Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

The Awakening of the Attention: Evidence for a Link Between the Monitoring of Mind Wandering and Prospective Goals

Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Volume 147, Issue 3, 431-443 Abstract “Across 2 independent samples, we examined the relation between individual differences in rates of self-caught mind wandering and individual differences in temporal monitoring of an unrelated response goal. Rates of self-caught mind wandering were assessed during a commonly used sustained-attention task, and temporal […]

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Perceptual But Not Complex Moral Judgments Can Be Biased by Exploiting the Dynamics of Eye-Gaze

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Volume 147, Issue 3, 409-417 Abstract “Can judgments be biased via passive monitoring of eye-gaze? We examined this question using a perceptual discrimination task (Experiment 1) and a complex moral judgment task (Experiment 2). Information about the location of participants’ gaze at particular time-points in a trial was used

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Simulational Fluency Reduces Feelings of Psychological Distance

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Volume 147, Issue 3, 354-376 Abstract “Why do some events feel “like yesterday” whereas others feel “ages away”? Past research has identified cues that influence people’s estimates of distance in units such as how many miles or days away events are from the self. However, what makes events feel

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Robust, Replicable, and Theoretically-Grounded: A Response to Brown and Coyne’s (2017) Commentary on the Relationship Between Emodiversity and Health

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Volume 147, Issue 3, 451-458 Abstract “In 2014 in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, we reported 2 studies demonstrating that the diversity of emotions that people experience—as measured by the Shannon-Wiener entropy index— was an independent predictor of mental and physical health, over and above the effect of

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The Ego-Moving Metaphor of Time Relies on Visual Experience: No Representation of Time Along the Sagittal Space in the Blind

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Volume 147, Issue 3, 444-450 Abstract “In many cultures, humans conceptualize the past as behind the body and the future as in front. Whether this spatial mapping of time depends on visual experience is still not known. Here, we addressed this issue by testing early-blind participants in a space–time

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Do We See It or Not? Sensory Attenuation in the Visual Domain

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Volume 147, Issue 3, 418-430 Abstract “Sensory consequences of an agent’s actions are perceived less intensely than sensory stimuli that are not caused (and thus not predicted) by the observer. This effect of sensory attenuation has been discussed as a key principle of perception, potentially mediating various crucial functions

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Alexithymia Is Associated With a Multidomain, Multidimensional Failure of Interoception: Evidence From Novel Tests

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Volume 147, Issue 3, 398-408 Abstract “Interoception, the perception of the body’s internal state, contributes to numerous aspects of higher-order cognition. Several theories suggest a causal role for atypical interoception in specific psychiatric disorders, including a recent claim that atypical interoception represents a transdiagnostic impairment across disorders characterized by

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Complementarity in false memory illusions

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Published in: Journal of Experimental: Psychology, Volume 147, Issue 3, 305-327 Abstract “For some years, the DRM illusion has been the most widely studied form of false memory. The consensus theoretical interpretation is that the illusion is a reality reversal, in which certain new words (critical distractors) are remembered as though they are old list words

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Implications of Individual Differences in On-Average Null Effects

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Volume 147, Issue 3, 377-397 Abstract “Most psychological models are intended to describe processes that operate within each individual. In many research areas, however, models are tested by looking at results averaged across many individuals, despite the fact that such averaged results may give a misleading picture of what

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Tests of an Exemplar-Memory Model of Classification Learning in a High-Dimensional Natural-Science Category Domain

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Volume 147, Issue 3, 328-353 Abstract “Experiments were conducted in which novice participants learned to classify pictures of rocks into real-world, scientifically defined categories. The experiments manipulated the distribution of training instances during an initial study phase, and then tested for correct classification and generalization performance during a transfer

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