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Understanding How Knowledge Fluctuates in Accessibility
(2017)
While an impressive amount of knowledge is stored in memory, individual items can
fluctuate in accessibility: Two attempts to retrieve the same knowledge (e.g., the
US States) often yield somewhat inconsistent results. In ...
Effects of Expectation, Experience, and Environment on Visual Search
(2009)
A pervasive aspect of daily life is searching for a specific target amongst an array
of distracting items. Studying such visual searches offers a useful and powerful tool
for revealing the underlying aspects of visual attention. ...
Stigma, Avoidant-Orientation, and Self-Disclosure in Friendships
(2017)
The stigma surrounding mental illness has been shown to have a negative impact on
social relationships. However, less research has focused on the mechanisms through
which the connection between stigma and relational outcomes ...
The Roles of Parenting and Moral Socialization in Obsessive-Compulsive Belief and Symptom Development
(2009)
Despite the prominence of cognitive theories of anxiety disorders, which posit that
thoughts can affect the expression of psychopathology, empirical investigation of
the origins of such thoughts is scant. In the study of ...
Why Do Young Children Fail in False Belief Tasks: Linguistic Representations and Implicit Processing
(2009)
Despite recent evidence that infants under one year of age have implicit understanding
of theory of mind, three-year-old children repeatedly fail in traditional false belief
tasks. A serious of 4 studies investigated two ...
The Role of Self-Control, Social Support, and Reliance on Others in the Religiosity-Health Link
(2015)
Religious observance has been reliably shown to improve a wide variety of health outcomes
across the lifespan. Significant work has already been done to find mediating processes
that explain this relationship, but as yet ...
Expectation Modulates Episodic Memory Formation via Dopaminergic Circuitry
(2016)
Episodic memory formation is shaped by expectation. Events that generate expectations
have the capacity to influence memory. Additionally, whether subsequent events meet
or violate expectations has consequences for memory. ...
Neural Mechanisms of Young Adult Sexual Decision-Making and Risk Behavior
(2016)
Sexual risk behavior among young adults is a serious public health concern; 50% will
contract a sexually transmitted infection (STI) before the age of 25. The current
study collected self-report personality and sexual history ...
Testing the Romantic Construal Model: The Impact of Personalization, Specialness, and Value in Evaluating Romantic Actions
(2010)
The Romantic Construal Model proposes that people interpret actions as romantic to
the extent that they perceive that those actions take the receiver’s idiosyncratic
likes and dislikes into account (personalization), are ...
Determinants and Implications of Self-perceived Authenticity: Beliefs About Authenticity and Reactions to Behavioral Incongruence
(2016)
Although many perspectives suggest that authenticity is important for well-being,
people do not always have direct access to the psychological processes that produce
their behaviors and, thus, are not able to judge whether ...