Body—object interaction ratings for 1,618 monosyllabic nounsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 40 - Trang 1075-1078 - 2008
Sherri M. Tillotson, Paul D. Siakaluk, Penny M. Pexman
Body-object interaction (BOI) assesses the ease with which a human body can physically interact with a word’s referent. Recent research has shown that BOI influences visual word recognition processes in such a way that responses to high-BOI words (e.g., couch) are faster and less error prone than responses to low-BOI words (e.g., cliff ). Importantly, the high-BOI words and the low-BOI words that ...... hiện toàn bộ
Assessing the validity of computer-game-like tests of processing speed and working memorySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 40 - Trang 969-981 - 2008
Jason McPherson, Nicholas R. Burns
Processing speed (Gs) and working memory (WM) tasks have received considerable interest as correlates of more complex cognitive performance measures. Gs and WM tasks are often repetitive and are often rigidly presented, however. The effects of Gs and WM may, therefore, be confounded with those of motivation and anxiety. In an effort to address this problem, we assessed the concurrent and predictiv...... hiện toàn bộ
Is sadness blue? The problem of using figurative language for emotions on psychological testsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 49 - Trang 443-456 - 2016
Matthew J. Roe, Kelly E. Grob, Kimberly A. Barchard
Psychological tests sometimes include figurative language like I feel blue. However, figurative language may not mean the same thing cross-culturally. Previous research found cross-cultural evidence for 14 conceptual metaphors and metonymies for emotions (e.g., sadness is blue). Our two studies asked participants (total n = 795) in the USA and India whether happiness, sadness, anger, and fear are ...... hiện toàn bộ
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Measuring circadian cycles: A simple temperature recording preparationSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 9 - Trang 393-394 - 1977
Raymond G. Romanczyk, Daniel B. Crimmins, William C. Gordon, Wayne M. Kashinsky
While measurement of temperature as an index of circadian rhythmicity is not a difficult task with infrahuman subjects, long-term monitoring of deep body temperature with human subjects poses numerous measurement and safety problems. A preparation is described that is highly accurate, inexpensive, chronic, comfortable, and eliminates safety problems associated with more traditional methods of temp...... hiện toàn bộ