Frontiers in Psychology
May 29, 2026
Gianluca Castelnuovo
The main goal of this grand challenge article is to look at current issues, opportunities, and trends about clinical psychology and psychotherapy fields, that include a wide range of topics related to counseling, rehabilitation psychology, neuropsychology, and all types of psychological interventions in both traditional clinical settings (like hospitals, clinics, services, laboratories, etc.)...
Frontiers in Psychology
May 28, 2026
Lidia Venero-Hidalgo, Francisca Carvajal, Fernando Rodrı́guez de Fonseca et al.
Introduction: Cannabis use during adolescence and young adulthood has been associated with neurocognitive alterations. However, limited attention has been paid to whether these findings vary according to developmental stage and regional context. This systematic review examined the neurocognitive effects of cannabis use in adolescents and young adults, with particular attention to age-related...
Frontiers in Psychology
May 20, 2026
Keisuke Suzuki
Altered states of consciousness, including hallucinations, psychedelic experiences, and ego dissolution, differ qualitatively, yet no unified computational framework describes what varies and along which dimensions. Computational phenomenology (CP) has emerged as a promising bridge between first-person experience and computational models, yet current formalisations rely predominantly on the...
Frontiers in Psychology
May 19, 2026
Cora Zeng
This paper introduces Dialogical Inner Voice Personification (DIVP): a formless, persistent inner dialogue partner that emerges spontaneously in childhood, operates through linguistic turn-taking, and is experienced as part of the self. Drawing on eight autoethnographic interview sessions conducted with an AI research assistant and corroborated by parental accounts, the author - a 14-year-old...
Frontiers in Psychology
May 15, 2026
Hiroko Tanabe, Minami Nakajima, Mai Shiratori et al.
IntroductionGroove—the pleasurable urge to move to music—is commonly theorized to arise from embodied engagement with rhythmic structure, particularly through entrained bodily movement. However, it remains unclear how different movement contexts shape the relationship between groove experience and auditory–motor synchronization, and whether stronger synchronization uniformly enhances groove....
Frontiers in Psychology
May 12, 2026
Xi Zhang, Hongyan Wang, Xiaohui Wang et al.
Objective To evaluate the efficacy of MBI on depression among family caregivers of dementia patients, and to analyze the impact of intervention duration, follow-up period, and intervention methods on treatment outcomes. Methods Search Embase, The Cochrane Library, CINAHL, PubMed, SinoMed, CNKI, Wanfang, and VIP databases for randomized controlled trials on MBI for depression in family...
Frontiers in Psychology
May 1, 2026
Yu-ting Luo, Yulian Li, Quan-Ming Wu et al.
Background The prevalence of short video addiction is rising among college students, potentially exerting detrimental effects on their physical and mental wellbeing. Medical students, who experience relatively higher levels of academic stress, may be particularly susceptible to the adverse consequence of short video addiction. However, the specific factors influencing this addiction and the...
Frontiers in Psychology
April 28, 2026
Gilles Ambresin, Tamara Fischmann, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber
Chronic depression associated with early trauma remains one of the most treatment-resistant conditions in mental healthcare. Clinical and empirical findings have increasingly suggested that patients with histories of early trauma may benefit differentially from intensive psychoanalytic treatments compared to symptom-focused or short-term psychotherapies. Our conceptual article aims to elucidate...
Frontiers in Psychology
April 24, 2026
Daliang Zhao
Purpose: This study proposes a process-based, closed-loop model of mindfulness-based psychological regulation to address the lack of real-time mechanism accounts in competitive sport. The model aims to explain how athletes maintain functional operation and attentional stability under continuous performance pressure. Methods: Drawing on converging evidence from sport psychology, cognitive...
Frontiers in Psychology
April 15, 2026
Haixia Sun, Ziqing Xu, Huilin Wang
Introduction Music performance anxiety is prevalent among professional musicians and can undermine both wellbeing and performance. Musicians navigating the transition from advanced training to professional careers may be particularly vulnerable due to sustained evaluative exposure and career uncertainty. This study examines whether dispositional mindfulness is associated with music performance...
Frontiers in Psychology
April 13, 2026
Danqing Yin, Fang Xu
Historically, before the origination of modern psychotherapy, those in distress turn to temples and Daoist sanctuaries to seek relief from their worries and perplexities. Monks and priests, through their teachings and guidance, often fulfilled the role that today we would recognize as akin to a counselor or psychotherapist.As one of the world's four ancient civilizations, China has cultivated a...
Frontiers in Psychology
April 10, 2026
Natalie R. Beylin, Matthew J. Zawadzki
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are widely used to promote psychological and physical health, yet their efficacy among individuals with histories of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) has been mixed. While most conceptualizations attribute the cultivation of nonjudgmental awareness as a primary mechanism of MBI-related benefits, individuals with stress-regulatory systems that were...
Frontiers in Psychology
April 8, 2026
Ahmet Sapanci, Hamdi Korkman, Mark D Griffiths
Test anxiety is a prevalent problem among adolescents and is closely associated with cognitive and emotional responses to uncertainty. Although intolerance of uncertainty and mindfulness have each been linked to anxiety, their joint role within a unified explanatory model remains insufficiently explored. The present study examined whether mindfulness mediates the relationship between...
Frontiers in Psychology
March 27, 2026
Jifeng Dong, Qiuxian Ye, Taiping Li et al.
Background The mental health problem of college students has become an increasingly prominent public health problem. Mindfulness exercise (ME) is considered to be a promising way to improve psychological well-being. However, the underlying mechanisms by which mindfulness exercise affects mental health (MH) remain poorly understood. Based on the theory of self-regulation, this research explores...
Frontiers in Psychology
March 25, 2026
Amira Arora
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The so-called "hard problem of consciousness," famously articulated by philosopher David Chalmers (1995), asks why and how physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective experience. Why does neural activity in the visual cortex generate the qualia of red, or neurochemical shifts involving oxytocin result in the felt sense of love? Despite significant advances in cognitive neuroscience,...
Frontiers in Psychology
March 19, 2026
Richard W. Maxwell
Meditation research has focused primarily on secular forms of mindfulness meditation rather than spiritual forms of meditation, and rarely on devotion in meditation. This study sought to gain broader understanding of the psychological characteristics (mindfulness, mysticism, self-actualization, positive affect and negative affect) and practice characteristics (minutes per day and years of...
Frontiers in Psychology
March 17, 2026
Mehmet Bilgin Karademir, Melih Çalışır, Aydıner Birsin Yildiz et al.
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Introduction: The aim of this study was to examine the associations between athletes' challenge and threat perceptions and sport anxiety, and to evaluate the role of mindfulness in these relationships in terms of moderation and indirect effects (mediation). Methods: A total of 291 athletes from different sport branches participated in the study. Data were collected using the Challenge and...
Frontiers in Psychology
March 17, 2026
Ingeborg van den Bold, Sanneke De Haan, Jenny Slatman
Introduction: It is important to explore how words are given to body awareness in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), as this impacts health and illness, while the literature on this topic is scarce. This study is the first to explore the learning process of enhancing one's body awareness live in MBSR sessions through a philosophy of language lens. It is the first known application of...
Frontiers in Psychology
March 17, 2026
Yunus Sahinler, Mustafa Deniz Dindar, Mustafa Can Koc
Background Although studies have been conducted on psychological flexibility, self-compassion and mindfulness, the effects of these factors on the mental health of university students have not yet been sufficiently researched. Objective This study seeks to investigate the effects of psychological flexibility, self-compassion, and mindfulness on mental health among university students in...
Frontiers in Psychology
March 11, 2026
Filippo Dellanoce
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This article investigates the novel therapeutic approach of “amplified psychoanalysis” through a detailed examination of the Ygg case, which offers a descriptive single-case illustration of the integration of MDMA-assisted therapy with traditional psychoanalytic treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The study explores how subjective experience induced by MDMA can interact with an...
Frontiers in Psychology
March 11, 2026
Yiran Liu, Qiang Yan, Shiao Zhao et al.
Background Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and adolescents is characterized by inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity, and is frequently accompanied by impairments in executive functioning, task performance, and emotion regulation. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have been increasingly evaluated as non-pharmacological approaches for ADHD, but findings...
Frontiers in Psychology
March 6, 2026
Neil Dagnall, Andrew Denovan, Claire Murphy-Morgan et al.
Scientific scepticism, as an epistemic orientation, remains under-researched. This study investigated the interplay between belief in science, supernatural credence, and cognitive processing styles in a sample of 300 participants ( M age = 45.95, SD = 14.32). Traditional (TPB) and New Age (NAP) paranormal beliefs correlated positively with intuitive-experiential measures and negatively with...
Frontiers in Psychology
February 26, 2026
Eiko Matsuda
This study investigates links between synesthesia and lucid dreaming via perceptual presence and counterfactual-richness (abundant possible sensorimotor contingencies). We hypothesized that synesthetes would report more frequent lucid dreams because enhanced counterfactual-richness facilitates dream control and clarity. We surveyed 616 adults using a synesthesia self-report, the Lucidity and...
Frontiers in Psychology
February 25, 2026
Natalie L. Dyer, Meredith Sprengel, Ivo V. Stuldreher et al.
Background: The human body radiates multiple biological fields which can be measured with sensors directly on or off the body. These electromagnetic fields are hypothesized to be altered by mind and body practices. The primary goal of the current study was to evaluate the feasibility of continuous multi-sensor monitoring during meditation and breathwork practices. It also explored methods to...
Frontiers in Psychology
February 11, 2026
Bettina Habelt
1 citation
Electroencephalography (EEG) recently celebrated its 100-year anniversary, having revolutionized the study of cognitive function across species. Over the past century, neuroelectric measures such as resting-state EEG, event-related potentials (ERP), and event-related oscillations (ERO) have become indispensable not only for advancing our understanding of brain function but also for identifying...