Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Feeling

  1. Hopelessness mediated the link between resilience and embitterment after earthquakes
    Study of 801 earthquake survivors finds hopelessness mediates the relationship between psychological resilience and posttraumatic embitterment symptoms.
  2. Agency-Enhanced Visual Search in VR: Robust to Distraction, Delay, and Perspective Shifts
    Virtual reality study shows that the sense of control over objects enhances subsequent visual search, remaining effective despite distractions, delays, and perspective changes.
  3. School climate and belonging were linked to academic achievement
    Turkish secondary school study examines how school climate, peer relationships, and psychological belonging influence academic achievement through mediation pathways.
  4. Tweets showed more acceptance of price hikes after 2021
    Study examines how Japanese Twitter users' attitudes toward price increases shifted after 2021, revealing erosion of decades-old deflationary norms and growing acceptance of inflation.
  5. Immigrant employment in Sweden was marked by instability
    Study examines how first-generation non-European immigrants sustain employment in Sweden, revealing cycles of instability and the critical role of workplace support networks and belonging.
  6. Consumers like AI banking benefits but worry about trust and data safety
    Research examining consumer adaptation to AI banking technologies through mixed methods reveals positive sentiment toward functional benefits alongside concerns about data security and trust.
  7. Smokers report continuing despite health and environmental risks
    Empirical study examining smoking behavior through biopsychosocial framework, revealing that individual attitudes and motivational factors override health risk perception in smoking persistence.
  8. Affectivity shapes mathematical communication in parent–child technology interactions
    Qualitative study examining affectivity as constitutive communication in parent-child mathematics interactions with multitouch technology, analyzing embodied engagement and affective flows.
  9. Polyvariate regression outperforms difference scores for affective polarization
    Critique of difference score methodology in affective polarization research with polyvariate regression as superior alternative for studying partisan affect and policy attitudes.
  10. Ono’s encounters with forcibly mobilized Koreans shaped his poetry
    Tozaburo Ono's wartime encounters with forcibly mobilized Korean workers at Fujinagata Shipyard and their influence on postwar poetic representation and philosophical development.
  11. Affective surprise enhanced memory for item timing
    Affective surprise—deviations in expected emotional states—enhances binding of items to temporal contexts in episodic memory, functioning as a learning signal independent of valence direction.
  12. AI tool use linked to higher academic stress in college students
    Survey of 624 undergraduates found AI tool usage experience predicted academic stress; loneliness partially mediated this link and academic self-efficacy moderated the pathway to loneliness.