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View article: Demotivated, but still attentive: Text disfluency does not affect mind-wandering and reading comprehension, but reduces motivation
Demotivated, but still attentive: Text disfluency does not affect mind-wandering and reading comprehension, but reduces motivation Open
Studies on the relationship between text-processing difficulty, mind wandering, and reading comprehension achieved mixed results. Whereas most studies found mind-wandering frequency to be increased and reading comprehension to be decreased…
View article: No Effect of Preceding Smartphone Usage on Mind Wandering and Cognitive Performance
No Effect of Preceding Smartphone Usage on Mind Wandering and Cognitive Performance Open
Smartphones have become an integral part of daily life, yet their impact on the attentional system remains uncertain. This study investigates whether using smartphones during breaks between cognitive tasks influences mind wandering compare…
View article: The trouble with carbon footprint analysis in behavioral climate research
The trouble with carbon footprint analysis in behavioral climate research Open
Everyday behavior of individual citizens plays a central role in reducing global green-house gas emissions and combating climate change. A popular tool to measure and quantify the impact of these behaviors on the climate are so-called carb…
View article: Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Portuguese Version of the Metacognitive Prospective Memory Inventory—Short Form (MPMI-s) in Non-Central Nervous System Cancer Patients
Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Portuguese Version of the Metacognitive Prospective Memory Inventory—Short Form (MPMI-s) in Non-Central Nervous System Cancer Patients Open
Background/Objectives: Cancer diagnosis and oncological treatments often lead to cognitive impairments, particularly in prospective memory, which affects the ability to recall future intentions. These difficulties can significantly impact …
View article: Validation of the Short Parallel and Extra-Short Form of the Heidelberg Figural Matrices Test (HeiQ)
Validation of the Short Parallel and Extra-Short Form of the Heidelberg Figural Matrices Test (HeiQ) Open
Figural matrices tests are frequently used to measure fluid intelligence. The HeiQ—an operation-oriented figural matrices test—was developed to tackle limitations of previous matrices tests, mainly the possibility of excluding distractors …
View article: A Picture Corrects a Thousand Words – The Effect of Photos on Veracity Feedback
A Picture Corrects a Thousand Words – The Effect of Photos on Veracity Feedback Open
The truthiness effect (Newman et al., 2012) refers to the belief that any particular stimulus is truthful when it is accompanied by nonprobative information (e.g., a photograph). Accordingly, photo-accompanied statements are more likely to…
View article: Prospective Memory
Prospective Memory Open
Prospective memory (PM) involves remembering to perform an intended action at the appropriate time in the future. People must frequently perform PM tasks in daily life. After providing an introduction to standard laboratory and naturalisti…
View article: The key determinants of individual greenhouse gas emissions in Germany are mostly domain-specific
The key determinants of individual greenhouse gas emissions in Germany are mostly domain-specific Open
Individual behavior plays a pivotal role in mitigating climate change but our understanding of the multifaceted, determining factors of sustainable behavior remains incomplete. Here we conducted a comprehensive, cross-sectional survey of G…
View article: The brief mind wandering three-factor scale (BMW-3)
The brief mind wandering three-factor scale (BMW-3) Open
In recent years, researchers from different fields have become increasingly interested in measuring individual differences in mind wandering as a psychological trait. Although there are several questionnaires that allow for an assessment o…
View article: Construction and Validation of the HeiQ: An Operation-Oriented Figural Matrices Test
Construction and Validation of the HeiQ: An Operation-Oriented Figural Matrices Test Open
Figural matrices tests are among the most popular and well-investigated tests used to assess inductive reasoning abilities. Solving these tests requires the selection of a target that completes a figural matrix among distractors. Despite t…
View article: Prospective memories in the wild: Predicting memory for intentions in natural environments
Prospective memories in the wild: Predicting memory for intentions in natural environments Open
Prospective memory, the ability to remember an intention at the appropriate future moment, is often investigated in the laboratory to maximize experimental control. However, demands of laboratory prospective memory tasks only partly map on…
View article: What is the interference in “verbal interference”?
What is the interference in “verbal interference”? Open
Research on the interrelation between language and other components of cognition makes frequent use of verbal interference paradigms. In this, participants are engaged in a primary nonverbal task, while simultaneously repeating non-sense s…
View article: Do Attentional Lapses Account for the Worst Performance Rule?
Do Attentional Lapses Account for the Worst Performance Rule? Open
The worst performance rule (WPR) describes the phenomenon that individuals’ slowest responses in a task are often more predictive of their intelligence than their fastest or average responses. To explain this phenomenon, it was previously …
View article: Do attentional lapses account for the worst performance rule?
Do attentional lapses account for the worst performance rule? Open
The worst performance rule (WPR) describes the phenomenon that individuals’ slowest responses in a task are often more predictive of their intelligence than their fastest or average responses. To explain this phenomenon, Larson and Alderto…
View article: A Fresh Look at the Unconscious Thought Effect: Using Mind-Wandering Measures to Investigate Thought Processes in Decision Problems With High Information Load
A Fresh Look at the Unconscious Thought Effect: Using Mind-Wandering Measures to Investigate Thought Processes in Decision Problems With High Information Load Open
Unconscious Thought Theory ( Dijksterhuis, 2004 ) states that thinking about a complex problem unconsciously can result in better solutions than conscious deliberation. We take a fresh look at the cognitive processes underlying “unconsciou…
View article: Is it all about the feeling? Affective and (meta-)cognitive mechanisms underlying the truth effect
Is it all about the feeling? Affective and (meta-)cognitive mechanisms underlying the truth effect Open
People are more likely to judge repeatedly perceived statements as true. A decisive explanation for this so-called truth effect is that the repeated information can be processed more fluently than new information and that this fluency expe…
View article: Attentional lapses cannot explain the worst performance rule
Attentional lapses cannot explain the worst performance rule Open
The worst performance rule describes the often-observed phenomenon that individuals' slowest responses in a task are more predictive of their intelligence than their fastest or average responses. To explain this phenomenon, Larson and Alde…
View article: How consistent is mind wandering across situations and tasks?—A latent state–trait analysis
How consistent is mind wandering across situations and tasks?—A latent state–trait analysis Open
We investigated how consistent self-reported task-unrelated thoughts (TUTs), which are the most frequently used indicators of mind wandering, are across different situations and tasks. We assessed TUTs at two occasions within a cognitive a…
View article: On the Nature of Everyday Prospection: A Review and Theoretical Integration of Research on Mind-Wandering, Future Thinking, and Prospective Memory
On the Nature of Everyday Prospection: A Review and Theoretical Integration of Research on Mind-Wandering, Future Thinking, and Prospective Memory Open
The ability to imagine and simulate events that may happen in the future has been studied in several related but independent research areas (e.g., episodic future thinking, mind-wandering, prospective memory), with a newly emerging field o…
View article: Inter‐trial alpha power indicates mind wandering
Inter‐trial alpha power indicates mind wandering Open
Mind wandering during ongoing tasks can impede task performance and increase the risk of failure in the laboratory as well as in daily‐life tasks and work environments. Neurocognitive measures like the electroencephalography (EEG) offer th…
View article: Does the Survival Processing Memory Advantage Translate to Serial Recall?
Does the Survival Processing Memory Advantage Translate to Serial Recall? Open
The survival processing effect describes the phenomenon that memory for items is better after they have been processed in the context of a fitness-related survival scenario as compared to alternative processing contexts. In the present stu…
View article: The Electrophysiological Signature of Mind Wandering
The Electrophysiological Signature of Mind Wandering Open
Mind wandering during ongoing tasks can impede task performance and increase the risk of failure in laboratory as well as in daily-life tasks and work environments. Neurocognitive measures like the electroencephalography (EEG) offer the op…
View article: Heidelberg Risk Sport-Specific Stress Test: A Paradigm to Investigate the Risk Sport-Specific Psycho-Physiological Arousal
Heidelberg Risk Sport-Specific Stress Test: A Paradigm to Investigate the Risk Sport-Specific Psycho-Physiological Arousal Open
In risk sports with medium to high risks of injury (e.g., surfing, free solo climbing, wingsuit flying), athletes frequently find themselves in unexpected and threatening situations. Elevated psycho-physiological stress responses to these …
View article: Forgetting Is a Feature, Not a Bug: Intentionally Forgetting Some Things Helps Us Remember Others by Freeing Up Working Memory Resources
Forgetting Is a Feature, Not a Bug: Intentionally Forgetting Some Things Helps Us Remember Others by Freeing Up Working Memory Resources Open
In the present study, we used an item-method directed-forgetting paradigm to test whether instructions to forget or remember one item affect memory for subsequently studied items. In two experiments ( Ns = 138 and 33, respectively), recall…
View article: Effects of Coping-Related Traits and Psychophysiological Stress Responses on Police Recruits’ Shooting Behavior in Reality-Based Scenarios
Effects of Coping-Related Traits and Psychophysiological Stress Responses on Police Recruits’ Shooting Behavior in Reality-Based Scenarios Open
Police officers are often required to perform under high-stress circumstances, in which optimal task performance is crucial for their and the bystanders' physical integrity. However, stress responses, particularly anxiety and increased cor…