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The March issue of PsyCh Journal features five regular contributions, beginning with a study on smoking craving that used ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to record the levels of pleasure, arousal, and smoking craving in the daily lives of subjects who are smokers, and examined the moderating effect of regulatory emotional self‐efficacy in predicting the relationship between emotion and craving. Next is an investigation of how emotional context, using synthesized micro‐expressions, modulates the processing of micro‐expressions as reflected in event‐related potentials (ERPs). An evaluation is then presented of the factor structure of the Dysexecutive Questionnaire in the Chinese context, comparing the factor solution with models previously reported for Western samples. This is followed by an examination of body image attitude in Chinese college students, involving among others assessments of self‐esteem, negative emotions, and subjective well‐being in relation to body image satisfaction/dissatisfaction, eating disorders, and weight‐controlling behaviors for males and females. A final Original Article makes an evaluation of the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy combined with a regimen of calcium supplement and vitamin D in the treatment of premenstrual syndrome.Two Short Communications round out the issue, the first studying the effect of a time window of 3 seconds on the appreciation of hearing Chinese poems, as reported by subjects who could understand the language (Chinese students) and those who could not (German students). The second was an assessment through an online survey of associations between moral identity and well‐being (engagement, meaning, cooperativeness, self‐transcendence). image