Showing papers in "Acta Psychologica in 2017"

TL;DR: An overall analysis of results, covering five attempts to replicate the traditional RHI experiment and totalling 167 participants, does not show a reliable cooling of the real hand during the RHI, and considers several possible explanations for inconsistencies between reports of hand temperature.

TL;DR: How the presence of an interpreter during an interview affects eliciting information and cues to deceit, while using a method that encourages interviewees to provide more detail is examined, using a model statement, MS.

TL;DR: The results replicated others showing that affective states and the focus of attention on current activity are significant predictors of individual differences in passage-of-time judgments.

TL;DR: Findings indicate that compatibility between body posture and emotion is beneficial for creativity, because when the implicit emotions elicited by body posture match explicit emotions, the effects of emotions on creativity are enhanced, therefore promoting creativity through the flexibility or the persistence pathway respectively.

TL;DR: The results challenge the constructive view of autobiographical memory and suggest that autobiographical memories consist of pre-stored event representations, which are largely governed by associative mechanisms.

TL;DR: The amount of down-regulation in the fictional condition was found to be predicted by interindividual variability in updating performances, but not by the other measures of executive functions, suggesting its implication even in implicit forms of ER.

TL;DR: It is found that both binding and FoC were systematically enhanced with increasing choice-level, and there was no significant correlation between subjective effort and SoA measures.

TL;DR: The results were that switch costs increased roughly linearly in both conditions, in line with load accounts, and in light of recent proposals that working memory reflects lingering neural activity at various sites that operate on the stimuli in each case and findings showing neurally silent working memory representations.

TL;DR: Providing interviewee's with a model statement prime consisting of checkable detail appears to be a useful refinement to the VA procedure.

TL;DR: It is suggested that experience in open skills has benefits of promoting both proactive and reactive controls for task switching, which corresponds to the activity context exposed by the participants.

TL;DR: This is the first study to identify an abnormal temporal integration window in individuals with ADHD-like traits, and an abnormality in the perception of simultaneity could lead to the increased distractibility seen in ADHD.

TL;DR: Eye movement during autobiographical retrieval seems to be triggered by the creation of visual mental images as the latter are indexed by autobiographical reconstruction.

TL;DR: The findings argue against strong assumptions of independent domain-specific subsystems for the storage and processing of linguistic and spatial information and furthermore suggest a less important role for serial encoding in signed than spoken language comprehension.

TL;DR: The somewhat obvious conclusion of this paper is that these processes are more successfully integrated within multi-stage accounts than within the historically favored single-stage response competition accounts that still dominate current psychological research and practice.

TL;DR: It is found that in this high achieving population, ANS precision significantly correlated with performance on the symbolic math portion of two common standardized tests (SAT and ACT) that typically are administered to much older students.

TL;DR: The results show that interference persists when all social components are removed, and that visual processes are sufficient to explain this type of interference, thus supporting a domain-general perceptual interpretation of interference.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the cognate facilitation effect is a real effect that originates in the lexicon, but that cognates can be subject to competition effects outside the Lexicon.

TL;DR: The findings of this bilingual language comprehension study indicate that, similar to bilingual production, bilingual comprehension relies on persisting, reactive language control.

TL;DR: The present report shows that deictic and sequence time are aligned along the lateral axis in a manner consistent with previous work, and shows that these associations between sequence time and sagittal space are sensitive to person-perspective.

TL;DR: The pleasantness attributed to the two avatars increased when they followed the gaze of the participants, providing evidence that gaze following fosters liking independently of the baseline appeal of the individual.

TL;DR: Results did not support the hypothesis that conflict is detected as an affective signal, and Bayesian analyses corroborated the conclusion that phasic affects do not influence post conflict behavioural adjustments in the Simon task.

TL;DR: The analyses of the gaps and the overlaps between the three areas showed that the intermediate is neither O1 nor O2, but an entity in its own right.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that the skill level of the participant and the distance of the internal focus of attention from the key elements of a motor skill directly impact the execution, muscle activity, and movement kinematics associated with skilled motor task performance.

TL;DR: Both groups showed calibration appropriate to the type of tool that they used during the calibration phase, and this calibration carried over to reaches made in the post-test, which inform discussions on the proposed embodied action schema and have applications to virtual reality, specifically the development of self-avatars.

TL;DR: Results suggest that drawing is a powerful tool which improves memory, and that drawing produces a similar level of retention as does paraphrasing, and suggests that elaborative encoding plays a critical role in the memorial benefit that drawing confers to memory for definitions of academic terms.

TL;DR: As should be expected, instruction-based learning took fewer trials than trial-and-error learning to reach a similar performance level, but even when performance was measured relative to the identical number of preceding correct implementation trials, this efficiency gain persisted both in accuracy and in speed.

TL;DR: It is shown that participants report higher pain when heat stimulation was preceded by novel stimuli that were either perceptually or conceptually similar to the previously conditioned CSHIGH.

TL;DR: This article investigated the effect of semantic context in the form of self-produced and other-produced words on subsequent language production and found that both speaking and listening result in implicit learning at the conceptual level of the language system but that these effects are independent of explicit learning as indicated by item recall.

TL;DR: The study examined how alerting and executive attention interact in a task involving conflict resolution, and showed that phasic alerting consistently decreased the efficiency of conflict resolution indexed by response time and accuracy, whereas tonic Alerting increased the accuracy of conflict Resolution, but at a cost in the speed of processing the conflict.

TL;DR: This work largely replicated previous findings of larger conflict adaptation under negative mood than under positive mood, both with a Flanker interference paradigm and a Stroop-like interference paradigm.