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Psi Chi Journal is designed to educate and promote the professional development of our authors. Undergraduate, graduate, and faculty submissions are welcome.

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Pagnani and colleagues at Wake Forest University described the inclusion of undergraduate researchers in “many labs” studies as an invited editorial. https://t.co/QyyjOBkEby @WakeForest

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Findings show that context significantly alters perception, with incongruent scenarios reducing correct emotion identification

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Barron and Hale at the University of North Georgia replicated previous research about the influence of context on emotion perception in facial expressions. https://t.co/vHYVBGAUqj @uofnorthgeorgia

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Participants evaluated a fear expression with either no context, congruent, or incongruent scenarios. Results suggest emotion perception is influenced by both facial features and contextual information

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Understanding differences in couples and singles can inform public health strategies to improve contraceptive education and promote condom use.

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Stokes and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University studied differences in condom use patterns between couples and singles in college-aged individuals. @penn_state https://t.co/GgImdM7Mku

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Concern for STI, concern for pregnancy, and positive attitudes towards condoms predicted more consistent condom use in single individuals.

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Black women who reported their gendered racial identity as central to their overall identity were less likely to use disengagement coping. For Black women, seeing their race and gender as important to their overall identity may be a useful tool for combating gendered racism.

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Johnson and colleagues at Spelman College studied gendered racial identity and the internalization of the Sapphire stereotype among Black women. https://t.co/ieaeaCdyOx @SpelmanCollege @SpelmanPsych

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Differences in disengagement coping and internalizing negative stereotypes were found among Black women. Black women who reported their gendered racial identity as unimportant may disengage more when they highly internalize the Sapphire stereotype.

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Many findings were qualified by the interaction with the sample (White MTurk participants vs. White undergraduate students).

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Marquez and colleagues at Weber State University studied racial priming and the race-crime congruency effect. https://t.co/c1TVjbOCPU @WeberStateU @JackStu38079904

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Among undergraduates, the race-crime congruency effect emerged for the White defendant but not for the Black defendant. The racial prime led to harsher judgments for the Black defendant compared to the White defendant.

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Depression leads to rumination, and may also amplify the effect of rumination on the negativity of autobiographical memories.

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Roberts and Finley at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville studied the interplay of depression, rumination, and negative autobiographical memory. https://t.co/t1EB6zwQAq @SIUE @jasonrfinley

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Ruminating repeatedly about a negative memory kept the memory more negative as compared to being distracted from the memory. This was especially true for participants with greater depressive symptoms.

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Emerging adults frequently engaged in less intrusive behaviors (e.g., viewing profile and tagged photos). Cybermonitoring was most common during the relationship, followed by before it, and least likely after its dissolution.

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Powell and Joseph at Roanoke College studied the phenomenon of cybermonitoring. https://t.co/NHFLuwAhzr @DPowell_PhD

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Emerging adults were surveyed on their use of social media to gather information on potential, current, and/or past romantic partners. More than 90% reported engaging in cybermonitoring.