Statistical indices of masculinity-femininity: A theoretical and practical framework
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Mar 4. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02369-5. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTStatistical indices of masculinity-femininity (M-F) summarize multivariate profiles of sex-related traits as positions on a single continuum of individual differences, from masculine to feminine. This approach goes back to the early days of sex differences research; however, a systematic discussion of alternative M-F indices (including their meaning, their mutual relations, and their psychometric properties) has been lacking. In this paper I present an integrative theoretical framework for the statistical assessment of masculinity...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - March 4, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marco Del Giudice Source Type: research
Measuring object recognition ability: Reliability, validity, and the aggregate z-score approach
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Mar 4. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02372-w. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMeasurement of domain-general object recognition ability (o) requires minimization of domain-specific variance. One approach is to model o as a latent variable explaining performance on a battery of tests which differ in task demands and stimuli; however, time and sample requirements may be prohibitive. Alternatively, an aggregate measure of o can be obtained by averaging z-scores across tests. Using data from Sunday et al., Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151, 676-694, (2022), we demonstrated that aggregate scores fr...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - March 4, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Conor J R Smithson Jason K Chow Ting-Yun Chang Isabel Gauthier Source Type: research
Many morphs: Parsing gesture signals from the noise
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Mar 4. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02368-6. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTParsing signals from noise is a general problem for signallers and recipients, and for researchers studying communicative systems. Substantial efforts have been invested in comparing how other species encode information and meaning, and how signalling is structured. However, research depends on identifying and discriminating signals that represent meaningful units of analysis. Early approaches to defining signal repertoires applied top-down approaches, classifying cases into predefined signal types. Recently, more labour-intensive...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - March 4, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alexander Mielke Gal Badihi Kirsty E Graham Charlotte Grund Chie Hashimoto Alex K Piel Alexandra Safryghin Katie E Slocombe Fiona Stewart Claudia Wilke Klaus Zuberb ühler Catherine Hobaiter Source Type: research
Dimensionality and optimal combination of autonomic fear-conditioning measures in humans
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 29. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02341-3. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFear conditioning, also termed threat conditioning, is a commonly used learning model with clinical relevance. Quantification of threat conditioning in humans often relies on conditioned autonomic responses such as skin conductance responses (SCR), pupil size responses (PSR), heart period responses (HPR), or respiration amplitude responses (RAR), which are usually analyzed separately. Here, we investigate whether inter-individual variability in differential conditioned responses, averaged across acquisition, exhibits a multi-dime...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 29, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Federico Mancinelli Juliana K Sporrer Vladislav Myrov Filip Melinscak Josua Zimmermann Huaiyu Liu Dominik R Bach Source Type: research
What is a blink? Classifying and characterizing blinks in eye openness signals
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 29. doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02333-9. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBlinks, the closing and opening of the eyelids, are used in a wide array of fields where human function and behavior are studied. In data from video-based eye trackers, blink rate and duration are often estimated from the pupil-size signal. However, blinks and their parameters can be estimated only indirectly from this signal, since it does not explicitly contain information about the eyelid position. We ask whether blinks detected from an eye openness signal that estimates the distance between the eyelids (EO blinks) are compara...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 29, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marcus Nystr öm Richard Andersson Diederick C Niehorster Roy S Hessels Ignace T C Hooge Source Type: research
Dimensionality and optimal combination of autonomic fear-conditioning measures in humans
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 29. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02341-3. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFear conditioning, also termed threat conditioning, is a commonly used learning model with clinical relevance. Quantification of threat conditioning in humans often relies on conditioned autonomic responses such as skin conductance responses (SCR), pupil size responses (PSR), heart period responses (HPR), or respiration amplitude responses (RAR), which are usually analyzed separately. Here, we investigate whether inter-individual variability in differential conditioned responses, averaged across acquisition, exhibits a multi-dime...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 29, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Federico Mancinelli Juliana K Sporrer Vladislav Myrov Filip Melinscak Josua Zimmermann Huaiyu Liu Dominik R Bach Source Type: research
What is a blink? Classifying and characterizing blinks in eye openness signals
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 29. doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02333-9. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBlinks, the closing and opening of the eyelids, are used in a wide array of fields where human function and behavior are studied. In data from video-based eye trackers, blink rate and duration are often estimated from the pupil-size signal. However, blinks and their parameters can be estimated only indirectly from this signal, since it does not explicitly contain information about the eyelid position. We ask whether blinks detected from an eye openness signal that estimates the distance between the eyelids (EO blinks) are compara...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 29, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marcus Nystr öm Richard Andersson Diederick C Niehorster Roy S Hessels Ignace T C Hooge Source Type: research
Dimensionality and optimal combination of autonomic fear-conditioning measures in humans
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 29. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02341-3. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFear conditioning, also termed threat conditioning, is a commonly used learning model with clinical relevance. Quantification of threat conditioning in humans often relies on conditioned autonomic responses such as skin conductance responses (SCR), pupil size responses (PSR), heart period responses (HPR), or respiration amplitude responses (RAR), which are usually analyzed separately. Here, we investigate whether inter-individual variability in differential conditioned responses, averaged across acquisition, exhibits a multi-dime...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 29, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Federico Mancinelli Juliana K Sporrer Vladislav Myrov Filip Melinscak Josua Zimmermann Huaiyu Liu Dominik R Bach Source Type: research
What is a blink? Classifying and characterizing blinks in eye openness signals
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 29. doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02333-9. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBlinks, the closing and opening of the eyelids, are used in a wide array of fields where human function and behavior are studied. In data from video-based eye trackers, blink rate and duration are often estimated from the pupil-size signal. However, blinks and their parameters can be estimated only indirectly from this signal, since it does not explicitly contain information about the eyelid position. We ask whether blinks detected from an eye openness signal that estimates the distance between the eyelids (EO blinks) are compara...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 29, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marcus Nystr öm Richard Andersson Diederick C Niehorster Roy S Hessels Ignace T C Hooge Source Type: research
Dimensionality and optimal combination of autonomic fear-conditioning measures in humans
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 29. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02341-3. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFear conditioning, also termed threat conditioning, is a commonly used learning model with clinical relevance. Quantification of threat conditioning in humans often relies on conditioned autonomic responses such as skin conductance responses (SCR), pupil size responses (PSR), heart period responses (HPR), or respiration amplitude responses (RAR), which are usually analyzed separately. Here, we investigate whether inter-individual variability in differential conditioned responses, averaged across acquisition, exhibits a multi-dime...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 29, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Federico Mancinelli Juliana K Sporrer Vladislav Myrov Filip Melinscak Josua Zimmermann Huaiyu Liu Dominik R Bach Source Type: research
What is a blink? Classifying and characterizing blinks in eye openness signals
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 29. doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02333-9. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBlinks, the closing and opening of the eyelids, are used in a wide array of fields where human function and behavior are studied. In data from video-based eye trackers, blink rate and duration are often estimated from the pupil-size signal. However, blinks and their parameters can be estimated only indirectly from this signal, since it does not explicitly contain information about the eyelid position. We ask whether blinks detected from an eye openness signal that estimates the distance between the eyelids (EO blinks) are compara...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 29, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marcus Nystr öm Richard Andersson Diederick C Niehorster Roy S Hessels Ignace T C Hooge Source Type: research
Dealing with missing data in multi-informant studies: A comparison of approaches
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 28. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02367-7. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMulti-informant studies are popular in social and behavioral science. However, their data analyses are challenging because data from different informants carry both shared and unique information and are often incomplete. Using Monte Carlo Simulation, the current study compares three approaches that can be used to analyze incomplete multi-informant data when there is a distinction between reference and nonreference informants. These approaches include a two-method measurement model for planned missing data (2MM-PMD), treating nonr...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Po-Yi Chen Fan Jia Wei Wu Min-Heng Wang Tzi-Yang Chao Source Type: research
A tutorial on fitting joint models of M/EEG and behavior to understand cognition
We present motivation and practical steps necessary to find parameter estimates of joint models of behavior and neural electrophysiological data. This tutorial is written for researchers wishing to build joint models of human behavior and scalp and intracranial electroencephalographic (EEG) or magnetoencephalographic (MEG) data, and more specifically those researchers who seek to understand human cognition. Although these techniques could easily be applied to animal models, the focus of this tutorial is on human participants. Joint modeling of M/EEG and behavior requires some knowledge of existing computational and cogniti...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 27, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Michael D Nunez Kiant é Fernandez Ramesh Srinivasan Joachim Vandekerckhove Source Type: research
A 2PLM-RANK multidimensional forced-choice model and its fast estimation algorithm
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 26. doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02315-x. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHigh-stakes non-cognitive tests frequently employ forced-choice (FC) scales to deter faking. To mitigate the issue of score ipsativity derived, many scoring models have been devised. Among them, the multi-unidimensional pairwise preference (MUPP) framework is a highly flexible and commonly used framework. However, the original MUPP model was developed for unfolding response process and can only handle paired comparisons. The present study proposes the 2PLM-RANK as a generalization of the MUPP model to accommodate dominance RANK f...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 27, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Chanjin Zheng Juan Liu Yaling Li Peiyi Xu Bo Zhang Ran Wei Wenqing Zhang Boyang Liu Jing Huang Source Type: research
A tutorial on fitting joint models of M/EEG and behavior to understand cognition
We present motivation and practical steps necessary to find parameter estimates of joint models of behavior and neural electrophysiological data. This tutorial is written for researchers wishing to build joint models of human behavior and scalp and intracranial electroencephalographic (EEG) or magnetoencephalographic (MEG) data, and more specifically those researchers who seek to understand human cognition. Although these techniques could easily be applied to animal models, the focus of this tutorial is on human participants. Joint modeling of M/EEG and behavior requires some knowledge of existing computational and cogniti...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 27, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Michael D Nunez Kiant é Fernandez Ramesh Srinivasan Joachim Vandekerckhove Source Type: research
