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13 Sep 2024 • Journal Article • Memory
Open science practices in the false memory literature
AbstractIn response to the replication crisis in psychology, the scientific community has advocated open science practices to promote transparency and reproducibility. Although existing reviews indicate inconsistent and generally low adoption of open science in psychology, a current-day, detailed analysis is lacking. Recognising the significant impact of false memory research
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9 Sep 2024 • Journal Article • Behavior Research Methods
HeLP: The Hebrew Lexicon project
AbstractLexicon projects (LPs) are large-scale data resources in different languages that present behavioral results from visual word recognition tasks. Analyses using LP data in multiple languages provide evidence regarding cross-linguistic differences as well as similarities in visual word recognition. Here we present the first LP in a Semitic language—the Hebrew Lexicon
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9 Sep 2024 • Journal Article • American Journal of Epidemiology
The Long-Term Associations of Perinatal Obesogenic Environment with Offspring Biological Aging
AbstractBiological age (BA), reflecting aging-related health decline beyond chronological age, varies among individuals. While previous research explored associations of maternal pregnancy-related body size with offspring health outcomes, its implications for BA in young adults remain unclear. Utilizing longitudinal data of 1,148 mother-offspring pairs from the Jerusalem
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3 Sep 2024 • Preprint • Research Square
Political Targeting of Psychological Intergroup Interventions Promoting Social Equality
AbstractIn the field of intergroup conflict reconciliation, the relationship between psychological interventions and diverse political ideologies is often overlooked. The current work presents an innovative framework targeting individuals from different ideological backgrounds with effective interventions to promote social equality in real-world settings. In the first phase
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31 Aug 2024 • Journal Article • Cognition
Zipfian distributions facilitate children's learning of novel word-referent mappings
AbstractThe word-frequency distributions children hear during language learning are highly skewed (Zipfian). Previous studies suggest that such skewed environments confer a learnability advantage in tasks that require the learner to discover the units that have to be learned, as in word-segmentation or cross-situational learning. This facilitative effect has been attributed to
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26 Aug 2024 • Journal Article • Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
The inflammatory underpinning of depression: An historical perspective
AbstractOver the last thirty years, substantial evidence has accumulated in support of the hypothesis that dysregulation of inflammatory processes plays a critical role in the pathophysiology of depression. This review traces the evolution of research supporting this link, discussing key findings from several major investigative fronts: Alterations in inflammatory markers
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17 Aug 2024 • Journal Article • Mindfulness
Conceptualizing Mindfulness Using Construal Level Theory: A Two-Dimensional Model
AbstractConstrual Level Theory (CLT) is a well-established, comprehensive framework that provides an account of the relationship between construal level and psychological distance, and the effects they have on cognitive processing and a wide range of phenomena. In this article we present a conceptualization of mindfulness based on the theoretical foundations of CLT. In light
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6 Aug 2024 • Journal Article • Current Psychology
Heterogeneous empathic reactions and their associations with adherence and prosocial behaviors during a pandemic
AbstractThe present research utilized the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study to explore the motives driving individuals to adhere to recommended health standards. One month into the first lockdown and eight months before the availability of vaccinations, a large sample of 1,263 individuals completed measures of empathic concern and personal distress in response
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5 Aug 2024 • Journal Article • Academy of Management Proceedings
Sex bias in pain management decisions
AbstractAdequate pain treatment is critical for patients’ physical and mental health. It is therefore essential that healthcare providers extend the appropriate treatment to each and every patient in pain. Here we build on findings showing that due to psychological stereotypes, females’ pain tends to be judged as less intense than males’ pain. We investigate whether medical
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2 Aug 2024 • Journal Article • Personality and Individual Differences
Genetically-diverse crowds are wiser
AbstractA fundamental question in the social sciences is how collectives of individuals form intelligent judgments. This article tests the hypothesis that genetically-diverse groups make better collective judgments than genetically more homogenous groups. Two studies were conducted (a total of N = 602 participants) in which sets of twins (both monozygotic and dizygotic) were
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