Browsing by Subject "Psychology, Experimental"
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51 properties of 125 words: A unit analysis of verbal behavior
(Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1980-01-01)Values for 125 words were obtained for 51 scales including measures of orthography, pronunciation, imagery, categorizability, association, number of attributes, age-of-acquisition, word frequency, goodness, emotionality, ... -
A simple design for an impossible triangle.
(Perception, 1979-01) -
Characteristics and Constraints in Ballads and Their Effects on Memory
(Discourse Processes, 1991-04-01)Four sets of ballads, chosen as a sample of an oral tradition as it existed in North Carolina in the early 1900s, were examined in order to determine whether ballad characteristics used in combination are sufficient to account ... -
Expressive Control and Emotion Perception: the Impact of Expressive Suppression and Mimicry on Sensitivity to Facial Expressions of Emotion
(2008-05-28)Recent studies have linked expressive suppression to impairments in interpersonal functioning, but the mechanism underlying this relationship has not been well articulated. One possibility is that the individual who engages ... -
Feeling Good and Doing Better: How Specific Positive Emotions Influence Consumer Behavior and Well-being
(2009)Marketers seek to create and consumers seek to cultivate a variety of positive emotional experiences. Despite their importance to consumer behavior, researchers have lacked a clear understanding of the distinct behavioral ... -
First-order approximation to English, second-order approximation to English, and orthographic neighbor ratio norms for 925 nouns
(Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation, 1981-11-01)First- and second-order approximations to English and orthographic neighbor ratio values are provided for Paivio, Yuille, and Madigan's (1968) 925 nouns. First- and second-order approximations to English are information ... -
Mechanisms by Which Early Nutrition Influences Spatial Memory, Adult Neurogenesis, and Response to Hippocampal Injury
(2010)Altered dietary availability of the vital nutrient choline during early development leads to persistent changes in brain and behavior throughout adulthood. Prenatal choline supplementation during embryonic days (ED) 12-17 ... -
Most People who Think that They are Likely to Enter Psychotherapy also Think it is Plausible that They could have Forgotten their own Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse.
(Applied cognitive psychology, 2009-01)Pezdek and Blandon-Gitlin (in press) found that 25% of their participants reported as plausible or very plausible that they themselves could have been a victim of childhood sexual abuse without being able to remember it. ... -
Neural Coding Strategies in Cortico-Striatal Circuits Subserving Interval Timing
(2010)Interval timing, defined as timing and time perception in the seconds-to-minutes range, is a higher-order cognitive function that has been shown to be critically dependent upon cortico-striatal circuits in the brain. However, ... -
Object-Directed Action Experiences and their Effect on Cognitive and Social Development
(2010)Reaching is an important and early emerging motor skill that allows infants to interact with the physical and social world (e.g., when sharing objects). Despite the importance of motor experiences in early infancy, few studies ... -
The awakening of the attention: Evidence for a link between the monitoring of mind wandering and prospective goals.
(Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2018-03)Across 2 independent samples, we examined the relation between individual differences in rates of self-caught mind wandering and individual differences in temporal monitoring of an unrelated response goal. Rates of self-caught ... -
The Characteristics and Neural Substrates of Feedback-based Decision Process in Recognition Memory
(2008-04-10)The judgment of prior stimulus occurrence, generally referred to as item recognition, is perhaps the most heavily studied of all memory skills. A skilled recognition observer not only recovers high fidelity memory evidence, ... -
The dynamics of behavior: Review of Sutton and Barto: Reinforcement Learning : An Introduction (2 nd ed.)
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Two Essays on Escalation of Commitment
(2009)This dissertation focuses on managerial decision making, and specifically explores conditions wherein managers may increase their propensity to escalate commitment towards a failing project. Escalation researchers (e.g. ... -
Unit Analysis of Prose Memory in Clinical and Elderly Populations
(Developmental Neuropsychology, 1986-01-01)Interpretation of clinical memory tests generally emphasizes the quantitative aspects of recall. This study presents an additional unit analysis of the Logical Memory subtest of Russell's revision of the Wechsler Memory ...
