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• The Characteristics and Benefits of Disclosing Personal Experiences in Prison: A Study of the Writing Paradigm.

  Authors:Antonietta Curci, Lidia De Leonardis, Tiziana Lanciano, and Pierpaolo BasileFrom:American Journal of Psychology (Vol. 134, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20219,991 words Report 1540LThe aim of this study is to investigate the characteristics and benefits of writing about personal experiences in prison. A variation of the classic writing paradigm was proposed to a sample of 93 male inmates in...

• IS INTUITIVE PSYCHOLOGY BAD FOR PSYCHOLOGY?.

  Author:Iris BerentFrom:American Journal of Psychology (Vol. 134, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20211,549 words Article 1370LReply to Krueger In The Blind Storyteller (Berent, 2020), I suggest that dualism and essentialisrn conspire to meddle with our intuitive psychological understanding, and possibly with psychological science. Much like...

• THE END OF OVERCONFIDENCE.

  Author:Joachim I. KruegerFrom:American Journal of Psychology (Vol. 134, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20213,248 words Book review 1240LPerfectly Confident: How to Calibrate Your Decisions Wisely By Don A. Moore. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2020.272 pp. Hardcover, $29.99. "Most people are overconfident about the benefits of overconfidence."...

• STRAIGHT DOPE ON BEING DUPED.

  Author:Timothy R. LevineFrom:American Journal of Psychology (Vol. 134, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20211,982 words Article 1300LDuped: Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception By Timothy R. Levine. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2019. 364 pp. Paper, $34.95. One can go back at least 4,000 years and find...

• Reading Deficits, Executive Functions, and Social Adjustment Problems: Direct and Methated Relations.

  Authors:Farzana Ashraf, Shameem Fatima, and Najma NajamFrom:American Journal of Psychology (Vol. 134, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20217,741 words Report 1530LThe main objective of the present study was to examine the direct and indirect relations between reading deficits, executive functions, and social adjustment problems in a sample of 210 adolescents. Results demonstrated...

• THE INGREDIENTS OF THE CREATIVE MIND.

  Author:Elkhonon GoldbergFrom:American Journal of Psychology (Vol. 134, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20212,850 words Article 1590LCreativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation By Elkhonon Goldberg. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018. 296 pp. Hardcover, $29.95. Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation (2018) is the...

• The Visual Working Memory Demands of Processing Conventional Metaphoric Language.

  Author:Alison Whiteford-DamerallFrom:American Journal of Psychology (Vol. 134, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 202111,076 words Report 1580LAccording to the conceptual metaphor theory (CMT; Lakoff & Johnson, 1980), conceptual metaphors, such as "Life is a journey," are used to map the characteristics of abstract domains (e.g., life) onto more accessible...

• Individual Response-Effect Congruencies Modulate Subsequent Stimulus-Response Compatibility Effects.

  Authors:James D. Miles and Kim-Phuong L VuFrom:American Journal of Psychology (Vol. 134, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20216,708 words Report 1410LExpectations of the outcomes of our actions can directly influence response behavior. In 2 experiments, we demonstrate that the congruency between a response and its unanticipated effect (R-E congruency) can also...

• CREATIVITY UNDERSTOOD: FROM NEUROMYTHOLOGY TO NEUROSCIENCE.

  Author:Anna AbrahamFrom:American Journal of Psychology (Vol. 134, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20212,471 words Article 1370LThe Neuroscience of Creativity By Anna Abraham. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 386 pp. Paper, $34.99. Systematic exploration of human creativity is a very recent enterprise, which until barely a few...

• Impact of Physical Activity on an Individual's Creativity: A Day-Level Analysis.

  Authors:Ashish Bollimbala and Shirshendu GanguliFrom:American Journal of Psychology (Vol. 134, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20218,047 words Article 1390LPhysical activity is fast emerging as a predictor of complex cognitive processes, yet its impact on creativity is not well researched. This study analyzes the immethate and retention effects of an enjoyable physical...

• Efficacy of Guided Versus Self-Induced Learning of Web-Based Self-Compassionate Journaling by College Students.

  Authors:Jessica Williamson and Ginette C. BlackhartFrom:American Journal of Psychology (Vol. 134, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20218,740 words Article 1510LWe conducted 3 studies examining the efficacy of web-based self-compassionate journaling (SCJ).The goal was to compare the effects of guided and self-administered journaling on selfreported follow-up self-compassion...

• INBORN IDEAS.

  Author:Iris BerentFrom:American Journal of Psychology (Vol. 134, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20212,406 words Article 1170LThe Blind Storyteller: How We Reason About Human Nature By Iris Berent. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020. 304 pp. Hardcover, $29.95. "All science is either physics or stamp collecting." --Attributed to...

• BEYOND DUALISM AND ESSENTIALISM.

  From:American Journal of Psychology (Vol. 134, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2021777 words Article 1230LReply to Berent Contrary to Iris Berent's claim, I did not question the idea that dualism and essentialism are false. I made it clear that I share the received view that there is no mind without a physical grounding...

• Positive-Negative Asymmetry in Evaluation of Natural Stimuli: Empirical Study in the Contrast Model of Similarity Extended to Open Sets.

  Authors:Andrzej Falkowski, Maria Sidoruk, Justyna Olszewska, and Magdalena JabtonskaFrom:American Journal of Psychology (Vol. 134, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20216,319 words Report 1570LThe current work shows empirical verification of the similarity theory extended to open sets of features, which states that an increase in similarity between 2 objects results from the deletion of distinctive features or...