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Approach Motivation, Effortful Control, and Internalizing and Externalizing Problems: Emotion distancing
No full textThe goal of this project is to examine a model of emotion distancing in the parent study dataset
Reductive Allure Effects for Psychology Phenomena – Impact of Worker Recruitment Site. A pre-registered replication of Hopkins, Weisberg, & Taylor (2016).
No full textPrevious research (Hopkins et al., 2016) suggests that the presentation of reductive information influences people’s ability to judge the quality of a scientific explanation. For instance, people who are presented with neuroscience jargon in an explanation of a psychological phenomenon judge those explanations more favorably than explanations without the jargon, even if that information is logically irrelevant.
In a previously pre-registered (osf.io/hvm8q) attempt to replicate and extend Hopkins et al. (2016), we were unable to replicate this basic reductive explanation effect across three scientific disciplines that were included in the original study (Psychology, Neuroscience, Biology). That is, participants in our study did not rate reductive explanations significantly higher than horizontal explanations in any of these three scientific disciplines, even though we used the same testing materials and procedure as Hopkins et al. (2016).
One possible explanation for our inability to replicate the reductive allure effect observed by Hopkins et al. (2016) is that we employed a different participant pool. Specifically, we recruited our participants from Prolific.co, whereas Hopkins et al. recruited participants through Amazon Mechanical Turk. Thus, in order to rule out the different participant pools as the reason for the discrepant results, we will conduct an abbreviated replication of Hopkins et al. (2016) using only their original descriptions of psychological phenomena (the scientific discipline that showed the largest reductive explanation effect) with a participant pool selected from Amazon Mechanical Turk
IMMEDIATE OR DELAYED TOOTH BRUSHING AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH EROSIVE TOOTH WEAR AND DENTAL CARIES. SCOPING REVIEW
No full textAn SCOPING REVIEW to determine the effect of toothbrushing (immediate or delayed) using fluoridated products in clinically relevant models (using human teeth and human saliva) in erosive tooth wear and dental caries
Effects of Social Inclusionary Status on Self-Evaluation Depends on Social Anxiety
No full textWe conducted an online experiment (N=170) to examine the effects of social inclusionary status and social anxiety on self-evaluation. Participants wrote a short autobiographical essay about an experience from their lives when they felt excluded/rejected (exclusion condition) or included (inclusion condition). Self-evaluation was approached with the two dimensions -warmth and competence- as proposed in the Stereotype Content Model. Results had shown that, participants’ warmth judgments about themselves were not affected neither inclusionary status nor social anxiety. On the other hand, inclusionary status had an effect on self-competence assessments depending on participants’ social anxiety level. Accordingly, remembering an inclusive experience (from their past) was related with higher self-competence only in low social anxiety participants. Improving effect of remembering inclusive experience did not observed for high social anxiety individuals. In conclusion, participants' inclusionary status seems to have an effect on competency assessments, along with social anxiety
Autobiographical and Fictional Stories as Mnemonic Strategies for Serial Recall
No full textIn the present study, we investigate whether using an autobiographical story or a fictional story as a mnemonic scaffold results in higher serial recall accuracy compared to a control group and whether locations mentioned as parts of the stories render them more effective mnemonic scaffolds. Participants type either an autobiographical or a fictional story, and a recall attempt of the story. Then they are asked to use that story as a scaffold for serial recall
Predicting social inclusion across group boundaries: The interaction between risk taking and prosocial tendencies
No full textIn some circumstances, behaving prosocially may require individuals to engage in risk taking, e.g. lending money to a friend or engaging in civil protest. The current study examines how the interaction between prosocial and risk taking traits predicts a particular form of prosociality: social inclusion of lower status or marginalized group members. Social inclusion in this context may plausibly hold a number of risks, e.g. reputational damage with higher status group members, or perhaps even physical risks, where conflict between groups is present. A conflict-related past is incorporated in the current study
Infants' Understanding of Others’ Quantity Preferences
No full textBabies prefer a larger amount of some desirable item when choosing for themselves. Do babies also expect others to have the same preference for larger quantities as they do? The current study will help us understand how we come to figure out what other people prefer by examining what kind of events babies prefer to look at.
"Which amount will Kelly choose" on Looki
Cooperating for nature: The role of humanising trees on decisions to protect the environment
No full textBased on finding by Bastian et al. (2019), the current study aims to examine whether an environmental consequence and highlighting the human-like abilities of trees (via the use of an auditory narrative) has the potential to increase cooperative behaviour in a resource dilemma
Development and Validation of an Algorithmically-Derived Personality Scale
No full textThe proposed study seeks to establish the utility of the natural language processing algorithm-based Psychometric Item Generator (PIG; Götz, Maertens, et al., in prep) for the development of psychological measures through the creation and psychometric validation of an alternative, 20-item semi-short Big Five personality trait measure
Emotion inertia and burnout
No full textEmotion inertia is defined as the extent to which an emotion can be predicted by that same emotion at a previous point in time. The higher the score on emotion inertia, the more that emotions spill-over from one moment to another. Essentially, emotion inertia captures the speed by which emotions change and reflects a person’s adaptability to external and internal stimuli. High scores on emotion inertia are related to illbeing (e.g., the development of depression). However, so far no research has examined the relationship between emotion inertia and burnout. Therefore, we will examine how emotion inertia relates to burnout and its subdimenions. Moreover, we will compare emotion inertia (as measured via the autorgressive effect in vector autoregressive models) with the similar concept of attractor strength