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Record W4415880859 · doi:10.61838/ijbmc.v12i7.1275

Is Psychological Science Serving More Health or Control?

2025· article· W4415880859 on OpenAlex
Mahboubeh Farzanegan

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

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Bibliographic record

VenueInternational journal of body, mind and culture · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldPsychology
TopicBehavioral Health and Interventions
Canadian institutionsPrecision Nanosystems (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPsychological interventionAnxietyMental healthPublic healthBehavioral economicsHealth psychologyExploitAutonomyLeverage (statistics)Addiction

Abstract

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This editorial highlights a modern paradox: insights from psychology and behavioral economics—originally developed to improve health—are now widely deployed in political campaigns, corporate advertising, and digital governance to steer choices, exploit cognitive shortcuts, and amplify compulsive engagement. It frames psychology as a double-edged sword in public health, noting strong evidence that psychological well-being protects physical health and that behavioral science can help populations make better choices. Yet, while “attention merchants” aggressively leverage these tools, public health systems underutilize proven approaches at scale. The result is an anxious, hyper-competitive environment shaped by status anxiety and hedonic adaptation, sustaining addictive consumption and emotional volatility. Ironically, the knowledge to counter these dynamics already exists—from “nudges” that structure healthier defaults to psychological levers that improve treatment adherence. Amid escalating threats—including climate instability, geopolitical risk, economic precarity, and the rapid advance of AI—the piece urges humanizing health and informatics systems and deploying transparent, population-level behavioral interventions that restore autonomy and well-being.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.604
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.059
GPT teacher head0.506
Teacher spread0.447 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it