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An online-only journal publishing Reviews, Perspectives & Comments across psychology, its applications & societal implications. Tweets from the editors. https://www.nature.com/nrpsychol/
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📣November issue is live!

Cover: Mental health & treatment challenges in older adults

Also in this issue:
➡️Material perception & its relation to broader cognition
➡️Psychology-based organizational diversity initiatives
➡️Social contagion of self-harm in young people

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Network-informed interventions for psychopathology

Journal Club by René Freichel
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November 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
📣November issue is live!

Cover: Mental health & treatment challenges in older adults

Also in this issue:
➡️Material perception & its relation to broader cognition
➡️Psychology-based organizational diversity initiatives
➡️Social contagion of self-harm in young people

Read more: go.nature.com/3JLY3Hq
November 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders affect one in five women during pregnancy and up to one year postpartum. A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology provides an overview of evidence-based psychotherapies for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders and describes their underlying mechanisms. 🔒
Evidence-based psychotherapies for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders and their underlying mechanisms - Nature Reviews Psychology
Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders affect one in five women during pregnancy and up to one year postpartum and are a strong predictor of perinatal suicidality. In this Review, Singla et al. provide an overview of evidence-based psychotherapies for perinatal depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and suicidality and describe their underlying mechanisms.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Evidence-based psychotherapies for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders and their underlying mechanisms

Review by Daisy R. Singla, Andrea S. Lawson, Cindy-Lee Dennis, Parisa R. Kaliush, Kate Walsh, Vikram Patel & Crystal E. Schiller

Web: go.nature.com/3Lng7YO
PDF: rdcu.be/eOd0w
November 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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A fascinating and deeply thoughtful analysis of the different motivations for faculty diversity by @azimshariff.bsky.social --essential reading for anyone interested in this issue (either pro- or anti-DEI)
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Taking faculty diversity seriously means asking why it matters - Nature Reviews Psychology
Increasing faculty diversity is a key priority in faculty hiring across many countries, but the rationales behind it are often left undiscussed. Explicitly clarifying diversity rationales — and ensuri...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The relevance of classic language models in the age of AI

Journal Club by Cheng-Yu Hsieh

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November 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The theory that woke scientists up to sleep

Journal Club by Rebecca Crowley

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October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Taking faculty diversity seriously means asking why it matters

Comment by Azim Shariff

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October 31, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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A Perspective in Nature Reviews Psychology provides a conceptual framework to integrate human decision-making with AI, focusing on cognitive AI: a computational approach that models human cognitive processes to create AI systems that learn and make decisions in ways like those of humans. 🔒
A cognitive approach to human–AI complementarity in dynamic decision-making - Nature Reviews Psychology
Complex decision-making tasks can be addressed with artificial intelligence (AI) systems that complement human capabilities. In this Perspective, Gonzalez and Heidari provide a conceptual framework to integrate human and AI decision-making, highlighting technical challenges and ethical risks.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Read our new paper “A cognitive approach to human–AI complementarity in dynamic decision-making” published with Springer Nature in Nature Portfolio-Nature Reviews Psychology.

We examine how Cognitive AI can help design systems that complement human capabilities.

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A cognitive approach to human–AI complementarity in dynamic decision-making - Nature Reviews Psychology
Complex decision-making tasks can be addressed with artificial intelligence (AI) systems that complement human capabilities. In this Perspective, Gonzalez and Heidari provide a conceptual framework to...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology describes findings from research that seek to improve mental health interventions in late life and enhance older adults’ emotional capabilities and motivations. go.nature.com/47h2aTr 🧪
October 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
A cognitive approach to human–AI complementarity in dynamic decision-making

Perspective by Cleotilde Gonzalez & Hoda Heidari

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October 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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This #SPSP preconference 1st happened in January of 2016 when the area was 'emerging'. It's more arrived than emerging these days. I will talk about how to approach inequality scholarship (be it central or peripheral to your research question) from a functional perspective: rdcu.be/eBHv8
SPSP Economic Inequality & Social Class Preconference is back! Speakers include:
@mwkraus.bsky.social @andreicimpian.bsky.social @frederiqueautin.bsky.social @celbaek.bsky.social
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With @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social, Bruno Gabriel S Casara, Ivan Cano, Paul Piff
October 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology specifies factors that exacerbate self-harm social contagion and discusses how to bridge psychological and public health perspectives to mitigate self-harm risk in adolescents. go.nature.com/46syzrc 🔒
September 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Mental health and treatment challenges in older adults

Review by Ken Laidlaw, Georgina Charlesworth & Sunil Bhar

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October 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Psychological risk and resilience in families of children with cancer

Journal Club by Brittany C. McGill

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October 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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🚨To celebrate #WorldMentalHealthDay, our October issue includes a Focus that examines the advances in computational psychiatry and the challenges of developing computational models to address mental health disorders. #mentalhealthresearch #Psychiatry

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October 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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
October 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
📣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
October 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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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. 🤖
‘Motivation reconsidered’ reconsidered

Journal Club by Bella Fascendini

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October 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
‘Motivation reconsidered’ reconsidered

Journal Club by Bella Fascendini

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October 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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
October 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The behavioural essence of episodic memory

Journal Club by Tyler Wayne Ross

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October 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM