Dynamic fit index cutoffs for categorical factor analysis with Likert-type, ordinal, or binary responses.
American Psychologist, Vol 78(9), Dec 2023, 1061-1075; doi:10.1037/amp0001213Scale validation is vital to psychological research because it ensures that scores from measurement scales represent the intended construct. Fit indices are commonly used to provide quantitative evidence that a proposed factor structure is plausible. However, there is a mismatch between guidelines for evaluating fit of the factor models and the data that most researchers have. Namely, fit guidelines are based on the simulations that assume item responses are collected on a continuous scale whereas most researchers collect discrete responses such a...
Source: American Psychologist - January 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Daniel McNeish.
American Psychologist, Vol 78(9), Dec 2023, 1058-1060; doi:10.1037/amp0001261The APA Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology honor early career scientists for contributions in the first 9 years post-PhD. “For a staggering volume of top-level contributions to quantitative methodology, with direct applications throughout the social, behavioral, and educational sciences, and beyond. Daniel McNeish’s work addresses wide-ranging and practical topics, such as modernizing reliability assessment, models to assess individuals’ capacity and potential, and numerous aspects of modeling long...
Source: American Psychologist - January 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Erin S. Calipari.
American Psychologist, Vol 78(9), Dec 2023, 1055-1057; doi:10.1037/amp0001267The APA Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology honor early career scientists for contributions in the first 9 years post-PhD. “For innovative and outstanding research on the neural control of complex behavior. Erin S. Calipari’s work has used an impressive array of multidisciplinary approaches to link neural function and dysfunction directly to behavior and decision making. By combining techniques to record from and manipulate precise circuits in the brain with computational approaches, her work has defi...
Source: American Psychologist - January 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
What role can (and should) clinical science play in promoting mental health care equity?
American Psychologist, Vol 78(9), Dec 2023, 1041-1054; doi:10.1037/amp0001217Health inequities have persisted in scientific examination and subsequent efforts related to prevention, detection, and, particularly, treatment of mental health disorders and symptoms over most of the history of our field. In the past decade, the tide has been slowly turning to make the promotion of mental health care equity across all segments of the population more mainstream, and the momentum to do so has further accelerated in the past 5 years. This review provides a brief summary of what we currently know about mental health care inequities ...
Source: American Psychologist - January 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Anu Asnaani.
American Psychologist, Vol 78(9), Dec 2023, 1038-1040; doi:10.1037/amp0001263This award recognizes excellent psychologists who are at early stages of their research careers. “For her groundbreaking work in the area of cross-cultural psychology and anxiety disorders. Anu Asnaani has been tackling clinically important and scientifically challenging questions using sophisticated statistical procedures and experimental designs. Her studies range from analyses of large epidemiological databases to carefully designed experimental investigations on the physiological effects of different emotion regulation strategies on anxiety ...
Source: American Psychologist - January 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Michael J. Arcaro.
American Psychologist, Vol 78(9), Dec 2023, 1036-1037; doi:10.1037/amp0001281This award recognizes excellent psychologists who are at early stages of their research careers. “For showing that the fundamental organizing principle of the primate brain, including humans, is map-based. Showing that the brain is map-based, topographically organized, and interconnected links huge swaths of otherwise unrelated findings about different parts of the brain. Most people regard the brain as divided up into distinct areas that each have their own unique function, which evolved to perform this function. Michael J. Arcaro’s work inst...
Source: American Psychologist - January 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology.
American Psychologist, Vol 78(9), Dec 2023, 1033-1035; doi:10.1037/h0101922The Early Career Awards, given for the first time in 1974, recognize the large number of excellent early career psychologists. Recipients of this award may not have held a doctoral degree for more than nine years. For purposes of this award, psychology has been divided into 10 areas: animal learning and behavior, comparative; developmental; health; cognition/human learning; psychopathology; behavioral and cognitive neuroscience; perception/motor performance; social; applied research; and individual differences. Five areas are considered each year, w...
Source: American Psychologist - January 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology: Michelene T. H. Chi.
American Psychologist, Vol 78(9), Dec 2023, 1030-1032; doi:10.1037/amp0001271The APA Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology honors psychologists who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical advances in psychology leading to the understanding or amelioration of important practical problems. “For foundational contributions to the cognitive and learning sciences. Michelene T. H. Chi’s work has led to new conceptualizations of the nature of expertise and of the nature and structure of children’s knowledge. Her work on deep understanding of complex concepts has highlighted the importance...
Source: American Psychologist - January 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology.
American Psychologist, Vol 78(9), Dec 2023, 1029; doi:10.1037/h0101921The Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology is presented to a person who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, has made distinguished theoretical or empirical advances leading to the understanding or amelioration of important practical problems. The 2023 recipients of the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards were recognized by the 2022 Board of Scientific Affairs and selected by the 2022 Committee on Scientific Awards. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: American Psychologist)
Source: American Psychologist - January 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Jennifer A. Richeson.
American Psychologist, Vol 78(9), Dec 2023, 1026-1028; doi:10.1037/amp0001264The APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions honors psychologists who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. “For illuminating with theoretical boldness and methodological rigor how sociocultural group memberships such as race and socioeconomic status shape how people reason about, respond to, and experience inequality and injustice. Jennifer A. Richeson has shown how threat impacts misperceptions of inequality and reactions to increasing racial diversity. Her steadfast commitm...
Source: American Psychologist - January 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Vonnie C. McLoyd.
American Psychologist, Vol 78(9), Dec 2023, 1023-1025; doi:10.1037/amp0001259The APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions honors psychologists who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. “For advancing understanding of the family-level processes through which poverty harms children. Vonnie C. McLoyd extended a family stress model of how families cope with the shock of economic loss to investigate how families cope with poverty and low income as ongoing conditions. Her work demonstrates that poverty and low-income can adversely affect children’s psychol...
Source: American Psychologist - January 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Michael S. Fanselow.
American Psychologist, Vol 78(9), Dec 2023, 1020-1022; doi:10.1037/amp0001274The APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions honors psychologists who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. “For his systematic and integrative research on the neural and behavioral mechanisms of Pavlovian fear learning. Guided by a functional behavior perspective, Michael S. Fanselow’s pioneering studies of conditioned analgesia describe a fundamental biological mechanism for regulating associative learning through error correction. His analysis of the organization of defen...
Source: American Psychologist - January 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.
American Psychologist, Vol 78(9), Dec 2023, 1018-1019; doi:10.1037/h0101920The Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions are presented to persons who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. The 2023 recipients of the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards were recognized by the 2022 Board of Scientific Affairs and selected by the 2022 Committee on Scientific Awards. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: American Psychologist)
Source: American Psychologist - January 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Charles Silverstein (1935–2023).
American Psychologist, Vol 79(3), Apr 2024, 468; doi:10.1037/amp0001292Memorializes Charles Silverstein (1935-2023). One of Charles’s most important contributions to the field of psychology and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights in particular was his testimony in 1973 opposing the classification of homosexuality as a mental illness. His testimony, along with that of several others, led to the removal of homosexuality in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. He was also the founding editor of the Journal of Homosexuality, which began publication in 1976. Charles maintained a private practi...
Source: American Psychologist - December 25, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Robin J. Hailstorks (1954–2023).
American Psychologist, Vol 79(2), Feb-Mar 2024, 318; doi:10.1037/amp0001297Memorializes Robin J. Hailstorks (1954–2023). Robin taught at Howard University and the University of Tennessee Knoxville before coming to Prince George’s Community College (PGCC) in Largo, Maryland. At the time of her death, Robin had been a professor of psychology for over 30 years. For many of those years, she served as department chair where she mentored countless part-time and full-time faculty. Robin was involved in making community college psychology education a national concern. She served as associate executive director and director of ...
Source: American Psychologist - December 25, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
