Multiracial Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (MRMET): An inclusive version of an influential measure
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Apr 17. doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02323-x. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCan an inclusive test of face cognition meet or exceed the psychometric properties of a prominent less inclusive test? Here, we norm and validate an updated version of the influential Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET), a clinically significant neuropsychiatric paradigm that has long been used to assess theory of mind and social cognition. Unlike the RMET, our Multiracial Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (MRMET) incorporates racially inclusive stimuli, nongendered answer choices, ground-truth referenced answers, and more a...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - April 17, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Heesu Ally Kim Jasmine Kaduthodil Roger W Strong Laura T Germine Sarah Cohan Jeremy B Wilmer Source Type: research
Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) in the wild: Remote heart rate imaging via online webcams
In this study, we aimed to develop an open-source rPPG methodology and test its performance on videos collected via an online platform, without control of the hardware of the participants and the contextual variables, such as illumination, distance, and motion. Across two experiments, we compared the results of the rPPG extraction methodology to a validated dataset used for rPPG testing. Furthermore, we then collected 231 online video recordings and compared the results of the rPPG extraction to finger pulse oximeter data acquired with a validated mobile heart rate application. Results indicated that the rPPG algorithm was...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - April 17, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Daniele Di Lernia Gianluca Finotti Manos Tsakiris Giuseppe Riva Marnix Naber Source Type: research
A survey of experimental stimulus presentation code sharing in major areas of psychology
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Apr 16. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02390-8. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTComputer code plays a vital role in modern science, from the conception and design of experiments through to final data analyses. Open sharing of code has been widely discussed as being advantageous to the scientific process, allowing experiments to be more easily replicated, helping with error detection, and reducing wasted effort and resources. In the case of psychology, the code used to present stimuli is a fundamental component of many experiments. It is not known, however, the degree to which researchers are sharing this typ...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - April 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Amit Rawal Vuong Truong Yu-Hui Lo Lin-Yuan Tseng Niall W Duncan Source Type: research
Refining Bayesian hierarchical MPT modeling: Integrating prior knowledge and ordinal expectations
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Apr 16. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02370-y. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMultinomial processing tree (MPT) models are a broad class of statistical models used to test sophisticated psychological theories. The research questions derived from these theories often go beyond simple condition effects on parameters and involve ordinal expectations (e.g., the same-direction effect on the memory parameter is stronger in one experimental condition than another) or disordinal expectations (e.g., the effect reverses in one experimental condition). Here, we argue that by refining common modeling practices, Bayesi...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - April 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alexandra Sarafoglou Beatrice G Kuhlmann Frederik Aust Julia M Haaf Source Type: research
What do meta-analysts need in primary studies? Guidelines and the SEMI checklist for facilitating cumulative knowledge
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Apr 16. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02373-9. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMeta-analysis is often recognized as the highest level of evidence due to its notable advantages. Therefore, ensuring the precision of its findings is of utmost importance. Insufficient reporting in primary studies poses challenges for meta-analysts, hindering study identification, effect size estimation, and meta-regression analyses. This manuscript provides concise guidelines for the comprehensive reporting of qualitative and quantitative aspects in primary studies. Adhering to these guidelines may help researchers enhance the ...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - April 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bel én Fernández-Castilla Sameh Said-Metwaly Rodrigo S Kreitchmann Wim Van Den Noortgate Source Type: research
Co-occurring dominance and ideal point processes: A general IRTree framework for multidimensional item responding
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Apr 16. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02405-4. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTResponding to rating scale items is a multidimensional process, since not only the substantive trait being measured but also additional personal characteristics can affect the respondents' category choices. A flexible model class for analyzing such multidimensional responses are IRTree models, in which rating responses are decomposed into a sequence of sub-decisions. Different response processes can be involved in item responding both sequentially across those sub-decisions and as co-occurring processes within sub-decisions. In t...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - April 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Viola Merhof Thorsten Meiser Source Type: research
A survey of experimental stimulus presentation code sharing in major areas of psychology
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Apr 16. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02390-8. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTComputer code plays a vital role in modern science, from the conception and design of experiments through to final data analyses. Open sharing of code has been widely discussed as being advantageous to the scientific process, allowing experiments to be more easily replicated, helping with error detection, and reducing wasted effort and resources. In the case of psychology, the code used to present stimuli is a fundamental component of many experiments. It is not known, however, the degree to which researchers are sharing this typ...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - April 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Amit Rawal Vuong Truong Yu-Hui Lo Lin-Yuan Tseng Niall W Duncan Source Type: research
Refining Bayesian hierarchical MPT modeling: Integrating prior knowledge and ordinal expectations
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Apr 16. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02370-y. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMultinomial processing tree (MPT) models are a broad class of statistical models used to test sophisticated psychological theories. The research questions derived from these theories often go beyond simple condition effects on parameters and involve ordinal expectations (e.g., the same-direction effect on the memory parameter is stronger in one experimental condition than another) or disordinal expectations (e.g., the effect reverses in one experimental condition). Here, we argue that by refining common modeling practices, Bayesi...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - April 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alexandra Sarafoglou Beatrice G Kuhlmann Frederik Aust Julia M Haaf Source Type: research
What do meta-analysts need in primary studies? Guidelines and the SEMI checklist for facilitating cumulative knowledge
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Apr 16. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02373-9. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMeta-analysis is often recognized as the highest level of evidence due to its notable advantages. Therefore, ensuring the precision of its findings is of utmost importance. Insufficient reporting in primary studies poses challenges for meta-analysts, hindering study identification, effect size estimation, and meta-regression analyses. This manuscript provides concise guidelines for the comprehensive reporting of qualitative and quantitative aspects in primary studies. Adhering to these guidelines may help researchers enhance the ...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - April 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bel én Fernández-Castilla Sameh Said-Metwaly Rodrigo S Kreitchmann Wim Van Den Noortgate Source Type: research
Co-occurring dominance and ideal point processes: A general IRTree framework for multidimensional item responding
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Apr 16. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02405-4. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTResponding to rating scale items is a multidimensional process, since not only the substantive trait being measured but also additional personal characteristics can affect the respondents' category choices. A flexible model class for analyzing such multidimensional responses are IRTree models, in which rating responses are decomposed into a sequence of sub-decisions. Different response processes can be involved in item responding both sequentially across those sub-decisions and as co-occurring processes within sub-decisions. In t...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - April 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Viola Merhof Thorsten Meiser Source Type: research
Measuring the variability of personality traits with interval responses: Psychometric properties of the dual-range slider response format : Measuring variability with interval responses
In conclusion, the DRS seems to be a reliable response format that could be used to measure the central tendency of a trait equivalently to the VAS. However, it might not be well suited for measuring intra-individual variability in personality traits.PMID:38609729 | DOI:10.3758/s13428-024-02394-4 (Source: Behavior Research Methods)
Source: Behavior Research Methods - April 12, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Matthias Kloft Jean-Paul Snijder Daniel W Heck Source Type: research
A neural network paradigm for modeling psychometric data and estimating IRT model parameters: Cross estimation network
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Apr 12. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02406-3. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis paper presents a novel approach known as the cross estimation network (CEN) for fitting the datasets obtained from psychological or educational tests and estimating the parameters of item response theory (IRT) models. The CEN is comprised of two subnetworks: the person network (PN) and the item network (IN). The PN processes the response pattern of individual respondent and generates an estimate of the underlying ability, while the IN takes in the response pattern of individual item and outputs the estimates of the item para...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - April 12, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Longfei Zhang Ping Chen Source Type: research
Measuring the variability of personality traits with interval responses: Psychometric properties of the dual-range slider response format : Measuring variability with interval responses
In conclusion, the DRS seems to be a reliable response format that could be used to measure the central tendency of a trait equivalently to the VAS. However, it might not be well suited for measuring intra-individual variability in personality traits.PMID:38609729 | DOI:10.3758/s13428-024-02394-4 (Source: Behavior Research Methods)
Source: Behavior Research Methods - April 12, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Matthias Kloft Jean-Paul Snijder Daniel W Heck Source Type: research
A neural network paradigm for modeling psychometric data and estimating IRT model parameters: Cross estimation network
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Apr 12. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02406-3. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis paper presents a novel approach known as the cross estimation network (CEN) for fitting the datasets obtained from psychological or educational tests and estimating the parameters of item response theory (IRT) models. The CEN is comprised of two subnetworks: the person network (PN) and the item network (IN). The PN processes the response pattern of individual respondent and generates an estimate of the underlying ability, while the IN takes in the response pattern of individual item and outputs the estimates of the item para...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - April 12, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Longfei Zhang Ping Chen Source Type: research
Strategies for enhancing automatic fixation detection in head-mounted eye tracking
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Apr 9. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02360-0. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMoving through a dynamic world, humans need to intermittently stabilize gaze targets on their retina to process visual information. Overt attention being thus split into discrete intervals, the automatic detection of such fixation events is paramount to downstream analysis in many eye-tracking studies. Standard algorithms tackle this challenge in the limiting case of little to no head motion. In this static scenario, which is approximately realized for most remote eye-tracking systems, it amounts to detecting periods of relative e...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - April 9, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Michael Drews Kai Dierkes Source Type: research
