Browsing by Subject "Experimental psychology"
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Context-Specific Adjustments of Cognitive Flexibility
(2023)The stability-flexibility dilemma describes the challenge of balancing the antagonistic goals of focusing on the current task-set (cognitive stability) and updating that task-set in response to changes in the environment ... -
Does our perception of animals shape when we see all humans as being created equally?
(2022)Humans are paradoxical in their ability for extreme kindness and cruelty. The goal of this dissertation is to further uncover the psychological mechanism(s) that allow humans to accept harm directed at members of other groups. ... -
Integrating Channels of Emotion: Individual Differences in Subjective Experience, Psychophysiology and Neural Activity
(2021)Emotions infuse each individual’s life with meaning, informing their memories and guiding their future decisions. Previous research has emphasized three important channels of emotion: subjective experience, psychophysiology ... -
Social Decision-Making in Bonobos and Chimpanzees
(2016)Humans are natural politicians. We obsessively collect social information that is both observable (e.g., about third-party relationships) and unobservable (e.g., about others’ psychological states), and we strategically ... -
The Impact of Skill-based Training Across Different Levels of Autonomy for Drone Inspection Tasks
(2018)Given their low operating costs and flight capabilities, Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles(UAVs), especially small size UAVs, have a wide range of applications, from civilian rescue missions to military surveillance. Easy control ... -
What Makes Our Minds Human? Comparative Phylogenetic Perspectives on the Evolution of Cognition
(2012)What makes our minds human? How did they evolve to be this way? This dissertation presents data from two complementary lines of research driven by these orienting questions. The first of these explores the `what' of human ...
