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Saudi English: A Descriptive Analysis of English Language Variations in Saudi Arabia
The paper describes Saudi English morphosyntactic and lexical features that are widely practiced among educated Saudis, who completed at least nine...
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Improving the DSM-5 approach to cognitive impairment: Developmental prosopagnosia reveals the need for tailored diagnoses
The Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) recommends diagnosing neurocognitive disorders (i.e., cognitive impairment) when a...
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COVID-19: Harbinger of a New Psychology of Religion for Postcolonial Societies
Religious practice, like every other human affair, was altered at the onset of the pandemic. The paper argues that the “home church” as a Christian...
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Clinical Cases in the History of Brazilian Psychoanalysis
We distinguish four moments in the history of psychoanalysis in Brazil through this comparative study of the construction of clinical cases. Based on...
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Dimensionality and optimal combination of autonomic fear-conditioning measures in humans
Fear conditioning, also termed threat conditioning, is a commonly used learning model with clinical relevance. Quantification of threat conditioning...
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Intergenerational transmission of parental child-rearing gender-role attitudes and its influence on gender roles in single-parent families
BackgroundThe development of children’s gender roles in single-parent families is worthy of attention. It may be affected by family members’ gender...
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Face recognition ability does not predict person identification performance: using individual data in the interpretation of group results
There are large individual differences in people’s face recognition ability. These individual differences provide an opportunity to recruit the best...
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Global precedence effects account for individual differences in both face and object recognition performance
There has been an increase in studies adopting an individual difference approach to examine visual cognition and in particular in studies trying to...
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When time stands upright: STEARC effects along the vertical axis
According to the spatial–temporal association of response codes (STEARC) effect, time can be spatially represented from left to right. However,...
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Discrimination and recognition of faces with changed configuration
Subtle metric differences in facial configuration, such as between-person variation in the distances between the eyes, have been used widely in...
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Associations of observer’s gender, Body Mass Index and internalization of societal beauty ideals to visual body processing
We examined whether visual processing mechanisms of the body of conspecifics are different in women and men and whether these rely on westernised...
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Emotion and Gender Typicality Cue Sexual Orientation Differently in Women and Men
Heterosexual individuals tend to look and act more typical for their gender compared to gay and lesbian individuals, and people use this information...
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Holistic face representation is highly orientation-specific
It has long been argued that face processing requires disproportionate reliance on holistic processing (HP), relative to that required for nonface...
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Experience-dependent reshaping of body gender perception
Protracted exposure to specific stimuli causes biased visual aftereffects at both low- and high-level dimensions of a stimulus. Recently, it has been...
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Challenges in replication: Does amygdala gray matter volume relate to social network size?
In this work, we tried to replicate and extend prior research on the relationship between social network size and the volume of the amygdala. We...
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Paths Towards LGBT Rights Recognition in Brazil
IntroductionThis article addresses the processes that led to the recognition of LGBT rights in Brazil, the role played by civil society mobilization,...
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It occurs after all: Attentional bias towards happy faces in the dot-probe task
Many studies have shown that not only threatening but also positive stimuli capture visual attention. However, in the dot-probe task, a common...
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Leveraging Machine Learning to Automatically Derive Robust Decision Strategies from Imperfect Knowledge of the Real World
Teaching people clever heuristics is a promising approach to improve decision-making under uncertainty. The theory of resource rationality makes it...
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