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View article: Judgments of effort and associated cues are influenced by stimulus context
Judgments of effort and associated cues are influenced by stimulus context Open
The experience of cognitive effort is ubiquitous as well as influential; however, our understanding of how judgments of effort are influenced by contextual change is currently limited. Recent work has suggested that explicit cue reports im…
View article: Boredom signals deviation from a cognitive homeostatic set point
Boredom signals deviation from a cognitive homeostatic set point Open
View article: The metacognitive abilities of narcissists: Individual differences between grandiose and vulnerable subtypes
The metacognitive abilities of narcissists: Individual differences between grandiose and vulnerable subtypes Open
Understanding individual differences in metacognitive ability is vital to gaining a better understanding of how we think about our own thinking. Past research has shown that individual differences in grandiose and vulnerable narcissism are…
View article: Judgments of Effort and Associated Cues are Influenced by Stimulus Context
Judgments of Effort and Associated Cues are Influenced by Stimulus Context Open
View article: Dissociations between data-driven and goal-driven effort reports: Performance, metacognition, and affect
Dissociations between data-driven and goal-driven effort reports: Performance, metacognition, and affect Open
Measuring effort has long been a challenge and this seems particularly true in the case of subjective effort. Koriat et al. compared two types of effort frames, what they call data-driven effort, the amount of effort perceived to be requir…
View article: Thinking in the digital age: Everyday cognition and the dawn of a new age of metacognition research
Thinking in the digital age: Everyday cognition and the dawn of a new age of metacognition research Open
The special issue “Rethinking Cognition in a Digital Age” features a diverse set of contributions examining interactions between cognition and technology. In this commentary, we draw connections between this work and similar efforts in the…
View article: Response generation, not response execution, influences feelings of rightness in reasoning
Response generation, not response execution, influences feelings of rightness in reasoning Open
It has been argued that the experience of ease (i.e., the ability to quickly generate an initial response) during processing influences one’s likelihood of engaging reflectively when reasoning. This is a key facet of Metacognitive Reasonin…
View article: Hypothesized drivers of the bias blind spot—cognitive sophistication, introspection bias, and conversational processes
Hypothesized drivers of the bias blind spot—cognitive sophistication, introspection bias, and conversational processes Open
Individuals often assess themselves as being less susceptible to common biases compared to others. This bias blind spot (BBS) is thought to represent a metacognitive error. In this research, we tested three explanations for the effect: The…
View article: Hypothesized Drivers of the Bias Blind Spot—Cognitive Sophistication, Introspection Bias, and Conversational Processes
Hypothesized Drivers of the Bias Blind Spot—Cognitive Sophistication, Introspection Bias, and Conversational Processes Open
Individuals often assess themselves as being less susceptible to common biases compared to others. This bias blind spot (BBS) is thought to represent a metacognitive error. In this research, we tested three explanations for the effect: The…
View article: The effect of external store reliance on actual and predicted value-directed remembering
The effect of external store reliance on actual and predicted value-directed remembering Open
View article: Revisiting the influence of offloading memory on free recall
Revisiting the influence of offloading memory on free recall Open
View article: Supplemental Material for Distributed metacognition: Increased bias and deficits in metacognitive sensitivity when retrieving information from the internet.
Supplemental Material for Distributed metacognition: Increased bias and deficits in metacognitive sensitivity when retrieving information from the internet. Open
Our metacognitive ability to monitor and evaluate our cognitive performance is central to efficient and adaptive behaviors.Research investigating this ability has focused largely on tasks that rely exclusively on internal processes (e.g., …
View article: Distributed metacognition: Increased bias and deficits in metacognitive sensitivity when retrieving information from the internet.
Distributed metacognition: Increased bias and deficits in metacognitive sensitivity when retrieving information from the internet. Open
Our metacognitive ability to monitor and evaluate our cognitive performance is central to efficient and adaptive behaviors. Research investigating this ability has focused largely on tasks that rely exclusively on internal processes (e.g.,…
View article: To organise or not to organise? Understanding search strategy preferences using Lego building blocks
To organise or not to organise? Understanding search strategy preferences using Lego building blocks Open
Humans routinely organise or reconfigure the environment as part of their everyday activities, such as placing a set of keys in a designated location to reduce the need to remember its location. This type of spatial organisation is widely …
View article: Judgements of effort as a function of post-trial versus post-task elicitation
Judgements of effort as a function of post-trial versus post-task elicitation Open
Cognitive effort is a central construct in our lives, yet our understanding of the processes underlying our perception of effort is limited. Performance is typically used as one way to assess effort in cognitive tasks (e.g., tasks that tak…
View article: The effect of semantic categorization on object location memory
The effect of semantic categorization on object location memory Open
We often organize objects around both visual and semantic boundaries in space. Across four experiments, we examined how semantically consistent partitions influenced memory for object locations. Participants learned the locations of items …
View article: Modelling the production effect in recognition memory
Modelling the production effect in recognition memory Open
Memory is reliably enhanced for information read aloud compared with information read silently—this is known as the production effect. Theoretical accounts of this effect have been largely verbal in nature with very little exception, yet i…
View article: Cognitive Effort and Preference: A Curious Case of Rotated Words
Cognitive Effort and Preference: A Curious Case of Rotated Words Open
Understanding how we judge effortfulness promises insight into the myriad choices we make each day. Here, we present research investigating a curious finding: In Dunn et al., 2019, individuals anticipated reading a single rotated word as m…
View article: The Perception of Reduced Reliability in an External Store Reduces Vulnerability to its Manipulation.
The Perception of Reduced Reliability in an External Store Reduces Vulnerability to its Manipulation. Open
Offloading cognition to external stores is practiced ubiquitously in daily life (e.g., counting on fingers, writing lists), yet is a relatively new area of investigation within cognitive science. Previous experiments have assessed the bene…
View article: The influence of the ability to rely on an external store on value-directed remembering
The influence of the ability to rely on an external store on value-directed remembering Open
Whether through setting reminders on a smartphone, or creating grocery lists, we often rely on external aids to skirt the accuracy/capacity limitations of internal memory. When relying on internal memory, memory for valuable information is…
View article: The role of cognitive load in modulating social looking: a mobile eye tracking study
The role of cognitive load in modulating social looking: a mobile eye tracking study Open
View article: Effect of confidence interval construction on judgment accuracy
Effect of confidence interval construction on judgment accuracy Open
Three experiments ( N = 550) examined the effect of an interval construction elicitation method used in several expert elicitation studies on judgment accuracy. Participants made judgments about topics that were either searchable or unsear…
View article: Effect of Confidence Interval Construction on Judgment Accuracy
Effect of Confidence Interval Construction on Judgment Accuracy Open
Three experiments (N = 550) examined the effect of an interval construction elicitation method used in several expert elicitation studies on judgment accuracy. Participants made judgments about topics that were either searchable or unsearc…
View article: Verbal working memory load dissociates common indices of the numerical distance effect: Implications for the study of numerical cognition
Verbal working memory load dissociates common indices of the numerical distance effect: Implications for the study of numerical cognition Open
In four experiments, we explore the role that verbal WM plays in numerical comparison. Experiment 1 demonstrates that verbal WM load differentially impacts the two most common variants of numerical comparison tasks, evidenced by distinct m…
View article: The Bullshitting Frequency Scale: Development and psychometric properties
The Bullshitting Frequency Scale: Development and psychometric properties Open
Recent psychological research has identified important individual differences associated with receptivity to bullshit, which has greatly enhanced our understanding of the processes behind susceptibility to pseudo-profound or otherwise misl…
View article: Offloading memory: Serial position effects
Offloading memory: Serial position effects Open
View article: Data for: The Role of Task Difficulty in Theoretical Accounts of Mind Wandering
Data for: The Role of Task Difficulty in Theoretical Accounts of Mind Wandering Open
Data for "The Role of Task Difficulty in Theoretical Accounts of Mind Wandering," by Seli, Konishi, Risko, and Smilek.
View article: Data for: In the eye of the beholder: Evaluative context modulates mind-wandering
Data for: In the eye of the beholder: Evaluative context modulates mind-wandering Open
SPSS files containing the data for each experiment and the combined data.
View article: Instructor presence effect: Liking does not always lead to learning
Instructor presence effect: Liking does not always lead to learning Open
View article: Everyday attention.
Everyday attention. Open
Understanding the basic mechanisms underlying attentional function using naturalistic stimuli, tasks, and/or settings is the focus of everyday attention research. Interest in everyday approaches to attention research has increased recently…