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Does the language you speak shape the way you think about the world? Experiment 4, first replication.
No full textThis study is a replication of Experiment 4 of Boroditsky et al. (2002), in which the effect of linguistic differences in grammar between Indonesian and English on the encoding and remembering of action events was studied. In this study, English-Indonesian bilinguals were shown pictures representing action events to remember. The action events described either what happened, what was happening, or what was about to happen. Unlike English, there are no tense markers in Indonesian. The original study indicated that English-Indonesian bilinguals were able to recognize the tense of the depicted action in later recall when performing the task in English, but not in Indonesian.
Boroditsky, L., Ham, W., & Ramscar, M. (2002). What is universal in event perception? Comparing English & Indonesian speakers. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society
perspective-seeking curiosity
No full textthis pre-registration pertains to a study conducted in a line of research examining attitudes towards political perspective-seekers
UZH Expra FS21 Group B
No full textThis study examines whether confrontation by an interviewee produces personal costs for the interviewee, i.e., not being hired, while bringing benefits to the group this person belongs to, i.e. other people not getting asked inappropriate questions in future interviews
They strike again: The impacts of a football club’s progressive initiatives on the attitudes of their fans
No full textCan initiatives led by a sport’s team shape its members’ socio-political attitudes?
To answer this question, current study will conduct a survey experiment with fans
of the Esporte Clube Bahia (Bahia Football Club)—deemed by The Guardian
Brazil’s ‘most progressive football team’. In particular, the survey design will
allow us to examine whether the Club’s anti-racism and anti-sexism initiatives can
impact fans attitudes towards race and gender equalities
How does the rest period duration affect the acquisition of statistical regularities?
No full textRecent studies suggest that memory consolidation can occur within very short periods, from seconds to minutes (Bönstrup et al., 2019, 2020). This study aims to investigate whether this ultra-fast offline improvement is present in implicit probabilistic sequence learning. Implicit probabilistic sequence learning implies the process of unintentional acquisition of statistical regularities embedded in the environment. To tackle this question, we use the Alternating Serial Reaction Time (ASRT) Task (Howard et al., 2004), which can measure implicit probabilistic sequence learning and general motor learning separately. Participants complete the ASRT Task with (1) shorter 15-second breaks, (2) longer 30-second breaks, or (3) self-paced duration between learning blocks. We also measure the participants' working memory and explicit knowledge of the sequence
Cognitive, Affective, and Spatial Perspective Taking
No full textImagining other people’s perspectives is important for predicting the behavior of others, maintaining social relationships, and planning future actions. The Research Domain Criteria framework of mental disorders identifies ‘perception and understanding of others’ as a central construct in the social processes domain; perspective taking (PT) deficits appear in several clinical populations including Autism Spectrum Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder. However, we currently lack a basic understanding of what PT is, and whether PT in the spatial, cognitive, and affective domains form a single behavioral dimension. One proposal is that cognitive and affective PT tap a unique system for belief representation and attribution, distinct from the spatial encoding processes required for spatial PT. An alternative proposal is that attentional control underlies performance on complex PT problems regardless of domain. The aims of this research are to test a) if there is a single underlying PT dimension supported by attentional mechanisms; and b) if PT as a latent construct (or two latent constructs) correlates with self-reported psychopathological symptoms in neurotypical adult
Barriers and facilitators of palliative care among cancer immunotherapy recipients and their families: A scoping review protocol
No full textThe purpose of this study will be to examine, map, and describe the concepts related to and the characteristics of barriers and facilitators of palliative care among CI recipients and their family caregivers through a scoping review of the literature. The review will identify existing gaps in research and practice to support the delivery of holistic, person-centered cancer care for CI patients and families
Supplemental Instruction Field Experiment
No full textWith a field experiment this study will evaluate the effects of supplemental instruction on the learning outcomes, retention, well-being and sense of belonging of first-year students in the educational domain of a Dutch universit
Men Perceivers' Emotionality Judgments and Memory of Anger Sequences
No full textThe goals of this component are twofold.
First, we seek to replicate our previous finding that male participants, when presented with sequences of faces displaying neutral to negative emotion (anger), a) are more likely to judge female faces as emotional compared to male faces, and b) participants display a sequential amplification effect on judgments of emotionality such that they are more likely to judge longer sequences as emotional.
Second, we will test a potential memory mechanism behind this amplification effect; we seek to a) demonstrate that participants are better able to remember and correctly identify more emotionally intense faces, and b) show that there is an interaction between emotional intensity and face gender on memory such that intense female faces are more likely to be remembered than intense male faces