Bullets versus burgers: is it threat or relevance that captures attention? [0.03%]
子弹与汉堡：是威胁还是相关性吸引了注意？
Beatrice M de Oca,Alison A Black
Beatrice M de Oca
Previous studies have found that potentially dangerous stimuli are better at capturing attention than neutral stimuli, a finding sometimes called the threat superiority effect. However, non-threatening stimuli also capture attention in many...
Stealing is not gross: language distinguishes visceral disgust from moral violations [0.03%]
偷窃无恶心：语言区分生理厌恶和道德违规
Rachel S Herz,Alden Hinds
Rachel S Herz
The similarity between moral and visceral disgust is a current topic of debate. One method of investigating this issue has been to examine the use of language. Prior work has shown that the words disgust and anger are often used interchange...
Cultural similarities and differences in the perception of emotional valence and intensity: a comparison of Americans and Hong Kong Chinese [0.03%]
情感的价值和强度的感知的文化相同点与不同点——美国与香港华人之间的比较研究
Zhuoying Zhu,Samuel M Y Ho,George A Bonanno
Zhuoying Zhu
Despite being challenged for their ecological validity, studies of emotion perception have often relied on static, posed expressions. One of the key reasons is that dynamic, spontaneous expressions are difficult to control because of the ex...
Sam S Rakover,Baruch Cahlon
Sam S Rakover
We propose a model, face-checking, that is based on first-order relational properties and discriminates between different faces (regular and scrambled) and predicts their similarity choice in 2 orientations: upright and inverted. The result...
Characterizing the developmental profile of effort-induced motor overflow across a timed trial [0.03%]
时间试验中努力引起的运动外溢的发育特征描述
Patricia K Addamo,Maree Farrow,John L Bradshaw et al.
Patricia K Addamo et al.
Motor overflow is overt involuntary movement that accompanies voluntary movement. This study investigated the change in overflow production across a timed trial and the factors that affected this profile. Seventeen children (aged 8-11 years...
Reducing false memories via context reinstatement: the roles of encoding and retrieval contexts [0.03%]
通过情境再现减少虚假记忆：编码和检索情景的作用
Kerri A Goodwin
Kerri A Goodwin
Reinstatement of encoding strategies during recall was investigated in 3 experiments using the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm (Deese, 1959; Roediger & McDermott, 1995). Participants studied lists using either elaborative or rote rehearsa...
Bram T Heerebout,Ana Todorović,Hilde E Smedinga et al.
Bram T Heerebout et al.
Affective modulation of attentional switching may have developed early in evolution and may therefore have primacy over other affective influences. This behavioral study investigated the influence of affect on attentional switching between ...
Music, affect, method, data: reflections on the Carroll versus Kivy debate [0.03%]
音乐、情感、方法、数据——兼论Carroll与Kivy的争论
Vladimir J Konecni
Vladimir J Konecni
The comprehensive exchange between Noel Carroll and Peter Kivy, which took place in 2007, addressed key issues in the relationship between music and affect. More than in any prior philosophical debate on this topic, experimental psychologis...
Robert J Taormina,Jennifer H Gao
Robert J Taormina
For each of the 5 needs in Maslow's motivational hierarchy (physiological, safety-security, belongingness, esteem, and self-actualization), operational definitions were developed from Maslow's theory of motivation. New measures were created...
Brian D Haig
Brian D Haig
For more than 50 years, psychology has been dominated by a top-down research strategy in which a simplistic account of the hypothetico-deductive method is paired with null hypothesis testing in order to test hypotheses and theories. As a co...