Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Three-Character Training of Social Interaction (TCT-S) for Children with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (HFASD) often experience difficulties in social interaction, which affect both their daily functioning and well-being. This study introduced a novel CBT-based intervention called the Three-Character Training of Social Intera...

Metacognitive monitoring in Kenyan, Chinese, and U.S. children

Theories of cognitive development propose that cultural values shape metacognitive skills. However, cross-cultural research on metacognition remains limited and often relies on verbal assessments that may lack validity across cultural contexts. The present study examined metacogn...

Schizophrenia research in 2026: report from the annual meeting of the Schizophrenia International Research Society

Abstract SIRS 2026, held under the theme “Schizophrenia Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence,” brought together researchers, clinicians, and persons with lived experience to take stock of a field whose tools for measuring, predicting, and intervening in psychosis have e...

Offensive unpredictability and defensive tracking in intergroup conflict show sex-differentiated patterns

Intergroup conflict poses asymmetric strategic demands: acquiring resources through offense benefits from behavior that opponents cannot easily anticipate, whereas protecting resources through defense requires monitoring opponents and adjusting to threats. Analyzing behavioral da...

Childhood trauma, neurocognition, and clinical symptoms in patients with chronic schizophrenia: A network analysis

Background and objectives Cognitive impairment is a core feature of schizophrenia (SCZ), potentially influenced by childhood trauma (CT). This study employed a network analysis approach to investigate the relationship between CT, neurocognition, and clinical symptom dimensions in...

Elevated Plasma DISC1 Levels Are Associated With Motivational Deficits in Medication‐Free Patients With Major Depressive Disorder: An Exploratory Study

ABSTRACT Disrupted‐in‐Schizophrenia 1 ( DISC1 ) has been implicated in major psychiatric disorders, but the relationship between circulating DISC1 protein and dimensional motivation and pleasure‐related features in major depressive disorder (MDD) is unknown. This exploratory cros...

Workplace AI Usage, Intrinsic Motivation, and Job Burnout: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study

Background: With the widespread application of artificial intelligence technology in organizational contexts, understanding its implications for employees’ motivation and well-being has become increasingly important. Yet, how employees’ AI usage is prospectively associated with i...

Multiscale characterization of cortical signatures in positive and negative schizotypy:a worldwide ENIGMA study

Positive and negative schizotypy reflect distinct patterns of subclinical traits in the general population associated with neurodevelopmental and schizophrenia-spectrum pathologies. Yet, a comprehensive characterization of the unique and shared neuroanatomical signatures of these...

How Norms Depend on the Presence and Status of Observers: The Relational Contingency of Everyday Behaviors in 90 Societies

Norms are fundamental to social life, but basic questions about how they are affected by social context remain. Specifically, how do normative constraints depend on the presence and status of observers, and how do such relational contingencies vary across cultures? Using data fro...

Multi-omics profiling of migraine links plasma proteomic signatures with lipid metabolomic measures

Migraine is a highly prevalent neurological disorder with incompletely understood molecular mechanisms. We aimed to identify migraine-associated plasma proteins and lipid metabolomic measures and to investigate their relationships through an integrated multi-omics framework. This...