Wiley: Social and Personality Psychology Compass: Table of Contents

A Guide to Reanalyzing Data From Psychology Articles for Verification, Meta‐Analysis, and Reuse

Jelte M. Wicherts — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:45:59 -0700

ABSTRACT

Reanalysis of data from published research in personality and social psychology offers many ways to learn more from the data. Reanalysis is crucial in verifying that published results are free from error and bias and robust to alternative ways of analyzing the data, while meta-analysis and secondary analysis empowers analysts to further investigate interesting patterns in the data. In this perspective, I offer useful guidance on different types of reanalysis: Verification analysis (checks of computational or analytic reproducibility, robustness, or check analyses), meta-analysis (including systematic reviews, individual participant data meta-analysis, and meta-research), and secondary analysis (consideration of novel research questions). I discuss issues in obtaining the data, data ownership, co-authorship, involvement of data collectors, and failures of sharing data in a Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) manner. I discuss how reanalysts gain a good understanding of the data via codebooks, metadata, and syntax (computer code) and data collector involvement. I discuss challenges in explorative secondary data analysis to avoid overfitting and consider issues related to ethics screening, preregistration, potential misconduct, and privacy. I conclude that while reanalyzing data responsibly can be challenging, it ultimately advances our understanding of personality and social behavior.

Toward a Health Psychology of Fatherhood: A Biopsychosocial Perspective on Fathers

Gabrielle R. Rinne, Darby E. Saxbe — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:59:34 -0700

ABSTRACT

Growing evidence suggests that fathers have distinct influences on parent and child health and well-being through their engagement in parenting. Although fathers have increased their involvement in parenting in recent decades, father involvement remains more variable than that of mothers. The present paper applies a biopsychosocial perspective to the transition to fatherhood to elucidate the factors that may promote positive adaptation to fatherhood. We review research on the biological, psychological, and social factors that strengthen fathers' parenting. Overall, recent findings suggest that a range of biopsychosocial changes facilitate positive adaptation to fatherhood, which may have broader implications for family health and well-being. However, there is also heterogeneity in findings, and much of the research in this area remains preliminary due to the paucity of large longitudinal studies that comprehensively assess biopsychosocial factors among expectant and new fathers. We propose that integrated, longitudinal, biopsychosocial research designs that consider the family as an interdependent system embedded within a broader context will help address existing research gaps. Ultimately, such research will more comprehensively characterize the complex interplay of biological, psychological, and social factors in expectant and new fathers and advance biopsychosocial research and theory on fatherhood. We also discuss the significance of biopsychosocial research on fathers for prevention and intervention efforts to support parent, child, and family health.

Perspective‐Giving in Social Interactions

Jordan Patterson, Michael Wenzel, Lydia Woodyatt — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:18:13 -0700

ABSTRACT

Perspective-giving refers to an individual (or group), sensing that another has a different perspective on a reality common to both, explaining their own understanding of it. Perspective-giving is complementary to, but independent from, the more widely studied perspective-taking; yet it too plays an important role in how people navigate social interactions. Given a dearth of social psychological research on perspective-giving, we draw from research on associated concepts to propose a conceptual framework for perspective-giving. We theorise that the recognition of divergent perspectives creates six psychological threats, each correlating to a distinct motivation for perspective-giving. Taking a needs-based approach, this framework is applied to moral repair processes following interpersonal wrongdoing. We argue that perspective-giving is a mechanism used by victims and wrongdoers to address individual and relational needs, reach a shared understanding and achieve reconciliation within moral repair processes. Finally, we set an agenda for perspective-giving research within interpersonal conflict and across social interaction domains.

The Complicit, the Invisible, and the Forgotten: Critically Integrating Intersectionality Into the Psychology of Intraminority Solidarity

Minh Duc Pham, Izilda Pereira‐Jorge, Kim E. Chaney — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:49:49 -0700

ABSTRACT

The present article integrates intersectionality theory, which affords a unique lens to interrogate the intersecting structures of power (e.g., racism, sexism, capitalism), into the psychology of intraminority solidarity (i.e., activism of members of a marginalized group for other marginalized groups). We propose three intersectionality principles: interrogating privilege and oppression within marginalized communities, challenging the hierarchical nature of power structures, and incorporating historical-materialism. For each principle, we suggest two example strategies followed by research directions. This framework will help intraminority solidarity effectively address the roots of oppression in theory and practice.

From Climate Emotions to Affective‐Discursive Practices: A Critical Social Psychological Approach to Climate Change Issues

Helenor Tormis, Christian Andrés Palacios Haugestad — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:44:36 -0700

ABSTRACT

As a politically contested and emotionally loaded topic, climate change presents a significant challenge for social psychological research. The field's dominant social-cognitive paradigm has tended to conceptualise climate-related emotions as individual, measurable constructs, often overlooking the broader social and contextual nuances that shape emotional experiences. In contrast, we propose an affective-discursive approach rooted in critical psychological perspectives, which offers a nuanced framework for understanding the complexities of climate emotions. Drawing on two empirical studies based on interview material from Nordic contexts, we demonstrate how this approach can illuminate the social, dilemmatic, and ideological nature of climate emotions, illustrating how individuals negotiate and construct their feelings within a broader environmentalist context. While acknowledging the limitations of both mainstream and affective-discursive approaches, we advocate future critical psychological research that prioritises social justice and power in climate change questions. By approaching affect as part of discursive meaning-making processes, this article provides a novel perspective on climate emotions, understood as contextually situated practices with specific interactional, social, and political implications.

Issue Information

Thu, 28 May 2026 01:44:06 -0700

Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2026.