Kaia S. Sargent, Emily L. Martinez, Alexandra C. Reed, Anika Guha, Morgan E. Bartholomew, Caroline K. Diehl, Christine S. Chang, Sarah Salama, Tzvetan Popov, Julian F. Thayer, Gregory A. Miller, Cindy M. Yee
{"title":"Oscillatory Coupling Between Neural and Cardiac Rhythms","authors":"Kaia S. Sargent, Emily L. Martinez, Alexandra C. Reed, Anika Guha, Morgan E. Bartholomew, Caroline K. Diehl, Christine S. Chang, Sarah Salama, Tzvetan Popov, Julian F. Thayer, Gregory A. Miller, Cindy M. Yee","doi":"10.1177/09567976241235932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976241235932","url":null,"abstract":"Oscillations serve a critical role in organizing biological systems. In the brain, oscillatory coupling is a fundamental mechanism of communication. The possibility that neural oscillations interact directly with slower physiological rhythms (e.g., heart rate, respiration) is largely unexplored and may have important implications for psychological functioning. Oscillations in heart rate, an aspect of heart rate variability (HRV), show remarkably robust associations with psychological health. Mather and Thayer proposed coupling between high-frequency HRV (HF-HRV) and neural oscillations as a mechanism that partially accounts for such relationships. We tested this hypothesis by measuring phase-amplitude coupling between HF-HRV and neural oscillations in 37 healthy adults at rest. Robust coupling was detected in all frequency bands. Granger causality analyses indicated stronger heart-to-brain than brain-to-heart effects in all frequency bands except gamma. These findings suggest that cardiac rhythms play a causal role in modulating neural oscillations, which may have important implications for mental health.","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140570026","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":"The Motion-Silencing Illusion Depends on Object-Centered Representation","authors":"Qihan Wu, Jonathan I. Flombaum","doi":"10.1177/09567976241235104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976241235104","url":null,"abstract":"Motion silencing is a striking and unexplained visual illusion wherein changes that are otherwise salient become difficult to perceive when the changing elements also move. We develop a new method for quantifying illusion strength (Experiments 1a and 1b), and we demonstrate a privileged role for rotational motion on illusion strength compared with highly controlled stimuli that lack rotation (Experiments 2a to 3b). These contrasts make it difficult to explain the illusion in terms of lower-level detection limits. Instead, we explain the illusion as a failure to attribute changes to locations. Rotation exacerbates the illusion because its perception relies upon structured object representations. This aggravates the difficulty of attributing changes by demanding that locations are referenced relative to both an object-internal frame and an external frame. Two final experiments (4a and 4b) add support to this account by employing a synchronously rotating external frame of reference that diminishes otherwise strong motion silencing. All participants were Johns Hopkins University undergraduates.","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":"205 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140570022","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}
Psychological SciencePub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2024-03-13DOI: 10.1177/09567976241234560
Y Rin Yoon, Kaitlin Woolley
{"title":"The Interactive Effect of Incentive Salience and Prosocial Motivation on Prosocial Behavior.","authors":"Y Rin Yoon, Kaitlin Woolley","doi":"10.1177/09567976241234560","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976241234560","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Charities often use incentives to increase prosocial action. However, charities sometimes downplay these incentives in their messaging (pilot study), possibly to avoid demotivating donors. We challenge this strategy, examining whether increasing the salience of incentives for prosocial action can in fact motivate charitable behavior. Three controlled experiments (<i>N</i> = 2,203 adults) and a field study with an alumni-donation campaign (<i>N</i> = 22,468 adults) found that more (vs. less) salient incentives are more effective at increasing prosocial behavior when prosocial motivation is low (vs. high). This is because more (vs. less) salient incentives increase relative consideration of self-interest (vs. other-regarding) benefits, which is a stronger driver of behavior at low (vs. high) levels of prosocial motivation. By identifying that prosocial motivation moderates the effect of incentive salience on charitable behavior, and by detailing the underlying mechanism, we advance theory and practice on incentive salience, motivation, and charitable giving.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"390-404"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140111268","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}
Psychological SciencePub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2024-03-04DOI: 10.1177/09567976241231506
Audrey L Michal, Priti Shah
{"title":"A Practical Significance Bias in Laypeople's Evaluation of Scientific Findings.","authors":"Audrey L Michal, Priti Shah","doi":"10.1177/09567976241231506","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976241231506","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People often rely on scientific findings to help them make decisions-however, failing to report effect magnitudes might lead to a potential bias in assuming findings are practically significant. Across two online studies (Prolific; <i>N</i> = 800), we measured U.S. adults' endorsements of expensive interventions described in media reports that led to effects that were small, large, or of unreported magnitude between groups. Participants who viewed interventions with unreported effect magnitudes were more likely to endorse interventions compared with those who viewed interventions with small effects and were just as likely to endorse interventions as those who viewed interventions with large effects, suggesting a practical significance bias. When effect magnitudes were reported, participants on average adjusted their evaluations accordingly. However, some individuals, such as those with low numeracy skills, were more likely than others to act on small effects, even when explicitly prompted to first consider the meaningfulness of the effect.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"315-327"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140028822","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}
Psychological SciencePub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2024-03-06DOI: 10.1177/09567976241231574
Elise M Cardinale, Jessica Bezek, Olivia Siegal, Gabrielle F Freitag, Anni Subar, Parmis Khosravi, Ajitha Mallidi, Olivia Peterson, Isaac Morales, Simone P Haller, Courtney Filippi, Kyunghun Lee, Melissa A Brotman, Ellen Leibenluft, Daniel S Pine, Julia O Linke, Katharina Kircanski
{"title":"Multivariate Assessment of Inhibitory Control in Youth: Links With Psychopathology and Brain Function.","authors":"Elise M Cardinale, Jessica Bezek, Olivia Siegal, Gabrielle F Freitag, Anni Subar, Parmis Khosravi, Ajitha Mallidi, Olivia Peterson, Isaac Morales, Simone P Haller, Courtney Filippi, Kyunghun Lee, Melissa A Brotman, Ellen Leibenluft, Daniel S Pine, Julia O Linke, Katharina Kircanski","doi":"10.1177/09567976241231574","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976241231574","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Inhibitory control is central to many theories of cognitive and brain development, and impairments in inhibitory control are posited to underlie developmental psychopathology. In this study, we tested the possibility of shared versus unique associations between inhibitory control and three common symptom dimensions in youth psychopathology: attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), anxiety, and irritability. We quantified inhibitory control using four different experimental tasks to estimate a latent variable in 246 youth (8-18 years old) with varying symptom types and levels. Participants were recruited from the Washington, D.C., metro region. Results of structural equation modeling integrating a bifactor model of psychopathology revealed that inhibitory control predicted a shared or general psychopathology dimension, but not ADHD-specific, anxiety-specific, or irritability-specific dimensions. Inhibitory control also showed a significant, selective association with global efficiency in a frontoparietal control network delineated during resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. These results support performance-based inhibitory control linked to resting-state brain function as an important predictor of comorbidity in youth psychopathology.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"376-389"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11145514/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140050258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychological SciencePub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1177/09567976241231572
Hélène Van Marcke, Pierre Le Denmat, Tom Verguts, Kobe Desender
{"title":"Manipulating Prior Beliefs Causally Induces Under- and Overconfidence.","authors":"Hélène Van Marcke, Pierre Le Denmat, Tom Verguts, Kobe Desender","doi":"10.1177/09567976241231572","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976241231572","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Humans differ vastly in the confidence they assign to decisions. Although such under- and overconfidence relate to fundamental life outcomes, a computational account specifying the underlying mechanisms is currently lacking. We propose that prior beliefs in the ability to perform a task explain confidence differences across participants and tasks, despite similar performance. In two perceptual decision-making experiments, we show that manipulating prior beliefs about performance during training causally influences confidence in healthy adults (<i>N</i> = 50 each; Experiment 1: 8 men, one nonbinary; Experiment 2: 5 men) during a test phase, despite unaffected objective performance. This is true when prior beliefs are induced via manipulated comparative feedback and via manipulated training-phase difficulty. Our results were accounted for within an accumulation-to-bound model, explicitly modeling prior beliefs on the basis of earlier task exposure. Decision confidence is quantified as the probability of being correct conditional on prior beliefs, causing under- or overconfidence. We provide a fundamental mechanistic insight into the computations underlying under- and overconfidence.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"358-375"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139997232","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}
Psychological SciencePub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2024-03-14DOI: 10.1177/09567976241231571
Adam T Ramsey, Yanjun Liu, Jennifer S Trueblood
{"title":"Can Invalid Information Be Ignored When It Is Detected?","authors":"Adam T Ramsey, Yanjun Liu, Jennifer S Trueblood","doi":"10.1177/09567976241231571","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976241231571","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With the rapid spread of information via social media, individuals are prone to misinformation exposure that they may utilize when forming beliefs. Over five experiments (total <i>N</i> = 815 adults, recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk in the United States), we investigated whether people could ignore quantitative information when they judged for themselves that it was misreported. Participants recruited online viewed sets of values sampled from Gaussian distributions to estimate the underlying means. They attempted to ignore invalid information, which were outlier values inserted into the value sequences. Results indicated participants were able to detect outliers. Nevertheless, participants' estimates were still biased in the direction of the outlier, even when they were most certain that they detected invalid information. The addition of visual warning cues and different task scenarios did not fully eliminate systematic over- and underestimation. These findings suggest that individuals may incorporate invalid information they meant to ignore when forming beliefs.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"328-344"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140132457","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}
Psychological SciencePub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2024-02-26DOI: 10.1177/09567976241228503
Sang Ho Lee, Myeong Seop Song, Min-Hwan Oh, Woo-Young Ahn
{"title":"Bridging the Gap Between Self-Report and Behavioral Laboratory Measures: A Real-Time Driving Task With Inverse Reinforcement Learning.","authors":"Sang Ho Lee, Myeong Seop Song, Min-Hwan Oh, Woo-Young Ahn","doi":"10.1177/09567976241228503","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976241228503","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A major challenge in assessing psychological constructs such as impulsivity is the weak correlation between self-report and behavioral task measures that are supposed to assess the same construct. To address this issue, we developed a real-time driving task called the \"highway task,\" in which participants often exhibit impulsive behaviors mirroring real-life impulsive traits captured by self-report questionnaires. Here, we show that a self-report measure of impulsivity is highly correlated with performance in the highway task but not with traditional behavioral task measures of impulsivity (47 adults aged 18-33 years). By integrating deep neural networks with an inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) algorithm, we inferred dynamic changes of subjective rewards during the highway task. The results indicated that impulsive participants attribute high subjective rewards to irrational or risky situations. Overall, our results suggest that using real-time tasks combined with IRL can help reconcile the discrepancy between self-report and behavioral task measures of psychological constructs.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"345-357"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139973175","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}
Psychological SciencePub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2024-03-15DOI: 10.1177/09567976231218640
Roland Imhoff, Barbara C N Müller, Verena Heidrich
{"title":"Do They Look the Same Unless They Are Angry? Investigating the Other-Race Effect in the Presence of Angry Expressions.","authors":"Roland Imhoff, Barbara C N Müller, Verena Heidrich","doi":"10.1177/09567976231218640","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976231218640","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ethnic out-group members are disproportionately more often the victim of misidentifications. The so-called other-race effect (ORE), the tendency to better remember faces of individuals belonging to one's own ethnic in-group than faces belonging to an ethnic out-group, has been identified as one causal ingredient in such tragic incidents. Investigating an important aspect for the ORE-that is, emotional expression-the seminal study by Ackerman and colleagues (2006) found that White participants remembered neutral White faces better than neutral Black faces, but crucially, Black angry faces were better remembered than White angry faces (i.e., a reversed ORE). In the current study, we sought to replicate this study and directly tackle the potential causes for different results with later work. Three hundred ninety-six adult White U.S. citizens completed our study in which we manipulated the kind of employed stimuli (as in the original study vs. more standardized ones) whether participants knew of the recognition task already at the encoding phase. Additionally, participants were asked about the unusualness of the presented faces. We were able to replicate results from the Ackerman et al. (2006) study with the original stimuli but not with more standardized stimuli.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"405-414"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140137140","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}
Psychological SciencePub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2024-03-20DOI: 10.1177/09567976241236162
Rosemary L Al-Kire, Chad A Miller, Michael H Pasek, Samuel L Perry, Clara L Wilkins
{"title":"White by Another Name? Can Anti-Christian Bias Claims Serve as a Racial Dog Whistle?","authors":"Rosemary L Al-Kire, Chad A Miller, Michael H Pasek, Samuel L Perry, Clara L Wilkins","doi":"10.1177/09567976241236162","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09567976241236162","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Four preregistered experiments (<i>N</i> = 4,307) explored whether anti-Christian bias claims can discreetly signal White allyship among Christian American adults. In Experiments 1 and 2, reading about anti-Christian bias led White, but not Black, Christians to perceive more anti-White bias. Experiments 3 and 4 demonstrate the connection between Christian and White can be leveraged by politicians in the form of a racial dog whistle. In Experiment 3, White Christians perceived a politician concerned about anti-Christian bias as caring more about anti-White bias and more willing to fight for White people (relative to a control). This politician was also perceived as less offensive than a politician concerned about anti-White bias. In Experiment 4, Black Christians perceived a politician concerned about anti-Christian bias as less offensive than one concerned about anti-White bias yet still unlikely to fight for Black people. Results suggest \"anti-Christian bias\" can provide a relatively palatable way to signal allegiance to White people.</p>","PeriodicalId":20745,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":"415-434"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140176133","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}