Journal of Research in Reading, Volume 49, Issue 3, August 2026.ABSTRACT Background Undermining motivations are relatively new to reading motivation research. In the current study, we first tried to answer the question whether relations between reading comprehension, affirming and, particularly, undermining reading motivations (Avoidance, Perceived Difficulty in Reading) differed for secondary schoolers from ...
Paul de Maat, Roel van Steensel
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Improving risk assessment in forensic mental health: Temporal validation and clinical refinement of the FoVOx risk tool. [PDF]
Eur PsychiatrySivak L +4 more
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Other‐Oriented Lie‐Telling and Moral Evaluations During Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study
Social Development, Volume 35, Issue 3, August 2026.ABSTRACT This study examined the longitudinal associations of adolescents’ lie‐telling and moral evaluations of other‐oriented lies told to friends, as well as the potential moderating roles of age and peer influence. Adolescents (N = 818; 11–17 years at T1; Mage = 13.30, 49.80% male) reported how often they told other‐oriented lies to their friends ...
Victoria W. Dykstra +3 more
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Modeling the pathways from antisocial media exposure to subjective well-being through school-based victimization in Nigeria. [PDF]
Glob Ment Health (Camb)Akintunde TY +6 more
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An Evolutionary Perspective on Bullying and Social Power: The Roles of Cooperation and Manipulation
Aggressive Behavior, Volume 52, Issue 4, July 2026.ABSTRACT Bullying has been shown to have adaptive functions, and some research has suggested this may be partly due to perpetrators making flexible use of both coercive and prosocial strategies. The current study probes this possibility further by examining whether bullying is differentially associated with two distinct affiliative strategies—genuinely
Kyle T. Edwards +4 more
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Pathways to honesty: Exploring the ecological desistance of atypical lying features. [PDF]
J Res AdolescDecrop R +5 more
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Expert Clinician Insights Into the Diagnosis and Treatment of Men With Antisocial and Borderline Personality Disorder: A Qualitative Study. [PDF]
J Clin PsycholBroadbear JH +4 more
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Journal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 4, July/August 2026.ABSTRACT In an era of rising affective polarization, intellectual humility (IH)—the non‐threatening awareness of one's own intellectual fallibility—is gaining increasing importance. In light of fragmented evidence on how IH can be cultivated, we conducted a systematic review of 24 empirical studies to identify psychological competencies underlying IH ...
Lisa Hartke +2 more
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Empathy and mentalization as mediators between childhood maltreatment and social decision-making during adulthood. [PDF]
Sci RepBenoit S, Maheux J, Gamache D, Hétu S.
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Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 54, Issue 5, July 2026.ABSTRACT Neighborhood crime‐related stressors and the built environment are important determinants of mental health, yet research on the pathways through which they affect individuals remains limited. This study draws on structural equation modeling and high‐quality measures to test the pathways linking a novel measure of neighborhood‐level hostility ...
Paul Rodrigues, Carolyn Côté‐Lussier
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