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Agreement attraction in comprehension in Czech: Experiment 3
No full textWe are aiming at conducting an experiment targeting the impact of case syncretism on agreement attraction in Czech (following Slioussar, 2018)
Goal Attribution in 3-Month-Old Infants: Location Goals
No full textThis is a preregistration for a study that seeks to ask: Can 3-month-old infants represent an object's location as the goal of another person's reaching actions? For full details, please see "PreregSCGL-210510.docx"
Covid-19 systematic evidence synthesis with Artificial Intelligence: a Review of Reviews
No full textHave Artificial Intelligence techniques (AI) been used to assist researchers in the elaboration of systematic reviews during the Covid-19 pandemic?
Are systematic reviews that make use of AI higher in quality than those who do not?
Does using AI reduce the time or the workload required to make a systematic review
Accuracy of NanoBiosensor-based Molecular Assays for Diagnosis of COVID-19 Compared to RT-PCR as a Reference Test: Protocol for a Systematic Review
No full textAn ongoing systematic review aimed at the assessment of the accuracy of nanobiosensor-based molecular assays for detection of SARS-CoV-2 in nasopharyngeal/oropharyngeal swab specimens collected from adults, compared to that of RT-PCR as the current reference test for ruling out COVID-19
An Examination of the Relative Data Quality on Amazon Mechanical Turk and Prolific
No full textThe use of online survey convenience samples is commonplace in social science research (Mullinix et al., 2015). 50% of studies in top psychology journals made use of online convenience samples between 2015 and 2018 (Anderson et al., 2019; Zhou & Fishbach, 2016; Buhrmester, Talaifar, & Gosling, 2018). This number was 43% for prominent journals in consumer research between 2015 and 2016 (Goodman & Paolacci, 2017), and 31% for top journals in the cognitive sciences journals in 2017 (Stewart, Chandler, Paolacci, 2017).
However, recent research has found some pressing data quality issues among the most commonly used platforms, including Lucid (Aronow et al. 2021; Peyton, Huber, & Coppock 2021) and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (Arechar and Rand, 2021; Dennis, Goodson, and Pearson, 2020). Furthermore, there is increasing evidence that different online survey vendors provide researchers with systematically different types of people at different points in time (e.g., Charalambides 2019). To assess differences in data quality and the composition of survey-takers on two of the most commonly used source for online survey-takers, Prolific and MTurk, we launched two identical panel studies run at the same time on Mturk and Prolific
processing English imprecise adjectives in context (Experiment 2)
No full textThis is a follow-up of Experiment 1 of this same project. In Experiment 2, we investigate the cost of imprecision when imprecise adjectives appear in sentences embedded in specific linguistic contexts. We do this to test the hypothesis that the processing cost of imprecision is mediated by contextual expectations. To test this, we created contexts that either elicit an expectation that the speaker will be precise or imprecise. We normed these context to ensure that they were eliciting the predicted expectations. In Experiment 2, we will couple these contexts with the pictures and target sentences used in Experiment 1
Multinomial Processing Tree Modeling of Feature Binding in Long-Term Memory
No full textThe main goal of our experiment is to investigate if multiple features of an object stored in long-term memory are directly linked to each other (as implied by the mutual cuing hypothesis; Meiser & Bröder, 2002) or if they are linked only indirectly via the object (binding variability hypothesis; Starns & Hicks, 2005, 2008). To disentangle the two hypotheses, we let participants learn pictures of everyday objects with different combinations of two features (i.e., color and orientation). In a subsequent four-alternative forced-choice recognition test, participants are presented with objects with four different feature combinations. One of the feature combinations has been presented during the learning phase, three combinations are new. Additionally, only in half of the trials, the feature combinations are shown with the same objects as in the learning phase, whereas they are presented with new objects in the other half. In each trial, participants are asked to indicate whether the object is old or new, and which of the four feature combinations has been presented during the learning phase. By means of a multinomial processing tree (MPT) model analysis, we will directly test whether joint retrieval of feature combinations is possible in the absence of object information (supporting the mutual cuing hypothesis) or not (supporting the binding variability hypothesis)
The impact of disclosing embarrassing information – The Perspective of the Witness
No full textThe feeling embarrassment is quite ubiquitous in our lives. Embarrassment refers to “an aversive emotional state in
which one feels chagrin following deliberation on perceived negative appraisal by others or negative appraisal by
oneself for transgressions that occur either in public or in private contexts.” (Krishna et al. 2019, p. 495). As
embarrassment is a negative emotion people either try to avoid embarrassing situations or minimize it. One
strategy to cope with embarrassing situations is by using humor (Grace 2005; 2009). Similarly, people use humor to
manage the impression they leave on others. As Bitterly and Schweitzer (2019) have shown, the use of humor as an
impression management tool can have beneficial effects on the perception of warmth and competence when
disclosing negative information. Based on these findings, we assume that humor not only has a positive impact on
perceptions when disclosing negative information, but also when disclosing embarrassing information.
Furthermore, we know from other contexts that one's own experience and evaluation of a situation can differ
significantly from how we think others perceive the same situation. For this reason, it is important to consider the
difference between one's own perception and that of others. This is why, in this experiment; we take the
perspective of someone who witnesses the disclosure of an embarrassing information (witness) who in turn has to
take several perspectives. In sum, to investigate the beneficial effects of using humor in disclosing embarrassing
information, we investigate the perception of the witness form different perspectives: We investigate (a) how the
witness perceives him/herself, (b) how the witness thinks the discloser perceives the witness and (c) how the
witness perceives the discloser
Needs Orientations and Passion for Self-Help
No full textThis study will investigate the role of needs orientations and passion for self-help on wellbeing and preferences for type of self-help content