Lisa M Viegas, Christina Bermeitinger, Pamela Baess
{"title":"Negative or positive left or right? The influence of attribute label position on IAT effects in picture-word IATs and word IATs.","authors":"Lisa M Viegas, Christina Bermeitinger, Pamela Baess","doi":"10.1177/17470218241275941","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218241275941","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Implicit Association Test (IAT) is a widely used measure of implicit attitudes. Despite its application in various fields, the malleability of the IAT by different methodological factors has been shown frequently. In this article, we focus on two factors that potentially influence the IAT effect, but which have received either inconsistent or no support so far: the IAT version (i.e., picture-word IAT vs. word IAT) and the position of the attribute labels on the screen (i.e., the positive or negative label on the left side). In two experiments, we used the original flower-insect IAT to systematically analyse the effects of the position of attribute labels (i.e., the assignment of the positive or the negative attribute label to the left screen position) and the block order of compatible (e.g., flower and positive) and incompatible blocks (e.g., flower and negative) as between-subjects factors. Reliable IAT effects were observed for the picture-word IAT and the word IAT when calculating the IAT effect as a difference in the response times as well as when computing the recommended <i>D</i> Score as IAT outcome. Smaller IAT effects occurred in the picture-word IAT than in the word IAT, supporting existing literature. In addition, an effect of the position of the attribute labels on the screen was found in both experiments, resulting in larger IAT effects when the negative attribute label was positioned on the left. This effect also appeared when calculating the <i>D</i> Score. The study highlights the importance of methodical factors for the IAT outcome.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1523-1538"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141913759","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}
{"title":"Global measures of syntactic and lexical complexity are not strong predictors of eye-movement patterns in sentence and passage reading.","authors":"Victor Kuperman, Dalmo Buzato, Rui Rothe-Neves","doi":"10.1177/17470218251317372","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251317372","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The link between the cognitive effort of word processing and the eye-movement patterns elicited by that word is well established in psycholinguistic research using eye-tracking. Yet less evidence or consensus exists regarding whether the same link exists between linguistic complexity measures of a sentence or passage and eye movements registered at the sentence or passage level. This article focuses on \"global\" measures of syntactic and lexical complexity, i.e., the measures that characterise the structure of the sentence or passage rather than aggregate lexical properties of individual words. We selected several commonly used global complexity measures and tested their predictive power against sentence- and passage-level eye movements in samples of text reading from 13 languages represented in the Multilingual Eye Movement Corpus (MECO). While some syntactic or lexical complexity measures elicited statistically significant effects, they were negligibly small and not of practical relevance for predicting the processing effort either in individual languages or across languages. These findings suggest that the \"eye-mind\" link known to be valid at the word level may not scale up to larger linguistic units.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1675-1690"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12267863/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143024581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elena Poznyak, Lucien Rochat, Deborah Badoud, Ben Meuleman, Martin Debbané
{"title":"Unpacking mentalizing: The roles of age and executive functioning in self-other appraisal and perspective taking.","authors":"Elena Poznyak, Lucien Rochat, Deborah Badoud, Ben Meuleman, Martin Debbané","doi":"10.1177/17470218241311415","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218241311415","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mentalizing involves a number of psychological processes designed to appraise self and others from different points of view. Factors affecting the flexibility in the ability to switch between self-other representations and perspectives remain yet unclear. In this study, we sought to (a) assess individual variability in processing and switching between self and other-oriented mental representations and perspectives in a sample of typically developing youths and (b) examine how age and executive functioning may affect this switching process. A total of 88 adolescents and 163 young adults completed the Self-Other Switching Task, a new computerised personality trait attribution paradigm. Measures of sustained attention, working memory, and inhibition were used to assess executive functioning. Linear mixed models showed that participants were faster at making attributions from the self-perspective and when referring to the self. They were also slower to disengage/switch from the self-perspective and the self-representation. Whereas there were no age differences in self-other switching efficiency per se, adolescents were slower than adults on trials involving appraisals of the other from the self-perspective. Importantly, higher verbal working memory scores were associated with better performance on incongruent trials and with switching scores. This study demonstrates the utility of a new experimental task permitting to tease apart the effects of self-other appraisal and perspective switching within a single paradigm. Our behavioural results highlight a self-cost observed in switching between representations and perspectives and emphasise the roles of age and working memory in the simultaneous processing of self- and other-oriented information.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1707-1720"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12267865/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142872818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Familiarity with non-famous faces increases \"person misidentification\".","authors":"Daisuke Shimane, Hiroshi Miura, Yuji Itoh","doi":"10.1177/17470218241280942","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218241280942","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People sometimes mistakenly identify an unknown person they encounter as a known person. Previous studies have elucidated this phenomenon and revealed that it is a common experience. However, no experimental study has identified factors associated with its occurrence. We termed this relatively under-examined phenomenon as \"person misidentification\" and examined its factors. Specifically, we focused on (1) establishing experimental procedures to detect person misidentification in a laboratory context and (2) investigating the mechanism by which visual familiarity with the encountered unknown faces contributes to person misidentification. The results indicated that the developed procedure measured 247 misidentifications in 72 of 106 participants in all experiments. Although the effect of familiarity on person misidentification was not observed in Experiment 1, this effect was detected in Experiment 2, where the manipulation of familiarity was enhanced and confirmed. Concretely, unknown faces with familiarity enhanced by subliminal exposure were more frequently misidentified as another known person. This indicates that familiarity with an encountered face contributes to and induces person misidentification. In addition, the results demonstrated that similarities, especially in terms of hairstyle, between the encountered face and the misidentified known person might be related to its occurrence. These results have rich implications and expand the literature on face processing.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1564-1577"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142036782","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}
{"title":"Hemispheric asymmetry for global-local processing: Effects of stimulus category and ageing.","authors":"Haiwen Chen, Jolene A Cox, Anne M Aimola Davies","doi":"10.1177/17470218241280800","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218241280800","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hemispheric asymmetry has been reported for global-local processing in young and older adults, with global processing specialised in the right hemisphere (RH-global specialisation) and local processing specialised in the left hemisphere (LH-local specialisation). Questions persist regarding the extent to which hemispheric asymmetry is influenced by stimulus category (verbal stimuli processed in the left hemisphere; visuospatial stimuli processed in the right hemisphere). Some evidence suggests stimulus category does not influence hemispheric asymmetry (stimulus-independent account) while other evidence suggests it does (stimulus-dependent account). In older adults, there is evidence of a local-processing advantage, believed to result from slower and less accurate performance in right-hemisphere compared to left-hemisphere functioning-the right-hemisphere ageing hypothesis. We examined hemispheric asymmetry for global-local processing in young and older participants with three hierarchical figures (letters, verbalisable objects, and nonverbalisable shapes), in a within-subjects design using a divided-attention paradigm and unilateral presentation. Our findings for letters and verbalisable objects support the stimulus-independent account-young and older participants demonstrated RH-global specialisation and LH-local specialisation regardless of stimulus category. In older participants, we also found a local-processing advantage for all three stimulus categories-an advantage best explained as faster and more accurate performance in local processing regardless of the visual field of stimulus presentation. Overall, we found hemispheric asymmetry for global-local processing in both young and older adults, and differences in global processing between young and older adults. Future investigation is suggested for the hemispheric asymmetry found in global-local processing of nonverbalisable shapes, and the mechanisms underlying age-related changes in global processing.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1627-1648"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12267869/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142036783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Libera Ylenia Mastromatteo, Elisa Tedaldi, Sara Scrimin, Enrico Rubaltelli
{"title":"The impact of partially covered faces on trust attribution, sharing resources, and perceived fairness of one's own choices in Ultimatum Game.","authors":"Libera Ylenia Mastromatteo, Elisa Tedaldi, Sara Scrimin, Enrico Rubaltelli","doi":"10.1177/17470218241290503","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218241290503","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Covered faces have been linked with impaired emotion recognition; yet, it is entirely unexplored how an occlusion due to face masks may affect individuals' behaviour in economic decisions. Across two studies, we explored whether partially covered faces (due to mask wearing or a horizontal black bar) and emotion displayed by the responder influence peoples' sharing behaviour in the Ultimatum Game and the perceived fairness of one's proposal.Study 1 showed participants were more willing to equally share their resources with a happy face (compared to a neutral one). In addition, they were more willing to make a fair proposal when the person displayed was not wearing a face mask. Our results also provide evidence that, when people had to judge how fair their proposal was, participants rated a fair proposal as fairer when responders showed happy faces without masks, while unfair proposals were rated as fairer with happy masked faces; similarly, angry faces led to fairer ratings for fair offers without masks and unfair offers with masks. Study 2 partially confirmed previous results, highlighting how a simple occlusion on the face does not have a direct effect on the proposal but moderates the effect of the displayed emotions.These findings indicate that social interactions might be affected by face occlusion, especially when it is represented by a face mask. Indeed, people might judge the same behaviour in different ways based on the fact that their counterpart has a partially covered face.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1721-1739"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142352735","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}
{"title":"Forgetting by any other name: The effect of instruction framing on item-method directed forgetting.","authors":"Tracy L Taylor, Kathleen L Hourihan","doi":"10.1177/17470218251364812","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251364812","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a typical item-method directed forgetting task, study words are presented one at a time, each followed by an instruction to Remember or Forget. Subsequent recognition shows a directed forgetting effect, with better recognition of to-be-remembered words than to-be-forgotten words. This study determined whether recognition depends only on the intention to remember or forget or also on the words used to frame the trial-by-trial instructions or task. In Experiments 1 and 3, participants were instructed, trial-by-trial, to Remember and Forget, Remember and Don't Remember, Don't Forget and Forget, or were told that some words were Important and that others were Not Important. There was no compelling evidence that the directed forgetting effect was altered by the specific words used as these trial-by-trial instructions. However, in Experiment 2, a smaller directed forgetting effect occurred when the task was framed as requiring participants to Remember unless instructed otherwise, compared to when it was framed as requiring participants to Forget unless instructed otherwise. These findings emphasize the freedom that researchers have for deciding how to frame trial-by-trial instructions and the caution they must use in deciding how to frame the task itself.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251364812"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144754126","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}
Maria Nemeth, Christoph F Geißler, Philip Schmalbrock, Christian Frings, Birte Moeller
{"title":"Binding effects occur even shortly after integration: Implications on the retrieval process in action control.","authors":"Maria Nemeth, Christoph F Geißler, Philip Schmalbrock, Christian Frings, Birte Moeller","doi":"10.1177/17470218251362823","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251362823","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Executing a response results in bindings between features of present stimuli and features of the response, a compound often called \"event file\". If features of an event file repeat in a later episode, the event file is assumed to be retrieved and to affect the current action (so-called \"binding effects\"). Feature binding and retrieval are considered to be fundamental processes in human action control. However, to date, it is not clear whether the concept of a reinitiating retrieval process, as opposed to the additional involvement of residual activity (as suggested by recent neurophysiological studies), provides a more accurate description of how previously formed bindings can influence current action. In this study, we investigated the short time window immediately following integration and its modulation on binding effects in three experiments. We measured response-response binding effects after 0, 100, 300, and 500 ms after integration in an adapted response-response binding paradigm and measured distractor-response binding effects 0 and 500 ms after integration in an adapted distractor-response binding paradigm. We found evidence for binding effects even at response-stimulus intervals as short as 0 ms, both for response-response binding and distractor-response binding. Our findings suggest that the concept of residual activation seems to play an additional role next to the process of retrieval.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251362823"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144699299","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}
Veronica Hadjipanayi, Dylan Zhu-Dong, Casimir J H Ludwig, Christopher Kent
{"title":"Unequal attention allocation during multiple object tracking: Evidence from an eye-tracking study.","authors":"Veronica Hadjipanayi, Dylan Zhu-Dong, Casimir J H Ludwig, Christopher Kent","doi":"10.1177/17470218251362833","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251362833","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In many situations, such as driving and playing team sports, we are required to allocate our attention unevenly across multiple moving targets that have different levels of relevance or importance (priority) to us. While previous studies have demonstrated an apparent ability to allocate attention in an uneven way to objects/regions in multiple object tracking (MOT), how such differential prioritisation comes about is still an open question. In this study, we investigated the role of eye movements in an MOT task where two targets varied in their likelihood of being queried for a motion direction estimate. As the priority of a target increased, participants fixated on or near the object more frequently and longer, and their direction estimates were more accurate. We explored the role of different tracking strategies (centroid vs. target-switching), investigating how these are differentially employed depending on target priority. Our findings support the flexible deployment of attention in a graded manner and demonstrate that differential prioritisation primarily involves differential looking between targets.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251362833"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144668148","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}
{"title":"Transposed-letter effects in processing morphologically complex Greek words.","authors":"Sofia Loui, Athanassios Protopapas","doi":"10.1177/17470218251359787","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251359787","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We examined whether and when the morphemic structure of Greek suffixed words is accessed during visual word recognition using a masked priming lexical decision experiment combined with the transposed-letter (TL) paradigm. We hypothesized that, if morphological structure is accessed after letter-position coding, then the orthographic disruption caused by letter transposition would affect priming more severely when transposed letters straddle morphemic boundaries than when they belong to the same morpheme. Results showed that Greek readers were able to recognize morphologically complex Greek target words when morphemes were disrupted by letter transpositions regardless of the position of transpositions (morpheme-internal, at morpheme edge, or across morphemic boundaries). Priming from the TL primes was significantly less than priming from intact morphological primes observed previously. The equal magnitude of processing costs incurred by transpositions in all positions indicates that any alteration of the internal structure of morphologically complex words is similarly detrimental, consistent with the important role of morphemes in a morphologically rich language. Results suggest that morphologically complex Greek words undergo a morphological decomposition process that interacts with orthographic TL effects, indicating that access to the internal structure of these words takes place early in visual word recognition, before letter position coding.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251359787"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144626998","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}