Emanuela Pizzolla, Mirta Fiorio, Angela Marotta, Elisa Raffaella Ferrè, Matthew R Longo
{"title":"No effect of mental fatigue on perceived hand weight.","authors":"Emanuela Pizzolla, Mirta Fiorio, Angela Marotta, Elisa Raffaella Ferrè, Matthew R Longo","doi":"10.1177/17470218251361426","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251361426","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fatigue has a profound impact on various sensory and perceptual processes; yet, its effects differ depending on whether it arises from physical or mental exertion. While physical fatigue is known to alter body weight perception, it remains unclear whether mental fatigue has a similar effect. This study tested the hypothesis that mental fatigue, like physical fatigue, would influence the recently identified perceptual bias of hand weight underestimation, where individuals perceive their hand as lighter than its actual weight. Twenty-four participants completed a validated mental fatigue induction task, followed by pre- and post-fatigue assessments of hand weight perception using a weight judgment paradigm. As expected, the fatigue task significantly increased subjective ratings of mental fatigue. However, contrary to our hypothesis, the degree of hand weight underestimation remained unchanged between pre- and post-fatigue sessions; a Bayesian analysis strongly supported the null hypothesis. These results suggest that mental fatigue, unlike physical fatigue, does not significantly alter sensory mechanisms underlying hand weight perception. This study underscores the distinct pathways through which physical and mental fatigue interact with perceptual processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251361426"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144626997","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}
Cai S Longman, Christina U Pfeuffer, Andrea Kiesel
{"title":"Are the automatic effects of instructions modulated by instructed, context-specific strategic control?","authors":"Cai S Longman, Christina U Pfeuffer, Andrea Kiesel","doi":"10.1177/17470218251360669","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251360669","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Automatic effects of instructions (AEIs) are typically reported with simple instructions that specify stimulus-response (S-R) mappings. Evidence in support of AEIs for instructions that specify more complex rules is less consistent. Here, we investigated whether instructions communicating context-specific strategic control routines designed to reduce evidence accumulation from the target stimulus can affect AEIs in the NEXT paradigm (Meiran et al., 2015). In each mini-block, participants were first instructed on the S-R mappings that should be implemented in the two GO trials at the end of the mini-block. In the intervening NEXT trials (0-3 trials), participants responded to each stimulus with the same (e.g. left) NEXT response. Importantly, the instructions also indicated the probability that each stimulus would be presented during the critical GO trials (e.g. 90% vs. 10%). We reasoned that this would strategically reduce the amount of information accumulated from the target stimulus prior to selecting a response, thereby reducing the magnitude of AEIs. GO performance was modulated by the context, suggesting that the strategic aspects of the instructions had been implemented. However, AEIs were broadly consistent across contexts, suggesting that the adopted strategy did not affect automatic behaviour. This pattern of results was consistent across three experiments (one preregistered), suggesting that complex instructions do not automatically trigger strategic control in dynamic environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251360669"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144601318","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}
Michaela Gummerum, Yaniv Hanoch, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, Angelo Cangelosi
{"title":"Robots to the rescue: Robot discouragement reduces young adults' risk-taking.","authors":"Michaela Gummerum, Yaniv Hanoch, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, Angelo Cangelosi","doi":"10.1177/17470218251359985","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251359985","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A large body of evidence shows that peer pressure can increase risky behaviour, with more limited evidence indicating that peer pressure can also reduce risky behaviour. However, whether robots can extract a similar influence is an open and important question. To study this problem, 172 participants completed the balloon analogue risk task under three conditions: control (no robot present), the presence of an encouraging robot and the presence of a discouraging robot. Participants also completed a self-report measure evaluating their risk attitude and one designed to assess attitudes towards robots. Results revealed that participants in the robot-discouraging condition exhibited significantly reduced risky behaviours compared to those in the robot-encouraging and control conditions. They pumped significantly fewer times, experienced significantly fewer balloon explosions and earned significantly less money compared to the control or encouraging condition. However, we did not find a significant effect between the encouraging and the control conditions. Moreover, a more positive impression of the robot increased the effect of the robot's discouraging statements on risk-taking. The results of our study open new possibilities for the employment of robots in preventive programmes designed to reduce or alter risky behaviour.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251359985"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144584607","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":"Now that I see it your way, I choose you: Visuo-spatial perspective-taking affects partner selection during coalition formation.","authors":"Anabela Cantiani, Ilja van Beest, Thorsten M Erle","doi":"10.1177/17470218251358231","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251358231","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Humans constantly form coalitions to achieve shared goals, and current theories of coalition formation assume that this process is solely guided by economic incentives. However, this assumption neglects the importance of psychological processes that contribute to coalition formation, which is especially problematic in scenarios where the economic motives of potential partners are (initially) indistinguishable. This research investigates the impact of one psychological process, visuo-spatial perspective-taking (VSPT), on coalition formation. We hypothesized that adopting the perspective of a potential coalition partner increases the likelihood of forming a coalition with them, compared to partners viewed from an egocentric standpoint. Importantly, this is not because this person is economically more advantageous, but because perspective-taking increases liking for and similarity to others. These effects, however, stem from an embodied simulation of physical closeness that only some participants (embodiers) but not others (disembodiers) engage in, suggesting a moderation of this preference by perspective-taking strategy. Across five experiments (<i>N</i> = 2,340), participants completed a VSPT task before engaging in a hypothetical coalition formation negotiation with the targets presented during the VSPT task. Meta-analytically, our data suggests that embodiers indeed showed increased liking and similarity after perspective-taking, while disembodiers did not. However, unexpectedly, not only embodiers but also disembodiers selected partners whose perspective they took more often as a coalition partner. We discuss potential explanations for this preference in disembodiers, implications of our work for theories of coalition formation, and for research on different strategies for perspective-taking.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251358231"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144584677","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":"Examining independence of facial identity and age processing using the Garner Speeded Classification Paradigm.","authors":"Janice Attard-Johnson","doi":"10.1177/17470218251360238","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251360238","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The question of whether age and facial identity are processed through a shared or parallel route has scarcely been examined, despite being of theoretical relevance for face processing models. For the first time, the Garner speeded classification paradigm was applied to assess the independence of age and facial identity processing. Across three experiments, participants made either age or facial identity judgements while both dimensions varied (Filtering) or only one dimension varied while the other remained constant (Baseline). Garner interferences, represented by slower response times for the Filtering condition compared to the Baseline condition, were recorded for both Experiments 1 (familiar, cropped, single-image stimuli) and 2 (unfamiliar, cropped, single-image stimuli). A weaker Garner interference was recorded for Experiment 3 (familiar, naturalistic, multi-image stimuli). Garner interference for the first two experiments is indicative of the shared route hypothesis for identity and age perception. However, findings from Experiment 3 suggest that these effects are weaker for naturalistic images, and the implications of this are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251360238"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144584676","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":"Can location cues facilitate attentional suppression?","authors":"Daniel Poole, Jim Grange, Elizabeth Milne","doi":"10.1177/17470218251357942","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251357942","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The spatial cueing paradigm has illustrated that location cues result in attentional enhancement of target stimuli. However, evidence is mixed on whether proactive attentional suppression can be cued similarly. In this registered report, we used a hybrid flanker-visual search-spatial cueing paradigm in which participants were presented with informative or non-informative cues regarding the upcoming location of a target feature matching a distractor in the search array. We aimed to replicate and extend a previous study which found evidence that cues support attentional suppression. We repeated the experiment with informative and non-informative cue conditions blocked (Experiment 2) and with possible target and distractor locations separated (Experiment 3). Across all three experiments (total <i>n</i> = 554), we did not observe any evidence of cueing-enhanced attentional suppression. In Experiments 1 and 3, participant responses were slightly slower in the informative cue condition, suggesting that the cue itself captured attention when the cue type was interleaved and thus unpredictable trial-to-trial. Surprisingly, post-experiment assessment of distractor learning suggested participants had not learnt the association between cue and distractor location in any experiment. These findings do not support spatial cue-enhanced attentional suppression.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251357942"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144554300","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}
Ruiyao Zheng, Meng Zhang, Marc Guasch, Pilar Ferré
{"title":"Exploring the differences in processing between Chinese emotion and emotion-laden words: A cross-task comparison study.","authors":"Ruiyao Zheng, Meng Zhang, Marc Guasch, Pilar Ferré","doi":"10.1177/17470218241296695","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218241296695","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Affective words can be classified into two types: emotion words (EM words, e.g., \"happy\") and emotion-laden words (EL words, e.g., \"wedding\"). Several studies have shown differences in processing between EM and EL words, although results are inconclusive. These two types of words may have representational differences because affective content is an inherent part of the semantic features of EM words (i.e., denotative meaning) but not of EL words, whose affective content is part of their connotative meaning (i.e., these words do not name emotions, but are associated with emotions). In this study, we tested a set of Chinese EM and EL words. Both conditions included positive and negative words. The study involved two tasks, an implicit task, in which emotional content was not relevant (lexical decision task, LDT), and an explicit task, in which the emotional content was relevant (affective categorisation task, ACT). Our results showed that participants responded faster to EM words than to EL words. This advantage was mostly observed in the ACT and with negative words. These results reveal differences in processing between EM and EL words which can be related to the greater relevance of affective content in the meaning of EM words compared with EL words.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1426-1437"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142506675","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":"Implicit learning in children and adolescents with and without autism spectrum disorders: Exploring the effects of individual differences.","authors":"Adamantia Ziva, Eleni Ziori","doi":"10.1177/17470218241281639","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218241281639","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Implicit learning plays an important role in the acquisition of various skills that are often deficient in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The present study examines the implicit learning ability of children and adolescents with ASD, by comparing it to that of a typical group of peers, using the Artificial Grammar Learning (AGL) task. In addition, this study investigates whether the above ability is associated with individual characteristics, namely intelligence quotient (IQ), ASD symptoms severity, and individual perception style (global/holistic or local/focused). The sample consisted of 20 individuals with mild to relatively severe ASD symptoms and 20 age- and gender-matched typically developing (TD) individuals. The unconscious (implicit) nature of learning was assessed via a subjective measure, the \"no-loss gambling\" method, which allows an unbiased evaluation of the confidence accompanying each judgement. The results provided evidence of implicit learning, which was preserved in the ASD group, although reduced relative to the typical group. Multiple linear regressions with interaction terms between group and participants' scores on the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI), the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS), and performance on a Navon-type task examined whether the possible relationships between each of the above scores and AGL and implicit learning differ in the two groups. Implicit learning was not significantly associated with IQ, ASD symptoms severity, or individual perception style (except for perception style in terms of reaction times [RTs] for the TD group). These results confirm and extend earlier findings supporting the resilience of implicit learning to individual differences.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1379-1398"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142111400","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":"The influence of familiarisation and item repetition on the name agreement effect in picture naming.","authors":"Ruth E Corps, Antje S Meyer","doi":"10.1177/17470218241274661","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218241274661","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Name agreement (NA) refers to the degree to which speakers agree on a picture's name. A robust finding is that speakers are faster to name pictures with high agreement (HA) than those with low agreement (LA). This NA effect is thought to occur because LA pictures strongly activate several names, so speakers need time to select one. HA pictures, in contrast, strongly activate a single name, so there is no need to select one name out of several alternatives. Recent models of lexical access suggest that the structure of the mental lexicon changes with experience. Thus, speakers should consider a range of names when naming LA pictures, but the extent to which they consider each of these names should change with experience. We tested these hypotheses in two picture-naming experiments. In Experiment 1, participants were faster to name LA than HA pictures when they named each picture once. Importantly, they were faster to produce modal names (provided by most participants) than alternative names for LA pictures, consistent with the view that speakers activate multiple names for LA pictures. In Experiment 2, participants were familiarised with the modal name before the experiment and named each picture three times. Although there was still an NA effect when participants named the pictures the first time, it was reduced in comparison to Experiment 1 and was further reduced with each picture repetition. Thus, familiarisation and repetition reduced the NA effect but did not eliminate it, suggesting speakers activate a range of plausible names.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1487-1499"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12181635/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141913760","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":"Absolute, not perceived, delay modulates agency judgement: Evidence for cognitive impenetrability of sense of agency.","authors":"Merve Erdoğan, Fuat Balcı","doi":"10.1177/17470218241306433","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218241306433","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The sense of agency, which refers to awareness of causing events, is consistently influenced by the time interval between actions and their outcomes such that longer delays diminish the perceived strength of the agency. This study investigated whether the sense of agency is modulated by the distance between experienced delays or by their subjective discriminability, which is known to be subject to Weber's law (discriminability being a function of ratios rather than absolute differences between time intervals). To this end, participants executed keypress actions leading to outcomes at varying delays. In one experiment, delays were equidistant on a logarithmic scale (constant ratio relationship), while in the other experiment, they were equidistant on a linear scale (constant distance relationship). Our results showed that judgments of the agency were predicted better by actual temporal proximity between actions and outcomes compared with their subjective discriminability. Beyond providing a more complete picture regarding the effect of outcome delays on the sense of agency, these findings have broader implications for the mechanistic underpinnings of the sense of agency. They imply that even explicit judgments of agency can be influenced by certain factors transcending conscious experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1416-1425"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12181639/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142755129","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}