American Psychologist

Peer review represents the foundation and gatekeeper to scientific dissemination, making it among the most important points to improve the representation of members of diverse gender, racial/ethnic, and other sociodemographic groups. The American Psychological Association (APA) highlights equity, diversity, and inclusion among its guiding principles. APA journals publish a large volume of cutting-edge psychological research (processing 20,000 + submissions per year) and reach a wide audience and have the unique opportunity to contribute to APA's mission by disseminating data on the diversity of those involved in the production of psychological science...

Memorializes Sigmund Tobias (1932-2023). A brilliant scholar and an insatiably curious researcher, as well as a kind and disciplined mentor, Sigmund Tobias contributed to American psychology and educational research by dint of his intellect, work ethic, and social values. Although his doctorate was in clinical psychology, Sig became an internationally recognized leader in the field of educational psychology. Sig published over 150 scholarly articles and was elected president of the American Psychological Association's Division for Educational Psychology in 1987...

Memorializes Donald K. Freedheim (1932-2023). Freedheim was a renowned child psychologist, respected professor, American Psychological Association (APA) leader, and gifted editor. He was widely known for his pioneering contributions to professional psychology and his gentle wisdom in personal interactions. He served as the founding director of the Schubert Center for Child Development at Case Western and on the boards of a number of youth-oriented nonprofits. His leadership in the Division of Psychotherapy (now Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy) entailed a term as president (1988) and initiation of several pioneering projects in concert with APA...

What drives us to search for creative ideas, and why does it feel good to find one? While previous studies demonstrated the positive influence of motivation on creative abilities, how reward and subjective values play a role in creativity remains unknown. This study proposes to characterize the role of individual preferences (how people value ideas) in creative ideation via behavioral experiments and computational modeling. Using the Free Generation of Associates Task coupled with rating tasks, we demonstrate the involvement of valuation processes during idea generation: Preferred ideas are provided faster...

Bots are automated software programs that pose an ongoing threat to psychological research by invading online research studies and their increasing sophistication over time. Despite this growing concern, research in this area has been limited to bot detection in existing data sets following an unexpected encounter with bots. The present three-condition, quasi-experimental study aimed to address this gap in the literature by examining the efficacy of three types of bot screening tools across three incentive conditions ($0, $1, and $5)...

In the 1970s, and again in the 1990s, a controversy sparked at the University of Hawai'i and the surrounding community over the name of one of its campus buildings that was meant to honor Australian psychologist Stanley Porteus. Using archival evidence, this article draws on the voices of various community members to reconstruct this history. Spanning multiple decades and happening alongside other controversies such as those over race and intelligence research, as well as movements promoting Hawaiian rights and sovereignty, the case of Porteus Hall offers a unique look at the global impacts of settler-science and scientific racism...

Older adults from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds and with preexisting mental illness have been disproportionately vulnerable to severe illness, disability, and death due to the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study used a sample of older adults (60 +; N = 307) from a randomized clinical trial (Positive Minds-Strong Bodies [PMSB]) conducted between May 25, 2015, and March 5, 2019. Participants were recontacted to assess symptoms of anxiety, depression, general distress, and physical functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic between March 2, 2021, and July 18, 2022 (62...

Although prominent theories of intimate relationships, and couples themselves, often conceive of relationships as fluctuating widely in their degree of closeness, longitudinal studies generally describe partners' satisfaction as stable and continuous or as steadily declining over time. The increasing use of group-based trajectory models (GBTMs) to identify distinct classes of change has reinforced this characterization, but these models fail to account for individual differences within classes and within-person variability across classes and may thus misrepresent how couples' satisfaction changes...

This article memorializes Norman A. Buktenica (1930-2022). An outstanding athlete, consummate psychologist, academic, and juried sculptor, he displayed exceptional capability in a wide range of endeavors. Norm designed the Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration (1967). Coauthored with Keith Berry, this instrument continues in widespread use. Norm joined George Peabody College (Nashville) in 1967 as associate professor and director of the doctoral program in School Psychology. In 1976, Norm joined Minnesota State University Moorhead as professor in the Department of Education and director of Special Education programs...

Family emotional climate is fundamental to children's well-being and mental health. Family environments filled with negative emotions may lead to increased psychopathological symptoms in the child through dysfunctional child-parent interactions. Single-brain paradigms have uncovered changes in brain systems and networks related to negative family environments, but how the neurobiological reciprocity between child and parent brains is associated with children's psychopathological symptoms remains unknown. Here, we first investigated the relation between family emotional climate and children's psychopathological symptoms in 395 child-parent dyads...

Few studies have assessed the multifactorial nature of environmental influences on population mental health. In this large-scale, population-based study of adults, we applied network analysis to study the relationship between environmental factors and symptoms of depression, anxiety, and well-being. We estimated networks with overall mental health nodes and individual symptoms to assess both broad and fine-grained associations between environmental factors and mental health. Finally, we conducted an out-of-sample replication in an independent large-scale sample to assess the robustness of our results...

This article memorializes Alexander B. Caldwell (1929-2022). Caldwell, a luminary Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) scholar, was a humanist of the highest order. He was professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine, and subsequently also joined the Department of Psychology. Caldwell believed his greatest contributions were the integration of an internal MMPI measure of socioeconomic status with other measures of validity and in considering the literature on the developmental patterns of individuals with various MMPI code types...

It is a common understanding that the 2019 coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) significantly harmed mental health. However, findings on changes in overall life satisfaction have been mixed and inconclusive. To address this puzzling phenomenon, we draw upon the domain-specific perspective of well-being and research on catastrophe compassion and propose that the pandemic can have opposing effects on mental health and communal satisfaction, which then differently relate to people's overall life satisfaction. Longitudinal analyses of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics (HILDA) Survey of Australia ( N = 12,093) showed that while there was a greater decrease in mental health in the first COVID-19 pandemic year (2019-2020) than in the previous years (2017-2019), an increase in communal satisfaction also occurred, demonstrating a potential silver lining effect of the pandemic on people's satisfaction with family, community, and neighborhood...

The mental health experiences of Black Americans remain understudied in existing COVID-19 research. While several vital reports highlight disparate physical health outcomes-and even higher mortality rates among Black Americans-few queries have considered the current mental health concerns for this particular group. This investigation therefore examines correlates associated with experiencing suicidal ideation at the beginning (e.g., 2020) and in a later phase (e.g., 2022) of the COVID-19 pandemic. Study 1 includes responses from ( n = 489) Black young adults ages 18-30 who completed online surveys from May 27 to June 24, 2020...

This article memorializes Gisela Labouvie-Vief (1945-2022). The deceased was a distinguished lifespan developmental psychologist and internationally renowned scholar in psychological aging research. In several highly noted theoretical articles she developed a theory of adult intellectual development that was neo-Piagetian in nature. This theory influenced her later work on postoperational and dialectical thinking and foreshadowed the work on wisdom done by other groups of researchers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)...

This article memorializes Duane Schultz (1934-2023). A prolific military historian, Duane was trained as a psychologist. His widely used textbooks, including one on the history of psychology, made his name familiar to many in the field. Two of his textbooks, A History of Modern Psychology (1969) and Psychology and Work Today (1970), were very successful. Both have been translated into nearly a dozen languages, and currently are in their 11th editions. His best professional moments came from his hundreds of interviews with former military, especially those who were POWs...

This article memorializes David Glenwick (1949-2021). His work helps stimulate the further maturation of community-oriented research by utilizing a wide array of contemporary qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches that are theoretically sound, empirically valid, and creative, thereby addressing in a fresh and innovative manner questions of import for the communities in which they work. Throughout his career, he helped community researchers learn about relevant cutting-edge methodologies and illustrated their applicability to helping solve specific social problems and projects...

This article memorializes Peter M. Lewinsohn (1930-2022). Pete pioneered the development of a cognitive behavioral treatment of depressed individuals and research on its efficacy. With his graduate students, he created the Coping With Depression Course , which has been translated into many languages, adapted for older adults and adolescents, and used around the world. This approach is embodied in behavioral activation, a widely used, highly effective treatment of depression. He was a pioneer in translating cognitive behavioral mechanisms into bibliotherapy, including Control Your Depression , a self-help book still in print and used to guide treatment...

This article memorializes A. Rodney Nurse (1928-2022). Rod was an innovator in the fields of clinical, counseling, assessment, family, and community psychology. Rod was a life fellow of the APA divisions of Family Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Trauma Psychology and a member of the divisions of Independent Practice, Psychotherapy, and the Society for the Study of Men and Masculinity. He was a life fellow of the Society for Personality Assessment. Rod authored hundreds of articles, chapters, and papers, many with collaborators, including his wife, family psychologist Peggy Thompson...

This article memorializes Edison J. Trickett (1941-2022), a leading theorist in community psychology. After joining the psychology faculty at Yale (1969-1977) and the Yale Psychoeducational Clinic, Ed became a faculty member at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he taught until 2000 and directed doctoral training in clinical/community psychology (1980-1985). He next went to the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2000-2015). Never one to fully retire, he continued teaching at the University of Miami (2015-2019)...