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The promotional effect of prosocial motivation on time‐based prospective memory PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Yunfei Guo, Jiaqun Gan, Zhen Wang, Yongxin Li
Time‐based prospective memory (TBPM) is the ability to remember to do a planned task at the right time. In social interactions, people are often motivated to do things for others, which reflects an important factor that influences prospective memory, namely prosocial motivation. According to the motivational cognitive model, prosocial motivation promotes TBPM by paying more attention or adopting more
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Neural basis underlying the association between thought control ability and happiness: The moderating role of the amygdala PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Min Li, Yuchi Yan, Hui Jia, Yixin Gao, Jiang Qiu, Wenjing Yang
Thought control ability (TCA) plays an important role in individuals' health and happiness. Previous studies demonstrated that TCA was closely conceptually associated with happiness. However, empirical research supporting this relationship was limited. In addition, the neural basis underlying TCA and how this neural basis influences the relationship between TCA and happiness remain unexplored. In the
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Cognitive bias modification for perfectionism and intolerance of uncertainty: A randomized controlled trial PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Kübra Tör‐Çabuk, Volkan Koç
This study investigated the efficacy of combined cognitive bias modification (CBM) on perfectionism and intolerance of uncertainty. Fifty‐four university students scoring over 70.5 on the Brief Symptom Measure were randomly assigned to experimental and placebo control groups. The CBM intervention was administered online for 4 weeks. Assessments were given at baseline, after the 4‐week intervention
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The efficacy of iatrosedation and music listening techniques in attenuating dental anxiety in patients undergoing dental crown preparation: A randomized clinical trial PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Abhishek Lal, Afsheen Maqsood, Naseer Ahmed, Sara Altamash, Mohammed Q. Al Rifaiy, Rawan Alsaif, Fahim Vohra, Seyed Ali Mosaddad, Artak Heboyan
Dental anxiety is a common problem encountered in dental clinics that affects both patients and dentists. Adequate management of dental anxiety is critical for optimal treatment outcomes for the patient. This study aims to assess the efficacy of two anxiety-reduction techniques (iatrosedation and music listening) for dental crown preparation in adult patients. In this clinical trial, 60 patients were
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The unique role of meaning in life in the relationships between trait awe, subjective well-being, and prosocial tendency: A network analysis PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Yichao Lv, Qian Xu, Qihui Tang, Yanqiang Tao, Chao Zhang, Xiangping Liu
Although individuals with higher trait awe (the tendency to experience awe) are known to be happier and more prosocial, there is limited understanding of the mechanisms underlying these complex relationships. This study uses network analysis to explore dimension-level relationships between trait awe, meaning in life, subjective well-being (SWB), and prosocial tendency in a joint network and to explore
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Validating the Enright Forgiveness Inventory in Ecuador PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Francisca Fariña, Xiang Zhao, Mercedes Novo, Gabriela Acurio
Research on forgiveness is limited in Ecuador. This study validated the Enright Forgiveness Inventory–30 (EFI-30) among 960 participants in Ecuador, resulting in robust reliability and validity values. Our findings provide avenues for future research and practices.
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Empathy with nature promotes pro-environmental attitudes in preschool children PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Yun Li, Yajun Zhao, Qun Huang, Jiyan Deng, Xueer Deng, Jingguang Li
This study aimed to explore whether empathy with nature (i.e., the tendency to understand and share the emotional experience of the natural world) contributes to pro-environmental attitudes in early childhood. In a correlational investigation (Study 1), 138 (Mage = 57.78 months) preschool children completed a battery of tasks to measure their pro-environmental attitudes, empathy with nature, and empathy
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Dispositional awe negatively predicts corruption via the sense of connectedness PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Liming Jiao, Li Luo
Corruption is a political and economic issue that has a detrimental impact on social and economic development. This study investigated the predictive effect of dispositional awe on corruption, and the underlying mechanisms from the perspective of connectedness. A sample of 548 (Nfemale = 371) individuals, aged between 16 and 71 years old (M = 21.18, SD = 3.39), was collected. Participants completed
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The effect of working memory load on selective attention to emotional faces for social anxiety individuals PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Mingfan Liu, Chen Cheng, Yating Xu, Lirong Zeng
Research has confirmed that individuals with social anxiety (SA) show an attentional bias towards threat-related stimuli. However, the extent to which this attentional bias depends on top-down cognitive control processes remains controversial. The present study investigated the effect of working memory (WM) load on selective attention to emotional faces in both high social anxiety (HSA) and low social
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Confounding analysis with gaming aspects in predicting psychological distress of esports players PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Soon Li Lee, Cai Lian Tam
This research aimed to explore the interplay between the central and peripheral aspects of gaming and their correlation with internet gaming disorder (IGD) in predicting indicators of psychological distress. The study proposed that the core and peripheral characteristics of gaming serve as confounding variables affecting the direct relationship between IGD and psychological distress. Employing a longitudinal
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Individuals with high levels of autistic traits exhibit impaired cognitive but not affective theory of mind and empathy PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Bei-lin Le, Yi-hang Huang, Ling-ling Wang, Hui-xin Hu, Xuan Wang, Yi Wang, Ya Wang, Jia Huang, Simon S. Y. Lui, Raymond C. K. Chan
Theory of mind (ToM) and empathy are considered key components of social cognition that are often impaired in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). However, it remains unclear whether individuals with high levels of autistic traits exhibit similar impairments in these two functions. This study examined the affective and cognitive domains of ToM and empathy in individuals with high levels
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Mathematical problem solving is modulated by word priming PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Chuanlin Zhu, Zhao Zhang, Xiaoli Lyu, Yun Wang, Dianzhi Liu, Wenbo Luo
This study aimed to explore the influence of word priming on mathematical problem solving. In two experiments, participants were required to finish multiplication estimation tasks with a specified estimation strategy under different word priming conditions (Experiment 1: concrete words vs. Experiment 2: abstract words). The results showed that: (1) under the concrete word priming condition, in comparison
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Facilitative effect of awe on cooperation: The role of the small-self and self-other inclusion PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Qin Wu, Liying Cui, Xianguo Han, Yanxia Wu, Wen He
Awe has been theorized as a kind of self-transcendence emotion that has an important impact on individual social behavior. Based on the self-transcendence of awe, this study examined how awe can increase small-self and self-other inclusion to facilitate cooperation among individuals across three studies (N = 1162). First, the relationship between awe, cooperative propensity, and the mediating role
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The effect of considering eye movement time in evaluating the efficiency of attentional networks PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Hossein Akbari-Lalimi, Seyed Ali Shafiei, Mahdi Momennezhad, Hoda Zare, Ali Talaei, Shahrokh Naseri
The attention network test (ANT) is a tool for assessing the executive, alerting, and orienting components of attention. However, conflicting findings exist regarding the nature and correlation between attention networks. This study aims to investigate the influence of eye movement time on the assessment of attention network efficiency. Forty male students, with an average age of 20.8 ± 1.3 years,
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Attention biases the process of risky decision-making: Evidence from eye-tracking PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Mengchen Hu, Ruosong Chang, Xue Sui, Min Gao
Attention determines what kind of option information is processed during risky choices owing to the limitation of visual attention. This paper reviews research on the relationship between higher-complexity risky decision-making and attention as illustrated by eye-tracking to explain the process of risky decision-making by the effect of attention. We demonstrate this process from three stages: the pre-phase
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Exploring the structure of college students' adaptability by using cross-lagged path analysis: The role of emotional adaptability PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Shixiu Ren, Shunxin Ji, Xinyang Liu, Tour Liu
Adaptability is an important psychological trait for college students. However, the components of adaptability contained significant inconsistencies in previous studies. On the one hand, there were discrepancies among the adaptability dimensions. On the other hand, significant inconsistencies were found in the connections among different aspects of adaptability. Therefore, the current research aimed
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Different neural mechanisms for nonsalient trained stimuli and physically salient stimuli in visual processing PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Zile Wang, Qi Zhang, Yuxiang Hao, Shuangxing Xu
Previous studies have shown that nonsalient trained stimuli could capture attention and would be actively suppressed when served as distractors. However, it was unclear whether nonsalient trained stimuli and physically salient stimuli operate through the same attentional neural mechanism. In the current study, we investigated this question by recording event-related potentials (ERPs) of searching for
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Affectivity and satisfaction in the relationship of Pakistani couples is mediated by dyadic coping-based gratitude PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Sultan Shujja, Adnan Adil
A substantial body of research supports a positive association between interpersonal gratitude and relationship satisfaction in couples; however, dyadic coping-based gratitude (DC-G) has not been investigated from a dyadic stress and coping perspective. The current study aimed to investigate the mediating role of DC-G between trait affectivity and relationship satisfaction in couples. We collected
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Effects of polygenes, parent–child relationship and frustration on junior high school students' aggressive behaviors PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Minghao Zhang, Zhenli Jiang, Kedi Zhao, Yaohua Zhang, Min Xu, Xiaohui Xu
The effects of the interaction between polygenes and the parent–child relationship on junior high school students' aggressive behaviors were explored through the frameworks of gene-endophenotype-behavior and neurophysiological basis. A total of 892 junior high school students participated in this study. They were asked to complete self-reported questionnaires, and saliva samples were collected. Results
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Self-truncated sampling produces more moderate covariation judgment and related decision than descriptive frequency information: The role of regressive frequency estimation PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Xuhui Zhang, Junyi Dai
Covariation judgment underlies a diversity of psychological theories and influences various everyday decisions. Information about covariation can be learned from either a summary description of frequencies (i.e., contingency tables) or trial-by-trial experience (i.e., sampling individual instances). Two studies were conducted to investigate the impact of information learning mode (i.e., description
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Moderate similarity leads to empathic concern, but high similarity can also induce personal distress towards others’ pain PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Bruno M. Salles, João V. Fadel, Daniel C. Mograbi
Empathic concern and personal distress are common vicarious emotional responses that arise when witnessing someone else's pain. However, the influence of perceived similarity on these responses remains unclear. In this study, we examined how perceived similarity with an injured target impacts vicarious emotional responses. A total of 87 participants watched a video of an athlete in pain preceded by
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Relationship between theta/beta ratio and mind wandering in schizotypy PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Qin Zhang, Lu-xia Jia, Ji-fang Cui, Jun-yan Ye, Jia-li Liu, Wen-hao Lai, Hai-song Shi, Tian-xiao Yang, Ya Wang, Raymond C. K. Chan
Negative association was found between the frontal theta/beta ratio and mind wandering in participants with high schizotypal traits, while no such association was found in participants with low schizotypal traits. These findings provide insights into the neural mechanism of mind wandering in individuals with high schizotypal traits.
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The effect of lying on memory in daily life: Does motivation matter? PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Yan Li, Zhiwei Liu
Recently, there has been renewed interest in the effect of lying on memory. A growing body of studies has documented that lying can impair memories and cause memory disruptions, such as forgetting and false memories, to a greater degree than telling the truth. This study aimed to investigate whether motivation plays a role in the effect of lying on memory. The present study utilized a daily life paradigm
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Transforming aggression into creativity: Creative thinking training as a new strategy for aggression intervention PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Jiaqi Wu, Yongqiang Yang, Xiaofei Wu, Ziyi Li, Jing Luo
Although reducing students' aggressive behaviors and improving their creativity are both important commitments of educators, they are usually treated independently as unrelated tasks. However, cumulative evidence suggests potential links between aggression and creativity, not only from the perspectives of personality traits and psychological development, but also from their shared cognitive mechanisms
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Scarcity makes people short-sighted? Evidence from intertemporal decision-making PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Chang Zeng, Qi Wu, Cuihua Bi, Huaiyuan Qi
With the acceleration of the pace of society, the problem of scarcity of time resources is becoming more prominent, which may lead to short-sighted behavior. This study aimed to examine the impact of time scarcity on intertemporal choice and its underlying mechanisms through three experiments. Study 1 aimed to investigate the causal relationship between time scarcity and intertemporal choice and the
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Parallel processes of temporal control in the supplementary motor area and the frontoparietal circuit PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Xuanyu Wang, Shunyu Shi, Yan Bao
Durations in the several seconds' range are cognitively accessible during active timing. Functional neuroimaging studies suggest the engagement of the basal ganglia (BG) and supplementary motor area (SMA). However, their functional relevance and arrangement remain unclear because non-timing cognitive processes temporally coincide with the active timing. To examine the potential contamination by parallel
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Interpersonal distance perception during the normalization of an pandemic situation: Effects of mask-wearing and vaccination PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Xiaoqing Yu, Chun-Hsien Chen, Ziqing Xia, Congyi Wang, Wei Xiong
This study aimed to evaluate the effect of anti-pandemic measures, including wearing a face mask and receiving vaccinations, on interpersonal distance (IPD) during the normalization stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Virtual reality (VR) technology was used to simulate the experimental environment and a confederate in different conditions. Thirty-one participants were asked to approach the virtual confederate
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Internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy for the prevention, treatment and relapse prevention of eating disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Nilima Hamid
Eating disorders (EDs) are undertreated worldwide. In the UK the lag between recognition of symptoms and treatment ranges from about 15 months to in excess of 2 years. Internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy (ICBT) could be a viable alternative to face-to-face cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) that avoids the negative impacts of delayed interventions. Based on evidence from randomised controlled
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Effect of contextual diversity on word recognition in different semantic contexts PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Zhongchen Mu
Efficient word recognition is important to facilitate reading comprehension. Two important factors influence word recognition—word frequency (WF) and contextual diversity (CD)—but studies have not reached consistent conclusions on their role. Based on previous studies, the present study strictly controlled the anticipation of sentence context on target words. In the context of the semantic incongruence
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The development of using function word “zài” to learn novel verbs in young Mandarin speakers PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Zhigang Li, Chenyue Liang, Jianing Zhong, Shuang Chen
The present research examined whether Mandarin-speaking children could use function words to learn novel verbs and recognize verbs in a new sentential context. In Experiment 1, 3- to 6-year-old children were taught two novel verbs supported by the verb marker “zài.” The 5- and 6-year-old children successfully used the function word “zài” to learn novel verbs, but the 3- and 4-year-olds failed to interpret
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Joint spatial–temporal association of response codes (STEARC) effect: Mental timelines embodied interpersonally PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Weicong Ren, Xiujuan Guo, Fusui Wang, Zhijie Zhang
A co-action task was used to explore the effect of social interactions on temporal judgements, in comparison with an individual-task condition. In Experiment 1, the co-actors sat either individually (individual condition) or alongside a partner (joint condition) in front of a monitor and then responded to time-related words (e.g. yesterday, tomorrow). In Experiment 2, co-actors sat separately in front
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Empathy and cooperation vary with gender in Chinese junior high school adolescents PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Qin Wu, Weiwei Bu, Dong Lin, Liying Cui, Aruna Wu, Hehui Zou, Chen Gu
Previous research on the relationship between empathy and subcategories of prosocial behavior, specifically cooperation, has shown inconsistent findings. It has also paid limited attention to gender differences in the impact of empathy. Therefore, this study examined the relationship between empathy and cooperation in Chinese junior high school adolescents, and the gender differences, through three
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Emotional dampening in hypertension: Impaired recognition of implicit emotional content in auditory and cross-modal stimuli PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Meenakshi Shukla, Rakesh Pandey
Research shows a reduced responsivity to implicit as well as explicit facial emotion recognition (emotional dampening) in prehypertensives and hypertensives. This study explored auditory and audiovisual emotion recognition in prehypertensives and hypertensives. Participants (N = 175) who were normotensives, prehypertensives, and hypertensives (n = 57, 58, and 60, respectively) completed an auditory
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Effects of 7-minute practices of breathing and meditation on stress reduction PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Chunxia Sun, Jiajin Tong, Xin Qi, Zhonghui He, Junwei Qian
We compared the effects of 7-min practices of breathing and meditation on perceived stress reduction and related affective outcomes (active emotion, serenity, anxiety, and fatigue) during micro-breaks. Undergraduates from two classes (N = 59) completed the 7-point online surveys. Results supported the effects of both practices.
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Future time perspective and study engagement among middle school students: A moderated mediation model PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Yunzhi Liu, Xiaoxia Gong, Lin Shi, Yufei Shi, Bo Dong, Xiaoming Tian
To examine the effect of future time perspective on middle school students' study engagement and explore the mediating role of motivation internalization and the moderating role of grit, we conducted a study in several middle schools. Six hundred sixty-four middle school students completed our measures. Results indicated that future time perspective positively predicted study engagement, and motivation
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Seeking central hopelessness symptoms which direct link to resilience among parents of children with autism spectrum disorder in China—A network perspective PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Yulin Huang, Yalin Huang, Miaoxuan Lin, Yanqiang Tao
The intervention process for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is inextricably associated with their parents' mental health problems, such as hopelessness, which may adversely affect resilience and indirectly impact the effectiveness of interventions for their children. Hence, the motivation to help parents of children with ASD reduce hopelessness prompted us to conduct the present study
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Beta oscillation is an indicator for two patterns of sensorimotor synchronization PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Yuelin Liu, Chen Zhao, Tillman Sander-Thömmes, Taoxi Yang, Yan Bao
Previous study indicates that there are two distinct behavioral patterns in the sensory-motor synchronization task with short stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA; 2–3 s) or long SOA (beyond 4 s). However, the underlying neural indicators and mechanisms have not been elucidated. The present study applied magnetoencephalography (MEG) technology to examine the functional role of several oscillations (beta
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Predicting rock–paper–scissors choices based on single-trial EEG signals PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Zetong He, Lidan Cui, Shunmin Zhang, Guibing He
Decision prediction based on neurophysiological signals is of great application value in many real-life situations, especially in human–AI collaboration or counteraction. Single-trial analysis of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is a very valuable step in the development of an online decision-prediction system. However, previous EEG-based decision-prediction methods focused mainly on averaged EEG
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The role of self-compassion and compassion toward others in burnout syndrome in a sample of medical students PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Ignacio Ramos-Vidal, Érika Ruíz
Burnout produces negative effects on academic performance, and, in turn, feelings of inefficiency that are detrimental to students' psychosocial well-being. The aim of this research is to determine the effects that self-compassion and compassion toward others have on various burnout dimensions in a sample of medical students. A total of 235 medical students (61.7% women) aged between 16 and 32 years
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Subjective time dilation as a result of entropy PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Dongxue Zhang, Yi Wang, Yan Bao
Subjective time dilation is an effect discovered using the oddball paradigm, where expanding visual stimuli, but not shrinking ones, induce a prolongation of subjective temporal perception compared to static stimuli. This disparity is often seen as another demonstration of humans' evolved reaction to approaching threats, since visual expansion resembles approaching potential threats and warrants extra
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Time represented in space: Bar better than ring while waiting PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Chen Zhao, Yee Lok Wong, Yi Xu, Sijia Wang, Yan Bao
The use of visual representations of time is common in both research and daily life, with progress icons, such as bars and rings, being popular examples. Despite some studies investigating the advantage of different shapes, there has been no consistent result from questionnaires. This study aims to investigate this topic by using an objective temporal reproduction task to compare the potential difference
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Perifoveal and peripheral attentional modulation on order perception PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Yingrui Luo, Ying He, Yan Bao
The present study demonstrates that spatial attention modulates temporal order perception differently in the perifoveal and peripheral regions, with a more pronounced effect in the left peripheral visual field, suggesting a dissociation in attentional systems for event timing at the sub-second level.
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Social and non-social reward processing in subclinical depression PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Yu Chen, Yi-hang Huang, Ling-ling Wang, Hui-xin Hu, Min-yi Chu, Simon S. Y. Lui, Raymond C. K. Chan
This study applied two incentive delay tasks involving social and non-social incentive types to 76 pairs of participants with high and low depressive symptoms. The results suggest that higher levels of depressive symptoms are correlated with abnormalities in social and non-social reward processing even in the healthy populations.
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State-dependent alterations of implicit emotional dominance during binocular rivalry in subthreshold depression PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Shiming Qiu, Xu Luo, Yuhong Luo, Dandan Wei, Gaoxing Mei
Binocular rivalry, a visual perception phenomenon where two or more percepts alternate every few seconds when distinct stimuli are presented to the two eyes, has been reported as a biomarker in several psychiatric disorders. It is unclear whether abnormalities of binocular rivalry in depression could occur when emotional rivaling stimuli are used, and if so, whether an emotional binocular rivalry test
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The impact of romantic relationships on deception detection: Exploring the gender differences and the mediating role of mentalizing PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Shujian Wang, Wenxin Hou, Yueyang Wang, Qihui Tang, Yanqiang Tao, Xiangping Liu
In evolution, romantic relationships serve as the foundation for breeding and producing offspring. The ability to detect deception in these relationships can safeguard the investment and cultivation of descendants, leading to greater chances of survival and reproduction. However, barely any research has been carried out within this domain. The current study investigated the preliminary relationship
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Multiple temporal reference frames revealed by a reproduction task PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Yunfei Fan, Xiaoxuan Li, Yan Bao
The study investigates whether participants can establish multiple temporal references in a temporal reproduction task. The results show that participants can learn and maintain two references for the overlapping intervals with the short distribution being overestimated towards the long one.
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Voice attractiveness and decision making in third-party punishment PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Junchen Shang, Zhihui Liu, Chang Hong Liu
This study examined the impact of an attractive voice compared to an unattractive voice in an economic game. Results showed that proposers with an attractive voice were perceived as more reasonable in their monetary allocations and were less likely to receive punishment for unfair allocation.
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The effect of psychotic proneness and psychopathy on theory of mind PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Begüm Atakan, Elif Yildirim
This study aimed to investigate the interaction between positive psychotic experiences and psychopathic traits on the theory of mind in a non-clinical sample. The results showed that distinct constructs of psychopathy can lead to distinct theory of mind profiles when interacting with psychotic proneness.
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Temporal regularity in autobiographical memory: A single case fMRI study PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Yu Gu, Marco Paolini
Using fMRI, precise temporal control was extracted from routine activities in a female blind subject. Findings reveal a specific neural machinery for temporal control of recalled sequential events in episodic memory.
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Hemispheric asymmetry of auditory oddball detection: An MEG study PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Chen Zhao, Yan Bao
The capacity of the human brain to detect unattended deviant information from frequent information in our environment shows a hemispheric asymmetry, with stronger brain activation in the right temporal area. This lateralization is distinct from the functional left-ward asymmetry of auditory information processing.
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Why do we feel close to a person who expresses gratitude? Exploring mediating roles of perceived warmth, conscientiousness, and agreeableness PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Tatsuya Imai
The literature suggests that expressed gratitude improves the interpersonal relationship between a beneficiary and a benefactor. However, there is little research that has explored why thanking provides these positive effects, so this study investigated thanking mechanisms to explain reasons why people feel close to a beneficiary who expresses gratitude. This study also examines the effects of apologies
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Cooperation after social exclusion: To reconnect or to harm? PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Stefan Đorić
Predicting a person's reaction after experiencing exclusion is an important question, which is accompanied by paradoxical answers. An excluded person may tend to harm others (antisocial reaction hypothesis), treat them with increased ingratiation (prosocial reaction hypothesis), or withdraw from further social contacts. The aim of this study was to test the hypotheses about the prosocial and antisocial
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Spontaneous emotional regulation under experimental emotional condition: The role of working memory PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Alejandra Daniela Calero, Jésica Formoso, Irene Injoque-Ricle, Juan Pablo Barreyro, Débora Inés Burin
The present research studied the bidirectional effects of working memory (WM) capacity and emotional regulation; that is, the effect of WM capacity on spontaneous emotional regulation and whether the emotional valence to be regulated has a differential impact on performance in a second WM task. Participants (79) first completed a WM span task (Digit Span), then a self-report emotional intelligence
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Perceptual contrast reduces the judgments of learning of small-font words and increases the judgments of learning of large-font words compared with the no-contrast conditions PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Bowen Wan, Jinlian Zha, Xiaoqian Zheng, Haifeng Li
The font-size effect on judgments of learning (JOLs) refers to large-font words being rated as more memorable than small ones when required to predict memory performance during the study phase. This study examines perceptual contrast as the prerequisite for this font-size effect on JOLs and explores how perceptual contrast leads to this effect. In Experiment 1, perceptual contrast was achieved by inserting
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Three-phase temporal dynamics in random number generation PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Haiming Yang, Yan Bao
“Inhibition of return” (IOR) was originally described in the field of spatial attention, but it has also been observed in random number generation tasks. Subjects showed a tendency of “repetition avoidance,” which can be considered as equivalent to IOR in another cognitive domain. As temporal factors have been suspected to play an important role in random number generation, we aimed to examine how
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The effect of team cultural tightness and transformational leadership on employee creative behavior: A cross-level moderated mediation model PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Kan Shi, Xudong Song, Ruihua Zhou, Wei Zhou
In recent years, “cultural tightness–looseness” refers to the strength of social norms and tolerance for deviant behaviors perceived by individuals in society, and team cultural tightness applied at the organizational level represents the strength of team norms. According to the cultural tightness–looseness theory, this study explores the influence of team cultural tightness on employee creative behavior
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Subjective time perception in musical imagery: An fMRI study on musicians PsyCh Journal (IF 1.559) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Morteza Izadifar, Arusu Formuli, Eve A. Isham, Marco Paolini
The cognitive preparation of an operation without overt motor execution is referred to as imagery (of any kind). Over the last two decades of progress in brain timing studies, the timing of imagery has received little focus. This study compared the time perception of ten professional violinists' actual and imagery performances to see if such an analysis could offer a different model of timing in musicians'