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Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
This chapter covers evolutionary behavioral sciences in general, both animal and human disciplines. Firstly I briefly sketch the historical...
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Network meta-analysis in psychology and educational sciences: A systematic review of their characteristics
Network meta-analysis (NMA) allows the combination of evidence on the effectiveness of several interventions. NMA has mainly been applied in the...
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Predicting, Controlling, and Engineering Humans: Eugenic Sciences in American Psychology
Since its inception as a distinct academic and professional discipline in the USA, American psychology has drawn on sciences that were mired in...
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Applications of machine learning to behavioral sciences: focus on categorical data
In the last two decades, advancements in artificial intelligence and data science have attracted researchers' attention to machine learning. Growing...
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A methodology for preprocessing structured big data in the behavioral sciences
The characteristics of big data, including high volume, increased variety, and velocity, pose special challenges for data analysis. As these...
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Technology in Psychology Graduate Training Clinics: Past, Present, and Future
University-based training clinics serve two complementary functions: (1) offering high-quality training in the provision of behavioral health...
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Introduction to Dissemination in Behavioral Sciences
Empirical scholarship is one of the most important endeavors in which a student, researcher, or practitioner can engage. Empirical scholarship offers...
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Behavioral Insights for Policy Design A New Framework for Understanding Wicked Social Problems and Designing Policies for Real Citizens
This textbook is an introductory guide to applying behavioral sciences and systemic thinking into public policy design and implementation. It...
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Psychiatry and Psychology
This chapter explores what psychology and psychiatry, including psychoanalysis, tells us about the experience of boredom and boredom’s antithesis—the...
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Where Is Counseling in School Psychology Literature? A Review of Six Prominent School Psychology Journals
School psychology professionals rely on professional literature to access information on scientifically supported practices. Counseling is certainly...
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The Power and Pitfalls of Positive Psychology: Navigating Critiques and Criticisms
This opinion article critically examines two fundamental categories of critiques of positive psychology scholarship: the lack of a clear definition...
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Existential Psychology and Religious Worldview in the Practice of Pastoral Counseling
A pastoral counseling approach is proposed in this article. The methodology investigates the relationships between religiosity, spirituality, and...
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The Self-Pattern and Buddhist Psychology
In this paper, we address core insights from Buddhist psychology about mind-body phenomena and the self, and we relate such insights to the notion of...
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Introducing Cultural Psychology: An open Approach of Thinking
Cultural Psychology (CP) is a relatively young perspective, growing in the field of social sciences, nevertheless, its ideas are found throughout the...
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Is Another kind of Biologization Possible? On Biology and the psy Sciences
The relationship between biology and the psy disciplines (psychology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy) is a complex one. Many scholars have criticized...
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Mental Health and Behavioral Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Incarcerated Parents: A Systematic Review
Parental incarceration is a traumatic experience that affects millions of children and adolescents worldwide. This population is at an increased risk...
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Behavioral Public Administration: Three Ways Forward
Although behavioral public administration (BPA) has developed rapidly in recent years, its concept and connotation are inadequate, some queries and...
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Towards a Framework for Unifying Research in Theoretical Psychology
Current criticism of theoretical psychology concerns, in particular, the state of its foundations and the construction of theories, while the...
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Student’s motivations behind not pursuing industrial/organizational psychology
Industrial organizational psychology is one of the most dynamic areas of psychology yet it is usually not the first choice of graduate students when...
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Soft Core Evolutionary Psychology? Potential Evidence Against a Unified Research Program from a Survey of 581 Evolutionarily Informed Scholars
A recent philosophical examination of evolutionary psychology argues that it currently lacks a metatheoretical “hard core” and thus cannot be...
