Experimental psychologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-04-23DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000642
Michal Mikolaj Stefanczyk, Grzegorz Żurek, Artur Macyszyn, Karol Sygierycz, Agnieszka Jastrzębska, Aleksandra Ochman, Kamila Czajka, Michał Białek
{"title":"Moral Judgments Are (Most Probably) Robust to Physical Fatigue.","authors":"Michal Mikolaj Stefanczyk, Grzegorz Żurek, Artur Macyszyn, Karol Sygierycz, Agnieszka Jastrzębska, Aleksandra Ochman, Kamila Czajka, Michał Białek","doi":"10.1027/1618-3169/a000642","DOIUrl":"10.1027/1618-3169/a000642","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b></b> Across two experiments (<i>N</i> = 303), we examined the effect of physical fatigue on moral decision-making. Participants were subjected to acute physical exercise. Half of the participants were presented with moral dilemmas before the physical exercise and the other half after the exercise. We measured moral judgement using a shortened version of the Process Dissociation procedure, allowing us to investigate (1) decisions in the traditional sacrificial dilemmas and (2) deontological and utilitarian moral inclinations. The results showed no significant differences in moral judgments between fatigued and nonfatigued participants in nine out of 10 statistical tests. This suggests a unique resilience of moral judgments to physical fatigue, in contrast to what is known about cognitive fatigue.</p>","PeriodicalId":12173,"journal":{"name":"Experimental psychology","volume":" ","pages":"42-51"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143990786","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}
Experimental psychologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-04-23DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000641
Ryan P M Hackländer, Helge Schlüter, Ann-Kathrin Rolke, Simon Schuster, Christina Bermeitinger
{"title":"Less Than Zero?","authors":"Ryan P M Hackländer, Helge Schlüter, Ann-Kathrin Rolke, Simon Schuster, Christina Bermeitinger","doi":"10.1027/1618-3169/a000641","DOIUrl":"10.1027/1618-3169/a000641","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Not all information encountered is equally important to remember. Some information may be valuable, while others may be irrelevant. Importantly, retrieving and acting upon some information may even have negative consequences. Research has shown that information associated with negative consequences when retrieved is remembered worse than information associated with positive consequences when retrieved. The current experiments address a hitherto understudied aspect of memory for values, namely about how neutral and negative valued information is remembered and which processes underly the encoding and retrieval of this information. Across four experiments, we presented participants with words and an associated positive, neutral, or negative point value. Participants thought the associated values would be added to their total score, thus incentivizing the recall of positive value words and forgetting of negative value words. However, at retrieval participants were told to ignore previously associated values and to try to retrieve as many words from the study phase as possible. Replicating previous research, we found superior retrieval for words associated with positive compared to negative values. More importantly for the current investigation, across four experiments, we found no evidence that words associated with negative values were remembered worse than words associated with a neutral value.</p>","PeriodicalId":12173,"journal":{"name":"Experimental psychology","volume":" ","pages":"27-41"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12231113/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144063133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the Morning Morality Effect in the Context of Moral Utilitarianism.","authors":"Bastien Trémolière, Corentin J Gosling","doi":"10.1027/1618-3169/a000643","DOIUrl":"10.1027/1618-3169/a000643","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b></b> Recent research has shown mixed evidence for the morning morality effect (MME; i.e., the observation that individuals are less immoral in the morning than in the afternoon). In the present research, we target the morning morality effect in the context of moral utilitarianism, for which this effect has never been explored. We first reanalyzed observational data from six studies previously conducted by our lab, which included different tasks capturing moral utilitarianism. A meta-analytic model showed that participants become less utilitarian as the day goes on, but with a small effect size (<i>r</i> = -0.14, 95% CI = [-0.25, -0.02]) and large heterogeneity. Exploration of this heterogeneity showed that this association was statistically significant for classic sacrificial dilemmas only. We next conducted an experimental study of the morning morality effect, which aimed to experimentally support the results previously observed in the meta-analysis, as well as to explore, in addition, a possible moderating effect of chronotype. These experimental results showed no reliable overall effect of time of day on moral utilitarianism (SMD = 0.04, 95% CI = [-0.21, 0.28]). A potential moderating effect of chronotype was detected in secondary analyses, but that needs to be replicated. The implications and limitations are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":12173,"journal":{"name":"Experimental psychology","volume":"72 1","pages":"52-60"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144093196","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}
Experimental psychologyPub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2025-01-09DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000631
Daniella K Cash, Megan H Papesh, Alan T Harrison
{"title":"False Memories of Familiar Faces.","authors":"Daniella K Cash, Megan H Papesh, Alan T Harrison","doi":"10.1027/1618-3169/a000631","DOIUrl":"10.1027/1618-3169/a000631","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b></b> Prior familiarity has been shown to increase memory for faces, but different effects emerge depending on whether the face is experimentally or pre-experimentally familiar to the observer. Across two experiments, we compared the effect of experimental and pre-experimental familiarity on recognition and source memory. Pre-experimentally familiar faces were nameable US celebrities, and unfamiliar faces were unnamable European celebrities. Within both sets, faces could be made experimentally familiar via repetition during the learning phase (studied once or thrice). At test, all studied identities were represented by novel (i.e., not studied) photos, allowing us to test memory for the identity rather than the picture. In Experiment 1, repeated presentations of both face types increased recognition rates, but accuracy was generally higher for pre-experimentally familiar faces. Experiment 2 expanded on these findings by pairing the faces with background locations and manipulating associative strength of the face-location pairs. Although pre-experimentally familiar faces were again recognized more often, they were also more likely to be falsely labeled as \"old\" when paired with new background locations. These results have implications for basic and applied studies examining familiar versus unfamiliar face recognition.</p>","PeriodicalId":12173,"journal":{"name":"Experimental psychology","volume":" ","pages":"313-323"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11963751/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142947107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Posner's Endogenous Beam Is (Still) Not Treisman's Glue.","authors":"Richard S Drake, Raymond M Klein","doi":"10.1027/1618-3169/a000638","DOIUrl":"10.1027/1618-3169/a000638","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b></b> Posner's beam and Treisman's glue are metaphors of visual attention that stimulated research programs on exogenous and endogenous modes of attentional control and feature integration theory. Briand and Klein (1987) asked, \"Is Posner's beam the same as Treisman's glue,\" positing that the orienting of Posner's spatially confined beam (spotlight of attention) could be the mobilization of the same attentional machinery described by Treisman as performing object feature integration. Based on the patterns of interaction between cue condition and the opportunities for illusory conjunctions, they concluded the answer depended upon the mode of control: An interaction suggested a <i>yes</i> answer for exogenous control while additivity suggested <i>no</i> for endogenous control, a difference in the effects of attention suggesting that there may be two independent beams. Kawahara and Miyatani (2001) challenged the lack of interaction between endogenous cues and task type (feature targets vs. conjunction targets) using a different paradigm that emphasized search and contained more items. After noting the importance of presenting all the displayed items at an attended or unattended location, we report two experiments that replicate Briand with two-item arrays and extend this finding to four-item arrays, strongly supporting the claim that Posner's endogenous beam is not Treisman's glue.</p>","PeriodicalId":12173,"journal":{"name":"Experimental psychology","volume":"71 6","pages":"324-334"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143751804","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}
Experimental psychologyPub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-12-19DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000632
{"title":"Correction to Wiradhany et al., 2024.","authors":"","doi":"10.1027/1618-3169/a000632","DOIUrl":"10.1027/1618-3169/a000632","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12173,"journal":{"name":"Experimental psychology","volume":" ","pages":"360"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142853470","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}
Experimental psychologyPub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000636
Julieta M Zapata, Nicolás A Comay, Gaspar Taricco, Pablo Barttfeld, Guillermo Solovey, Aarón Saal, José V Ahumada
{"title":"Metacognitive Sensitivity on the Iowa Gambling Task Reveals Awareness as a Necessary Condition for Advantageous Performance.","authors":"Julieta M Zapata, Nicolás A Comay, Gaspar Taricco, Pablo Barttfeld, Guillermo Solovey, Aarón Saal, José V Ahumada","doi":"10.1027/1618-3169/a000636","DOIUrl":"10.1027/1618-3169/a000636","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b></b> The Somatic Marker Hypothesis (SHM) proposes that human decision-making under uncertainty is advantageously guided by affective signals before developing awareness of which courses of action are better. However, this claim has been questioned due to the limitations of the methods used to measure awareness, with alternative measures yielding conflicting results. To address this issue, we apply metacognitive sensitivity, a reliable method based on confidence ratings that outperform previous awareness measures, in an online nonclinical sample (<i>N</i> = 44) to assess awareness in the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT). Using this approach, we found that awareness and advantageous decision-making are not independent processes; an increase in metacognitive sensitivity strongly predicted an improvement in task performance in nearly all blocks of the task. A lab-based preregistered replication (<i>N</i> = 47) confirmed these findings. Interestingly, some participants demonstrated awareness without advantageous decision-making, suggesting that awareness is a necessary - but not sufficient - condition for optimal performance. Overall, this study highlights the challenges of measuring awareness in the IGT and introduces a novel alternative method that questions a key postulate of the SMH.</p>","PeriodicalId":12173,"journal":{"name":"Experimental psychology","volume":" ","pages":"343-351"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143566518","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}
{"title":"Anticipated Imitation Is Not Affected by the Number of Imitators.","authors":"Bence Neszmélyi, Roland Pfister","doi":"10.1027/1618-3169/a000637","DOIUrl":"10.1027/1618-3169/a000637","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b></b> Anticipating to be imitated by another agent primes corresponding action plans in action models. Here we assessed whether being imitated by more than one coactor boosts anticipated imitation. This prediction was based on corresponding findings from motor priming by perceiving rather than anticipating movements of multiple agents. In contrast to this previous work, the effects of anticipated imitation were similar for imitation by a single agent and joint imitation by two agents. Anticipated imitation, therefore, appears to be based on sparse representations of only selected features rather than including a full representation of all possible consequences of one's own movements.</p>","PeriodicalId":12173,"journal":{"name":"Experimental psychology","volume":"71 6","pages":"352-359"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11956730/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143751802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Experimental psychologyPub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000634
Yue Ma, Ting Zhu, Yu Zhan Yu
{"title":"A Comparative Study on Self-Other Intertemporal Choice Between Hearing-Impaired and Normal Children.","authors":"Yue Ma, Ting Zhu, Yu Zhan Yu","doi":"10.1027/1618-3169/a000634","DOIUrl":"10.1027/1618-3169/a000634","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b></b> The current study employed the temporal discounting task to assess differences in intertemporal decision-making between hearing-impaired and normal children across self-oriented and other-oriented choices. The results showed that: (1) no significant difference was observed between hearing-impaired and normal children when making intertemporal choices for themselves; (2) when decisions were made for close family, hearing-impaired children exhibited a significantly higher preference for immediate rewards compared to normal children; (3) conversely, when making choices for strangers, no significant difference was noted in the immediate reward selection rates between hearing-impaired and normal children. Extant research corroborates that normal children display greater patience in intertemporal decision-making for close family compared to hearing-impaired children. The construal level theory and responsibility aversion hypothesis were expand.</p>","PeriodicalId":12173,"journal":{"name":"Experimental psychology","volume":" ","pages":"335-342"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143188752","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}