BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY英国心理学杂志
BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY(英文缩写 BRIT J PSYCHOL),ISSN 0007-1269,eISSN 2044-8295,中文译名:英国心理学杂志 是一本学术期刊。本页汇总该期刊的最新影响因子、分区信息以及最新收录于 PubMed 的文献,帮助您快速了解期刊全貌。
发文量统计区间：2025-11-01 至 2026-10-31，按本站收录文献的发表日期统计。
期刊介绍
历年影响因子趋势
| JCR 数据年份 | 影响因子 | JCR 分区 |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4.981 | Q1 |
| 2022 | 4.000 | Q1 |
| 2023 | 3.200 | Q1 |
| 2024 | 3.300 | Q1 |
| 2025 | 3.600 | Q1 |
BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY 最新收录文献
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1. Thinking and looking produce distinct patterns of gaze aversion during a structured social interaction.
PMID:日期:2026-09-25Systematic differences in eye gaze patterns emerge when attention is directed externally versus internally in non-social contexts. Here we asked whether these differences also apply to structured social interactions. Gaze aversion during conversations may occur because conversation partners are referencing an object in their environment (an externally directed looking gaze) or because they are thinking and wish to reduce visual information from the other person's face (an internally directed thinking gaze). We measured eye movements in 28 participants while prompting these two types of gaze aversion. Compared to looking gaze aversion, thinking gaze aversion involved scanning a larger spatial area with shorter and fewer fixations. In addition, head and eye movements were more strongly coupled during looking than during thinking gaze aversion, and participants exhibited consistent individual variation in the direction of thinking gaze aversion. These findings shed light on how individuals manage social attention and suggest that observable social cues are available for others to infer interlocutors' intentions during conversations.
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2. Psychometric properties of the EPDS-3A across pregnancy and postpartum: Factor structure and invariance in a nationwide sample.
PMID:日期:2026-09-17Although the three anxiety-related items of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS-3A) are widely used to flag anxiety-related distress, their psychometric performance across perinatal phases remains insufficiently established. We evaluated factor structure, measurement invariance, differential item functioning (DIF), score precision and convergence with Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) thresholds in a nationwide Italian sample of 10,100 individuals (4,410 pregnant; 5,690 postpartum). Participants completed the EPDS and GAD-7. Analyses included exploratory graph analysis, tau-equivalent ordered-categorical confirmatory factor analysis, multi-group invariance testing, DIF analysis, graded-response item response theory and receiver-operating characteristic curves. The three anxiety-related items formed a distinct community, with stronger clustering postpartum. Tau-equivalent one-factor fit was stronger postpartum and modest during pregnancy; scalar invariance was supported. DIF was negligible, and item response theory analyses indicated ordered thresholds and meaningful item discrimination. The EPDS-3A showed moderate convergence with GAD-7 generalized anxiety symptom thresholds. A score of 5 was the Youden-selected EPDS-3A threshold for distinguishing participants above versus below moderate or severe GAD-7 thresholds in both phases. The EPDS-3A yields a brief, psychometrically coherent anxiety-related score across pregnancy and postpartum, but convergence with worry-related GAD-7 symptoms does not establish diagnostic or broad perinatal anxiety screening accuracy.
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3. Of eyes and hands: Assessing the evolutionarily stable strategy of human handedness by means of eye-tracking.
3. 关于眼睛与手：通过眼动追踪评估人类利手性的进化稳定策略PMID:日期:2026-09-06An evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) suggests that the 1:9 ratio of left- to right-handers in humans could reflect a frequency-dependent equilibrium: the minority of left-handers and the majority of right-handers may have an advantage in competitive and cooperative circumstances, respectively. To evaluate this account, we recorded eye movements during a 'friend or foe' variation of a Go/NoGo task in 24 left- and 24 right-handed participants. Stimuli were silhouettes carrying either a food item (cooperation with a 'friend') or a weapon (competition against an 'enemy') in one hand, and participants were asked to save the friend or to hit the enemy. A better performance emerged in competitive than cooperative trials, confirming the 'weapon effect' (highest efficiency in detecting threatening stimuli), and for right- than left-handed stimuli, confirming an advantage in responding to the most frequent handedness phenotype. Left/right-handed stimuli were better categorized in the competition/cooperation trials and first saccades were faster towards left- than right-handed stimuli, particularly when these were males. We interpret this pattern as an attentional bias favouring earlier orienting to potentially more threatening targets, left-handed males. Results are discussed as partially supporting the ESS and other evolutionary biases, which might be associated with the handedness distribution of humans.
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4. Embodied attention shapes temporal cognition.
4. 具身注意塑造时间认知PMID:日期:2026-08-30Humans rely on spatial representations to process both temporal duration and mentally project themselves across time. Yet, it remains unclear whether this spatial-temporal mapping depends on embodied mechanisms or on abstract attentional codes. We investigated whether embodied cues (gaze direction) versus abstract cues optokinetic stimulation (OKS) modulate Mental Time Travel (MTT) and age judgement. Gaze direction induced direction-specific effects in both tasks: in MTT leftward gaze enhanced the perceived likelihood of past events, while rightward gaze enhanced judgements for future events; in the Age Judgement task leftward cues yielded younger estimates and rightward cues older estimates. Conversely, non-embodied OKS biased Age Judgements but induced no direction-specific effects in the MTT task. Overall, these dissociations suggest that embodied cues play a specific role in modulating temporal projection in MTT, whereas non-embodied attentional cues are sufficient to bias age-related temporal estimates. These findings suggest that temporal projection during MTT relies more strongly on embodied perceptual mechanisms, whereas judgements of longer temporal durations can be shaped by domain-general attentional processes.
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5. Social mobility belief enhances fertility intention among childless individuals by bolstering fertility efficacy.
5. 社会流动性信念通过增强生育效能感，提升了无子女个体的生育意愿PMID:日期:2026-08-28Low fertility intentions among childless individuals constitute a critical factor underlying the low-fertility crisis. Drawing on an integrated theoretical framework, this study employs four studies to examine the mechanisms through which beliefs about social mobility influence fertility intentions. Results indicate that social mobility beliefs positively predict fertility intentions, though age-stratified analyses reveal that this direct association is driven by post-reproductive adults, consistent with the view that prospective fertility intentions among younger adults require a mediating mechanism (Study 1); experimental evidence confirms the causal effects of social mobility belief on fertility intention and fertility efficacy among reproductive-age childless adults (Studies 2 and 3); fertility efficacy mediates this relationship (Study 3); and a quasi-experimental design provides support for the proposed mediator's role (Study 4). These findings elucidate a 'social mobility beliefs, fertility efficacy, fertility intentions' mechanism, offering a novel perspective for understanding fertility intentions and important implications for enhancing them by fostering positive societal beliefs and strengthening individual efficacy.
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6. The world is an unjust place: The impact of lifetime adversity on belief in conspiracy theories.
PMID:日期:2026-08-04Conspiracy mentality - the tendency to view important events as the product of secret plots by powerful groups - is known to arise from collective victimization and discrimination. Yet less is understood about how adversities such as illness, financial loss, or trauma, unrelated to social identity, foster such beliefs. Drawing on social and clinical perspectives, we conducted three preregistered studies (total n = 1284) to test whether lifetime adversity contributes to conspiracy mentality via perceived injustice. Study 1 (n = 275) supported this hypothesis, showing an indirect link between lifetime adversity and conspiracy mentality through injustice perceptions. Study 2 (n = 471) employed a controlled comparison group design, showing that victims of violence (vs. non-victims) reported stronger perceptions of injustice, which were positively associated with conspiracy mentality. Study 3 (n = 538) experimentally manipulated perceptions of justice, demonstrating that perceived injustice (vs. justice) increased conspiracy beliefs. While the effect was not significantly moderated by lifetime adversity, exploratory analyses replicated Study 1's mediation pattern. Additional analyses revealed that adversity predicted institutional distrust via injustice and political conspiracy beliefs. These findings advance interdisciplinary understanding and identify the psychological mechanisms linking adversity to conspiracy beliefs, with relevance for understanding social trust and resilience.
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7. Culture and conceptual influences on first impressions from body shape.
7. 文化和概念对身体形态第一印象的影响PMID:日期:2026-08-02Prior work shows that body shape contributes to first impressions in a Western population; here, we test whether these impressions generalize to an East Asian culture and whether any observed differences are affected by nonperceptual factors. Across two studies, we examined how body shape is mapped onto personality traits among American and Chinese participants. In Study 1, participants rated 3D body models on a shared set of Big Five-derived trait descriptors to map trait spaces within a common measurement framework. Although the primary dimension linking Conscientiousness with valence was shared by both groups, the groups differed more clearly on the secondary dimension. Americans emphasized agency and mapped Extraversion onto thinner bodies, whereas Chinese participants emphasized sociability and linked Extraversion to average/sturdier bodies. Study 2 tested whether these differences were driven by trait associations or weight stereotypes. Results aligned with Dynamic Interactive Theory, finding that culturally and linguistically embedded trait associations mirrored body impressions more closely than weight stereotypes alone. These findings reveal how shared perceptual heuristics and nonperceptual knowledge jointly shape impressions from bodies. This extends classic face-based models of person perception to bodies and underscores the role of sociocultural context in the architecture of first impressions.
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8. How do visual and conceptual factors predict the object content in typical scene drawings?
PMID:日期:2026-07-31Imagine you draw a typical bedroom, your choice of objects is likely to depend on visual occurrence statistics (i.e. the objects present in previously encountered bedrooms) and semantic relations between objects and scenes (i.e. the semantic relationship between the bedroom and its constituent objects). To investigate how these two factors contribute to the composition of typical scene drawings, we analysed 1192 drawings of six indoor scene categories, obtained from 303 participants. For each object featured in the drawings, we estimated its visual occurrence frequency from the ADE20K dataset, and its semantic relatedness to the scene concept from a word2vec model. Across all scenes of a given category, generalized linear models revealed that visual and conceptual factors both predicted the likelihood of an object featuring in the scene drawings, with a combined model outperforming both single-factor models. We further computed the visual and semantic specificity of objects for a given scene, that is, how diagnostic an object is for the scene. Object specificity offered only weak predictive power when predicting the selection of objects, yet even infrequently drawn objects remained diagnostic of their scenes. Taken together, we show that visual and conceptual factors jointly shape the composition of typical scene drawings.
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9. The holistic view of compassion: A meta-analysis on the association of self-compassion, other-compassion, well-being and psychological distress.
9. 慈悲的整体观：关于自我慈悲、他人慈悲、幸福感与心理困扰关联的元分析PMID:日期:2026-07-31While ample evidence has demonstrated the beneficial effects of self-compassion and other-compassion on the promotion of well-being and reduction of psychological distress independently, the effects of their co-occurrence have been less examined. By employing a three-level meta-analysis, the present study synthesized 193 studies across 31 cultural contexts. Results showed that the effect size of the association between self-compassion and other-compassion was small (r = .19), and that the cultural values of collectivism-individualism moderated the association, with stronger effects shown in cultures with higher collectivistic orientation. Additionally, self-compassion and other-compassion showed a stronger effect size on mental well-being when there was a higher congruence (higher correlation) between self-compassion and other-compassion. Other-compassion also showed a stronger effect size on psychological distress when congruence between self-compassion and other-compassion was high. These findings underscore the dual importance of cultivating both self- and other-compassion to maximize their effects on the enhancement of mental well-being and the alleviation of psychological distress.
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10. Psychological understanding of misinformation and disinformation in the face of environmental crises: Introduction to the special issue.
PMID:日期:2026-07-30Exposure to and belief in misinformation and disinformation can foster misunderstandings and misperceptions about climate change and other environmental issues, ultimately delaying essential progress and action. Against this backdrop, this special issue presents a collection of nine papers that deepen and broaden psychological insights into the content of environment-related misinformation and how people respond to it. In this introduction, we provide a brief overview of the concepts of misinformation and disinformation, followed by a discussion of the scope and contributions of the nine papers. Collectively, these papers address the heterogeneity and complexity of climate and environmental misinformation, explain how people process such misinformation, develop intervention and communication strategies, and explore the influence of social and cultural contexts. We conclude by outlining significant future research directions, emphasizing the need to understand environment-related misinformation with content- and context-sensitive approaches.