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Cross-cultural Differences in Using Nonverbal Behaviors to Identify Indirect Replies
The ability to decode nonverbal cues is essential for effective cross-cultural communication. Despite the significance of nonverbal communication,...
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Aha! and D’oh! experiences enhance learning for incidental information—new evidence supports the insight memory advantage
Research on creative problem-solving finds that solutions achieved via spontaneous insight (i.e., Aha! moment) are better remembered than solutions...
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Watching (natural) beauty boosts task performance: testing the nature-as-reward hypothesis
In two online studies, we tested the “nature-as-reward hypothesis”, which suggests that superior cognitive task performance following nature exposure...
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Task-crafting: how power distance shapes the influence of goal-setting participation
Purpose- The presence of employees is indispensable for the sustenance of any company entity. Consequently, firms have made substantial investments...
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Social interaction anxiety, social phobia, and cognitive control: controlled reactions to facial affect during an emotional face flanker task
Trait social anxiety may predict differences in the cognitive control of emotional distraction when emotional face discrimination is required. This...
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A Dress Is Not a Yes: Towards an Indirect Mouse-Tracking Measure of Men’s Overreliance on Global Cues in the Context of Sexual Flirting
Assessing another person’s intention to flirt and, relatedly, their sexual interest is based on the interpretation and weighting of global (e.g.,...
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Power analysis for conditional indirect effects: A tutorial for conducting Monte Carlo simulations with categorical exogenous variables
Conceptual and statistical models that include conditional indirect effects (i.e., so-called “moderated mediation” models) are increasingly popular...
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A spatial version of the Stroop task for examining proactive and reactive control independently from non-conflict processes
Conflict-induced control refers to humans’ ability to regulate attention in the processing of target information (e.g., the color of a word in the...
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Comparing Indirect and Combined Effects of Mindfulness and Compassion Practice Among Schoolchildren on Inter- and Intra-personal Abilities
ObjectivesDuring the last decade, mindfulness-based interventions have been implemented in the educational system. Such programs could follow several...
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The role of spatial information in an approximate cross-modal number matching task
The approximate number system (ANS) is thought to be an innate cognitive system that allows humans to perceive numbers (>4) in a fuzzy manner. One...
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School engagement, school climate and youth externalizing behaviors: direct and indirect effects of parenting practices
This research aimed to explore the direct and indirect effects of students’ school engagement, school climate and parenting practices on youth’s...
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The Padua PM task: a new high-quality video-based prospective memory assessment in younger and older adults
Older adults are particularly compromised when engaged in Prospective Memory (PM) tasks, but it has also been pointed out that age-related PM decline...
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Number processing outside awareness? Systematically testing sensitivities of direct and indirect measures of consciousness
In priming research, it is often argued that humans can discriminate stimuli outside consciousness. For example, the semantic meaning of numbers can...
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Emotional Stroop Task in Mindfulness Research
The traditional color Stroop task tests the ability for a person to respond to the color of ink a word is printed in and inhibit the incongruent...
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Investigating habits in humans with a symmetrical outcome-revaluation task
The translation of the outcome-devaluation paradigm to study habit in humans has yielded interesting insights but proven to be challenging. We...
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Behavioral impulse and time pressure jointly influence intentional inhibition: evidence from the Free Two-Choice Oddball task
Intentional inhibition is a crucial component of self-regulation, yet it is under-researched, because it is difficult to study without external...
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Task-irrelevant auditory metre shapes visuomotor sequential learning
The ability to learn and reproduce sequences is fundamental to every-day life, and deficits in sequential learning are associated with developmental...
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Predicting dominance and prestige status-striving from the dark tetrad: The mediating role of indirect aggression
Evolutionary scholars have highlighted how there are two normative approaches to enhancing one’s status: dominance and prestige. Several individual...
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Academic Achievement After Violence Exposure: The Indirect Effects of School Attachment and Motivation to Succeed
Disparities in educational outcomes for students living in communities burdened with high rates of violence are striking as they are at an increased...
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Subject Advantage in L1-English Learners’ Production of Chinese Relative Clauses
This study investigated whether L1-English Chinese learners show a subject preference in their oral production of Chinese relative clauses (RCs) and...
