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Behavioral Sciences
Jenna Smith, Julie Ayre, Jesse Jansen, Erin Cvejic, Kirsten J. McCaffery, Jenny Doust, Tessa Copp
Summary: Disease labels and causal explanations can potentially motivate behavior change, but also increase anxiety and perceived severity. Genetic explanations may lead to higher weight stigma.
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Pediatrics
Lindsay T. Ives, Kate Stein, Alannah M. Rivera-Cancel, Julia K. Nicholas, Kristen Caldwell, Nandini Datta, Christian Mauro, Helen Egger, Eve Puffer, Nancy L. Zucker
Summary: The majority of young children with FAP are optimistic about pain outcomes, generating various coping strategies and adjusting pain tolerance based on activities. However, a subset of children show pessimism towards pain, and some identified coping strategies may lead to excessive help seeking.
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Orthopedics
Joshua R. Zadro, Mary O'Keeffe, Giovanni E. Ferreira, Romi Haas, Ian A. Harris, Rachelle Buchbinder, Christopher G. Maher
Summary: When different labels are used to describe rotator cuff disease, there are small differences in the perceived need for surgery and imaging, which could potentially have important implications at the population level.
JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC & SPORTS PHYSICAL THERAPY
(2021)
Article
Orthopedics
Joshua R. Zadro, Mary O'Keeffe, Giovanni E. Ferreira, Adrian C. Traeger, Andrew R. Gamble, Richard Page, Robert Herbert, Ian A. Harris, Christopher G. Maher
Summary: Diagnostic labels and advice, as well as the interaction between them, have effects on the perceived need for shoulder surgery and other outcomes in patients with rotator cuff disease, with larger effects observed for advice.
JOURNAL OF PHYSIOTHERAPY
(2022)
Review
Anesthesiology
Travis Haber, Rana S. Hinman, Fiona Dobson, Samantha Bunzli, Adam Hilton, Michelle Hall
Summary: In order to improve patient-centered care for people with hip pain, it is important to understand their beliefs and expectations about the pain. This systematic review examined the beliefs and expectations of middle-aged and older adults regarding chronic hip pain and its care. The review included 28 studies with 352 participants and identified five themes.
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Psychology, Biological
William J. Brady, Killian L. McLoughlin, Mark P. Torres, Kara F. F. Luo, Maria Gendron, M. J. Crockett
Summary: As individuals and political leaders increasingly interact in online social networks, there is a tendency for social media users to overperceive the level of moral outrage felt by others, leading to an inflation of beliefs about intergroup hostility. Researchers conducted a Twitter field survey and found that observers systematically overperceive moral outrage in authors, inferring more intense moral outrage experiences from messages than the authors themselves reported. This overperception of moral outrage has the potential to distort our understanding of moral and political attitudes.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2023)
Article
Communication
Sabrina Angela Huang, Jeffrey Hancock, Stephanie Tom Tong
Summary: This research investigates how online daters understand their experiences in online dating and the algorithms that support online dating platforms. Using a mixed-method approach, the researchers identified and explored the folk theories related to traditional dating, online dating, and online dating algorithms. The findings provide new insights into how daters make sense of the different dating processes and algorithms.
SOCIAL MEDIA + SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Anna Hasper, Gary Barkhuizen
Summary: Although many studies have examined the experiences of remote English language teaching during COVID-19, little attention has been paid to English language teacher-educators' beliefs about their online tutoring practices. This article presents the findings of a study that aimed to identify tutors' beliefs about the differences between face-to-face (F2F) and online tutoring, as well as the knowledge and skills required for online tutoring. Data collected through a questionnaire and interviews revealed that instructional strategies were seen as the main difference between F2F and online tutoring, followed by the use of technology. However, the importance of technology knowledge and skills for online tutoring was emphasized. The implications of the study include providing structured professional development opportunities for online tutors, addressing well-being, and promoting awareness of trainees' sociocultural context.
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Environmental Sciences
Mohammad Ebrahimi Kalan, Hassan Ghobadi, Ziyad Ben Taleb, Davoud Adham, Caroline O. Cobb, Kenneth D. Ward, Raed Behaleh, Mehdi Fazlzadeh
Summary: The study found that compared to non-smokers, cigarette smokers were less likely to believe that smoking could lead to the spread of COVID-19, while waterpipe smokers were more likely to believe that waterpipes could protect against the virus. Over half of ex-smokers quit smoking due to the pandemic and most planned to continue abstaining post-pandemic.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Business
Aparna Sundar, Edita Cao, Ruomeng Wu, Frank R. Kardes
Summary: This study examines how unnatural nutritional claims affect perceptions of packaged food, proposing a negative health halo effect. It introduces the selective accessibility model and tests its predictions across five experiments. The findings contribute to understanding the halo effect, inference, and persuasion, offering strategies to help consumers make more informed health-related judgments and decisions.
PSYCHOLOGY & MARKETING
(2021)
Article
Pediatrics
Laura Menes Fernandez, Isabel Salvat, Cristina Adillon
Summary: This study aimed to explore children and adolescents' beliefs about the cause of their pain, and compare differences in beliefs based on age and the persistence of pain. The participants provided a range of explanations for the cause of their pain, with pathologies and injuries being the most common (45.95%), followed by ergonomic issues (22.60%) and psychological issues (15.95%).
Article
Psychology, Social
Samantha R. Pejic, Jason C. Deska
Summary: This study finds biases in people's judgments of White male releasees' sensitivity to social pain, which in turn affects their judgments of social support towards the releasees.
PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Scott G. Ravyts, Elliottnell Perez, Joseph M. Dzierzewski
Summary: Dysfunctional beliefs about sleep and pain can predict attitudes towards insomnia treatment, independent of insomnia symptoms, pain severity, and sleep-self efficacy.
Article
Rehabilitation
Dana Maki, Heidi Lempp, Duncan Critchley
Summary: This study explored the experiences and beliefs of Arab Muslim patients with low back pain in Bahrain. Eighteen participants attended three focus groups, identifying five themes related to loss of independence, change in identity, beliefs towards low back pain, coping strategies, and experiences in the healthcare system. Cultural and religious beliefs influenced pain-related beliefs, suggesting the need for addressing cultural gender roles and utilizing religious coping methods in treatment.
DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Educational
Rachel A. Leshin, Sarah-Jane Leslie, Marjorie Rhodes
Summary: This study found that using generic language increases two critical aspects of essentialist thought: beliefs that category-related properties arise from intrinsic causal mechanisms and that category boundaries are inflexible. These findings have implications for understanding the spread of essentialist beliefs across communities and the development of intergroup behavior.
