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Obituary: BRUCE BRIDGEMAN (1944-2016). American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2018-03-07 Dominic W Massaro,D Alfred Owens
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History of Psychology Publish and Perish: Psychology's Most Prolific Authors Are Not Always the Ones We Remember. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2018-03-07 Christopher D Green
What is the relationship between being highly prolific in the realm of publication and being remembered as a great psychologist of the past? In this study, the PsycINFO database was used to identify the historical figures who wrote the most journal articles during the half-century from 1890 to 1939. Although a number of the 10 most prolific authors are widely remembered for their influence on the discipline
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The Effect of Sleep Loss on Dual Time-Based Prospective Memory Tasks. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2018-03-07 Miranda Occhionero,Piercarla Cicogna,Maria Jose Esposito
The aim of the present study was to deepen knowledge about the effect of a lowered vigilance state on time-based prospective memory (TBPM) performance. For this purpose 2 TBPM tasks (primary and interpolated), which shared a portion of the retention interval, and 3 reasoning tasks, as ongoing activities, were administered after total sleep deprivation and in a regular sleep condition. The results showed
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Alexithymia and Mood: Recognition of Emotion in Self and Others. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2018-03-07 Michael Lyvers,Susan M Kohlsdorf,Mark S Edwards,Fred Arne Thorberg
The present study explored relationships between alexithymia-a trait characterized by difficulties identifying and describing feelings and an external thinking style-and negative moods, negative mood regulation expectancies, facial recognition of emotions, emotional empathy, and alcohol consumption. The sample consisted of 102 university (primarily psychology) students (13 men, 89 women) aged 18 to
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Visual Search Load Effects on Age-Related Cognitive Decline: Evidence From the Yakumo Longitudinal Study. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2018-03-07 Takeshi Hatta,Kimiko Kato,Chie Hotta,Mari Higashikawa,Akihiko Iwahara,Taketoshi Hatta,Junko Hatta,Kazumi Fujiwara,Naoko Nagahara,Emi Ito,Nobuyuki Hamajima
The validity of Bucur and Madden's (2010) proposal that an age-related decline is particularly pronounced in executive function measures rather than in elementary perceptual speed measures was examined via the Yakumo Study longitudinal database. Their proposal suggests that cognitive load differentially affects cognitive abilities in older adults. To address their proposal, linear regression coefficients
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Reading Aloud to Children: Benefits and Implications for Acquiring Literacy Before Schooling Begins. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2018-03-07 Dominic W Massaro
Extensive experience in written language might provide children the opportunity to learn to read in the same manner they learn spoken language. One potential type of written language immersion is reading aloud to children, which is additionally valuable because the vocabulary in picture books is richer and more extensive than that found in child-directed speech. This study continues a comparison between
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Realistic Stimuli Reveal Selective Effects of Motor Expertise During a Mental Body Rotation Task. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2018-03-07 Hamdi Habacha,Laure Lejeune-Poutrain,Corinne Molinaro
To investigate the effects of stimulus features on the implementation of motor expertise in body rotations during a mental body rotation task, 2 experiments were conducted. In Experiment 1, we investigated the mental rotation abilities in 27 male participants: 14 experts in real body rotations (national level gymnasts) and 13 nonexperts (national handball players). The mental rotation task used left-right
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Feature-to-Feature Inference Under Conditions of Cue Restriction and Dimensional Correlation. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2018-03-07 Matthew E Lancaster,Donald Homa
The present study explored feature-to-feature and label-to-feature inference in a category task for different category structures. In the correlated condition, each of the 4 dimensions comprising the category was positively correlated to each other and to the category label. In the uncorrelated condition, no correlation existed between the 4 dimensions comprising the category, although the dimension
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Perception of Scenes in Different Sensory Modalities: A Result of Modal Completion. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2018-03-07 Ronald R Gruber,Richard A Block
Dynamic perception includes amodal and modal completion, along with apparent movement. It fills temporal gaps for single objects. In 2 experiments, using 6 stimulus presentation conditions involving 3 sensory modalities, participants experienced 8-10 sequential stimuli (200 ms each) with interstimulus intervals (ISIs) of 0.25-7.0 s. Experiments focused on spatiotemporal completion (walking), featural
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The Method of Negative Instruction: Herbert S. Langfeld's and Ludwig R. Geissler's 1910-1913 Insightful Studies. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2018-03-07 Robert W Proctor,Aiping Xiong
Herbert S. Langfeld and Ludwig R. Geissler published insightful articles during the period of 1910-1913 using what they called the Method of Negative Instruction, which anticipated much current research on action control and the role of instructions. We review their studies and relate the findings to contemporary research and views concerning task-irrelevant congruency effects and deception, concluding
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The Synthetic Experiment: E. B. Titchener's Cornell Psychological Laboratory and the Test of Introspective Analysis. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2018-03-07 Rand B Evans
Beginning in 1 9a0, a major thread of research was added to E. B. Titchener's Cornell laboratory: the synthetic experiment. Titchener and his graduate students used introspective analysis to reduce a perception, a complex experience, into its simple sensory constituents. To test the validity of that analysis, stimulus patterns were selected to reprodiuce the patterns of sensations found in the introspective
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Parallel Interactive Processing as a Way to Understand Complex Information Processing: The Conjunction Fallacy and Other Examples. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2018-02-21 Irwin D Nahinsky
Parallel interactive processing (PIP) represents an approach in which specific context generates interactive relationships between general attributes. This article summarizes previous research that demonstrates how such relationships influence inference making in categorization. This is followed by evidence that the approach can be extended to other areas of cognition, including probability judgments
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Modern Speed-Reading Apps Do Not Foster Reading Comprehension. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2018-02-21 Dina Acklin,Megan H Papesh
New computer apps are gaining popularity by suggesting that reading speeds can be drastically increased when eye movements that normally occur during reading are eliminated. This is done using rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP), where words are presented 1 at a time, thus preventing natural eye movements such as saccades, fixations, and regressions from occurring. Al- though the companies producing
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Failures Due to Interruptions or Distractions: A Review and a New Framework. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2018-02-21 Cyril Couffe,George A Michael
Interruptions of ongoing activities have spread since the development of and global increase in technology use and the general speeding in pace we all experience every day. Their negative effects are well known: decline in performance and emotional distress. However, the literature still needs to shed light on the exact cognitive mechanisms involved in the way users decide to reply to an interruption
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Edwin G. Boring: The Historian's Path in the Pages of The American Journal of Psychology. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2018-02-21 Shawn R Gallagher
Although he is best known for his classic textbook, A History of Experimental Psychology, Edwin Garrigues Boring published dozens of articles in The American Journal of Psychology and used its various formats to guide the discipline in the early 20th century. This report reviews a small sample of his publications, including obituaries, notes, and experimental articles, and presents them in historical
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Margaret F. Washburn in The American Journal of Psychology: A Cognitive Precursor? American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2018-02-21 Jose T Boyano
In the early 20th century, Margaret F. Washburn (1871-1939) produced numerous studies on perception, affective value of stimulus, memory, emotions, and consciousness. This experimental work was published in The American Journal of Psychology. The purpose of this article is to analyze the temporal evolution of these kinds of experiments and relate them to Washburn's theoretical production. Contrary
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Scientific Study of Magic: Binet's Pioneering Approach Based on Observations and Chronophotography. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-09-01 Cyril Thomas,Andru Didierjean
In 1894, French psychologist Alfred Binet (1857-1911) published an article titled "The Psychol- ogy of Prestidigitation" that reported the results of a study conducted in collaboration with two of the best magicians of that period. By using a new method and new observation techniques, Binet was able to reveal some of the psychological mechanisms involved in magic tricks. Our article begins by presenting
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Child and Ancient Man: How to Define Their Commonalities and Differences. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-09-01 Georg W Oesterdiekhoff
Developmental psychology is not only a psychology of development from childhood to old age but a psychology of human development in world history. Eighty years of cross-cultural empirical research findings indicate that the adolescent stage of formal operations evolved late in history and is not a universal development of adult humans across cultures and history. Correspondingly, preoperational or
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Adolescent Aggression as Predicted from Parent-Child Relationships and Executive Functions. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-09-01 Shameem Fatima,Hamid Sheikh
Previous research has emphasized the role of parent-child relationships (PCRs) in child and adolescent development. The present study extends the previous findings by examining the direct and mediated relationship between PCRs, executive functioning (EF), and adolescent aggression. Five hundred twelve adolescents of South Asian ethnic background, enrolled at the secondary and higher secondary levels
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The Effect of Collective Transitions on the Organization and Contents of Autobiographical Memory: A Transition Theory Perspective. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-09-01 Norman R Brown,Oliver Schweickart,Connie Svob
In this article, we tirst outline a minimalist approach to the organization ot autobiographical memory called transition theory. This theory assumes that the content and organization of autobiographical memory mirror the structure of experience and reflect the operation of basic memory processes. Thus, this approach rests on an analysis of the environment that emphasizes repetition, co-occurrence,
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The Reactivation of Motion influences Size Categorization in a Visuo-Haptic Illusion. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-09-01 Amandine E Rey,Stephanie Dabic,Remy Versace,Jordan Navarro
People simulate themselves moving when they view a picture, read a sentence, or simulate a situation that involves motion. The simulation of motion has often been studied in conceptual tasks such as language comprehension. However, most of these studies investigated the direct influence of motion simulation on tasks inducing motion. This article investigates whether a mo- tion induced by the reactivation
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The Cognitive and Perceptual Laws of the Inclined Plane. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-09-01 Sergio Cesare Masin
The study explored whether laypersons correctly tacitly know Galileo's law of the inclined plane and what the basis of such knowledge could be. Participants predicted the time a ball would take to roll down a slope with factorial combination of ball travel distance and slope angle. The resulting pattern of factorial curves relating the square of predicted time to travel distance for each slope angle
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The Evolution of the American Journal of Psychology, 1904-1918: A Network Investigation. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-07-19 Christopher D Green,Ingo Feinerer
In an earlier article, we used digital historical methods to examine the first 14 volumes (1887-1903) of The American Journal of Psychology (AJP) by creating networks of the vocabularies used in every substantive article the journal published in those years. These networks showed us the major research groups that had been gathered together by the journal's founder-editor, G. Stanley Hall, and how the
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Threatening Men's Mate Value Influences Aggression Toward an Intrasexual Rival: The Moderating Role of Narcissism. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-07-19 Brian M Bird,Justin M Carré,Jennifer M Knack,Steven Arnocky
Correlational research has linked low mate value (MV)--one's worth as a mating partner to members of the opposite sex--with aggression in men. In 2 experiments, we examined the effects of self-perceived MV on men's reported willingness to aggress directly toward a hypothetical mate poacher (Experiment 1, N = 60) and observable aggression toward a same-sex rival in a laboratory paradigm (Experiment
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Texting Dependence, iPod Dependence, and Delay Discounting. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-07-19 F Richard Ferraro,Jeffrey N Weatherly
We gave 127 undergraduates questionnaires about their iPod and texting dependence and 2 hypothetical delay discounting scenarios related to free downloaded songs and free texting for life. Using regression analyses we found that when iPod dependence was the dependent variable, Text2-excessive use, Text4-psychological and behavioral symptoms, iPod2-excessive use, and iPod3-relationship disruption were
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Effects of Working Memory Capacity and Domain Knowledge on Recall for Grocery Prices. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-07-19 Douglas Bermingham,Michael K Gardner,Dan J Woltz
Hambrick and Engle (2002) proposed 3 models of how domain knowledge and working memory capacity may work together to influence episodic memory: a "rich-get-richer" model, a "building blocks" model, and a "compensatory" model. Their results supported the rich-get-richer model, although later work by Hambrick and Oswald (2005) found support for a building blocks model. We investigated the effects of
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Category Membership and Semantic Coding in the Cerebral Hemispheres. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-07-19 Casey E Turner,Ronald T Kellogg
Although a gradient of category membership seems to form the internal structure of semantic categories, it is unclear whether the 2 hemispheres of the brain differ in terms of this gradient. The 2 experiments reported here examined this empirical question and explored alternative theoretical interpretations. Participants viewed category names centrally and determined whether a closely related or distantly
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Effects of Music and Tonal Language Experience on Relative Pitch Performance. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-07-19 Mary Kim Ngo,Kim-Phuong L Vu,Thomas Z Strybel
We examined the interaction between music and tone language experience as related to relative pitch processing by having participants judge the direction and magnitude of pitch changes in a relative pitch task. Participants' performance on this relative pitch task was assessed using the Cochran-Weiss-Shanteau (CWS) index of expertise, based on a ratio of discrimination over consistency in participants'
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A New Law for Time Perception. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-07-19 Peter A Hancock,Richard A Block
Effects of sex and handedness on the perception of temporal durations from 1 to 20 s were studied. A total of 80 male and 40 female participants were divided equally into left-handed and right-handed subgroups. Using an empty interval production procedure, each person estimated durations of 1, 3, 7, and 20 s, respectively, 50 times each. The order of presentation was randomized across participants
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Self-Objectification and the Use of Body Image Coping Strategies: The Role of Shame in Highly Physically Active Women. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-04-01 K Alysse Bailey,Larkin Lamarche,Kimberley L Gammage,Philip J Sullivan
We investigated the mediating role of body shame in the relationship between self-objectification and body image coping strategies in highly physically active university women. Bivariate correlations revealed body shame was positively related to self-objectification, appearance fixing, and avoidance coping but unrelated to positive rational acceptance. In addition, self-objectification was positively
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Psychodynamic Emotional Regulation in View of Wolpe's Desensitization Model. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-04-01 Merav Rabinovich
The current research belongs to the stream of theoretical integration and establishes a theoretical platform for integrative psychotherapy in anxiety disorders. Qualitative metasynthesis procedures were applied to 40 peer-reviewed psychoanalytic articles involving emotional regulation. The concept of psychodynamic emotional regulation was found to be connected with the categories of desensitization
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Familiarity and Aptness in Metaphor Comprehension. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-04-01 Alison Whiteford Damerall,Ronald T Kellogg
The career of metaphor hypothesis suggests that novel metaphors are understood through a search for shared features between the topic and vehicle, but with repeated exposure, the figurative meaning is understood directly as a new category is established. The categorization hypothesis argues that instead good or apt metaphors are understood through a categorization process, whether or not they are familiar
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Word Frequency Effects for LEET Lettering in Word Recognition. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-04-01 Jeremy W Grabbe
Letter substitution has been shown to have a cost to word recognition performance, such as increased reaction time. The use of orthographically similar numbers or symbols as a substitute for letters is known as LEET. Perea, Duñabeitia, and Carreiras (2008) showed that word recognition was not affected when LEET substitutions were used as primes. This study examined whether the effects of LEET prime
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The Face Inversion Effect: Roles of First- and Second-Order Configural Information. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-04-01 Ciro Civile,Rossy McLaren,Ian P L McLaren
The face inversion effect (FIE) is a reduction in recognition performance for inverted faces compared with upright faces. Several studies have proposed that a type of configural information, called second-order relational information, becomes more important with increasing expertise and gives rise to the FIE. However, recently it has been demonstrated that it is possible to obtain an FIE with facial
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Does Number of Perceptions or Cross-Modal Auditory Cueing Influence Audiovisual Processing Speed? American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-04-01 Nicholas Altieri,Michael J Wenger,Mark T Wallace,Ryan A Stevenson
What factors contribute to redundant target processing speed besides statistical facilitation? One possibility is that multiple percepts may drive these effects. Another, although not mutually exclusive hypothesis, is that cross-channel cueing from one modality to another may influence response times. We implemented an auditory-visual detection task using the sound-induced flash illusion to examine
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There Is Time for Calculation in Speed Chess, and Calculation Accuracy Increases With Expertise. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-04-01 Yu-Hsuan A Chang,David M Lane
The recognition-action theory of chess skill holds that expertise in chess is due primarily to the ability to recognize familiar patterns of pieces. Despite its widespread acclaim, empirical evidence for this theory is indirect. One source of indirect evidence is that there is a high correlation between speed chess and standard chess. Assuming that there is little or no time for calculation in speed
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Comparative Study of Personality Trait Characteristics and Reactivity in Schizophrenia Using a Film Clip Paradigm. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-01-02 Thomas J Dinzeo,Eve Sledjeski,Christopher Durner,Nancy M Docherty
The empirical examination of personality characteristics related to the experience of strong negative emotions and the associated physiological response may help account for idiosyncratic responses to life events in schizophrenia. The current study examines the relationship between levels of neuroticism and arousability and physiological and emotional reactivity during the viewing of film clips with
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Do Psychological Sex Differences Reflect Evolutionary Bisexual Partitioning? American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-01-02 Irina Trofimova
This article analyzes sex differences in communicative and exploratory abilities and mental disabilities from the rarely discussed perspective of sex differences in the shape of phenotypic distributions. The article reviews the most consistent findings related to such differences and compares them with the evolutionary theory of sex (ETS). The ETS considers sexual dimorphism as a functional specialization
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Homogenization of Classification Functions Measurement (HOCFUN): A Method for Measuring the Salience of Emotional Arousal in Thinking. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-01-02 Marco Tonti,Sergio Salvatore
The problem of the measurement of emotion is a widely debated one. In this article we propose an instrument, the Homogenization of Classification Functions Measure (HOCFUN), designed for assessing the influence of emotional arousal on a rating task consisting of the evaluation of a sequence of images. The instrument defines an indicator (κ) that measures the degree of homogenization of the ratings
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Need for Cognition and False Memory: Can One's Natural Processing Style Be Manipulated by External Factors? American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-01-02 Samantha S Wootan,Juliana K Leding
The purpose of this experiment was to provide an enhanced understanding of need for cognition (NFC) and its influence on one's memory accuracy. People who are high in NFC tend to put more cognitive effort into their mental processes than their low-NFC counterparts. To determine whether one's natural processing tendencies, as determined by NFC, can be influenced by external factors, manipulations to
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Effects of Memory Load and Test Position on Short-Duration Sustained Attention Tasks. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-01-02 Cynthia Laurie-Rose,Meredith C Frey,Erick Sibata,Amanda Zamary
The current study applies a dual-task working memory and vigilance task to examine sustained attention performance and perceived workload in a multi-instrument battery. In Experiment 1 we modified a task developed by Helton and Russell (2011) to examine declines in performance and to assess the effects of its position within a larger battery. Experiment 1 failed to reveal a sensitivity decrement, and
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Reconsidering Food Reward, Brain Stimulation, and Dopamine: Incentives Act Forward. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-01-02 Gunnar Newquist,R Allen Gardner
In operant conditioning, rats pressing levers and pigeons pecking keys depend on contingent food reinforcement. Food reward agrees with Skinner's behaviorism, undergraduate textbooks, and folk psychology. However, nearly a century of experimental evidence shows, instead, that food in an operant conditioning chamber acts forward to evoke species-specific feeding behavior rather than backward to reinforce
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Action Memory and Encoding Time: Evidence for a Strategic View of Action Memory Processing. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-01-02 Daniel J Peterson,Neil W Mulligan
The enactment effect is the phenomenon whereby carrying out a simple action phrase results in superior memory compared with listening to the phrase or observing someone else carry out the action. Several early studies suggested that action memory processing is less effortful and strategic compared with traditional verbal processing, a perspective that is still argued today. In the current study, we
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A Way Forward Beyond Karl Popper's and Donald T. Campbell's Dead-End Evolutionary Epistemologies. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-01-01 John Wettersten
Theories of natural thought processes have traditionally served as foundations for philosophies of science. The source of all knowledge is passively received observations; these are combined to produce certain knowledge. After David Hume showed that this was not possible, deductivist alternatives, that is, theories that find a source of knowledge in ideas not derived from observations, from Immanuel
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Hierarchical Mazes in Psychological Research. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Tomasz R Pasek
Hierarchical mazes have been used in psychology for more than 100 years. During this time many different maze tasks have been created and used to test.cognitive processes and distinguish personality traits. Some of these mazes seem better than others to test different abilities. This article describes the most important mazes used in psychological research and the most important procedures used with
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Modeling Impulsivity in Forensic Patients: A Three-Dimensional Model of Impulsivity. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Franca Tonnaer,Maaike Cima,Arnoud Arntz
The current study investigated whether a multidimensional model could underlie impulsivity and its associations with various disorders in a forensic sample. Data were available from self-report and behavioral impulsivity instruments of 87 forensic patients. Principal component analysis (PCA) was used to derive a dimensional impulsivity model, and the relationship between and possible predictive validity
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Event-Based Prospective Memory Is Resistant but Not Immune to Proactive Interference. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Joyce M Oates,Zehra F Peynircioglu
Recent evidence suggests that proactive interference (PI) does not hurt event-based prospective memory (ProM) the way it does retrospective memory (RetroM) (Oates, Peynircioglu, & Bates, 2015). We investigated this apparent resistance further. Introduction of a distractor task to ensure we were testing ProM rather than vigilance in Experiment 1 and tripling the number of lists to provide more opportunity
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Do Format Differences in the Presentation of Information Affect Susceptibility to Memory Distortions? The Three-Stage Misinformation Procedure Reconsidered. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Ulatowska Joanna,Justyna Olszewska,Matthew D Hanson
To date most studies within the misinformation paradigm have used the visual presentation of a to-be-remembered event that is later tested verbally or visually. However, the well-established encoding specificity hypothesis predicts that congruence between encoding and test phases should lead to fewer memory errors. In Study 1, we examined the susceptibility to misinformation after encoding original
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Repetition Priming Magnitude Depends on Affirmative Prime Responses: A Test of Two Congruity Explanations. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Paula Fiet,Linda Sorensen,Zachary Mayne,Damon Corgiat,Dan Woltz
We conducted 2 experiments to evaluate the impact of positive prime responses on repetition priming effects while decoupling this impact from content congruity and specific evaluation operations. Our first experiment consisted of word-meaning comparison trials that required participants to evaluate synonyms or antonyms. A crossing of evaluation operation with semantic content allowed us to test the
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Effects of Anger Rumination on Different Scenarios of Anger: An Experimental Investigation. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Alessia Offredi,Gabriele Caselli,Chiara Manfredi,Giovanni Maria Ruggiero,Sandra Sassaroli,Pamela Liuzzo,Francesco Rovetto
Anger rumination has been defined as a repetitive thinking style focused on causes and consequences of anger. Different studies have shown the role of anger rumination as a maintaining factor for emotional arousal and stress that can lead to behavioral dysregulation. The present study aims at investigating whether the role of anger rumination in increasing anger is different with respect to different
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Reacting to Emotion: Anger Arrests and Happiness Helps. American Journal of Psychology (IF 0.803) Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Dean G Purcell,Alan L Stewart
Using a new method of affect priming, we find that a face with an angry expression slows a participant's performance; that is, we find anger inferiority. Our task presents a participant with a sequence of 2 visual stimuli. The first stimulus (Sl) and the second stimulus (S2) represent anger or happiness. The S1 s were words, schematic faces, or gray-scale faces, and the S2s were gray-scale faces. Participants
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