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["Real Estate Economics, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nMany variables involve the modeling of spatial effects, and their dynamics over time. This article presents a linear model in which spatiotemporal random effects are modeled by graph‐Laplacians. A graph‐Laplacian flexibly encodes adjacency in both space and time, in our case not depending on unknown parameters. The graph‐Laplacian can be input for a prior in a Bayesian estimation setup, or used as regularization term in a Ridge regression. A spectral decomposition of the graph‐Laplacian significantly reduces computation time for estimation. As an application, we estimate graph‐Laplacian hedonic pricing and repeat‐sales models on sales prices of Australian residential properties in the period from 1990 to 2024. Bayesian and Ridge regression estimation results are very similar, although the computation time for the Ridge regression is orders of magnitude faster, however at the expense of missing posterior density functions. Our results highlight the advantages of graph‐Laplacians for predicting individual property prices and for producing stable, granular price indexes, also in thin markets."]

["Real Estate Economics, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nPricing power in real estate markets can reduce housing supply and redevelopment relative to the social optimum. We show how pricing power interacts with popular redevelopment subsidies and zoning regulations. Using building‐level rental income data from NYC, we find that increased concentration is correlated with increased rents. Finally, we use the model to estimate the first building‐level housing elasticity, finding that markups account for between one‐sixth and one‐third of rents in the city."]

["Real Estate Economics, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nThis article estimates foreclosure discounts in Cape Town, South Africa, where, until 2019, foreclosure auctions occurred without reserve prices. Using newly constructed data linking sheriff auction notices to the universe of property transactions, rich property characteristics, and municipal service‐request records, I document large foreclosure discounts that vary by empirical approach. In a cost‐adjusted hedonic framework, properties sold at foreclosure auction transact at a discount of 14.5% relative to comparable non‐foreclosed sales; repeat‐sales estimates yield substantially larger discounts of 30.2%. These estimates bracket the plausible range of the true discount: the hedonic provides a conservative lower bound after netting out buyer‐incurred transaction costs, while the repeat‐sales provides an upper bound that additionally captures time‐varying deterioration not fully observed in cross‐sectional data. The magnitudes documented here are large relative to settings with reserve prices, reflecting an institutional environment where the absence of a reserve price leaves auction outcomes effectively unbounded on the downside. The implications are especially severe in South Africa's recourse mortgage system: foreclosed borrowers who lose their homes at auction may also remain liable for any balance between the sale price and the outstanding mortgage, compounding the household‐level costs of foreclosure. The findings contribute to an understanding of how foreclosure‐price formation operates in a no‐reserve‐price auction environment, and of the implications of that institutional design for realized prices and homeowner outcomes."]

{"p"=>{"__content__"=>"This study aimed to evaluate methylphenidate-associated body mass index (BMI) changes and treatment discontinuation across weight status groups in children and adolescents, using real-world data. We used data from the BMI Epidemiology Study (BEST) Gothenburg cohort linked to the Swedish National Prescribed Drug Register. We included children (< 18 years) initiating methylphenidate, with BMI measurements available at baseline and one year. A subgroup also had BMI measurements at two years. We analysed changes in standardized BMI (zBMI) by baseline weight status and evaluated the impact of dosing and drug discontinuation. Methylphenidate treatment was associated with significant zBMI reduction across all weight status groups in the first treatment year, with the largest decrease observed in those with obesity (-0.5 SD,  = 0.01). Higher dose increases, younger age, and female sex were associated with larger zBMI reductions. During the first year, obesity prevalence decreased from 10.4% to 5.7% ( < 0.001), while underweight increased from 6.6% to 13.1% ( < 0.001). Individuals with underweight or normal weight had higher odds of discontinuation, compared with those with overweight or obesity (OR = 1.73,  = 0.004). In the second year, zBMI and weight status remained largely stable. In conclusion, in this real-world setting, methylphenidate was associated with BMI reductions across all weight status groups during the first treatment year. The greatest reduction was seen in individuals with obesity. For those continuing treatment the second year, BMI remained stable.", "i"=>[{"__content__"=>"p"}, {"__content__"=>"p"}, {"__content__"=>"p"}, {"__content__"=>"p"}]}}

{"p"=>{"__content__"=>"Cognitive reserve (CR) modulates the impact of neural alterations on clinical outcomes, yet its association with brain structure during youth remains unexplored. We aimed to investigate the relationship between CR and brain structure in young offspring of patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, according to development of psychotic spectrum symptoms over time. 404 data acquisitions were analyzed from offspring of patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, 43 offspring who developed psychotic spectrum symptoms over time (SzBpO-P), 94 offspring who did not (SzBpO-NP), and 80 community controls (CcO), re-assessed over a 12-year period (101 SzBpO-P, 181 SzBpO-NP, 122 CcO). Global and lobar volume, cortical surface area and thickness metrics were obtained from T1-weighted sequences acquired on a 3 Tesla MRI scanner and computed using FreeSurfer version 7.1. CR was calculated using a composite score including an estimated intelligence quotient, sociability, parental socioeconomic status, school performance, and developmental milestones. Multilevel mixed-effect logistic regression (categorical variables) or linear regression (continuous variables) models were conducted. A significant group-by-CR interaction was found for total intracranial volume (F = 7.770;  < 0.001), whereby the CcO and SzBpO-NP groups showed a positive association between CR and total intracranial volume, while this association was negative for SzBpO-P. No significant effects were observed in other brain structural metrics when adjusting for total intracranial volume. CR was differentially associated with total intracranial volume according to development of psychotic spectrum symptoms. These results may help identify youth at highest risk for severe mental health outcomes.", "i"=>{"__content__"=>"p"}}}

["Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nContent‐based citation analysis seeks to capture the meaning and functions of citations but continues to face unresolved methodological challenges. This study analyzes a stratified sample of library and information science publications to examine how citance segmentation and annotator expertise influence the consistency of classification. Using two annotators with different professional backgrounds, the findings show that agreement is high when citances are defined identically, but reliability decreases sharply once text boundaries diverge. Citance length, rather than subject category or citation density, emerges as the strongest predictor of disagreement. These results identify segmentation as a methodological rather than a purely technical issue, shaping both human and automated tagging outcomes. By highlighting the interplay between expertise effects and boundary definitions, the study underscores the need for clearer operational frameworks in citation analysis. The contribution lies in demonstrating that methodological refinements in citance identification are essential for improving reproducibility, enhancing hybrid human–machine approaches, and strengthening the validity of citation‐based indicators in research evaluation.\n"]

["British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nUsing linked employer‐employee data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey, we examine how much of the variation in job quality is accounted for by establishment‐level variation and the relative importance of the establishment compared with occupation and employee characteristics. We do so for pay, six dimensions of non‐pay job quality and overall job quality. We show that the establishment is the dominant explanatory factor for non‐pay job quality and as important as occupation in accounting for pay. Where you work accounts for between 38% and 76% of the explained variance in job quality, depending on the dimension. We also find that establishments which are ‘good’ on one dimension of non‐pay job quality are ‘good’ on others. When we relate the estimated establishment effects (after allowing for the effects of occupation and of employee characteristics) to observed establishment characteristics, we find that non‐pay job quality is greater in small establishments.\n"]

["Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 62, Issue 3, Summer 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nEverett Shostrom's 1965 Three Approaches to Psychotherapy films were created and used as demonstrations of how to do psychotherapy. After a brief account of how they came about, precises of the three films are presented to highlight major differences among them. These are followed by descriptions of post‐filming reactions and interactions of the participants—Gloria Szymanski, Carl Rogers, Fritz Perls, and Albert Ellis. Consideration then is given to the possible impact of the “Gloria Films” on Americans' acceptance of psychotherapy as a pathway to self‐improvement that competed with more longstanding views of psychotherapy as applied to the alleviation of serious mental illness. It is also argued that more recently, the films have been used to demonstrate how not to do psychotherapy and to reveal how psychotherapy can exploit as well as help. This work is a close study of the films that attempts to explain their enduring relevance and impact, while also providing an example of how changing historical, biographical, and sociocultural contexts must be considered in any commendations or criticisms concerning applied psychological practices such as psychotherapy. Particular attention is paid to Gloria Szymanski as central to the films' enduring impact.\n"]

["Health Expectations, Volume 29, Issue 4, August 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\n\nBackground\nTelehealth can mitigate healthcare access barriers that contribute to persistent rural health inequities. However, a limited understanding of telehealth barriers and preferences hinders the implementation of effective programs in rural communities. We conducted a formative evaluation to identify barriers and facilitators to telehealth adoption in an underserved rural setting.\n\n\nMethods\nWe used a mixed‐methods design including surveys and in‐depth semi‐structured interviews with rural community stakeholders. The survey assessed telehealth utilisation, perceptions, technology access and barriers using Likert‐type scales. Survey data were analysed descriptively, and interview data were examined thematically across the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) constructs.\n\n\nFindings\nSurvey respondents (n = 59) were primarily female (73.2%), and White (73.2%), with a mean age of 61 years. Over half (51.8%) reported annual incomes below $20,000, and 18.6% lacked home internet access. While 59.3% had heard of telehealth, only 42.4% had used it. Among users, 61.9% reported satisfaction, and 71.4% agreed or strongly agreed that communication with providers was adequate. Key barriers included limited internet connectivity (72.8%), technology challenges (66.6%) and lack of knowledge about accessing telehealth (62.5%). Interview participants (n = 8) emphasised that trust and comfort with providers were central to acceptance and highlighted telehealth's convenience in reducing transportation barriers.\n\n\nConclusion\nIn this study population, telehealth was generally acceptable, with trust and comfort with the provider driving acceptance. Barriers were primarily related to connectivity, infrastructure and digital literacy. Consistent with larger studies, these findings support investments in broadband access, digital literacy, technical support and building patient confidence in virtual care.\n\n\nPatient or Public Contribution\nMembers of the public were involved in the design, recruitment and dissemination phases of this study. We partnered with local community organisations serving rural populations to inform recruitment strategies and to distribute surveys to community members with lived experience of healthcare access barriers. Community stakeholders also participated directly in the research through survey completion and in‐depth interviews, providing critical insights into telehealth use, barriers and preferences. While the public was not involved in the initial study design or data analysis, their perspectives shaped the interpretation of findings, particularly regarding trust, technology use and access challenges. To support dissemination and ensure accessibility of results, we developed a one‐page summary of findings that was shared with participating community partner sites for distribution back to the communities involved.\n"]

["Health Expectations, Volume 29, Issue 4, August 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\n\nBackground\nBuilding capacity through training and education is recommended to support meaningful engagement of patient partners in health research. The Patient and Community Engagement Research (PaCER) programme is a 12‐month initiative that enables patients and community members to co‐design and conduct qualitative health research projects. Learners are sponsored by clinician researchers, community organisations, and/or jurisdictional health organisations. This study aimed to assess the experiences and impact of the PaCER programme on: (1) past learners' personal development and engagement in health research; and (2) sponsors' research programmes.\n\n\nMethods\nWe conducted a qualitative impact evaluation involving past learners (alumni) and sponsors of the PaCER programme from 2019 to 2024. A purposive sampling strategy was used, whereby selected alumni and sponsors from the 2019–2024 cohorts were invited to participate in an online semi‐structured interview. Sponsors and alumni with diverse characteristics, including variation in age, ethnicity, educational attainment, and geographic location were invited. The interview guide included questions on the experiences in the PaCER programme, post‐programme research activities, and perceptions of the programme's impact. Data were analysed using a reflexive thematic analysis approach.\n\n\nResults\nEighteen participants (12 PaCER alumni and 6 sponsors) were interviewed, and four main themes were identified: (1) seeing the value of the training programme; (2) Diverse people and groups working together; (3) Learner readiness and capacity; (4) Academic opportunities for learners and career growth. Alumni described significant personal impact, empowerment, academic contributions, and increased access to meaningful patient partner opportunities. Alumni reported co‐authoring publications and presenting their work at academic conferences and to various stakeholders, including health system leadership. Many alumni had no prior experience with qualitative participatory research, and participation in the programme supported the development of these research skills. Sponsors also noted impacts on their research programmes, such as securing additional funding informed by PaCER project findings.\n\n\nConclusion\nThe findings demonstrate that structured, experiential training for patients and community members supports meaningful engagement in health research, contributes to sustained capacity development, and positively influences the patient‐oriented research landscape.\n\n\nPatient or Public Contribution\nPatient partners were involved in the design and conduct of the study (data collection), analysis and interpretation of the data, and in the preparation of this manuscript.\n"]

["Health Expectations, Volume 29, Issue 4, August 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\n\nBackground\nCo‐design has become a prominent approach in mental health research, policy and service development, aiming to centre lived experience within decision‐making processes. Despite its promise, co‐design practices often fall short, with reports of tokenism, constrained participation and limited influence. These limitations reflect deeper epistemic and relational inequities within mental health systems.\n\n\nDiscussion\nThis commentary argues that the challenges of co‐design can be understood through the lens of epistemic injustice, where certain forms of knowledge, particularly lived experience, are systematically devalued. Drawing on restorative justice principles, the paper proposes a relational and ethical reframing of participation. Restorative approaches—centred on truth‐telling, acknowledgement and repair—offer a means to address the relational harms and power imbalances that undermine meaningful participation. Building on this, the Cycle of Equitable Codesign is introduced as a staged framework comprising: (1) acknowledgement and truth‐telling, (2) restoration and relational repair and (3) co‐design and collective future‐making. The model emphasises the importance of timing, power and relational conditions in shaping equitable participation.\n\n\nConclusion\nRepositioning co‐design within a restorative framework highlights the need to move beyond procedural inclusion towards ethically grounded and relationally just practice. Addressing epistemic injustice is essential for co‐design to achieve its transformative potential in mental health systems.\n\n\nPatient and Public Contribution\nThis commentary is informed by existing literature on co‐design and lived experience participation in mental health. It centres and reflects on the reported experiences of people with lived experience of mental health challenges. Although no direct formal patient or public involvement was undertaken in the development of this paper, it was informed following extensive informal communication with those who have a lived experience of mental health challenges and codesign participation over the prior 18 months.\n"]

["Geographical Analysis, Volume 58, Issue 3, July 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nLabor market delineation typically relies on deterministic regionalization algorithms that treat commuting flows as fixed inputs and produce a single optimal partition. These approaches obscure uncertainty in boundary placement and cannot distinguish stable labor market cores from transitional regions where affiliation is ambiguous. We develop a Bayesian framework for quantifying uncertainty in labor market boundaries by integrating hierarchical Poisson spatial modeling of commuting flows with cohesion‐based regionalization. Commuting intensities are modeled using origin‐ and destination‐specific socioeconomic covariates, distance, and conditional autoregressive (CAR) priors for spatially structured random effects. Posterior predictive commuting matrices are propagated through the Adaptive Simulated Annealing algorithm for Autonomous Labor Market Delineation, generating a distribution of regionalizations rather than a single partition. We introduce three complementary uncertainty measures: edge‐level boundary probabilities, region‐level membership stability, and local boundary pressure. Applied to Queensland, Australia commuting data (520 regions), the framework identifies approximately 10% of regions exhibit transitional behavior, with instability concentrated in peri‐metropolitan growth corridors. Labor market boundaries emerge as probabilistic spatial equilibria characterized by stable cores and geographically localized transitional frontiers. The framework provides a rigorous basis for evaluating boundary robustness, directing expert review boundary delineation, and identifying areas of structural instability for regional policy and infrastructure planning.\n"]

["European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 3, September 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis longitudinal study examines 30 years in the lives of two segregated Roma communities in Hungary by tracing educational trajectories and adult life chances. It analyses acculturation processes, exploring how educational experiences intersect with bicultural home and community socialisation to shape the accumulation and transformation of forms of capital relevant to school continuity and attainment. Data were collected at four time points: at the beginning (1995) and end (2003) of primary schooling using adapted surveys, followed by biographical interviews with participants (2017) and interviews with local educational actors (2025). The findings illustrate the diversity of bicultural ecologies. Even geographically and socially closed bicultural communities can sustain educational development when inclusive institutional actors—particularly schools—cooperate with other services and mobilise community resources. In their absence, spirals of poverty and marginalisation are reinforced. Strong bicultural ecologies support individual and collective educational strategies that counter social exclusion and facilitate social mobility.\n"]

["European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 3, September 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nArtificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reconfiguring the epistemic and creative boundaries of the fine arts, challenging long‐standing distinctions between human authorship and machine‐generated expression. Across artistic domains including visual arts, music and literature, AI is increasingly embedded not only in creative production but also in analytical interpretation, curatorial practice and immersive audience engagement. This systematic review synthesises empirical research examining the role and impact of AI within the fine arts, with particular attention to its implications for creativity, perception and artistic practice. A structured search of three major bibliographic databases yielded 723 records. Following rigorous screening procedures based on predefined inclusion criteria, 44 empirical studies were retained for analysis. The findings shed light on the emergence of AI as a co‐creative agent, destabilising conventional notions of authorship, originality and aesthetic value, signalling a broader cultural shift in how art is conceptualised and experienced. At the same time, the review highlights critical limitations, including the concentration of research within highly visible publication channels and the rapid evolution of AI technologies, which necessitate ongoing critical reassessment. In conclusion, the integration of AI into the fine arts represents a paradigmatic transformation with far‐reaching implications for artistic practice, cultural production and the philosophy of creativity. Future research must move beyond technological capability toward more critically informed, culturally inclusive and theoretically grounded explorations of human–machine artistic collaboration.\n"]

["European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 3, September 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nNon‐cognitive skills are important for students' growth and future work and life. Using the 2018 PISA (B‐S‐Z‐J China) data, this study measured the non‐cognitive skills of upper‐secondary vocational school students relative to general high school students and studied the impact of family factors and school factors on the non‐cognitive skills of upper‐secondary vocational education students. The empirical results show that upper‐secondary vocational school students are not weaker than general high school students regarding conscientiousness, emotional stability or resilience. Parental emotional support, teachers' enthusiasm for teaching and school cooperation atmosphere have a positive impact on the non‐cognitive skills of upper‐secondary vocational education students. Building relational and emotional connections associated with people and soft resource inputs to enhance the non‐cognitive skills of upper‐secondary vocational education students should be the focus.\n"]

["The Manchester School, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis paper examines how cross‐ownership and strategic delegation interact with trade policy under policy commitment and non‐commitment regimes. We develop a Cournot export‐rivalry framework in which governments choose export subsidies or import tariffs, while firms strategically determine managerial incentive schemes. A higher degree of cross‐ownership generates opposing collusive and incentive effects, leading to non‐monotonic outcomes in output, profits, and welfare. Under export subsidies, strategic delegation intensifies competition and exacerbates the prisoner's dilemma. However, under non‐commitment, firms strategically distort incentive schemes to influence policy intervention, generating time‐consistency problems and non‐monotonic welfare effects. We further show that increasing cross‐ownership gradually mitigates policy distortions and, under a quadratic cost structure, may reverse the optimal policy from an export subsidy to an export tax. Overall, the results highlight that ownership structure, managerial incentives, and policy commitment jointly determine optimal trade policy and welfare outcomes.\n"]

["The Manchester School, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis paper examines how dynamic economic conditions shape internal migration flows across U.S. states in the post–Great Recession period. Using a dyadic panel of bilateral state‐to‐state migration flows from 2000 to 2018, we estimate gravity‐style models with dyad and year fixed effects, focusing on within‐pair variation in income growth and labor market conditions. This framework isolates how time‐varying economic shocks at origins and destinations influence migration responses, net of persistent spatial relationships. We find that origin economic dynamics are the most robust predictors of migration. Higher income growth at the origin is associated with increased bilateral flows, while higher origin unemployment reduces mobility. Destination income growth plays a more limited role overall but becomes a stronger and more precisely estimated pull factor in the post‐2010 period, indicating changes in migration responsiveness following the Great Recession. By contrast, environmental conditions and institutional quality exhibit weaker and less consistent effects once dynamic economic factors are accounted for. These results highlight the role of internal migration as a mechanism of regional adjustment to asymmetric economic shocks. More broadly, the findings underscore the importance of modeling migration as a dynamic, dyadic process driven by localized economic change rather than static regional characteristics.\n"]

["Kyklos, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nPrior research has found evidence for the bouba–kiki effect according to which individuals associate sounds related to “bouba” and “kiki” with shapes and feelings. Using individual data from the World Values Survey, we investigate whether political leaders with names that sound “bouba” or “kiki” are associated with higher or lower trust. We first test whether the phonetic profile of organizational names is associated with trust. We find that organizations with “bouba” names are perceived as more trustworthy, whereas no consistent pattern emerges for “kiki” names. Building on this result, we examine whether the same sound symbolism extends to leaders' names. We find that individuals are more likely to trust governments led by political leaders with “bouba” names. This extends research on sound symbolism into political economy, highlighting the association between phonetic impressions and perceptions of political leaders.\n"]

["Journal of Public Economic Theory, Volume 28, Issue 3, June 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis paper examines the total cost of public good provision when contributors face heterogeneous quadratic cost functions. We demonstrate that while the total cost of equal provision depends only on the arithmetic mean of marginal cost slopes, the total cost of cost‐effective provision depends on their harmonic mean. This relationship reveals that greater heterogeneity monotonically increases the cost savings from cost‐effective instead of equal provision. We propose a zero‐sum transfer system that implements cost‐effective levels while achieving equal cost sharing. Our framework offers a practical method to operationalize principles like Common but Differentiated Responsibilities (CBDR) in international environmental agreements, resolving the tension between cost‐effectiveness and equity concerns.\n"]

["The Economic History Review, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nUsing existing and new price data sets, we provide the first estimates of market integration across England over the entire 200 years of the industrial revolution. We document a significant, though not huge, integration improvement for markets furthest from London. Full integration was achieved by the 1830s. Our price data sets vary in quality (type of average, price rounding, frequency of stale prices). We show that this severely biases some standard statistical tests of market integration, and we develop and implement new techniques to ensure valid inference. We discuss the application of these techniques to other historical data sets.\n"]

["Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nWe examined the hidden wage differences between gaming, a dominant sector of the small open economy, Macao, and non‐gaming. The findings reveal significant and persistent wage gaps between the gaming industry and other sectors of the economy, even after accounting for labour‐market differences. Croupiers earned the highest wage premium among occupations. This is consistent with rent sharing and labour supply restrictions. Casino concessionaires are well‐capitalized and licensed, possessing strong market power that generates substantial profits. They share these profits with their employees through higher salaries, a practice endorsed by both the local government and the public. Additionally, croupier positions are limited to residents, allowing them to enjoy the largest wage premia among professions. The wage premia for gaming workers may have decreased as a result of casino businesses' operating surpluses declining sharply during COVID‐19.\n"]

["Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nGovernment orchestration describes regulatory settings in which governments delegate some governance functions to private actors; for instance, business conduct is monitored by stakeholders under CSR disclosure regulation. This article examines the impact of this type of regulation on stakeholder monitoring, which is a core yet little‐examined governance function. We analyse the effects of the European Union's Non‐Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) on stakeholder accusations and on the relationship between CSR and accusations across firms in 28 OECD countries (2007–2018) using a difference‐in‐differences design. The analysis shows that government orchestration significantly increases the number of stakeholder accusations by inducing a transparency dynamic. It also demonstrates a fundamental shift in how reported CSR relates to stakeholder accusations. In the past, companies were able to protect themselves from accusations by publicly reporting their CSR efforts. More recently, two patterns have emerged: where no disclosure regulation exists, CSR no longer buffers firms against accusations; under regulation, it produces a ‘backfire effect’ whereby CSR increases accusations. These findings advance research on the government–CSR nexus and social evaluations and offer a contextual explanation for previously inconsistent results on the link between CSR and stakeholder accusations.\n"]

["International Journal of Consumer Studies, Volume 50, Issue 4, July 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nInnovation plays a significant role in improving economic and societal outcomes. However, its benefits are often undermined by a failure to adequately consider evolving consumer needs and the multifaceted nature of consumer vulnerability, raising ethical concerns. While product innovation generally targets consumer interests, service providers, including those in essential sectors such as finance, often rely on standardised consumer profiles that overlook the complexities of consumers' lived circumstances. Addressing this gap requires a deeper understanding of how financial product innovation engages with consumer vulnerability and the conditions under which it may lead to harmful outcomes. To explore this, we conduct a systematic literature review (SLR) examining how product innovation is discussed in relation to ethics and consumer vulnerability in the financial sector. Adopting the ethics of care framework as an analytical lens, we examine the intersection of ethics and consumer vulnerability in financial product innovation. Our findings suggest that institutions adopt various approaches to ethical (financial) product innovation, with varying degrees of attentiveness to consumer needs and vulnerability, responsibility, inclusivity, partnership and collaboration. By applying the ethics of care lens, this SLR contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between (financial) product innovation and consumer vulnerability, highlighting tensions and gaps in how innovation processes address consumer needs and identifying directions for future research.\n"]

["Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis research develops an integrated mixed‐integer linear programming (MILP) model for closed‐loop supply chain network design that optimises competing economic and environmental objectives including profit maximisation, supplier quality improvement and CO2 emission reduction. The primary aim of this study is to identify which solution techniques perform best when dealing with different sizes of problems. The multi‐objective particle swarm optimisation (MOPSO) method demonstrated superior performance over NSGA‐II by achieving 35%–45% faster convergence rates and delivering 20%–30% better solution quality. The epsilon‐constraint approach with CPLEX showed better performance for solving smaller problems. The analysis revealed that return rates, together with material recovery expenses, function as essential elements which determine the profitability of the disassembly process. The research proves that multi‐objective optimisation methods work efficiently with real supply chain sizes. These findings support the development of decision support systems for sustainable operations management.\n"]

["Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nCircular business strategy (CBS) is increasingly adopted in the fashion industry to move beyond “take–make–dispose,” but performance measurement remains uneven and is often reported as separate metric sets. This study develops a data‐driven guide for evaluating CBS performance in the fashion industry. Content and cluster analyses were conducted to identify candidate indicators, which were organized into seven CBS attributes aligned with three circular principles. A fuzzy Delphi panel validated 28 CBS performance indicators (CBSPIs), and fuzzy DEMATEL was used to map perceived cause–effect relationships across attributes and indicators. Business modeling, strategic internal processes, waste management, and business scalability act as driver attributes, whereas cost management, regenerative performance, and regenerative governance serve as outcomes. Six indicators emerge as key levers for action sequencing: Industry 4.0 implementation, business model redesign, carbon dioxide reduction, circular differentiation, resource recovery facilities, and modular product design. These findings contribute to CBS research by validating an indicator system and ordering CBS attributes and indicators into a causal structure that distinguishes upstream drivers from downstream outcomes. The resulting CBSPIs support prioritization and monitoring during the implementation of circular strategies.\n"]

["Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nOrganisations play a key role in addressing climate change and biodiversity loss, which are closely connected. Biodiversity footprinting has initially suggested that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions may contribute to a large proportion of many organisations' biodiversity impacts. If true, mitigating GHG emissions could help organisations to tackle their climate and biodiversity liabilities in tandem. Consequently, there is a need for greater understanding of (i) how much GHG emissions contribute to biodiversity footprints across economic sectors and (ii) how reliable current footprinting methods are at estimating the impact of GHG emissions. On average, our results estimate that GHG emissions contribute to 47% of an economic sector's total biodiversity footprint. This proportion is much higher than studies into observed biodiversity loss from climate change, which may be due to the methodological limitations of footprinting approaches. Overall, we find that biodiversity footprinting provides a useful but imperfect tool to interrogate the connections between climate change and biodiversity loss in organisations.\n"]

["Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nClimate change anxiety is increasingly shaping consumer behavior, yet its role in luxury consumption remains underexplored. This study investigates how climate action perception (climate change anxiety) affects sustainable luxury consumer experiences, focusing on the moderating role of digital environmental concern and the mediating role of consumer‐centric green supply chain management (GSCM). Survey data from 865 respondents were analyzed within the framework of the Theory of Planned Behavior, Stakeholder Theory, and Ecological Modernization Theory. Results show that climate change anxiety significantly influences sustainable luxury experiences. GSCM mediates this relationship, transforming eco‐anxiety into increased consumer trust and satisfaction. Digital environmental concern negatively moderates the relationship between climate change anxiety and GSCM, indicating that higher digital concern weakens the effect of anxiety on demand for supply chain transparency. For luxury managers, this means designing transparent, ethical supply chains while also directly engaging emotionally with climate‐anxious consumers, especially those with high digital environmental concern.\n"]

["Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis article introduces the hybrid sustainability dilemma theory (HSDT), a multilevel microfoundational framework that explains why organisations frequently adopt noncooperative strategies in sustainability contexts, even when collective outcomes would be superior. Drawing on game theory, behavioural strategy and organisational paradox research, HSDT conceptualises sustainability decisions as repeated cooperation dilemmas shaped by hybrid trade‐off intensity (HTI): the structural tension arising from competing economic, social and environmental objectives assessed through incompatible metrics and divergent temporal horizons. The theory proposes that HTI increases the likelihood of defection through cognitive microfoundations including temporal discounting, loss aversion and competitive framing. Integrative sustainable intelligence (ISI) moderates this relationship, attenuating the negative effect of trade‐off intensity on cooperation when distributed across organisational units and supported by collaborative governance. Strategic cooperation, in turn, mediates the pathway from ISI to organisational resilience, while organisational interdependence and institutional complexity function as amplifying boundary conditions. Four theoretical propositions formalise these relationships, specifying directionality, contingent conditions and nonlinear effects. The framework operates across three analytical levels: individual cognition, organisational coordination and institutional context and offers a simplified empirical model testable through multilevel structural equation modeling. For managers, HSDT provides a diagnostic lens for identifying the structural and cognitive conditions that generate cooperation failures and for designing incentive systems that support sustainable collective action.\n"]

["Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis study investigates the influence of green servant leadership (GSL) on green service innovation (GSI) in Ghana's hospitality sector, focusing on the mediating role of psychological empowerment (PE) and the moderating role of employee green creativity (EGC). Drawing on social cognitive theory and data from a time‐lagged survey of 173 supervisor–employee dyads from three‐star and above hotels, the structural equation modelling (SEM) was employed to test the hypothesised relationships. The results demonstrate that GSL positively influences both PE and GSI. PE partially mediates the relationship between GSL and GSI, indicating that empowered employees are more likely to implement innovative green services. EGC was also identified as a significant moderator in the PE–GSI relationship, suggesting that empowered employees with higher creativity levels can achieve greater innovation. The study provides actionable insights for hotel managers and policymakers, highlighting the importance of adopting servant leadership practices that empower employees and encourage creativity to drive sustainable service innovation. This research advances knowledge on sustainable leadership in hospitality by integrating GSL, PE and EGC into one framework. It underscores psychological empowerment as a vital motivational factor and green creativity as essential for fostering innovation in the hospitality industry. These findings enhance the understanding of leadership and sustainability by underscoring psychological empowerment as a vital motivational factor and green creativity as essential for fostering innovation in the hospitality industry.\n"]

["Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nIn a macroeconomic environment characterised by systemic disruptions and global uncertainty, companies are forced to reconfigure their sustainability strategies. This study examines the combined impact of geopolitical and climate risks on corporate commitment to and actual progress toward the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through a comprehensive analysis of 5537 companies in 48 countries between 2017 and 2023, we document a consistent and positive relationship. Our findings emphasise the relevance of geopolitical and climate risks, such as macro‐level shocks, that have a strong effect on corporate policies to address the major challenges facing our society. Furthermore, our theoretical contribution unravels the internal governance mechanisms that moderate this response, demonstrating that CEO power intensifies the strategic reaction to geopolitical instability, while exerting a substitutive effect in the face of climate risk, revealing how leadership structures manage resource tensions between crises of different natures. The findings are robust across various methodological specifications and reveal that companies that have signed the UN Global Compact demonstrate superior progress. From a practical standpoint, our findings provide managers and investors with analytical guidance to anticipate operational disruptions, diversify resources and justify sustainability investments not only as a moral imperative but also as a key tool for corporate survival in the face of fragmented global markets.\n"]

["Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThe growth‐driven economic paradigm is increasingly criticized for its ecological and social unsustainability, yet organizations remain embedded in systems that structurally depend on growth. This creates a persistent tension between growth dependencies and sustainability aspirations. This study examines how organizations can navigate this tension by identifying the conditions that enable growth moderation while sustaining the provision of goods and services. We conduct a systematic literature review combining keyword searches and snowballing and integrate a descriptive mapping of the field with an inductive content analysis. The mapping reveals a recent, heterogeneous, and critically oriented literature, marked by blind spots in managerial, policy, and institutional perspectives. The inductive analysis identifies and structures 28 enabling conditions across paradigmatic, sectoral, organizational, and actor levels. Building on these findings, we develop a four‐part research agenda that calls for systemic regime‐level analysis, configurational and cross‐level studies, explicit engagement with tensions and trade‐offs, and broader empirical investigation. The study provides a structured foundation for advancing research on organizational growth moderation beyond growth‐dependent models.\n"]

["Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThe supply chain is becoming less efficient because of various uncertainties. Because the majority of earlier studies have examined only individual uncertainty, determining the overall impact is challenging; earlier research did not examine how different uncertainties interact and share information. Therefore, in this paper, an analytical framework that integrates multiple dimensions of uncertainty is constructed, and the following hypothesis is proposed: Uncertainty negatively affects supply chain efficiency (SCE), and there is a synergistic inhibitory effect. Moreover, this effect is heterogeneous across different SCE quantiles. Methodologically, the joint impulse response function (jIRF), joint quantile impulse response function (jQIRF), and joint quantile forecast error variance decomposition (jQFEVD) were employed to effectively handle information overlap and capture asymmetric and time‐varying characteristics. The empirical results reveal that the individual and combined effects of these four types of uncertainties on SCE are significantly negative, and that the synergistic effect strengthens the inhibitory effect. The actual combined effect is indeed lower than the simple summation. In addition, the negative impact is significantly amplified at high quantile states, and the explanatory power of uncertainties on SCE shows a U‐shaped distribution.\n"]

["International Finance, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nTo examine if one machine‐learning model can consistently elucidate financial vulnerabilities, both over time and across levels of development, this paper applies 13 machine‐learning algorithms to evaluate comparative forecasting performance across several banking crises. The study concurrently contributes to the literature on early warning signals, in general, and modelling frameworks, in particular. Four decades of banking crises are appraised through a vector of 12 leading indicators encompassing real, banking and external sectors, and accounting for a representative sample of 19 emerging markets and developed economies. Through quarterly time series supporting expedient policy responses, findings suggest that bank deposits, capital output ratio, exchange rates, gross domestic product, consumption expenditure, and interest rates represent the most prominent leading indicators. Evaluated by applying root mean squared error, mean absolute error, and receiver operating characteristics with area under curve estimates, random forests exhibit highest predictive strength in minimising the prediction error across a panel format, individual country format and out‐of‐time format, and outperform all models in recursively predicting banking crises out‐of‐sample and out‐of‐time. On aggregate, one algorithm consistently fits most crises, which is advantageous for a global policymaker, however results from the individual country dimension highlight a more nuanced approach to algorithmic selection.\n"]

["American Ethnologist, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nIn China, it has long been difficult for the elderly generation to talk openly about sex. In the context of late‐life HIV diagnosis and treatment, this difficulty is compounded by clinical and familial practices that seek to manage the stigma of sex through avoidance. In our multisited ethnographic fieldwork in the southern region of Guangxi, we found that clinicians followed scripts in which they asked older patients about their sexual history just once and then allowed the subject to drop. Within families, HIV was translated into illness and respectability, and in community talk, condoms were conceptualized only as contraception for the young, not as a measure to prevent infection. We term this pattern sexual invisibility: for those 70 and older, sex is not absent, but it is difficult to sustain as a topic of care, negotiation, and prevention. Late‐life intimacy persists through ordinary arrangements, yet prevention talk is delayed, softened, or displaced.\n"]

["Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 4, August 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nHostage diplomacy—detaining foreign nationals for leverage under the pretext of national law—is a growing international security problem. Beyond constituting a violation of international law, hostage diplomacy is challenging to resolve. Target states must deal with aggressive, sovereign perpetrators; handle a fraudulent but plausible legal process; account for numerous stakeholders; and protect their citizens from future harm. How do target‐state negotiators navigate these challenges? This theory‐building article explores perspective‐taking—imagining the world from another's vantage point—as a tool to shape target‐state negotiators' effectiveness in navigating hostage diplomacy. We introduce a model that conceptualizes perspective‐taking on two dimensions. First, negotiators can use multiple‐perspective taking, considering various stakeholders, including interests within their own government, the perpetrator's government, and the hostage's family. Second, across stakeholders, negotiators can take strategic, cultural, emotional, and moral perspectives. We posit that engaging in different forms of perspective‐taking improves target‐state negotiators' ability to identify a domestic win‐set, reach international agreement, and anticipate future crises. Drawing on insights from members of the U.S. hostage‐recovery enterprise, we offer a plausibility probe suggesting that perspective‐taking affects the process and outcomes of negotiations. Perspective‐taking may thus help negotiators better manage power dynamics, navigate informal rules of engagement, alleviate uncertainty, and bolster global security.\n"]

["Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 3, September 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis article examines the transmission of historical narratives from a psychosocial perspective, highlighting the central role of collective memory in the construction of social reality. Here, memory is conceptualised as a dynamic process, simultaneously structured by stable elements that ensure identity cohesion as well as reshaped by current social and political contexts. Within this dialectic between continuity and transformation, collective memory—in its completeness and its gaps—emerges as a key object of study for understanding the relationship between history, social representations and memory itself. The rise of nationalism and populism in the 21st century relies on the politicisation of memory, which is increasingly used as a tool of legitimation and narrative reconfiguration. The current ‘post‐truth’ era amplifies this phenomenon by replacing historical facts with subjective and often emotional interpretations that reshape national narratives. The opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games serves as an illustrative case: while reaffirming a consensual national narrative, it also included new, less consensual figures, such as the French‐Malian singer Aya Nakamura, exposing tensions between national identity and diversity. Collective memory thus appears as a crucial field of enquiry for understanding contemporary social transformations, with the contributions of Halbwachs, Bartlett and Moscovici providing a fertile theoretical framework for analysing these dynamics.\n"]

["Psycho-Oncology, Volume 35, Issue 7, July 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\n\nBackground\nSleep problems affect 30%–95% of cancer patients. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia is recognized as the most effective treatment for insomnia. However, implementing it is challenging due to a lack of time, human resources, and financial support. Internet‐Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (ICBT‐I) is appreciated by patients, but it lacks professional guidance.\n\n\nAims\nThe Sleep‐4‐All‐2.0 study combined a validated ICBT‐I program, lasting 6–12 weeks, with up to four individual, phone‐based ICBT‐I psychology sessions. The current study sought to explore patients' experiences of the program, focusing on their perceptions of the professional guidance.\n\n\nMethods\nCancer patients from three different hospitals were interviewed. Out of their discourse, a thematic analysis was conducted.\n\n\nResults\n48 patients were included. Three themes were constructed: (1) Coping with the program, (2) Connections at play (professionals, family, patients, sleep interactions), (3) Benefits and limits of psychological guidance. Although most participants were delighted with the program and the guidance, they encountered numerous difficulties due to personal and external issues, as well as the demands of CBT. Participants highlighted the need to be connected to other patients, supported by their families, and to receive well‐informed care from healthcare professionals (HCP). The phone guidance was important for pragmatic and motivational reasons.\n\n\nConclusion\nIn order to improve program follow‐up, clinicians should work beforehand to adjust expectations and take into account the specific vulnerabilities of certain patients.\n\n"]

["Psycho-Oncology, Volume 35, Issue 7, July 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\n\nObjective\nCancer survivors, defined as those living with or beyond a cancer diagnosis, experience more than double the prevalence of psychopathology when compared to the general population. Categorical diagnostic systems, such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), remain dominant in psycho‐oncology despite concerns about reliability, validity, and clinical utility for this population. Dimensional frameworks, such as the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP), offer a more precise alternative; however, they have not yet been widely applied in cancer survivors. Accordingly, the objective of this research was to examine the applicability of HiTOP to cancer survivors.\n\n\nMethods\nData from 1389 participants in 28 countries (n = 728 cancer survivors; n = 661 community/psychiatric) were collected using the 405‐item HiTOP‐SR, alongside demographic, clinical, and cancer‐specific measures. The HiTOP‐SR normative sample (n = 780) was also used. Analyses included parametric, non‐parametric, and factor analytic approaches.\n\n\nResults\nAll HiTOP‐SR scales demonstrated strong homogeneity and reliability in cancer survivors. Cancer survivors showed significant elevations across Internalising and Somatoform spectra, with current cancer associated with additional elevations in domains of Thought Disorder and components of Disinhibited and Antagonistic psychopathology. An 11‐factor model was developed and supported for both cancer and community/psychiatric samples, though the magnitudes of the factor loadings sometimes varied between samples. External validity was strong with theoretically aligned associations.\n\n\nConclusion\nThe HiTOP‐SR appears reliable within cancer survivors and provides utility in quantifying a broad array of psychopathology experienced. The results highlight the potential applicability and utility of HiTOP to improve cancer research and clinical practice in psycho‐oncology.\n\n"]

["Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 54, Issue 5, July 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThe Russian invasion of Ukraine transitioned from an “existential war” into a “war of attrition.” The study assessed the impact of prolonged conflict on resilience and coping mechanisms through two cross‐sectional assessments conducted with independent samples (Sample 1 – July 2022 [N = 1001]; Sample 2 – November 2023 [N = 2247]). The respondents completed a quantitative questionnaire during the war, which included individual, community, and societal resilience, hope, sense of danger, perceived threats, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A significant decrease in all variables was found between Sample 1 and Sample 2 measurements. Path analysis indicated that government support is the variable most strongly related to societal resilience. Community resilience is the variable most strongly related to individual resilience. Perceived threats are the variable most strongly associated with PTSD symptoms. The above‐mentioned variables explain 68% (Sample 1) and 60% (Sample 2) of societal resilience, 19% (Sample 1 and Sample 2) of individual resilience, and 58% (Sample 1) and 12% (Sample 2) of PTSD symptoms. Findings suggest the “routinization” of an ongoing emergency, allowing the population to coexist with the adversity and accept war as the “new normalcy.” Nonetheless, the future remains uncertain, leading to a decline in hope. Strategies that bolster individual and societal resilience during adversities should include social support mechanisms that enhance the population's hope and morale and build the government's trust and support."]

["Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 54, Issue 5, July 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nWhile substantial efforts have been made to learn more about youth community violence exposure (CVE) and its wide‐ranging impact, less is known about the effects of different types of CVE on mental health outcomes, particularly internalizing behavior, across contextual factors. The current study examines types of CVE (i.e., hearing/learning about, witnessing, and victimization) across gender, age, socioeconomic status (SES), and racial and ethnic group (White, African American/Black, and Latinx) in a diverse sample of youth seeking treatment at a university‐based pediatric anxiety clinic. Older age (adolescence), male gender, and lower SES were associated with increased rates of CVE. Victimization was positively and significantly correlated with hearing reports of violence against familiars but negatively associated with hearing reports of violence against strangers, suggesting that youth who are victimized often have family or close friends who are also victims of violence, and those who hear about violence against strangers may be safe from victimization in some regards. Results from this study suggest that Black youth, in comparison to White youth, may experience more internalizing symptoms as the result of indirect CVE. For those who witnessed violence against people they know, Latinx youth reported lower levels of anxiety compared to both Black and White youth. In light of these results, potential risk and protective factors associated with CVE and presenting symptoms are discussed.\n"]

["Autism Research, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nAutistic youth exhibit wide variability in emotional and behavioral challenges, yet few studies have identified meaningful subgroups based on these profiles. This study applied a random forests ensemble clustering algorithm to item‐level parent‐report data from the Emotion Dysregulation Inventory (EDI) and the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) in a combined sample of 1311 autistic youth (ages 6–17), drawn from the Autism Inpatient Collection (n = 446) and the Interactive Autism Network (n = 865). Four distinct subgroups emerged: Global High (GH; 22%), characterized by elevated scores across all four subscales (EDI‐Reactivity, EDI‐Dysphoria, CBCL Internalizing, and CBCL Externalizing); High‐Reactivity Dominant (H‐RD; 41%), marked primarily by high emotional reactivity; Moderate‐Internalizing Dominant (M‐ID; 18%), with elevated internalizing scores; and Global Low (GL; 19%), showing uniformly low scores. Feature importance analyses identified EDI‐Reactivity and CBCL Aggression items as the strongest drivers of subgroup membership. No significant differences were found across subgroups in age, sex, race, or ethnicity. However, subgroups with greater emotional and behavioral challenges were associated with lower household income, single‐parent status, and higher rates of family psychiatric history. These findings suggest that emotional reactivity and aggression severity are key differentiating features among autistic youth, and that sociodemographic and family mental health factors meaningfully shape emotional and behavioral outcomes.\n"]

["Autism Research, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nInternalizing and externalizing problems are highly prevalent among children and adolescents, with higher rates observed particularly among those with neurodevelopmental disorders. Previous studies have identified deficits in social competence and executive functioning (EF) as predictive factors of internalizing and externalizing problems, and some studies have indicated that EF mediates this association in autistic individuals. However, the role of EF and social competence across autistic and typically developing (TD) individuals remains underexplored in relation to internalizing and externalizing behaviors. We address this gap by using two moderated mediation analyses assessing the mediating effects of EF in the association between social skills and internalizing and externalizing problems. Poor metacognitive functioning was found to mediate the relationship between social skill deficits and internalizing problems only among autistic children and adolescents, whereas behavior dysregulation mediated the relationship between poor social skills and externalizing problems among both autistic and TD children and adolescents. These mediating effects of EF, however, were not moderated across the two diagnostic groups. These findings highlight the role of different domains of EF, that is, metacognitive functioning and behavior dysregulation in internalizing and externalizing problems, which can help identify early EF‐related vulnerabilities and inform EF‐based interventions for psychological problems among autistic and TD children and adolescents.\n"]

["European Eating Disorders Review, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\n\nObjective\nThis feasibility randomised controlled trial (RCT) evaluated Purrble, a socially assistive robot for emotion regulation, as a low‐intensity adjunct during waitlist periods in adult eating disorder services.\n\n\nMethod\nAdults waiting for outpatient eating disorder treatment were randomised to four weeks of Purrble use or waitlist‐as‐usual. The primary outcome was emotion regulation, assessed with the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale; secondary outcomes included sensory sensitivity, anxiety, depression, and motivation for change. Analyses were conducted using paired t‐tests and linear mixed‐effects models. Acceptability was explored via a qualitative survey.\n\n\nResults\n39 participants were enrolled in the trial and 37 participants were retained (19 Purrble, 18 control). A significant group × time interaction emerged for depression, with greater reductions in symptoms among Purrble participants. No significant interactions were found for emotion regulation, sensory sensitivity, motivation, or anxiety, though the Purrble group showed small‐to‐moderate improvements in emotion regulation, sensory sensitivity, and anxiety, and a significant within‐group increase in motivation. Qualitative findings identified four categories: situational use during distress, sensory comfort and emotional connection, design limitations/barriers, and continued use with integration into self‐care.\n\n\nConclusions\nPurrble proved acceptable and feasible as a waitlist adjunct in adult eating disorder outpatient services. A significant between‐group effect on depression and a within‐group improvement in motivation provide preliminary support for a fully powered trial.\n\n"]

["Clinical Psychology &Psychotherapy, Volume 33, Issue 4, July/August 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis study analyses gender‐based violence in women over 50, focusing on its psychological repercussions and suicide risk. Based on the invisibility of this population in public and scientific discourse, the research examined abusive dynamics in intimate relationships and their consequences for victims' mental, social and emotional health. A cross‐sectional quantitative study was conducted with 120 Portuguese women with a history of domestic violence. Four validated instruments were applied: the Questionnaire of Emotional Response to Domestic and Sexual Violence, the Domestic Violence Scale, the Plutchik Suicide Risk Scale and the Scale of Beliefs about Conjugal Violence. Results showed psychological, gender and social violence as the most prevalent forms, whereas sexual violence was least identified. Participants presented medium‐high levels of emotional symptomatology, particularly irritable mood, depressive symptoms and social maladjustment. Significant associations emerged between suicide risk and emotional variables such as anxiety and irritability. Legitimization of violence, especially linked to family preservation or external causes, was also associated with suicide risk. Findings highlight the urgent need for public policies and tailored interventions to mitigate long‐term consequences of violence and promote older women's well‐being.\n"]

["Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThe aim of this paper is to understand the mechanism behind potential employees' preferences towards specific employer brand attributes. Drawing on qualitative data and regulatory focus theory, the paper presents a framework which shows that the dominant regulatory orientation of potential employees determines their preference towards specific employer brand attributes and that such preferences might change due to shifts in their dominant regulatory orientation (i.e. level of education, career and life stage might determine such shifts). Potential candidates with a dominant job security orientation place particular emphasis on job security and therefore prefer stable employers with a working environment that is caring, friendly and collaborative, and where working relationships are characterized by fairness, honesty and transparency. Potential candidates with a dominant professional growth orientation place particular emphasis on professional achievement and, to achieve such a goal, they look for successful employers who aim to grow in the market, and which provide opportunities for promotion and professional growth in a results‐oriented working environment. Our findings contribute to the employer brand attractiveness literature and regulatory focus theory by showing how regulatory fit and goal congruence between potential employees and employers can be achieved at the recruitment stage.\n"]

["Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThe increasing adoption of virtual idols in entertainment platforms raises critical questions about how viewers respond to their emotional performances compared to human idols. Despite their growing presence, little is known about whether and how emotional expressivity differs across performer modalities and content formats, or how these differences influence viewer engagement. This research investigates how emotional expressions by virtual and human idols shape engagement across competence‐ and warmth‐oriented content formats. Drawing on a dataset of 16,583 YouTube videos, we apply multimodal deep‐learning models to extract facial and vocal emotional cues and link them with behavioral engagement metrics. We find that virtual idols express a broader latitude of negative emotions, and their engagement follows a U‐shaped relationship, where high emotional extremity increases engagement. Conversely, human idols generate greater engagement through contextual alignment: competence‐oriented formats benefit from positive valence, while excessive positivity in warmth‐related formats lowers engagement. This study contributes to emerging research on AI‐mediated performance and emotional analytics by identifying how the ontological form of the performer interacts with content format to shape viewer responses. These findings offer actionable insights for entertainment practitioners navigating emotional design in AI‐integrated entertainment.\n"]

American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Ahead of Print.

American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Ahead of Print.

American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology, Ahead of Print.

American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology, Ahead of Print.