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The continued influence of implied and explicitly stated misinformation with different emotional valence Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Liu Wenjuan, Huang Yujie, Zhang Midi, Yao Zhaotong, Ding Yuhua
Misinformation often affects people’s cognition and judgment even when they are aware of a retraction; this is known as the continued influence effect of misinformation (CIE). The aim of the presen...
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Partial habituation to disruption by irrelevant emotive speech—evidence for duplex-mechanism account Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Qiyuan Zhang, Craig Williams, Phillip L. Morgan
Evidence shows that the degrading effect of irrelevant background speech on short-term memory task performance is modulated by its emotional valence, pointing to an attention-driven process as its ...
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Greek-spelling predictors; an investigation of literacy- and cognitive-related factors Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Georgia Z. Niolaki, Vassilios Papadimitriou, Aris R. Terzopoulos, Jackie Masterson
Greek spelling has been less explored than reading, and studies looking at predictors have primarily focused on phonological ability (PA) and rapid automatised naming (RAN). Few studies have been c...
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When more is more: effect of context and stimulus set size on orthographic learning Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Monyka L. Rodrigues, Eden S. Jing, Sandra Martin-Chang
Orthographic learning was measured over two experiments after adults trained words written with unfamiliar symbols. Participants were randomly assigned to read a set of either 24 or 86 target words...
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The negative footprint illusion is exacerbated by the numerosity of environment-friendly additions: unveiling the underpinning mechanisms Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Hanna Andersson, Mattias Holmgren, Patrik Sörqvist, Emma Threadgold, C. Philip Beaman, Linden J. Ball, John E. Marsh
The addition of environmentally friendly items to conventional items sometimes leads people to believe that the carbon footprint of the entire set decreases rather than increases. This negative foo...
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A closer examination of the risk–reward correlation: an individual-level analysis and exploration in the loss domain Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Kuninori Nakamura
Utility and probability are considered independent constructs for decision-making under uncertainty. However, many studies have suggested that people assume a correlation between probability and ut...
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Primary-school children’s knowledge of transitivity of probability and of bounds of probability Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Matúš Šimkovic, Birgit Träuble
Primary-school children aged between 7 and 10 years were questioned about their conceptual knowledge of the first two axioms of qualitative probability. Children were questioned with prespecified e...
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Replicating and extending hemispheric asymmetries in auditory distraction: no metacognitive awareness for the left-ear disadvantage for changing-state sounds Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Tania O. Atienzar, Lea K. Pilgrim, Ut Na Sio, John E. Marsh
In two experiments investigating hemispheric asymmetries in auditory distraction, the spatial location of to-be-ignored sound was manipulated. Prior studies indicated a left-ear disadvantage for ch...
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Spaced example-based learning facilitates advanced mathematics learning in college students Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Yiyun Zhang, Zhaofang Wang, Zhuo Chen, Qiuyue Yang, Chengwen Dong, Kejia Qu
Numerous studies have delved into the role of spaced learning in factual memory retention. However, there is a limited understanding of the spacing effect in acquiring problem-solving skills, parti...
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Attentional processing of preserved face and scrambled face distractors in preschool children with autism spectrum condition Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Li Zhang, Li Zhou, Lichao Kang, Yuening Xu, Hong Jiang, Valerie Benson
The current study investigated attentional processing of preserved neutral face and scrambled neutral face distractors at both involuntary and voluntary orienting levels in children with and withou...
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Emerging perspectives on distraction and task interruptions: metacognition, cognitive control and facilitation - part I Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 John E. Marsh, Raoul Bell, Jan P. Röer, Helen M. Hodgetts
Published in Journal of Cognitive Psychology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Is creativity computable? Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 P. N. Johnson-Laird
Is creativity based on the brain's computations? Some scientists say, No, because of Gödel's argument that humans can grasp the truth of sentences that formal algorithms cannot. A taxonomy implies ...
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Development of conditional learning abilities in children from 3 to 12 years of age Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Emilie Bochud-Fragnière, Pierre Lavenex, Pamela Banta Lavenex
This study investigated the typical development of unconditional learning, conditional learning, and transitive inference abilities. Seventy-one 3–12-year-old children and twenty-two 20–30-year-old...
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Forgetting during interruptions: the role of goal similarity Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Krzysztof Piątkowski, C. Philip Beaman, Dylan M. Jones, Katarzyna Zawadzka, Maciej Hanczakowski
Resuming an interrupted task requires remembering the goals that governed behaviour immediately before the interruption. Here we examined whether forgetting of goals can be mitigated when goals of ...
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Exploring the interrelationship between recurrent and non-recurrent skills in the problem-solving process Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Jingxiang Zhou, Lin Zhong
Recurrent skills and non-recurrent skills are two sets of interrelated skills involved in the problem-solving process. However, how this interrelationship impact on students’ learning experience ha...
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False information is harder to debunk after gist repetitions than verbatim repetitions Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Cloé Gratton, Gaëtan Béghin, Émilie Gagnon-St-Pierre, Henry Markovits
Research has shown that repeating a claim increases belief in it and makes it more difficult to correct. This is referred to as the illusory truth effect. Previous studies have mostly examined the ...
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Distraction by vocal anger in children and adolescents with hyperactivity Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Georgia Chronaki, John E. Marsh
Children with inattention and hyperactivity often present difficulties in recognising anger from voices. Research has shown enhanced brain activity (N100) to vocal anger, possibly reflecting preatt...
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Cat ownership, psychotic experiences and moral decision-making in sacrificial dilemmas: A study in the United Arab Emirates Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Gabriel Andrade, Umaima Adnan Ahmed, Yusor Amjed Mohammad Zahid Al-Nuaimy, Zainab Hussein Abdulhadi Zyara, Hain Shameer Hameed, Dalia Bedewy
Previous research has documented that persons with schizophrenia and some forms of brain damage are more likely to offer utilitarian responses in sacrificial dilemmas. At the same time, some studie...
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Reasoning strategy moderates the transition between slow and fast reasoning Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Henry Markovits
Reasoning faster is often assumed to be less “logical” than slow reasoning. The Dual strategy model of reasoning, which distinguishes between Counterexample and Statistical strategies, suggests a m...
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Auditory distraction of vocal-motor behaviour by different components of song: testing an interference-by-process account Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Rona D. Linklater, Jeannie Judge, Patrik Sörqvist, John E. Marsh
The process-oriented account of auditory distraction suggests that task-disruption is a consequence of the joint action of task- and sound-related processes. Here, four experiments put this view to...
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Warning—taboo words ahead! Avoiding attentional capture by spoken taboo distractors Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Laura Rettie, Robert F. Potter, Gayle Brewer, Federica Degno, François Vachon, Robert W. Hughes, John E. Marsh
We examine whether the disruption of serial short-term memory (STM) by spoken taboo distractors is due to attentional diversion and unrelated to the underlying disruptive effect of sound on serial ...
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Effects of cognitive load on perceived internal and external distraction and their relationship with attentional control Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Jan Rummel, Fynn Ole Wöstenfeld, Lena Steindorf, Jan Philipp Röer
People are assumed to differ in their susceptibility to distraction, depending on their attentional control abilities. Accordingly, susceptibility to internal distraction (in terms of self-generate...
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The role of contextual factors on neurocognitive processing: a systematic review with meta-analysis of the effect of response types in cognitive tasks Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Camilo Arévalo-Romero, Stefanella Costa-Cordella, Daniel Rojas-Líbano
Cognitive performance depends on contextual elements, such as the response type (“Go/No-Go” (GNG) or “Two-Alternative Choice” (TAC)) used in experimental tasks. In general, it is assumed that GNG s...
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Fluency trumps working memory capacity in the truth effect Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Chan Wai Mak, Weng-Tink Chooi
The truth effect, wherein repeated information gains perceived truthfulness, has been extensively studied in participants’ primary languages, showing robustness. However, individual differences in ...
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Leaping across the mental canyon: higher-order long-distance analogical retrieval Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Shir Dekel, Bruce Burns, Micah Goldwater
Previous experiments have shown that a comparison of two written narratives highlights their shared relational structure, which in turn facilitates the retrieval of analogous narratives from the pa...
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How attentional resources of the same or across sensory modalities and task load affect cognitive performance? A multi-sensory integration study Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Ling Lee Cheong, Melanie Jing Yan Kee, Po Ling Chen
This study examined how attentional resources of the same or across sensory modalities with varying levels of task load affect cognitive performance. A total of 120 young adults completed an experi...
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Olfactory and visual vs. multimodal landmark processing in human wayfinding: a virtual reality experiment Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Elisa Arena, Kai Hamburger
ABSTRACT Recent studies suggest that the olfactory system is not as indiscriminative as previously thought. Odours can serve as useful landmark information. The current study explored recognition and wayfinding performance in 54 participants (52 at t2), who either received 18 unimodal (only visual or olfactory) or multimodal (visual-olfactory) landmark information during a learning phase in a virtual
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Cognitive load reduces context recollection for true sentences Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Daria Ford, Marek Nieznański
ABSTRACT The dual-recollection model has been successfully applied in research on memory for truth and falsity, suggesting that “true” feedback is better recollected than “false” feedback. We used this approach to test whether the Cartesian or the Spinozan model would be a better framework to describe processes underlying memory for truth and falsity. Our sample consisted of 108 students, who performed
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There is no belief update bias for neutral events: failure to replicate Burton et al. (2022) Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Neil Garrett, Tali Sharot
In a recent paper, Burton et al. claim that individuals update beliefs to a greater extent when learning an event is less likely compared to more likely than expected. Here, we investigate Burton’s...
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Evidence for conflict detection from the self-reported conflict measure Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Debiao Zhu, Zhujing Hu, Dandan Nie, Jianyong Yang
ABSTRACT Human thinking is typically biased. A central question in dual process theories is whether people detect conflicts between heuristic and logical information. In the present study, we explored this issue. Participants were presented with conflict and non-conflict base-rate neglect problems and syllogism problems, followed by self-reported conflict measures determining the extent to which they
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Event-Related Potentials (ERP) evidence of predictive coding account of time perception in the sub-second range oddball tasks Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Hoda Jalalkamali, Mohammad Ali Nazari
This paper aims to examine the controversial effects of repetition suppression, predictability, and pitch of an auditory stimulus on its perceived duration and Event-Related Potentials (ERP). Behav...
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I lie because I am good at: psychopathic traits do not influence the effects of fabrication on memory Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Fabiana Battista, Tiziana Lanciano, Antonietta Curci, Chiara Mirandola, Henry Otgaar
ABSTRACT Studies have shown that lying can detrimentally affect memory. For example, when people fabricate a false account, this fabrication can turn into a false memory. The current experiment aimed to examine whether the typical effects on memory due to fabrication depend on psychopathy traits. 232 participants completed the Personality Psychopathy Inventory-Revised and watched a mock crime video
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A transfer effect of affect: evidence from episodic simulation of moral scenario Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Jiayi Guo, Wenming Xu, Xinyue Yu, Ruiming Wang
ABSTRACT Based on a scenario-place name matching paradigm, the objective of the study was to explore the transfer of affective value under the episodic simulation of moral or immoral scenarios. Experiment 1 revealed that people’s affective attitude towards neutral places matched with moral events will become more positive after episodic simulation, while those matched with immoral events will become
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Adolescents’ fluid intelligence and divergent thinking: the mediating effect of field dependent independent cognitive style Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Marco Giancola, Massimiliano Palmiero, Simonetta D’Amico
ABSTRACT The current study provided empirical evidence on the mediating effect of field dependent independent cognitive style (FDI) in the association between fluid intelligence (Gf) and divergent thinking (DT) during adolescence. The experiment was carried out with 80 Italian adolescents (meanage = 16.40; SDage = 1.09; rangeage 15–18), who performed Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices, the Leuven
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The role of theory of mind, executive function and language on children's lying behaviour Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Nandita Babu, Radhika Khurana, Anavila Lochan
ABSTRACT Lying behaviour has two facets, lie telling and lie detecting. The present study examined (1) the developmental pattern across children aged 4, 5, and 7 years on lie telling, lie detecting, theory of mind (ToM), executive function (EF), and verbal ability. (2) the relationship of lie telling and lie detecting with ToM, EF and verbal ability. A total of 75 children, 25 each from the age groups
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The influence of involvement and emotional valence on accuracy judgments and sharing intention of fake news Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Liu Wenjuan, Yao Zhaotong, Ding Yuhua, Zhang Midi
Recent studies proposed that emotional valence of news affected individuals’ beliefs in fake news. However, the results across various studies remain controversial. Involvement probably have an inf...
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Irrelevant emotional expressions interfered with response inhibition: the role of contrast emotions Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Rashmi Gupta, Jay Prakash Singh
ABSTRACT Irrelevant emotional faces would facilitate or inhibit response inhibition, depending on how these faces are paired with different emotional faces. In previous studies, angry faces were either paired with neutral, happy, or fearful faces in the response inhibition task, potentially leading to mixed results. This is the first study where all four irrelevant emotional faces (happy, angry, fearful
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An experience-sampling study of the content and outcomes of socially oriented task-unrelated thoughts during a COVID-19 lockdown Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Maryann Barrington, Leonie Miller
ABSTRACT There is evidence to support a role for intentional and unintentional task-unrelated thoughts (TUTs) in social cognition and emotional regulation. Individual differences in personality impact the regulation and functionality of these thoughts. This study examined how intention and trait loneliness and schizotypy relate to the content and emotional outcomes of socially-oriented TUTs recalled
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Foreseeing interruptions in dynamic environments may undermine the adequacy between perceived and observable task performance Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Katherine Labonté, Hélèna St-Cyr, François Vachon
ABSTRACT The negative impact of interruptions on performance can sometimes be mitigated by notifying individuals shortly before their task is suspended. However, little is known about the accuracy with which individuals can assess the consequences of both unexpected and anticipated interruptions. This study investigated how suspending a dynamic task with or without prior warning influenced individuals’
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The social verification of implicit knowledge in dyads: the mediating role of confidence Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Roman Tikhonov, Nadezhda Moroshkina
ABSTRACT We studied the effect of dyadic interaction on implicit learning using a visual artificial grammar learning task. Specifically, we were interested in metacognitive experiences involved in the social verification of implicit knowledge. The experiment consisted of a learning phase followed by dyadic and individual test phases. The experimental group exchanged initial responses and confidence
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Individuals with low arithmetic abilities are sensitive to interference during knowledge retrieval from long-term memory across different domains Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Michaela A. Meier, Alexander E. Heidekum, Stephan E. Vogel, Roland H. Grabner
ABSTRACT Individuals show large individual differences in arithmetic abilities, especially in arithmetic facts. However, it is still unclear if individual differences in these abilities can be explained through individual differences in sensitivity to interference during retrieval from the associative network, and whether this sensitivity to interference is domain-general. To this end, we compared
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Influence of individual differences in executive functions of WM on the continued influence effect of misinformation Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Liu Wenjuan, Yao Zhaotong, Chen Gongxiang, Liu Zhihong, Du Xiufang
ABSTRACT Misinformation often affects people’s cognition and judgment even when they are aware of a retraction; this is known as the continued influence effect of misinformation (CIE). The aim of the present study was to verify if there were differences in the continued influence effect with respect to the individual’s EF availability of WM (i.e. inhibition, shifting and updating). The Stroop task
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Nonce word evidence for the misinterpretation of implausible events Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Jack Dempsey, Anna Tsiola, Suphasiree Chantavarin, Fernanda Ferreira, Kiel Christianson
ABSTRACT Good-Enough Processing accounts posit a two-stream mechanism by which an algorithmic, bottom-up parse is simultaneously built alongside a heuristic, top-down parse that is prone, in real-time, to influences from real-world expectations, which sometimes leads to misinterpretations of implausible events. Post-interpretive accounts suggest the offline findings often used as evidence introduce
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Should I stay or should I go now? Empirical and real-life observations of the effect of uniform colour on inhibitory control Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 S. H. Park, W. K. Lam, L. Uiga, A. Cooke, C. M. Capio, R. S. W. Masters
ABSTRACT We asked whether inhibitory control during sport is influenced by uniform colour. Participants were instructed to pass to the larger side of an opponent wearing red, green, or grey (control) uniforms, but not when that side was defended. Correct inhibition of responses was lower when opponents wore uniforms that were green compared to grey, but not red compared to grey, suggesting that perceiving
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Visual mental imagery and verbal working memory: evidence from consecutive interpreting Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Alper Kumcu, Asiye Öztürk
ABSTRACT The link between the different types and components of mental imagery and efficiency in tasks involving memory storage and processing is not clear. The direction of the effect (facilitation/deterioration) usually depends on the task in question and the cognitive processes involved. Here, we investigate the possible contribution of visual and auditory imagery components to performance in a
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Don’t cry over spilled milk: foreign language attenuates the sunk cost effect Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Yingxiang Li, Jing Sheng, Jun Chen
ABSTRACT Sunk cost effect, which reflects the greater tendency to continue an endeavour once an investment in money, time, or effort has been made, is a decision-making bias. We conducted three studies to examine the debiasing effect of a foreign language on sunk cost effect. Study 1 failed to prove that participants’ choice of sunk costs differed when they make judgments in a foreign language than
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The reverse Mozart effect: music disrupts verbal working memory irrespective of whether you like it or not Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Raoul Bell, Laura Mieth, Jan Philipp Röer, Axel Buchner
ABSTRACT People believe most background sounds to disrupt their cognitive performance. An exception is music they like which is believed to improve cognitive performance. To examine the objective effects of music on cognitive performance, the serial-recall paradigm was used. Mozart’s sonata K. 448 – the music piece used in classical studies on the Mozart effect – caused distraction. However, with ongoing
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What makes background music distracting? Investigating the role of song lyrics using self-paced reading Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Martin R. Vasilev, Licia Hitching, Sophie Tyrrell
ABSTRACT It has been suggested that listening to music during reading may be distracting, but the empirical results have remained inconclusive. One limitation of previous studies is that they have often had limited control over the number of lyrics present in the songs. We report 4 experiments that investigated whether song lyrics make music distracting. Participants read short paragraphs in a self-paced
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Evidence for a group-level performance optimum and performance-neutral adaptation in a procedural task Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Erik M. Altmann, David Z. Hambrick
ABSTRACT We asked whether people performing different versions of a procedural task would adapt to the differences and achieve similarly high levels of performance. In Experiment 1 (N = 479), participants either did or did not receive a mnemonic for the sequence of procedural steps. Both groups had unlimited access to a help function giving the sequence. No-mnemonic participants used help more than
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Irrelevant changing-state vibrotactile stimuli disrupt verbal serial recall: implications for theories of interference in short-term memory Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 John E. Marsh, François Vachon, Patrik Sörqvist, Erik Marsja, Jan P. Röer, Beth H. Richardson, Jessica K. Ljungberg
ABSTRACT What causes interference in short-term memory? We report the novel finding that immediate memory for visually-presented verbal items is sensitive to disruption from task-irrelevant vibrotactile stimuli. Specifically, short-term memory for a visual sequence is disrupted by a concurrently presented sequence of vibrations, but only when the vibrotactile sequence entails change (when the sequence
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Conspiracy theories: why they are believed and how they can be challenged Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Ivan Sebalo, Linden J. Ball, John E. Marsh, Andy M. Morley, Beth H. Richardson, Paul J. Taylor, Emma Threadgold
ABSTRACT The current study aimed: (i) to identify personal characteristics associated with endorsing conspiracy theories; and (ii) to investigate methods for dispelling conspiracy beliefs. Participants were shown a single conspiracy theory and they also completed questionnaires about their reasoning skills, types of information processing (System 1 vs. System 2), endorsement of paranormal beliefs,
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Decision making and mental imagery: A conceptual synthesis and new research directions Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Tomasz Zaleskiewicz, Jakub Traczyk, Agata Sobkow
ABSTRACT This paper introduces a conceptual synthesis of theoretical ideas investigating the relationship between decision making and mental imagery. We claim that the generation of mental images may play a pivotal role in decision making because imaginative foresight allows an event to be pre-experienced and consequences of different choice alternatives to be “tried out.” Moreover, we provide evidence
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I can’t live without you: delay discounting in smartphone usage Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Luca Pancani, Marco Alessandro Petilli, Paolo Riva, Patrice Rusconi
ABSTRACT Little is known about the behavioural tendencies at the basis of smartphone use. The present research investigates delay discounting, the phenomenon whereby a smaller, immediate reward is preferred over a larger, delayed one, in smartphone use. In line with previous work on delay discounting in other domains, Study 1 (N = 81) showed that the hyperboloid function best fits the inter-temporal
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How spatial attention affects the decision process: looking through the lens of Bayesian hierarchical diffusion model & EEG analysis Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Amin Ghaderi-Kangavari, Kourosh Parand, Reza Ebrahimpour, Michael D. Nunez, Jamal Amani Rad
ABSTRACT We explored the underlying latent process of spatial prioritisation in perceptual decision processes, based on the drift-diffusion model, and subsequent nested model comparison. Our hierarchical cognitive modelling analysis revealed that spatial attention changed the non-decision time parameter across experimental conditions, quantified using the deviance information criterion score (DIC)
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The disruptive effects of changing-state sound and emotional prosody on verbal short-term memory in blind, visually impaired, and sighted listeners Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Florian Kattner, Marieke Fischer, Alliza Lejano Caling, Sarah Cremona, Andreas Ihle, Timothy Hodgson, Julia Föcker
Previous findings suggest that blind listeners are less susceptible to auditory distraction in a verbal serial recall task, compared to sighted individuals. However, it is unclear whether this is d...
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The effect of ageing on confrontation naming in healthy older adults: a three-level meta-analysis Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Hao Wen, Yanping Dong
ABSTRACT Older adults frequently report trouble retrieving words, which is often tested by confrontation naming tasks. However, with inconsistencies among the relevant literature, this ageing effect requires an updated meta-analysis (with the only meta-analysis conducted in 1997), especially when no meta-analysis has been conducted on how such an effect may be modulated by the important factor of education
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An evaluation of the role of inductive confirmation in relation to the conjunction fallacy Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 John E. Fisk, Dean A. Marshall, Paul Rogers, Rosemary Stock
ABSTRACT Inductive confirmation has been proposed as a mechanism giving rise to the conjunction fallacy. For each of five separate vignettes, probability estimates were obtained for a neutral event, for a second event: i.e. the “added conjunct”, and for their conjunction. The added conjunct was selected such that it was inductively confirmed, either by some background evidence provided in the vignette
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No easy fix for belief bias during syllogistic reasoning? Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Esther Boissin, Serge Caparos, Wim De Neys
ABSTRACT Although erroneous intuitions often lead human thinking astray, recent studies suggest that single-shot interventions in which the underlying problem logic is clarified can easily remediate this bias. Because previous work typically focused on numerical problems, we tested here the generalizability to the infamous non-numerical belief bias during syllogistic reasoning. Unfortunately, results
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Reward-dependent dynamics and changes in risk taking in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Valeria Sebri, Stefano Triberti, Georg D. Granic, Gabriella Pravettoni
ABSTRACT The Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) assesses real-world decision-making processes in a laboratory setting and has been applied to both healthy and clinical populations. Whereas many previous studies established reliable links between behaviour in the BART and individual characteristics, such as gender, age, and educational level, little is known to date how dynamic, contextual features of
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The effect of emotion regulation on executive function Journal of Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.279) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Jun Min Koay, Anna Van Meter
ABSTRACT Emotion regulation and executive function are associated. However, if – and how – these two processes affect one another has not previously been explored; most studies have employed a correlational approach, leaving the direction of influence unknown. Using an experimental design, we aimed to explore the impact of emotion regulation on executive functioning. Adult participants (N = 31) completed