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Samantha J. Heintzelman, Jason Trent, Laura A. King · 2014 · The Journal of Positive Psychology
Growing popular interest in positive psychology may have important implications for the measurement of well-being. Five studies tested the prediction that well-being ratings are influenced by desirability bias. In Study 1, participants (N…
View details →Michał Król, Magdalena Ewa Król · 2019 · Journal of Neuroscience Psychology and Economics
Recent studies reported that the attraction effect, whereby inferior decoys cause choice reversals, fails to replicate if the choice options are presented in a pictorial rather than abstract numerical form. We argue that the pictorial…
View details →Mark A. Straccia, Adam R. Teed, Perri L. Katzman et al. · 2021 · Psychological Medicine
BACKGROUND: Although potential links between oxytocin (OT), vasopressin (AVP), and social cognition are well-grounded theoretically, most studies have included all male samples, and few have demonstrated consistent effects of either neuropeptide on mentalizing (i.e. understanding the mental states of others). To understand the potential of either neuropeptide as a pharmacological treatment for individuals with impairments in social cognition, it is important to demonstrate the beneficial effects of OT and AVP on mentalizing in healthy individuals. METHODS: = 186) of healthy individuals, we exa
View details →André Luiz Souza, Arthur B. Markman · 2013 · eScholarship (California Digital Library)
A recent paper by Lev-Ari and Keysar (2010) reported that the processing fluency associated with non-native speech causes non-native speakers to sound less credible.The authors found that the same trivia statements were rated as less…
View details →Mark van Veen, Inge van Weeghel, Bauke Koekkoek et al. · 2014 · International Journal of Social Psychiatry
BACKGROUND: Risk of suicide is notoriously difficult to assess, and no gold standard is available, in terms of an instrument of first choice. Many different instruments are in use, among which are some that are not properly…
View details →Valeriia V. Vlasenko, Emma G. Rogers, Christian E. Waugh · 2021 · Cognition & Emotion
Although affect labelling has been widely reported to decrease negative emotions, it is less clear whether affect labelling also decreases positive emotions. In four studies, we explored how affect labelling (choosing the emotion that best…
View details →Shayne B. Piasta, Jessica A. R. Logan, Cynthia M. Zettler‐Greeley et al. · 2022 · Journal of Learning Disabilities
Preschool-age children identified as at risk for later reading difficulties can benefit from supplemental, small-group emergent literacy intervention. As such interventions become commercially available and marketed to preschool programs,…
View details →Emiko J. Muraki, Penny M. Pexman · 2021 · Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
In embodied theories of semantic representation, the processes and mechanisms of modal simulations that are engaged during semantic processing have tended to be underspecified. We investigated the possibility that motor imagery may be a…
View details →R. Chris Fraley, Jia Y. Chong, Kyle A. Baacke et al. · 2022 · Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
Scholars and institutions commonly use impact factors to evaluate the quality of empirical research. However, a number of findings published in journals with high impact factors have failed to replicate, suggesting that impact alone may…
View details →Claire Linares, Anne-Laure Sellier · 2021 · PLoS ONE
A 2013 article reported two experiments suggesting that the mere presence of a cellphone (vs. a notebook) can impair the relationship quality between strangers. The purpose of the present research is twofold: (1) closely replicate this article's findings, and (2) examine whether there may be an impact of the mere presence of a phone on creativity, whether at a group- or an individual- level. In two experiments (N = 356 participants, 136 groups), we followed the original procedure in the 2013 article. In particular, groups of participants who had never seen each other before the study had a con
View details →Tobias Kopp, Marco Baumgartner, Steffen Kinkel · 2023 · International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
An appropriate level of human-robot trust is widely acknowledged as a crucial factor for successful human-robot interaction (HRI). Previous research has addressed anthropomorphic design but mostly neglected linguistic framing as a means to…
View details →Joyce S. Pang, Hiram Ring, Kate Y Huang et al. · 2026 · Journal of Personality Assessment
Implicit motives have a clear relation to observed behavior but are time-consuming to measure. Automating the content coding of implicit motives has been a pursuit since the 1960s, but has not been widely adopted due to limitations with…
View details →Bjørn Sætrevik, Hallgeir Sjåstad · 2022 · Meta-Psychology
Mortality salience (MS) effects, where death reminders lead to ingroup-bias and defensive protection of one’s world-view, have been claimed to be a fundamental human motivator. MS phenomena have ostensibly been identified in several hundred studies within the “terror management theory” framework, but transparent and high-powered replications are lacking. Experiment 1 (N = 101 Norwegian lab participants) aimed to replicate the traditional MSeffect on national patriotism, with additional novel measures of democratic values and pro-sociality. Experiment2 (N = 784 US online participants) aimed to
View details →Emilou Noser, Jessica Schoch, Ulrike Ehlert · 2018 · PLoS ONE
Research has indicated that men's facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) is part of an evolved system of social dominance, aggression, and power. fWHR has been linked to antisocial behavior, measured by self-reported aggression, but recent studies have failed to replicate this finding. To overcome these inconsistencies, influencing factors such as social status have to be taken into account in order to explain the relationship between fWHR and aggression. In particular, income has been shown to be an important influencing factor in this relationship. Furthermore, previous findings suggested that
View details →Caitlin Mills, Jennifer Wu, Sidney K. D’Mello · 2017 · Discourse Processes
We investigated how affective states influence expository text comprehension and whether text valence moderates the effects (i.e., mood congruency). In Experiment 1 participants were randomly assigned to a happy or sad affective state…
View details →Li Fu, Roy P. C. Kessels, Joseph H. R. Maes · 2020 · Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition
Cognitive training research has revealed support for both the magnification and compensation accounts, respectively predicting larger or smaller training benefits for individuals already having strong cognitive abilities. A recent study in…
View details →Terence J. Lyons, Merle Spriggs, Leevi Kerkelä et al. · 2026 · Nature Communications
Psychedelics have robust effects on acute brain function and long-term behavior but whether they also cause enduring functional and anatomical brain changes is largely unknown. In an exploratory, placebo-controlled, within-subjects, electroencephalography (EEG), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study in 28 healthy, entirely psychedelic-naive participants, anatomical and functional brain changes are detected from one-hour to one-month after a single high-dose (25 mg) of psilocybin. Increases in cognitive flexibility, psychological insight, and well-being are seen at one-month. Diffusion ten
View details →Youjia Hua, Chengan Yuan, Kristin V. Monroe et al. · 2016 · Developmental Neurorehabilitation
OBJECTIVE: Reread-Adapt and Answer-Comprehend (RAAC) + Goal Setting intervention is a reading intervention that addresses both oral reading fluency (ORF) and reading comprehension while supporting persistence and motivation for learners…
View details →Hubertus Himmerich, Jörg-Egbert Wolf, Peter Zimmermann et al. · 2016 · Chinese Medical Journal
To the Editor: With great interest we read the original article of Chen et al.[1] published in the Chinese Medical Journal comparing serum concentrations of cytokines in patients of Han and Li ethnicity with posttraumatic stress disorder…
View details →Emily P. Taylor, Rachel Couper, Carolyn Maeve Butler · 2017 · Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice
OBJECTIVES: Perfectionism is recognized as a significant risk factor for psychopathology. Emerging research links attachment to perfectionism in adult and college-age samples. The Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (FMPS) has been…
View details →Ana R. Sepúlveda, Dimitra Anastasiadou, Yolanda de Pellegrin et al. · 2016 · Men and Masculinities
The aim of this study was to examine the factor structure of the Male Body Attitudes Scale (MBAS) among a sample of 212 adolescent males by conducting a confirmatory factor analysis. The data revealed that while muscularity and low body fat factors were appropriate for the male sample, the height factor was not supported. The composite MBAS-Spanish version (MBAS-S) and its two factors had high internal consistency and were not significantly related to the traditionally used measure of body image (Eating Disorder Inventory–Body Dissatisfaction [BD]), confirming that this subscale only appears t
View details →Larissa Forni dos Santos, Sônia Regina Loureiro, José Alexandre S. Crippa et al. · 2013 · PLoS ONE
Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is prevalent and rarely diagnosed due to the difficulty in recognizing its symptoms as belonging to a disorder. Therefore, the evaluation/screening scales are of great importance for its detection, with the most used being the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS). Thus, this study proposed to evaluate the psychometric properties of internal consistency and convergent validity, as well as the confirmatory factorial analysis and reliability of the self-reported version of the LSAS (LSAS-SR), translated into Brazilian Portuguese, in a sample of the general populatio
View details →Lebena Varghese, Lisa M. Finkelstein · 2020 · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Our current research investigated how mentors enhance protégé self-efficacy. Drawing from social comparison theory, we propose that the shared experience between mentors and protégés facilitates the ability of protégés to adopt the…
View details →Cécile Barbet, Guillaume Thierry · 2016 · Frontiers in Psychology
In sentence verification tasks involving under-informative statements such as Some elephants are mammals, some adults appear more tolerant to pragmatic violations than others. The underlying causes of such inter-individual variability remain however essentially unknown. Here, we investigated inter-individual variation in adults deriving the scalar inference "not all" triggered by the quantifier some. We first assessed the individual intolerance to pragmatic violations in adult participants presented with under-informative some-statements (e.g., Some infants are young). We then recorded event-r
View details →Olga Stavrova, Lena Haarmann · 2019 · Motivation and Emotion
Abstract Although perceptions of subjective well-being (SWB) in unacquainted others have been shown to play a major role in impression formation, little is known about how accurate such perceptions are. In two original studies and one pre-registered replication, we explored the accuracy of life satisfaction and happiness judgments from texts and its underlying mechanisms (use of linguistic cues). Participants filled in life satisfaction and happiness measures and completed a brief writing task. Another sample of participants judged the targets’ life satisfaction and happiness from the obtained
View details →Christopher A. Wolters, Marcia A. Barnes, Paulina A. Kulesz et al. · 2016 · The Journal of Educational Research
The authors' purpose was to examine adolescents' reading motivation in relation to standardized assessments of reading comprehension and fluency. After a reading pretest, 60 ninth-grade students (M age = 14.9 years) were randomly assigned…
View details →Rebecca Hun Ping Cheung, Magdalena Mo Ching Mok · 2018 · Creativity Research Journal
Previous studies have suggested that teacher’s personality traits and pedagogy are the important areas of investigation in creativity research; however, little is known about the relationship between teachers’ personality traits and…
View details →Kata Gellén, David Buttelmann · 2017 · Child Development Research
Rather than reenacting every action they observe, preverbal infants adapt their imitative behavior. Although previous studies have revealed the capability of preverbal infants to imitate selectively, the question about the adaptability of this behavior on an individual level did not attract considerable scientific attention until now. In the current study, we investigated whether 14-month-old infants flexibly alternate their imitative response in accordance with a model’s changing physical constraints in a body-part imitation paradigm. Participants were presented with two novel actions whereby
View details →Chengxi Zang, Yu Hou, Daoming Lyu et al. · 2024 · Translational Psychiatry
Machine Learning models trained from real-world data have demonstrated promise in predicting suicide attempts in adolescents. However, their transportability, namely the performance of a model trained on one dataset and applied to…
View details →Alexander D. Stajković, Jessica M. Greenwald, Kayla Stajkovic · 2022 · Journal of Organizational Behavior
Summary The effects of primed money have received widespread attention in social psychology but not in the organizational literature. This research examines whether priming money causes people to think and behave in ways consistent with…
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