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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Pub Date : 2025-07-16 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-025-02740-3

Andrey Anikin

{"title":"Can I trust this paper?","authors":"Andrey Anikin","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02740-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02740-3","url":null,"abstract":"After a decade of data falsification scandals and replication failures in psychology and related empirical disciplines, there are urgent calls for open science and structural reform in the publishing industry. In the meantime, however, researchers need to learn how to recognize tell-tale signs of methodological and conceptual shortcomings that make a published claim suspect. I review four key problems and propose simple ways to detect them. First, the study may be fake; if in doubt, inspect the authors' and journal's profiles and request to see the raw data to check for inconsistencies. Second, there may be too little data; low precision of effect sizes is a clear warning sign of this. Third, the data may not be analyzed correctly; excessive flexibility in data analysis can be deduced from signs of data dredging and convoluted post hoc theorizing in the text, while violations of model assumptions can be detected by examining plots of observed data and model predictions. Fourth, the conclusions may not be justified by the data; common issues are inappropriate acceptance of the null hypothesis, biased meta-analyses, over-generalization over unmodeled variance, hidden confounds, and unspecific theoretical predictions. The main takeaways are to verify that the methodology is robust and to distinguish between what the actual results are and what the authors claim these results mean when citing empirical work. Critical evaluation of published evidence is an essential skill to develop as it can prevent researchers from pursuing unproductive avenues and ensure better trustworthiness of science as a whole.","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144650265","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}

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Value-modulated attentional capture depends on awareness. 价值调节的注意力捕获依赖于意识。

IF 3.2 3区心理学

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Pub Date : 2025-07-16 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-025-02734-1

Francisco Garre-Frutos, Juan Lupiáñez, Miguel A Vadillo

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Neither measurement error nor speed-accuracy trade-offs explain the difficulty of establishing attentional control as a psychometric construct: Evidence from a latent-variable analysis using diffusion modeling. 测量误差和速度-准确性权衡都不能解释将注意力控制作为一种心理测量结构的困难：来自使用扩散模型的潜在变量分析的证据。

IF 3.2 3区心理学

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Pub Date : 2025-07-14 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-025-02696-4

Alodie Rey-Mermet, Henrik Singmann, Klaus Oberauer

{"title":"Neither measurement error nor speed-accuracy trade-offs explain the difficulty of establishing attentional control as a psychometric construct: Evidence from a latent-variable analysis using diffusion modeling.","authors":"Alodie Rey-Mermet, Henrik Singmann, Klaus Oberauer","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02696-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02696-4","url":null,"abstract":"Attentional control refers to the ability to maintain and implement a goal and goal-relevant information when facing distraction. Previous research has failed to substantiate strong evidence for a psychometric construct of attentional control. This could result from two methodological shortcomings: (a) the neglect of individual differences in speed-accuracy trade-offs when only speed or accuracy is used as dependent variable, and (b) the difficulty of isolating attentional control from measurement error. To overcome both issues, we combined hierarchical Bayesian Wiener diffusion modeling with structural equation modeling. We reanalyzed six datasets that included data from three to eight attentional-control tasks, and data from young and older adults. Overall, the results showed that measures of attentional control failed to correlate with each other and failed to load on a latent variable. Therefore, limiting the impact of differences in speed-accuracy trade-offs and of measurement error does not solve the difficulty of establishing attentional control as a psychometric construct. These findings strengthen the case against a psychometric construct of attentional control.","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144637809","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}

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From the eye to the world: Spatial suppression is primarily coded in retinotopic coordinates but can be learned in spatiotopic coordinates. 从眼睛到世界：空间抑制主要是在视网膜坐标中编码的，但可以在空间坐标中学习。

IF 3.2 3区心理学

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Pub Date : 2025-07-09 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-025-02732-3

Seah Chang, Julie D Golomb

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Spatial regularities in a closed-loop audiovisual search task bias subsequent free-viewing behavior. 闭环视听搜索任务的空间规律对后续自由观看行为的影响。

IF 3.2 3区心理学

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-025-02703-8

Sebastiano Cinetto, Elvio Blini, Andrea Zangrossi, Maurizio Corbetta, Marco Zorzi

{"title":"Spatial regularities in a closed-loop audiovisual search task bias subsequent free-viewing behavior.","authors":"Sebastiano Cinetto, Elvio Blini, Andrea Zangrossi, Maurizio Corbetta, Marco Zorzi","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02703-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02703-8","url":null,"abstract":"Statistical learning of spatial regularities during visual search leads to prioritization of target-rich locations. The resulting attentional bias may subsequently affect orienting and search behavior in similar tasks but its transfer to free viewing has not been demonstrated. We exploited a novel closed-loop paradigm where human observers searched for invisible target locations on a screen only guided by real-time auditory feedback conveying gaze-target distance. Unbeknownst to participants, location probability was biased towards one hemifield. Free viewing during rest, free image viewing, and spatial judgments were assessed before and after the search task. Search performance systematically improved and peaked in the biased hemifield, showing the unfolding of statistical learning. Importantly, the spatial bias transferred to both free-viewing conditions in terms of mean horizontal fixation position, while it did not transfer to spatial judgments. Exploratory results suggest that search performance was influenced by participants' viewing pattern, whereas transfer was modulated by pre-existing (natural) spatial biases. Our results demonstrate that task-based statistical learning transfers to ecological scenarios, paving the way for future research and clinical applications aimed at ameliorating pathological spatial biases.","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144576141","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}

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Probabilities of conditionals: The relevance effect might be confounded by the existence of boundary cases. 条件的概率：关联效应可能被边界情况的存在所混淆。

IF 3.2 3区心理学

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-025-02725-2

Likan Zhan, Meng Wang

{"title":"Probabilities of conditionals: The relevance effect might be confounded by the existence of boundary cases.","authors":"Likan Zhan, Meng Wang","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02725-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02725-2","url":null,"abstract":"The relevance between antecedent and consequent has recently been regarded as essential in modulating the probability assigned to a conditional in natural language. The empirical results are mixed. Positive evidence mainly comes from intensional probability studies about ordinary, unique events. Extensional probability studies about novel abstract events commonly fail to observe such an effect. In extensional probability studies, a set of events is typically provided to sustain participants' judgments. Depending on whether the antecedent and the consequent are true or false, the set can be divided into four subsets. When one or more subsets are empty, the set is called a boundary case. When the number of events becomes smaller, it becomes easier for boundary cases to occur. In previous extensional probability studies, however, boundary cases were normally not included in the test stimuli. In intensional probability studies, no explicit events are provided; participants have to mentally simulate a set of events from their own background knowledge to help them make judgments. The size of the mentally simulated sample is relatively small, especially when the judged statements are complex, like conditionals. It is then highly probable for the intensional probability studies to contain boundary cases, even though they cannot be directly observed. Based on the previous analyses, we suspect that the difference observed in previous studies might be confounded by the fact that boundary cases were included in the former case but not in the latter. To test this possibility, we introduced boundary cases into our experiment involving abstract multiple events and observed that (1) when boundary cases were included in the analyses, modulation effect was observed for three of the four parameters; (2) when boundary cases were excluded from analyses, no modulation effect was observed. Reanalyses of previous intensional studies corroborated our hypothesis. We also discussed the potential reason why relevance effect and boundary cases cooccur.","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144584659","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}

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Super rapid learning of new attentional sets. 对新注意力的快速学习。

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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-025-02728-z

Seth A Marx, Sisi Wang, Geoffrey F Woodman

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Memory for language and modality in bilinguals: Dependencies and frequency effects. 双语者对语言和情态的记忆：依赖关系和频率效应。

IF 3.2 3区心理学

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-025-02724-3

Wendy S Francis, Paola A Baca

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An overview of the quantum cognition research program. 量子认知研究计划概述。

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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-025-02675-9

Jiaqi Huang, Gunnar Epping, Jennifer S Trueblood, James M Yearsley, Jerome R Busemeyer, Emmanuel M Pothos

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Co-activation of phonological and orthographic codes in various modalities of language processing: A systematic and meta-analytic review. 语音和正字法编码在不同语言加工模式中的共同激活：系统和元分析综述。

IF 3.2 3区心理学

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-025-02718-1

Xiaohui Cui, Markus F Damian, Qingqing Qu

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