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A UNIFIED MODEL OF MOTIVATED REASONING: THE INTERACTIVE ROLE OF MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS, SITUATIONAL AFFORDANCES, AND COGNITIVE RESOURCES IN HUMAN JUDGMENT.
(2011)
Motivated biases are considered under an integrative theoretical framework which specifies the interplay between motivation, situational affordances, and cognitive resources. According to this framework, motivation influences ...
Comparing Me to You: Comparison Between Novel and Familiar Goal-Directed Actions Facilitates Goal Extraction and Imitation
(2011)
Recognizing the goals of others' actions is critical for much of human development and social life. Origins of this knowledge exist in the first year and are a function of both acting as an intentional agent and observing ...
The Effect of Social Interaction on the Neural Correlates of Language Processing and Mentalizing
(2014)
Recent behavioral and neuroscience evidence suggests that studying the social brain in detached and offline contexts (e.g., listening to prerecorded stories about characters) may not capture real-world social processes. ...
THE ROLE OF DOMAIN GENERAL COGNITIVE MECHANISMS IN BILINGUAL LANGUAGE PRODUCTION
(2015)
Bilingual language production is widely believed to be a competitive process. Bilinguals may manage this competition by relying on inhibiting one language while speaking in the other. However, it remains unclear if this ...
The benefits of testing: Individual differences based on student factors
(2017)
The testing effect, the notion that retrieval practice compared to restudying information leads to greater and longer retention, is one of the most robust findings in cognitive science. However, not all learners experience ...
INVESTIGATING THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION ON FACE PROCESSING
(2017)
Because social exclusion leads to adverse effects, excluded individuals exhibit altered social information processing. In particular, these individuals process social information from faces differently than their included ...
DOES VISUOSPATIAL WORKING MEMORY MATTER IN MENTAL ARITHMETIC?
(2018)
Approximate Arithmetic is a task that requires one to approximate the number of dots in dot arrays to add or subtract pairs of dot arrays. Past work has shown that Approximate Arithmetic is a significant predictor of ...
Effects of Action-Outcome Agency on Feedback Processing
(2016)
The current study investigated the effect of action-outcome agency, or one’s ability to guide behavior during reinforcement learning, on reward and loss processing in a gambling task. Thirty undergraduates (13 females; M ...
Musical Training and Executive Functions
(2016)
Learning and performing music draws on a host of cognitive abilities. One likely aspect of cognition that may be related to musical training is executive function. To date, many studies have investigated this relationship; ...
RELATIONAL MEMORY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD: DOES UNITIZATION HELP?
(2015)
Young children often experience relational memory failures, which are thought to be due to underdeveloped recollection processes. Manipulations with adults, however, have suggested that relational memory tasks can be ...