The phrase "psychologically salient" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means something that is particularly relevant or important from a psychological standpoint. Example: "In this study, we examined the psychologically salient factors that contribute to social anxiety in adolescents."
Preeminent concerns with pollution, crowding, health, and religion represent much of what is psychologically salient about public space in Vizag.
Given the nature of our empathic impulses, it's no wonder we tend to focus our attention on the local misfortune, the present worry, and the psychologically salient, tragic individual.
aFehr and Zych [31] reported that addicts systematically consume too much compared with the optimal consumption decision and explained this systematic excess consumption in terms of the psychologically salient features of addictive goods.
According to this latter option, probability values over data and hypotheses have a role that is comparable to the role of truth values in deductive logic: they serve to secure a notion of valid inference, without carrying the suggestion that the numerical values refer to anything psychologically salient.
Social identity theorists, however, point out that for ingroup favouritism to occur a social identity "must be psychologically salient", and that negative dimensions may be experienced as a "less fitting basis for self-definition".
Moreover, research shows that manipulating people's awareness of the number of their group memberships can impact upon people's resilience in the face of immediate stressors: with more group memberships psychologically salient, participants exhibit greater resilience (Jones & Jetten, 2011).
Studies from other isolated and confined environments, such as Antarctic stations, demonstrate the importance of plants in confinement, and how much more salient fresh food becomes psychologically, when there is little stimuli around".
But with increased self-awareness, the discrepancy between the fairness norm and the self-interested option was made especially salient so that it became psychologically difficult for many participants to employ this particular form of self-deception (Batson et al. 1999: 527, 529, 531 532, 2002: 331 and Batson and Thompson 2001: 55).
Psychologically salient it's an important invention, and illustrates some of the basic concepts.
