Behavioral Sciences, Volume 15, Issue 11

We introduce and describe a new risk-taking game, Helsinki Aiming Task (HAT), and test its construct (internal) and convergent (external) validity. HAT is a shooting game, in which the participants aim at a target under varying levels of “gun&r...

Adolescent girls and young women are particularly vulnerable to the influence of social and gender norms. This systematic review builds on a broader review of social and gender norms interventions, with the overall aim of identifying and mapping empi...

Exposure to campus suicide poses a significant threat to adolescent mental health. While childhood psychological abuse (CPA) is a known vulnerability factor for depression, the mechanisms linking this early adversity to depressive symptoms (DS) follo...

The current study investigates how high school students’ perceived teacher support relates to their academic engagement, drawing on Job Demands–Resources (JD-R) and Conservation of Resources (COR) Theories. It further examined academic se...

The linguistic system relies on both syntactic and semantic cues to derive the meaning of sentences. Although this process is shaped by cognitive factors, little is known about how mood influences reliance on these cues and whether such effects are m...

This study centers on retirement planning achievement, examining its impact mechanism on older adults’ mental health and its boundary conditions. Drawing on self-determination theory (SDT) and conservation of resources (COR) theory, we tested a...

A systematic review was conducted to examine interventions designed to reduce the influence of implicit bias on professional judgements, with the aim of identifying strategies relevant to forensic and legal contexts. These decisions are often made un...

The transition from university to the workforce is a major developmental milestone that can generate significant psychological distress, especially for students in high-stakes professional programs such as law. Traditional measures of career-related...

Learning burnout, a prevalent condition among adolescents characterized by emotional exhaustion and academic disengagement, has been increasingly recognized as a critical risk factor for Internet Gaming Disorder. This study investigates the chain-med...

In Latin America, there is a critical need for validated instruments that capture the multidimensionality of school social climate from an ecological perspective. To fill this gap, this study developed and validated the Multidimensional School Social...