If Information and Communication Sciences largely mobilize concepts from psychology, their psychological foundations often remain implicit or fragmented. This article proposes a theoretical structuring of the psychological foundations of communication by articulating three central dimensions: cognition, affectivity and sociality. Drawing on contributions from cognitive psychology, affective psychology and social psychology, the study shows that communicative acts are based on interdependent ment...

Psychology 

Communication is today a fragmented scientific object, analyzed through multiple approaches—sociological, semiotic, informational, and technological—but rarely unified around its psychological foundations. This article proposes an epistemological refoundation of Information and Communication Sciences (ICS) through the concept of the Psychology of Communication. Drawing on a narrative synthesis of the literature on foundational paradigms—behaviorist, cognitivist, constructivi...

Psychology 

The fifth edition, text revision, of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5-TR) introduced prolonged grief disorder (PGD), establishing that grief persisting with sufficient intensity beyond twelve months from a death may constitute a mental disorder. This article advances a conceptual sociology-of-diagnosis critique of the twelve-month criterion. The argument proceeds along three strands. Conceptually, the criterion inherits a teleological model of mourning whose empir...

Palliative Care  Psychology  Sociology  Psychiatry & Psychology 

Stimulant utilization is increasing among university students globally due to pressure to improve their academic performance. The current work looks at the link between stimulant knowledge, attitudes toward use and academic pressure among undergraduates at the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR). The study adopted two psychological theories, Planned Behaviour and Strain, and employed the cross-sectional questionnaire for data collection. Data were obtained from 234 undergraduates a...

Psychology  Higher Education 

This study investigates the processing differences of emotional representation of negation between Portuguese and Chinese among African multilingual speakers, with a focus on the joint moderating effect of language type and language proficiency on negation processing. We recruited 60 quadrilingual speakers from African Portuguese-speaking countries, and conducted a lexical decision task based on the Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP). The experiment adopted a 2 (language type: Portuguese/Chin...

Educational Psychology  Psychology 

This manuscript presents the NEST to ARC Theory of Neurodivergent Grief grounded in fourteen years of doctoral level clinical practice, longitudinal observation and research synthesis across outpatient psychotherapy, crisis intervention, consultation liaison work and end of life care. Neurodivergent individuals often grieve within nervous systems shaped by chronic sensory, load executive function strain, social exclusion and cumulative trauma exposure. Across clinical settings, a reproducible pa...

Psychology 

Pedestal Prejudice Bias (PPB) is advanced here as a trauma-informed cognitive moral process in which perceived righteousness produces self-exemption from accountability. PPB is proposed as a patterned alteration in moral information processing whereby individuals or groups experience their identity, cause, or suffering as inherently incapable of wrongdoing. In this state, corrective feedback is reinterpreted as an attack, and ethically inconsistent behavior is reframed as justified action while ...

Psychology 

Love is a mysterious concept. From the perspective of conceptual metaphor theory, the concrete experience of our bodies may contribute to the formation of the concept of love. The present research investigated the relation between perceptions of softness and weight and the concept of love. Study 1 was conducted at night and found that love was perceived as soft and heavy. Study 2 and Study 3 were conducted to contrast different wordings of love. Results showed that, in the morning, different wor...

Linguistics  Psychology 

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted schooling worldwide and forced education systems to reconsider what knowledge and skills are most critical when time, access, and support are limited. In Philippines, the Department of Education responded by introducing the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELCs), a prioritized set of learning outcomes derived from the K to 12 Curriculum to guide instruction, assessment, and learning material development across flexible learning modalities. This article exami...

Educational Psychology  Teacher Education  Psychology  Sociology  E-Learning and Knowledge Management  Curriculum Development 

African psychology must be understood through the lens of indigenous worldviews that recognize the deep interdependence of the spiritual and physical realms. Unlike Western paradigms, which often emphasize individualism, rationalism, and secularism, African traditional beliefs are rooted in communal identity, ancestral consciousness, and cosmological interconnectedness. This paper examines the philosophical and psychological implications of African traditional beliefs particularly those related ...

Psychology