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Is gaze cuing more like endogenous or exogenous orienting?
Can J Exp Psychol. 2023 Nov 2. doi: 10.1037/cep0000315. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPeople shift their attention in the direction of another person's gaze. This phenomenon, called gaze cuing, shares properties with purely endogenous (i.e., "deliberate") and purely exogenous (i.e., "reflexive") control of spatial attention. For example, as with purely endogenous orienting, gaze cues appear at visual fixation; yet, as with purely exogenous orienting, gaze cues elicit shifts of attention rapidly after their appearance. Prior experiments have shown that when controlled endogenously versus exogenously, the effects of attentio...
Source: Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology - November 2, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nicholas E Murray Richard S Drake Raymond M Klein Source Type: research

The effect of instructions and response format on smile judgement
Can J Exp Psychol. 2023 Nov 2. doi: 10.1037/cep0000313. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTOur study examined the role of instructions, response type, and definition on the judgement of enjoyment and nonenjoyment smiles. Participants viewed symmetric Duchenne, non-Duchenne, and asymmetric smiles. They were instructed to judge the happiness, authenticity, and sincerity of the smiles using either Likert scales or a dichotomous response type. Participants were also either given a definition of the instruction words "happy," "authentic," and "sincere" or not. Results showed that the probability of saying "really (happy/sincere/auth...
Source: Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology - November 2, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Annie Roy-Charland Victoria Foglia Karolyn Cloutier Emalie Hendel Marie-Pier Mazerolle Source Type: research

A motor task, not working memory, causes the revelation effect
This study implies a paradoxical aspect of human cognition in that metacognition, which usually makes cognition more effective and rational, may also cause an irrational phenomenon, the revelation effect. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).PMID:37917423 | DOI:10.1037/cep0000317 (Source: Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology)
Source: Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology - November 2, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hiroshi Miura Yuji Itoh Source Type: research

Drawing enhances memory for emotional words
We examined whether this benefit extended to emotional materials. In Experiment 1, negative, positive, and neutral words were presented in an encoding phase, with intermixed prompts to either write out or draw a picture representing the word. Participants later freely recalled words by writing them out. Recall was higher for words drawn than for words written at encoding, and the magnitude of the benefit was differentially enhanced for emotional compared to neutral words. In Experiment 2, negative, positive, and neutral words were again presented but encoding type was compared using pure lists between participants. The pat...
Source: Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology - November 2, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sophia H N Tran Myra A Fernandes Source Type: research

Set size and the orthographic/phonological neighbourhood size effect in serial recognition: The importance of randomization
Can J Exp Psychol. 2023 Nov 2. doi: 10.1037/cep0000320. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe neighbourhood size effect refers to the finding of better memory for words with more orthographic/phonological neighbours than otherwise comparable words with fewer neighbours. Although many studies have replicated this result with serial recall, only one has used serial recognition. Greeno et al. (2022) found no neighbourhood size effect when a large stimulus pool was used and a reverse effect-better performance for small neighbourhood words-when a small stimulus pool was used. We reexamined these results but made two methodological ...
Source: Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology - November 2, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dominic Guitard Leonie M Miller Ian Neath Steven Roodenrys Source Type: research