Psychological reviewPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2024-09-19DOI: 10.1037/rev0000489
Jiaqi Huang, Jerome R Busemeyer, Zo Ebelt, Emmanuel M Pothos
{"title":"Bridging the gap between subjective probability and probability judgments: The quantum sequential sampler.","authors":"Jiaqi Huang, Jerome R Busemeyer, Zo Ebelt, Emmanuel M Pothos","doi":"10.1037/rev0000489","DOIUrl":"10.1037/rev0000489","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One of the most important challenges in decision theory has been how to reconcile the normative expectations from Bayesian theory with the apparent fallacies that are common in probabilistic reasoning. Recently, Bayesian models have been driven by the insight that apparent fallacies are due to sampling errors or biases in estimating (Bayesian) probabilities. An alternative way to explain apparent fallacies is by invoking different probability rules, specifically the probability rules from quantum theory. Arguably, quantum cognitive models offer a more unified explanation for a large body of findings, problematic from a baseline classical perspective. This work addresses two major corresponding theoretical challenges: first, a framework is needed which incorporates both Bayesian and quantum influences, recognizing the fact that there is evidence for both in human behavior. Second, there is empirical evidence which goes beyond any current Bayesian and quantum model. We develop a model for probabilistic reasoning, seamlessly integrating both Bayesian and quantum models of reasoning and augmented by a sequential sampling process, which maps subjective probabilistic estimates to observable responses. Our model, called the Quantum Sequential Sampler, is compared to the currently leading Bayesian model, the Bayesian Sampler (J. Zhu et al., 2020) using a new experiment, producing one of the largest data sets in probabilistic reasoning to this day. The Quantum Sequential Sampler embodies several new components, which we argue offer a more theoretically accurate approach to probabilistic reasoning. Moreover, our empirical tests revealed a new, surprising systematic overestimation of probabilities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":" ","pages":"916-955"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142294107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Readers use recent experiences with word meanings to support the processing of lexical ambiguity: Evidence from eye movements.","authors":"Adam J Parker, J S H Taylor, Jennifer M Rodd","doi":"10.1037/xlm0001418","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xlm0001418","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fluent reading comprehension demands the rapid access and integration of word meanings. This can be challenging when lexically ambiguous words have less frequent meanings (e.g., the <i>dog</i> meaning of <i>boxer</i>). Indeed, readers fixate on lexically ambiguous words that are disambiguated toward their subordinate meaning for longer than matched control words embedded within identical sentence contexts. Word-meaning priming studies have shown that participants flexibly use recent experiences with ambiguous words to guide their interpretation when these words are presented in isolation, even after substantial delays. However, word-meaning priming paradigms have almost always used artificial tasks to measure word-meaning availability and we do not therefore know how priming would support lexical processing when reading for comprehension. Thus, we conducted two eye-movement experiments to examine word-meaning priming during sentence reading. Both experiments employed a 2 (ambiguity: low-ambiguity control vs. high-ambiguity) × 2 (priming: unprimed vs. primed) within-participants design, with either a 1-min delay (Experiment 1; <i>N</i> = 28) or a 30-min delay (Experiment 2; <i>N</i> = 60) between prime and test sentences. Both experiments showed greater reductions in go-past times and total reading times following priming for high-ambiguity target words than matched low-ambiguity control words, indicating that recent encounters support the processing of word meanings during sentence reading and that this effect extends beyond the simple repetition effect observed for low-ambiguity control words. This illustrates the remarkable flexibility of the human language system in using diverse input to refine stored lexical knowledge even in skilled readers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition","volume":" ","pages":"1157-1177"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142819925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Frances G Cooley, Karen Emmorey, Emily Saunders, Grace Sinclair, Casey Stringer, Elizabeth R Schotter
{"title":"Identifying text-based factors that contribute to the superior reading efficiency of skilled deaf readers: An eye-tracking study of length, frequency, and predictability.","authors":"Frances G Cooley, Karen Emmorey, Emily Saunders, Grace Sinclair, Casey Stringer, Elizabeth R Schotter","doi":"10.1037/xlm0001415","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xlm0001415","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Skilled deaf readers are more efficient than their hearing counterparts-they read faster, skipping more words without a negative impact on comprehension. It is not clear from where deaf readers' efficiency derives, because reading is a complex cognitive process that requires readers to extract meaning from text, incorporating visual, lexical, and contextual information. To assess the contributions of these factors to deaf readers' efficiency, we tracked their eye movements as they read sentences with target words that were manipulated for <i>length</i>, <i>frequency</i>, and <i>predictability</i>, and we assessed the effects of those variables on <i>skipping probability</i> (i.e., whether the reader skipped or fixated the target) and <i>gaze duration</i> (i.e., the amount of time spent fixating the word before leaving it) and compared these patterns to hearing readers with equivalent reading comprehension skill. Deaf readers demonstrated increased skipping rates and shorter gaze durations overall compared to hearing readers and exhibited different patterns of word length and predictability effects, but similar frequency effects. Deaf readers' eye movements reflect <i>visual linguistic processing expertise</i> as they are primarily driven by word length when targeting words for fixation, but frequency and predictability effects on word skipping indicate that they do engage in parafoveal linguistic processing. These results emphasize the qualitative differences in reading strategies between deaf and hearing readers and advance our understanding of the impact of early language and sensory experiences on reading behaviors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition","volume":" ","pages":"1178-1189"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143391815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthäus Rudolph, Carina G Giesen, Klaus Rothermund
{"title":"False contingency knowledge reverses the color-word contingency learning effect.","authors":"Matthäus Rudolph, Carina G Giesen, Klaus Rothermund","doi":"10.1037/xlm0001413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001413","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In learning research, there is an ongoing debate about the role of awareness in human contingency learning. While a large part of the contingency learning (CL) effect actually reflects episodic retrieval of previous responses (C. G. Giesen et al., 2020; Schmidt et al., 2020), a significant residual CL effect remains, which reflects a genuine impact of global contingencies on behavior (Rudolph & Rothermund, 2024; Xu & Mordkoff, 2020). In a highly powered (<i>N</i> = 120) preregistered study, we tested the influence of contingency awareness on the genuine CL effect by giving true or false instructions about the existing color-word contingencies. We found that the genuine CL effect is modulated by awareness, as true (false) instructions amplified (reduced) the residual CL effect (see also Schmidt & De Houwer, 2012). Further, participants who maintained the belief in the falsely instructed contingencies until the end of the experiment actually showed a reversed genuine CL effect, characterized by faster responses in low contingency trials that corresponded to the falsely instructed color-word combination. In sum, our findings suggest that genuine human CL, which is free from the influence of episodic retrieval, reflects propositional beliefs rather than association formation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition","volume":"51 7","pages":"1023-1033"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144163699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Workplace Objectification Leads to Self-Harm: The Mediating Effect of Depressive Moods.","authors":"Yuwan Dai, Tonglin Jiang, Wangchu Gaer, Kai-Tak Poon","doi":"10.1177/01461672231213898","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672231213898","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the current research, we aimed to extend the literature on workplace objectification and contribute to employees' well-being by exploring whether and how workplace objectification increases self-harm as well as the coping strategy that may weaken the effect. Employing archive data analytic, correlational, longitudinal, and experimental designs, we found that workplace objectification was associated with, or led to, self-harm, irrespective of whether such actions provided an escape from work. This effect could not be simply ascribed to the negative nature of workplace objectification. We further found that depressive moods mediated this effect. The detrimental effect of workplace objectification on self-harm was lessened when employees perceived higher alternatives in life. Theoretical and managerial implications were discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1219-1239"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138478353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are Members of Political Out-Groups More Morally or Physically Disgusting?","authors":"Tal Moran, Tal Eyal","doi":"10.1177/01461672231213127","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672231213127","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent research has found that Americans are disgusted by anonymous members of their political out-group. Determining whether the disgust elicited by political out-group members is more physical or moral may contribute to the understating of what enables its elicitation and regulation. Building on research showing the experience of moral disgust involves relatively abstract construal and the experience of physical disgust involves relatively concrete construal, we predicted that disgust experienced toward political out-group members is more moral than physical. Two preregistered experiments (total <i>N</i>=854) found that (a) the effect of level of construal on the intensity of disgust from political out-group members is more similar to the effect of level of construal on moral disgust than on physical disgust, and (b) the appraisal underlying disgust from political out-group members involves more abstract than concrete construal, similar to moral disgust. We discuss implications of these findings for intergroup relations and emotion regulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1281-1293"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138803613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Update and validation of the Beliefs about Losing Control Inventory-II (BALCI-II): a psychometric investigation.","authors":"Kenneth Kelly-Turner, Adam S Radomsky","doi":"10.1080/16506073.2024.2410833","DOIUrl":"10.1080/16506073.2024.2410833","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Beliefs about Losing Control Inventory (BALCI) was developed to assess negative beliefs about losing control in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Since its creation, research and theoretical work support negative beliefs about losing control as a potential transdiagnostic construct. The present study revised and expanded the original BALCI to be more inclusive of control-related concerns beyond those that would be expected in OCD (e.g. concerns about losing control over how one comes across to others in social anxiety disorder; SAD). Undergraduate students (<i>N</i> = 440) completed a questionnaire battery including the BALCI-II item pool. An exploratory factor analysis of the 32-item BALCI-II supported a four-factor solution. Three of the identified factors capture the feared consequences of losing control: 1) overwhelming emotions, 2) dangerous behaviour, and 3) madness. The fourth factor captures inflated beliefs about probability/severity of those losses. The BALCI-II was found to have good convergent and divergent validity, good to excellent internal, and retest reliability and was shown to have predictive utility in both OCD and SAD, above and beyond existing disorder-specific maladaptive belief domains. Results suggest the BALCI-II is an improvement over the previous version and supports the relevance of these beliefs beyond OCD.</p>","PeriodicalId":10535,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Behaviour Therapy","volume":" ","pages":"427-440"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142380220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Human FactorsPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2024-12-26DOI: 10.1177/00187208241309748
SeHee Jung, Bingyi Su, Lu Lu, Liwei Qing, Xu Xu
{"title":"Video-Based Lifting Action Recognition Using Rank-Altered Kinematic Feature Pairs.","authors":"SeHee Jung, Bingyi Su, Lu Lu, Liwei Qing, Xu Xu","doi":"10.1177/00187208241309748","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00187208241309748","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>ObjectiveTo identify lifting actions and count the number of lifts performed in videos based on robust class prediction and a streamlined process for reliable real-time monitoring of lifting tasks.BackgroundTraditional methods for recognizing lifting actions often rely on deep learning classifiers applied to human motion data collected from wearable sensors. Despite their high performance, these methods can be difficult to implement on systems with limited hardware resources.MethodThe proposed method follows a five-stage process: (1) BlazePose, a real-time pose estimation model, detects key joints of the human body. (2) These joints are preprocessed by smoothing, centering, and scaling techniques. (3) Kinematic features are extracted from the preprocessed joints. (4) Video frames are classified as lifting or nonlifting using rank-altered kinematic feature pairs. (5) A lifting counting algorithm counts the number of lifts based on the class predictions.ResultsNine rank-altered kinematic feature pairs are identified as key pairs. These pairs were used to construct an ensemble classifier, which achieved 0.89 or above in classification metrics, including accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score. This classifier showed an accuracy of 0.90 in lifting counting and a latency of 0.06 ms, which is at least 12.5 times faster than baseline classifiers.ConclusionThis study demonstrates that computer vision-based kinematic features could be adopted to effectively and efficiently recognize lifting actions.ApplicationThe proposed method could be deployed on various platforms, including mobile devices and embedded systems, to monitor lifting tasks in real-time for the proactive prevention of work-related low-back injuries.</p>","PeriodicalId":56333,"journal":{"name":"Human Factors","volume":" ","pages":"656-672"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142900935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Drew W R Halliday, Justin E Karr, Danesh Shahnazian, Iris Gordon, Juan Pablo Sanchez Escudero, Stuart W S MacDonald, Sarah J Macoun, Sandra R Hundza, Mauricio A Garcia-Barrera
{"title":"Electrophysiological variability during tests of executive functioning: A comparison of athletes with and without concussion and sedentary control participants.","authors":"Drew W R Halliday, Justin E Karr, Danesh Shahnazian, Iris Gordon, Juan Pablo Sanchez Escudero, Stuart W S MacDonald, Sarah J Macoun, Sandra R Hundza, Mauricio A Garcia-Barrera","doi":"10.1080/23279095.2023.2247512","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23279095.2023.2247512","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Sport participation may benefit executive functioning (EF), but EF can also be adversely affected by concussion, which can occur during sport participation. Neural variability is an emerging proxy of brain health that indexes the brain's range of possible responses to incoming stimuli (i.e., dynamic range) and interconnectedness, but has yet to be characterized following concussion among athletes. This study examined whether neural variability was enhanced by athletic participation and attenuated by concussion.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Seventy-seven participants (18-25 years-old) were classified as sedentary controls (<i>n</i> = 33), athletes with positive concussion history (<i>n</i> = 21), or athletes without concussion (<i>n</i> = 23). Participants completed tests of attention switching, response inhibition, and updating working memory while undergoing electroencephalography recordings to index neural variability.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Compared to sedentary controls and athletes without concussion, athletes with concussion exhibited a restricted whole-brain dynamic range of neural variability when completing a test of inhibitory control. There were no group differences observed for either the switching or working memory tasks.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>A history of concussion was related to reduced dynamic range of neural activity during a task of response inhibition in young adult athletes. Neural variability may have value for evaluating brain health following concussion.</p>","PeriodicalId":51308,"journal":{"name":"Applied Neuropsychology-Adult","volume":" ","pages":"1179-1188"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10031050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Karolína Knížková, Aneta Siroňová, Monika Večeřová, Barbora Keřková, Petra Šustová, Juraj Jonáš, Aleš Hrubý, Mabel Rodriguez
{"title":"Cognitive flexibility in schizophrenia: A confirmatory factor analysis of neuropsychological measures.","authors":"Karolína Knížková, Aneta Siroňová, Monika Večeřová, Barbora Keřková, Petra Šustová, Juraj Jonáš, Aleš Hrubý, Mabel Rodriguez","doi":"10.1080/23279095.2023.2230508","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23279095.2023.2230508","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cognitive flexibility (CF) is the ability to adapt cognitive strategies according to the changing environment. The deficit in CF has often been linked to various neurological and psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia. However, the operationalization and assessment of CF have not been unified and the current research suggests that the available instruments measure different aspects of CF. The main objective of the present study was to compare three frequently used neuropsychological measures of CF-Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), Trail Making Test (TMT) and Stroop Color and Word Test (SCWT) in a population of patients (<i>N</i> = 220) with first-episode schizophrenia spectrum disorders in order to evaluate their convergent validity. The hypothesis of an underlying latent construct was tested via a confirmatory factor analysis. We used a one-factor CF model with scores from WCST, SCWT and TMT as observed variables. The established model showed a good fit to the data (χ<sup>2</sup> = 1.67, <i>p</i> = 0.43, SRMR = 0.02, RMSEA = 0.0, CFI = 1.00). The highest factor loading was found in WCST as CF explained most of the variance in this neuropsychological measure compared to the other instruments. On the other hand, a TMT ratio index and a SCWT interference demonstrated lowest loadings in the model. The findings suggest that not all the frequently used measures share an underlying factor of CF or may capture different aspects of this construct.</p>","PeriodicalId":51308,"journal":{"name":"Applied Neuropsychology-Adult","volume":" ","pages":"1003-1010"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10110212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}