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Elicitors and Effects of an Awe Experience
(2017)
While efforts have been made to define the nature and effects of experiencing awe (e.g., Keltner & Haidt, 2003; Shiota, Keltner, & Mossman, 2007), there is still much about the emotion which remains unexplored. One of the ...
Keeping Calm and Carrying On: Relating Proactive Personality, Affect Spin, and Affect Pulse to Learning and Adaptive Task Performance
(2018-07-20)
The purpose of this laboratory study involving 214 undergraduate students learning a complex videogame was to address the gaps in the empirical literature regarding the non-cognitive traits that comprise the construct of ...
Considering the exceptions: How should leaders think about experience?
(2018-12-14)
Prior research suggests that leaders produce their best and most impactful solutions to organizational problems when they use relatively simple mental models. A critical question which remains, however, is how do leaders ...
Bias and bias remediation in creative problem-solving: Managing biases through forecasting
(2017)
Although scholars have identified many variables that affect creative problem-solving, less attention has been given to variables that might lead to failure in creative problem-solving. One set of variables that might lead ...
A Litmus Test for the Pattern-Suppression Model
(2016)
The current set of experiments were designed to test the pattern-suppression model, which is a component of the suppression theory of forgetting. Experiment 1 tested the pattern-facilitation hypothesis, a hypothesis derived ...
What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs about Relationships
(2017-05)
Research has shown that exposure to specific fiction genres is associated with theory of mind and attitudes toward gender roles and sexual behavior (e.g. Fong, Mullin, & Mar, 2013, 2015); however, relatively little research ...
Measuring Individual Differences and Changes in Moral Reasoning: An Economic Game Approach
(2018)
Motivated reasoning bias and its manifestation in confirmation bias make it unlikely that people will change their minds on matters for which their positions are expressions of their own or their group’s identity. Moral ...
Analysis of MEG as Related to Spatial Transformation and Top-Down Control of Saccade Behavior
(2016-08)
Preparatory brain activity can provide insight into goal-oriented action and inhibitory processes related to both motor and cognition. In the current study participants performed an interleaved prosaccade (PS) and antisaccade ...
Numeracy vs. Intelligence: A Model of the Relationship Between Cognitive Abilities and Decision Making
(2018-05)
For nearly 150 years, psychological research and theory has documented a link between general intelligence and decision making performance. This suggests that individual differences in decision making (and other life ...
Components of episodic memory: connecting human behavior and electrophysiology to a rodent model
(2017-07)
Episodic memory encoding and retrieval rely on integration of information about what
an item was, as well as when and where it was encountered. Previous research from
animal lesion studies using a novelty preference ...