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Contextual positivity-familiarity effects are unaffected by known moderators of misattribution (2020)
Journal Article
Weil, R., Palma, T. A., & Gawronski, B. (in press). Contextual positivity-familiarity effects are unaffected by known moderators of misattribution. Cognition and Emotion, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2020.1858029

The positivity-familiarity effect refers to the phenomenon that positive affect increases the likelihood that people judge a stimulus as familiar. Drawing on the assumption that positivity-familiarity effects result from a common misattribution mecha... Read More about Contextual positivity-familiarity effects are unaffected by known moderators of misattribution.

Do wild raccoons (Procyon lotor) use tools? (2020)
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Morton, F. B. (2020). Do wild raccoons (Procyon lotor) use tools?. Animal Cognition, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-020-01430-y

Being able to make and use tools was once considered to be an evolutionary hallmark of our species, but has since been documented in other animals. However, for reasons that remain unclear, not all species naturally use tools. Racoons (Procyon lotor)... Read More about Do wild raccoons (Procyon lotor) use tools?.

Schizotypy but not Cannabis Use Modestly Predicts Psychotogenic Experiences: A Cross-Sectional Study Using the Oxford-Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences (O-LIFE) (2020)
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Airey, N. D., Hammersley, R., & Reid, M. (2020). Schizotypy but not Cannabis Use Modestly Predicts Psychotogenic Experiences: A Cross-Sectional Study Using the Oxford-Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences (O-LIFE). Journal of Addiction, 2020, Article 5961275. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/5961275

Objective. Cannabis use predicts psychosis in longitudinal studies, but it is difficult to infer causation. Some precursor variables predict both, including childhood trauma and adversity. Additionally, some of the desired effects of cannabis use res... Read More about Schizotypy but not Cannabis Use Modestly Predicts Psychotogenic Experiences: A Cross-Sectional Study Using the Oxford-Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences (O-LIFE).

National survey of variations in practice in the prevention of surgical site infections in adult cardiac surgery, United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (2020)
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Aktuerk, D., Ali, J. M., Badran, A., Balmforth, D., Bleetman, D., Brown, C. S., …Harrington, P. (2020). National survey of variations in practice in the prevention of surgical site infections in adult cardiac surgery, United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Journal of Hospital Infection, 106(4), 812-819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.09.016

Background: Currently no national standards exist for the prevention of surgical site infection (SSI) in cardiac surgery. SSI rates range from 1% to 8% between centres. Aim: The aim of this study was to explore and characterize variation in approache... Read More about National survey of variations in practice in the prevention of surgical site infections in adult cardiac surgery, United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.

The effect of dysphoria on the relationship between autobiographical memories and the self (2020)
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Grace, L., Dewhurst, S. A., & Anderson, R. J. (2021). The effect of dysphoria on the relationship between autobiographical memories and the self. Cognition and Emotion, 35(1), 71-83. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2020.1802231

Two experiments investigated the bi-directional relationship between episodic autobiographical memories (ABMs) and semantic self-images in dysphoric and nondysphoric individuals. Participants in Experiment 1 generated positive and negative “I am” sta... Read More about The effect of dysphoria on the relationship between autobiographical memories and the self.

The representation of stimulus conjunction in theories of associative learning : a context-dependent added-elements model (2020)
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George, D. N. (in press). The representation of stimulus conjunction in theories of associative learning : a context-dependent added-elements model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 46(3), 185-204. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000252

This paper briefly reviews three theories concerning elemental and configural approaches to stimulus representation in associative learning and presents a new Context-dependent Added Elements Model (C-AEM). This model takes an elemental approach to s... Read More about The representation of stimulus conjunction in theories of associative learning : a context-dependent added-elements model.

When does contextual positivity influence judgments of familiarity? Investigating moderators of the positivity-familiarity effect (2020)
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Weil, R., Palma, T., & Gawronski, B. (2020). When does contextual positivity influence judgments of familiarity? Investigating moderators of the positivity-familiarity effect. Social cognition : the official journal of the International Social Cognition Network, 38(2), 119-145. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2020.38.2.119

The positivity-familiarity effect suggests that people use positive affect as a cue to answer the question of whether they have encountered a stimulus before. Five experiments investigated this effect under various conditions. Positivity-familiarity... Read More about When does contextual positivity influence judgments of familiarity? Investigating moderators of the positivity-familiarity effect.

Freedom to act enhances the sense of agency, while movement and goal-related prediction errors reduce it (2020)
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Villa, R., Tidoni, E., Porciello, G., & Aglioti, S. M. (in press). Freedom to act enhances the sense of agency, while movement and goal-related prediction errors reduce it. Psychological research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01319-y

The Sense of Agency (SoA) is the experience of controlling one’s movements and their external consequences. Accumulating evidence suggests that freedom to act enhances SoA, while prediction errors are known to reduce it. Here, we investigated if pred... Read More about Freedom to act enhances the sense of agency, while movement and goal-related prediction errors reduce it.

When the Dark Shines: The role of dark personality traits in leadership role occupancy and hiring decisions in a collectivistic culture (2020)
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Nuzulia, S., & Why, F. (in press). When the Dark Shines: The role of dark personality traits in leadership role occupancy and hiring decisions in a collectivistic culture. Social Psychological and Personality Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550619893956

Two studies investigated the role of the Dark Triad traits (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism), conscientiousness, and intelligence on leadership role occupancy and hiring decisions in Indonesian culture, which is a collectivist cul... Read More about When the Dark Shines: The role of dark personality traits in leadership role occupancy and hiring decisions in a collectivistic culture.

Stuffing down feelings: Bereavement, anxiety and emotional detachment in the life stories of people with eating disorders (2019)
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Reid, M., Wilson‐Walsh, R., Cartwright, L., & Hammersley, R. (2020). Stuffing down feelings: Bereavement, anxiety and emotional detachment in the life stories of people with eating disorders. Health and Social Care in the Community, 28(3), 979-987. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12930

This study aimed to explore the life stories of people with eating disorders (EDs) in order to better understand possible contributing factors to their development. It used a qualitative Life Story method, in order to reduce the tendency to focus on... Read More about Stuffing down feelings: Bereavement, anxiety and emotional detachment in the life stories of people with eating disorders.

Semantic interpretability does not influence masked priming effects (2019)
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Tseng, H., Lindsay, S., & Davis, C. J. (2020). Semantic interpretability does not influence masked priming effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(6), 856-867. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021819896766

Much of the recent masked nonword priming literature demonstrates no difference in priming between affixed and non-affixed nonword primes (e.g., maskity-MASK vs. maskond-MASK). A possible explanation for the absence of a difference is that studies ha... Read More about Semantic interpretability does not influence masked priming effects.

Optimizing audiovisual itch induction: the role of attention and expectancy (2019)
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Laarhoven, A., & Holle, H. (2020). Optimizing audiovisual itch induction: the role of attention and expectancy. British journal of dermatology, 182(5), 1088-1089. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjd.18596

Linked Article: Marzell et al. Br J Dermatol 2020; 182:12531261. Opening paragraph: In this issue of the BJD, Marzell and colleagues1 show for the first time that the level of itch induced by audiovisual itch stimuli is not inferior to histaminer... Read More about Optimizing audiovisual itch induction: the role of attention and expectancy.

Detecting falsehood relies on mismatch detection between sentence components (2019)
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Weil, R., & Mudrik, L. (2020). Detecting falsehood relies on mismatch detection between sentence components. Cognition, 195, Article 104121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104121

How do people process and evaluate falsehood of sentences? Do people need to compare presented information with the correct answer to determine that a sentence is false, or do they rely on a mismatch between presented sentence components? To illustra... Read More about Detecting falsehood relies on mismatch detection between sentence components.

Disentangling the effects of attentional weighting and associative mediation in perceptual learning reveals no evidence for associative mediation (2019)
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George, D. N., & Oltean, B. P. (2020). Disentangling the effects of attentional weighting and associative mediation in perceptual learning reveals no evidence for associative mediation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46(7), 1207-1225. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000773

Learning to categorize perceptually similar stimuli can result in people becoming more sensitive to differences along perceptual dimensions that are relevant to category membership and/or less sensitive to equivalent differences along irrelevant perc... Read More about Disentangling the effects of attentional weighting and associative mediation in perceptual learning reveals no evidence for associative mediation.

Computerized stimuli for studying oddity effects (2019)
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Dobbinson, K. E., Morrell, L. J., & Skarratt, P. A. (2020). Computerized stimuli for studying oddity effects. Behavioral ecology, 31(1), 176-183. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz174

Visually hunting predators must overcome the challenges that prey groups present. One such challenge is the confusion effect where an overburdened visual system means predators are unable to successfully target prey. A strategy to overcome confusion... Read More about Computerized stimuli for studying oddity effects.

Sensorimotor cortex activation during anticipation of upcoming predictable but not unpredictable actions (2019)
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Krol, M. A., Schutter, D. J. L. G., & Jellema, T. (2020). Sensorimotor cortex activation during anticipation of upcoming predictable but not unpredictable actions. Social Neuroscience, 15(2), 214-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2019.1674688

The mirror neuron system (MNS) becomes active during action execution and action observation, which is presumably reflected by reductions in mu (8–13 Hz) activity in the electroencephalogram over the sensorimotor cortex. The function of the MNS is st... Read More about Sensorimotor cortex activation during anticipation of upcoming predictable but not unpredictable actions.

The sociodemographic context of observed solitary and social smoking behaviours using a behavioural ecological approach (2019)
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Why, F. Y. P., Undarwati, A., & Nuzulia, S. (in press). The sociodemographic context of observed solitary and social smoking behaviours using a behavioural ecological approach. Journal of health psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105319877447

This study used a behavioural ecological approach by observing whether solitary and social smoking varied as a function of gender and stress. In sample 1 (N = 414), the result was consistent with the Tend-and-Befriend Hypothesis in that more female s... Read More about The sociodemographic context of observed solitary and social smoking behaviours using a behavioural ecological approach.