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Instance theory as a domain-general framework for cognitive psychology
The dominant view in cognitive psychology is that memory includes several distinct and separate systems including episodic memory, semantic memory...
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Aggression and Depression in Chinese Early Adolescents: Same-Domain and Cross-Domain Effects in Friendships
From late childhood, friendships as a distinct peer experience become increasingly salient in affecting individual development. This one-year...
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Maternal Power Assertive Discipline and Children’s Adjustment in High-Risk Families: A Social Domain Theory Approach
The goal of the present study was to examine associations between maternal use of power assertive parenting across different discipline contexts and...
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Longitudinal Associations among Psychological Control, Positive and Negative Interactions, and Adolescents’ Domain-Specific Disclosure to Parents
Although much research has shown that parental psychological control undermines adolescents’ routine disclosure to parents, past research has not...
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Profiles of different domains of the theory of mind among rural preschoolers
Understanding others’ thoughts and feelings is a social-cognitive capacity known as the theory of mind (ToM). Previous studies have attempted to...
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An item response theory approach to the measurement of working memory capacity
Complex span tasks are perhaps the most widely used paradigm to measure working memory capacity (WMC). Researchers assume that all types of complex...
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What Makes a Good Theory, and How Do We Make a Theory Good?
I present an ontology of criteria for evaluating theory to answer the titular question from the perspective of a scientist practitioner. Set inside a...
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Interpreting Neuroscientific Evidence in the Legal Domain: Do the Stereotypes Come In?
The current article explores the meaning of neuroscientific evidence in the legal domain. It takes a social-psychological perspective to discuss how...
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Knowing Your Child’s Mind and Its Relationship with Theory of Mind Acquisition
Research suggests that parental reflective functioning (PRF)—that is, the parent’s capacity to envision the mind of the child—is a key factor in...
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Universality, domain-specificity and development of psychological responses to music
Humans can find music happy, sad, fearful or spiritual. They can be soothed by it or urged to dance. Whether these psychological responses reflect...
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Assessing Somatic Symptom Scale-8 (SSS-8) in Chinese youth and adolescents: using Classical Test Theory and Rasch Measurement Theory
Evaluating the increasing somatic symptoms in adolescents and youth is essential in epidemiological surveillance. This study aims to investigate the...
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Domain-specific and domain-general metacognition for strategy selection in children with learning disabilities
How specific learning disabilities (SLD) affect metacognition in children? Given the importance of metacognition for cognitive growth during...
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How Do Regulatory Focus and the Big Five Relate to Work-domain Risk-taking? Evidence from Resting-state fMRI
Risk-taking in the ‘work’ domain constitutes a fundamental building block for a wide range of important decisions (e.g., investment) and behaviors...
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Understanding preservice teachers’ intentions to enact autonomy support: The combined perspectives from self-determination theory and mindset theory
This exploratory study seeks to yield a more complete understanding of preservice teachers’ intentions to enact autonomy support in their future...
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Are All Negotiations Equally Favorable? The Role of Adolescents’ Negotiation Style, Social Domain, and Mothers’ Authoritarian Beliefs and Family History
Although negotiation is generally considered an adaptive means for adolescents to express disagreement in the parent-child relationship, previous...
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Values as Motives: Implications for theory, methods, and practice
The concept of human values is central to the study of culture, ethics, politics, anthropology, sociology, social psychology, environmental studies,...
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The QBIT Theory: Consciousness and the Maximum Possible Order
According to the QBIT theory, the necessary and sufficient condition for the emergence of consciousness is the transformation of a system consisting...
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Plausibility and Early Theory in Linguistics and Cognitive Science
Various notions of plausibility are used in cognitive science to argue for or against the “goodness of theories.” However, plausibility remains...
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Toward an Integrative Theory of Identity Formation; Three Components of the Religious Identity Formation Process
The religious identity formation process plays an important role in some people’s lives; however, this identity domain has a lack of research. The...
