our findings suggest that enhancing student voice may help mitigate the effects of lower SES on AO and WB. The research suggests implications for educational policy and practices in Vietnamese educational and similar contexts.

Businesses have focused on using key opinion leaders (KOLs) to reach their target customers because their use of technology and social media is more and more increasing. KOLs not only interact directly with potential customers but also influence their needs through reviews or testimonials, which traditional marketing cannot conduct. The purpose of this study is to investigate the factor of involvement moderating the relationship between KOLs, customer’s attitude and purchase intention on social networks; proposes four factors to make up the perception of KOLs on social media including attractiveness, trustworthiness, expertise and brand consistency. The research sample includes 546 responses from participants aged 16 to 40 years old. Data was collected through an online survey of popular social media users (Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Zalo and Youtube) in Vietnam. The result of the study shows that the involvement factor has positively promoted the relationship between perception of KOLs, attitude of KOLs and purchase intention; customer’s attitude both has a direct impact and an intermediary factor in the relationship between KOL and purchase intention. Furthermore, brand consistency between KOLs and products has a strong influence on customer perception towards KOLs. The study proposed some solutions to improve the effectiveness of online influencer marketing.

Whilst the link between personality and decision-making has been studied across various domains, the predictive capability of the Big Five model (openness to experience, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and neuroticism) for police decisions in high-risk ambiguous situations under time pressure remains unexplored. One-hundred and fifty-six cadets in a Spanish police force’s commanders’ school (78.8% male, aged 21–54) responded to two expert-designed policing scenarios necessitating quick decisions in ambiguous and high-risk conditions, where they had to act or wait for more information through different stages. They then completed the Mini-IPIP. Statistical tests revealed no significant relationships between the Big Five and (a) participants’ decision timing or (b) the appropriateness of their decisions (all p > 0.05). Linear regressions found no mediation by participants’ gender or prior experience. The predictive power of the top tier of the Big Five in these scenarios is not supported; consideration is given to analysing at the facet or subdimension level.

AbstractThe main objective of the present study was to investigate undergraduate students’ perception of smartphone addiction and its impact on themselves and their academic performance in Takhar province. 1321 participants from Takhar University and 4 private universities responded to an online survey questionnaire. The researchers used SPSS Version 26.0 to analyze the data. The findings revealed that undergraduate students were highly addicted to smartphones, and the excessive use of smartphones had an adverse effect on the academic performance of students. The results showed that there were statistically significant differences in smartphone addiction by the respondents’ gender, access to social media and daily hours of smartphone usage. Moreover, a strong negative correlation was found between smartphone addiction and its impact on students’ academic performance. The findings of the study are crucial to higher education leaders because they may help them develop policies to reduce the excessive and inappropriate use of smartphones in classrooms.

AbstractThis psychobiography was undertaken on the creative life of the eminent composer Johann Baptist Strauss II (1825–1899). As an Austrian violinist, conductor, and composer he produced acclaimed waltzes, quadrilles, polkas and devoted time to operettas and ballets. He was dubbed the ‘Waltz King’ after he composed the ‘The Blue Danube’. Psychobiography is rooted in the constructivist-interpretivist paradigm and involves a longitudinal and in-depth case study of an exceptional individual. Strauss was selected as psychobiographical subject through non-probability purposive sampling. The researchers uncovered and reconstructed Strauss’s creative life by utilising the Componential Model of Creativity (CMC) proposed by Teresa Amabile. Alexander’s proposed indicators of thematic salience were utilised to assist in demarcating the vast amount of publicly available primary and secondary biographical and historical literature on Strauss. The constructs of the model, by Teresa Amabilei, (CMC) consist of (a) domain-relevant skills, (b) creativity-relevant processes, (c) intrinsic motivation, (d) synergistic extrinsic motivation, (e) work orientation, (f) affect, and (g) finding meaning. Most of the constructs were found to align with the life and personality of Strauss. This was determined by a preliminary literature review of the historical and biographical information across the lifespan of Strauss. Findings indicate that Strauss’s creativity, as composer and conductor of light music, was well illustrated and explained by the constructs of Amabile’s model. This article highlights the relevance of psychobiographical case-study in understanding the lives of significant people, particularly those individuals who made contributions to the classical music industry. Using the CMC allowed the researchers to furthermore describe and explain how intrinsic and extrinsic factors influence creative output of individuals, providing a broader understanding of creativity.

AbstractOver the last decade, rapid advances in information systems (ISs) have greatly reshaped and changed the nature of doing business and how its performance is measured, with Electronic Auditing (E-auditing) emerging as a pivotal element in improving organizational efficiency. This study addresses the challenges faced in manually implementing audits and underscores the necessity for transitioning to electronic audit systems. The manual approach has limitations regarding the accuracy of operations, so to enhance performance, E-auditing is now imperative. The purpose of the study is to evaluate E-auditing in the public sector of Saudi Arabia, utilizing DeLone and McLean’s information system model (DM ISM). The focus is on vital factors including information quality, system quality, service quality, system usage and user satisfaction and their influence on the performance of internal audit departments, particularly during the challenges posed by the recent COVID-19 pandemic. This research employs a quantitative approach, utilizing a self-administered survey questionnaire to collect data from E-auditing users in the Saudi public sector. The study applies partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) to validate the gathered data. Findings reveal that information quality and system quality significantly influence E-auditing usage. While service quality exhibits no marked effect on usage, the study establishes a strong relationship between E-auditing usage and user satisfaction. Effective E-auditing usage and satisfied users contribute convincingly to the improved performance of internal audit departments. The paper concludes with implications, limitations, and suggestions for future studies.

Scholarly citation represents one of the most common and essential elements of psychological science, from publishing research, to writing grant proposals, to presenting research at academic conferences. However, when authors mischaracterize prior research findings in their studies, such instances of miscitation call into question the reliability and credibility of scholarship within psychological science and can harm theory development, evidence-based practices, knowledge growth, and public trust in psychology as a legitimate science. Despite these implications, almost no research has considered the prevalence of miscitation in the psychological literature. In the largest study to date, we compared the accuracy of 3,347 citing claims to original findings across 89 articles in eight of top psychology journals. Results indicated that, although most (81.2%) citations were accurate, roughly 19%of citing claims either failed to include important nuances of results (9.3%) or completely mischaracterized findings from prior research altogether (9.5%). Moreover, the degree of miscitation did not depend on the number of authors on an article or the seniority of the first authors. Overall, results indicate that approximately one in every 10 citations completely mischaracterizes prior research in leading psychology journals. We offer five recommendations to help authors ensure that they cite prior research accurately. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scholarly communication, Open Access (OA), and open science practices in Psychology are rapidly evolving. However, most published works that focus on scholarly communication issues do not target the specific discipline, and instead take a more "one size fits all" approach. When it comes to scholarly communication, research practices and traditions vary greatly across and within disciplines. This monograph presents a current overview that aims to cover Open Access (OA) and some of the newer open science-related issues that are affecting Psychology. Issues covered include topics around OA of all types, as well as other important scholarly communication-related issues such as the emergence of preprint options, the evolution of new peer review models, citation metrics, persistent identifiers, coauthorship conventions, field-specific OA megajournals, and other "gold" OA psychology journal options, the challenges of interdisciplinarity, and how authors are availing themselves of green and gold OA strategies or using scholarly networking sites such as ResearchGate. Included are discussions of open science strategies in Psychology such as reproducibility, replication, and research data management. This overview will allow psychology researchers to get up to speed on these expansive topics. Further study into researcher behavior in terms of scholarly communication in Psychology would create more understanding of existing culture as well as provide researchers with a more effective roadmap to the current landscape. As no other single work is known to provide a current look at scholarly communication topics that is specifically focused on Psychology, this targeted overview aims to partially fill that niche. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although researchers seek to understand psychological phenomena in a population, quantitative research studies are conducted in smaller samples meant to represent the larger population of interest. This systematic review and quantitative synthesis considers reporting of sociodemographic characteristics and sample composition in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology (now the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science) over the past 3 decades. Across k = 1,244 empirical studies, there were high and increasing rates of reporting of participant age/developmental stage and sex/gender, low but increasing reporting of socioeconomic status/income, and moderate and stable reporting of educational attainment. Rates of reporting of sexual orientation remained low and reporting of gender identity was essentially nonexistent. There were low to moderate but increasing rates of reporting of participant race and ethnicity. Approximately three-quarters of participants in studies over the past 3 decades were White, while the proportion of participants who were Asian, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, or Hispanic/Latino was much lower. Approximately two-thirds of participants were female, with this proportion increasing over time. There were also notable differences in the proportion of study participants as a function of race and sex/gender for different forms of psychopathology. Basic science and theoretical psychopathology research must include sociodemographically diverse samples that are representative of and generalizable to the larger human population, while seeking to decrease stigma of psychopathology and increase mental health equity. Recommendations are made to increase sociodemographic diversity in psychopathology research and the scientific review/publication process. General Scientific Summary: Basic science and theoretical research on the etiology, development, symptomatology, and course of psychopathology must include sociodemographically diverse samples, while seeking to decrease the stigma of psychopathology and increase mental health equity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Climate despair—a sense of hopelessness about humanity’s ability to pursue a sustainable future—is emerging as a psychosocial threat. Psychological science conceptualizes hopelessness as a cognitive schema characterized by negative expectancies. Climate hopelessness, then, may be conceptualized as a mental model that represents climate change as a massive problem with futile response options. It manifests in negative expectancies about the future. Here we show that learning about eco-innovations—novel climate-response options—can decrease climate hopelessness. Across 11 experiments (N = 3224), we found that adults (mostly from the USA) reported lower climate hopelessness after viewing videos that depicted eco-innovations (such as a high-tech, net-zero-energy city) than they did in various control conditions, including those that were unrelated to climate (such as a no-video control) and those that depicted more familiar, schema-consistent climate responses (such as living in a rural, intentional community). This research provides causal evidence that thinking about novel climate responses can contribute to a more hopeful outlook, and it identifies technological innovation as one possible seed for such messaging. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The psychological underpinnings and processes of caste have remained obscure. This special issue of Caste: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion focusing on Caste and Psychology is an initial contribution that lays the ground for developing a critical psychology of caste. In this introductory article, I situate the special issue in the historical and contemporary context. I show that the historical roots of psychological approach to caste go deep. The revolutionary thinking and activism of Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar provided a useful foundation for a critical psychology of caste to flourish. Unfortunately, this foundation remained under-appreciated in the subsequent academic and social engagement on caste. Next, I review the contemporary research on the psychological dimension of caste and highlight emerging themes that illustrate contemporary approaches. I argue that there is need of a collective endeavor in the form of a new field of study, namely, ‘critical psychology of caste’, to integrate divergent perspectives and contributions addressing the psychological dimension of caste. The special issue is a small step in that direction.

In a previous paper (Lundh, 2023), it was argued that psychological science can be seen as having three main branches, corresponding to three levels of research: research at the person level, at the population level, and at the mechanism level. The purpose of the present paper is to discuss the critique that has been raised against this model by Lamiell (2024) and Nilsson (2024) and to elaborate and specify the three-branch model in more detail. This is done by an incorporation of Nilsson’s concept of person-sensitivity into the model, and by a clearer differentiation between the two contrasts involved: (1) the methodological focus either on individual persons or on populations of individuals; and (2) the theoretical focus either on whole-person functioning or on sub-personal mechanisms.

Although distinctions between the study of persons, the study of populations, and the study of mechanisms are helpful for illuminating mismatches between research assumptions, problems, and methods, it may be difficult to construe these as entirely discrete branches of psychological science. I suggest that it is more appropriate to view person-levelness (or person-sensitivity) as an ideal we should actively aspire toward, within the constraints placed by other goals such as generalizability and feasibility, when pursuing knowledge about individuals. It is an ideal that we can never hope to perfectly realize—the degree to which it is realized will always be a matter of degree, and there is therefore no clear line of demarcation between the person level and other branches of psychology. This ideal can nonetheless stimulate more person-sensitive conceptualizations, measurements, and analyses.

There are different ways of dividing psychology into subdisciplines. The purpose of the present paper is to explore one specific meta-perspective on psychological science, seen as having three main branches: person psychology, population psychology, and mechanism psychology, linked to three different levels of research. Person-level research focuses on psychological phenomena as experienced and enacted by individual persons in their interaction with other persons and other parts of the environment, and in their development over time. Population-level research focuses on populations of individuals, frequencies of various psychological phenomena in a population, risk factors, and population-level effects of various psychological interventions. Mechanism-level research focuses on psychological functioning as explained in terms of neurophysiological mechanisms and information processes at a sub-personal level. It is argued that the failure to differentiate clearly between research questions at these three levels lead to questionable research practices. Most notably, a failure to differentiate clearly between the population level and the person level leads to problem-method mismatches in the form of researchers trying to answer questions about persons by research on populations. Also, because of a failure to differentiate between the person level and the mechanism level, explanations in terms of sub-personal mechanisms are too often seen as providing answers about what occurs at the person level, thereby failing to study persons as intentional agents in interaction with other persons and other parts of the environment. It is argued that a clear differentiation between three levels of psychological science – population, person, and mechanism – may contribute to an increased clarity in these matters and may thereby contribute to the development and maturation of psychological science.

This article examines the benefits of incorporating religious reflection into the psychology of religion and vice versa. By applying Bayes' theorem, we discover that scientists and theologians can collaborate without sharing prior beliefs. Instead, rationality requires updating our beliefs before data collection in response to the degree of surprise generated by the data. Moreover, although people who start with different beliefs may become more aligned after data collection, rationality does not entail a convergence to identical beliefs. To illustrate the potential for growth in understanding from greater collaboration between theologians and scientists, I examine a longitudinal investigation of religion after a natural disaster. This case study illustrates how conversations between theological and psychological perspectives on religion can lead to a more comprehensive understanding of virtue cultivation, benefiting both science and theology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The field of Political Psychology is an interdisciplinary academic field rooted in both psychology and Political Science. This field, drawing from both sciences, offers the opportunity to analyze issues from a multifaceted perspective. Disciplines like International Relations, requiring in-depth analysis for successful findings, stand to benefit significantly from this field. Consequently, there's a growing relationship between Political Psychology and International Relations. This study aims to underscore the necessity of Political Psychology in researching International Relations. Within this framework, the study explicates the nature and evolution of Political Psychology, examines its interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches concerning subjects within International Relations, and discusses academic criticisms of this field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are different ways of dividing psychology into subdisciplines. The purpose of the present paper is to explore one specific metaperspective on psychological science, seen as having three main branches: person psychology, population psychology, and mechanism psychology, linked to three different levels of research. Person-level research focuses on psychological phenomena as experienced and enacted by individual persons in their interaction with other persons and other parts of the environment, and in their development over time. Population-level research focuses on populations of individuals, frequencies of various psychological phenomena in a population, risk factors, and population-level effects of various psychological interventions. Mechanism-level research focuses on psychological functioning as explained in terms of neurophysiological mechanisms and information processes at a sub-personal level. It is argued that the failure to differentiate clearly between research questions at these three levels lead to questionable research practices. Most notably, a failure to differentiate clearly between the population level and the person level leads to problem-method mismatches in the form of researchers trying to answer questions about persons by research on populations. Also, because of a failure to differentiate between the person level and the mechanism level, explanations in terms of sub-personal mechanisms are too often seen as providing answers about what occurs at the person level, thereby failing to study persons as intentional agents in interaction with other persons and other parts of the environment. It is argued that a clear differentiation between three levels of psychological science - population, person, and mechanism - may contribute to an increased clarity in these matters and may thereby contribute to the development and maturation of psychological science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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It remains to be seen whether the American Psychological Association's new apology and resolutions on racism will help redress longstanding inequities in the field. To be sure, critiques of psychological science vis-à-vis racism have been around for decades, despite being ignored by psychological science, even when spoken by Dr. King—in his profound meditation on science, psychology, and racism in a speech delivered to the APA—or by psychiatrist Frantz Fanon—who has had a foundational influence on the broader history of anti-racism scholarship but remains relatively disregarded in his own psy-fields. This article addresses the viewpoints of these and other people of color on psychological science, which have yet to be adequately incorporated into the perspectives of psychological science. We also address traditions of communities of color that have become absorbed or consumed by psychological science but often after their cultural and historical origins are erased, like Buddhism. We locate these racial and scientific dynamics, and associated patterns of neglect and erasure, within a longstanding aversion in and by psychological science—here understood as a collective actor unto itself—to perspectives of people of color. Consequently, the promise not only of diversity, but of desegregation, has yet to be fulfilled within psychology. We conclude by discussing the psychosocial power of social movements—including South Africa's apartheid-related Truth and Reconciliation process as personally experienced by our second author—to suggest elements of pathways forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite recognition that borderline personality disorder (BPD) is one of the most stigmatized psychological disorders, destigmatization efforts have thus far focused on the views and actions of clinicians and the general public, neglecting the critical role that psychological science plays in perpetuating or mitigating stigma. This article was catalyzed by recent concerns about how research and editorial processes propagate stigma and thereby fail people with BPD and the scientists who study BPD. We provide a brief overview of the BPD diagnosis and its history. We then review how BPD has been stigmatized in psychological science, the gendered nature of BPD stigma, and the consequences of this stigmatization. Finally, we offer specific recommendations for researchers, reviewers, and editors who wish to use science to advance our understanding of BPD without perpetuating pejorative views of the disorder. These recommendations constitute a call to action to use psychological science in the service of the public good. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

More than a decade has passed since major concerns emerged about the WEIRD-centric focus of mainstream psychological science. Since then, many calls have been made for the discipline of psychology (and other disciplines within the social sciences) to become more broadly representative of the human species. However, recent evidence suggests that progress toward improving the inclusivity and generalizability of psychological science has been slow, and that the dominance of WEIRD psychology has persisted. To build a more comprehensive psychological science that truly represents the global population, we need strategies that can facilitate more rapid expansion of empirical evidence in psychology beyond WEIRD biases. In this paper, we draw on several examples (i.e., non-duality and dialectical interaction, Wu-Wei, Zhong Yong) to illustrate how principles of Asian psychology could contribute to reshaping mainstream psychology. We discuss some strategies for advancing a global psychological science, along with some complementary practical suggestions that could enrich the WEIRD-centric landscape of current psychological science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Every researcher, scholar, and teacher of psychological science has likely perceived critical gaps between the science of human experience and particular information circulated widely to benefit human welfare or psychological health. In other words, so-called "pop psychology" is often invalid or incomplete, and could be more accurate or complete, and thus make a greater positive difference in human well-being and/or life satisfaction. This issue reflects the "dissemination challenge" addressed in this article, which provides select practical strategies for improving the beneficial impact of interventions developed and marketed to benefit human dynamics in various real-world situations—from education/training and community policing to occupational safety and health. The author refers to select personal experiences throughout his 52-year career as a university teacher and researcher of psychological science and as a practitioner for occupational safety and health to not only explicate critical disconnects between successful consultants and most academics, but also to illustrate how the large-scale dissemination of psychological science for human welfare could benefit from synergetic collaboration between these two professions. While consultants know how to attract attention from organizational or community leaders and/or the general public regarding an intervention process or treatment they offer for valuable impact, academic researchers and scholars know how to intervene most effectively for optimal results. Thus, human welfare would benefit substantially from symbiotic teaching/learning collaborations between academic researchers who know the science of intervention and consultants who know how to "capture the market." Unfortunately, such fruitful cooperation is unlikely, as this article elucidates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

More than a decade has passed since major concerns emerged about the WEIRD-centric focus of mainstream psychological science. Since then, many calls have been made for the discipline of psychology (and other disciplines within the social sciences) to become more broadly representative of the human species. However, recent evidence suggests that progress toward improving the inclusivity and generalizability of psychological science has been slow, and that the dominance of WEIRD psychology has persisted. To build a more comprehensive psychological science that truly represents the global population, we need strategies that can facilitate more rapid expansion of empirical evidence in psychology beyond WEIRD biases. In this paper, we draw on several examples (i.e., non-duality and dialectical interaction, Wu-Wei, Zhong Yong) to illustrate how principles of Asian psychology could contribute to reshaping mainstream psychology. We discuss some strategies for advancing a global psychological science, along with some complementary practical suggestions that could enrich the WEIRD-centric landscape of current psychological science.

The first article in the present issue of JPOR is written by two pioneers in person-oriented research, John Nesselroade and Peter Molenaar. Among other things they argue that the individual is the primary unit of analysis for studying behaviour, and that this is in line with a growing emphasis on personalized diagnoses and treatment regimens in medicine, which reflects a renewed emphasis on focusing on the individual person. As was argued by Julia Moeller in a previous article in JPOR, however, psychological science seems to “lag behind” in this respect, with a concomitant risk of a credibility loss. One problem is that psychology still lack a coherent theoretical paradigm that places the person at the center of the stage. Some promising theoretical work on the concept of person has been carried out by researchers such as Mark Bickhard and Peter Ossorio, and it is possible that the future will see an increased cross-fertilization between (1) the theoretical development of a comprehensive model of the person and (2) methodological developments that facilitate the study of developmental processes at the level of the individual person.

Psychological science is in a unique position to identify and dismantle the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that maintain and increase racial inequality, yet the extent to which psychological science can do so depends on the extent to which race scholarship is supported in psychological science. We theorized that the lack of racial diversity among editors at mainstream journals might obstruct the advancement of race scholarship by signaling to race scholars that their research is not valued by mainstream journals and that they should submit their research elsewhere for publication. Indeed, in a preregistered field experiment with 1,189 psychology Ph.D. students, we found that under all-White editorial boards, race scholars were less likely than non–race scholars (a) to believe that the journal valued racial diversity, research on race, or their own research; (b) to believe that the journal would publish their research; and (c) to be willing to submit their research to the journal for publication. Under racially diverse editorial boards, however, we find no differences between race scholars and non–race scholars. In fact, we found that under diverse editorial boards, compared with under all-White editorial boards, both race scholars and non–race scholars had more positive perceptions of the journal. We argue that racially diverse editorial boards are good for race scholars and their scholarship and for the field more broadly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Researchers of psychological sciences are urged to adequately address cultural diversity within their research. In this paper, we discuss limitations to current ways cultural considerations are discussed in psychological research and offer evidence-informed recommendations for cultural responsiveness at each stage of the research process. Implications for decentering psychological research are discussed for researcher preparedness, project development, methodology, and drawing conclusions. These recommendations target researchers in the United States, but principles may be applied to other nations.