{"title":"I can’t live without you: delay discounting in smartphone usage","authors":"L. Pancani, M. Petilli, P. Riva, P. Rusconi","doi":"10.1080/20445911.2023.2195031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2023.2195031","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Little is known about the behavioural tendencies at the basis of smartphone use. The present research investigates delay discounting, the phenomenon whereby a smaller, immediate reward is preferred over a larger, delayed one, in smartphone use. In line with previous work on delay discounting in other domains, Study 1 (N = 81) showed that the hyperboloid function best fits the inter-temporal choices made by participants. Study 2 (N = 123) replicated this result and revealed that individuals who prefer communicating via smartphone (vs. face-to-face) showed a higher devaluation over time, whereas those more aware of smartphone negative impact showed less discounting. The present research yielded the first evidence that delay discounting might underlie inter-temporal choices of smartphone use. Implications of these results are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47483,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41417868","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}
Florian Kattner, Marieke Fischer, Alliza Lejano Caling, Sarah Cremona, A. Ihle, T. Hodgson, J. Föcker
{"title":"The disruptive effects of changing-state sound and emotional prosody on verbal short-term memory in blind, visually impaired, and sighted listeners","authors":"Florian Kattner, Marieke Fischer, Alliza Lejano Caling, Sarah Cremona, A. Ihle, T. Hodgson, J. Föcker","doi":"10.1080/20445911.2023.2186771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2023.2186771","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47483,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46307745","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":"The effect of ageing on confrontation naming in healthy older adults: a three-level meta-analysis","authors":"Haojun Wen, Yanping Dong","doi":"10.1080/20445911.2023.2184745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2023.2184745","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Older adults frequently report trouble retrieving words, which is often tested by confrontation naming tasks. However, with inconsistencies among the relevant literature, this ageing effect requires an updated meta-analysis (with the only meta-analysis conducted in 1997), especially when no meta-analysis has been conducted on how such an effect may be modulated by the important factor of education. By synthesizing 41 primary studies, the present meta-analysis revealed a significant ageing effect on confrontation naming (indexed by accuracy), which was modulated by participant age and education. First, a significant ageing effect only occurred in participants aged 70 and above (compared with participants below 60). Second, participants with low- and middle-level education exhibited significantly larger ageing effects than those with high-level education. Third, for the age-and-education interaction, an ageing effect occurred as early as 60 in participants in the low-and-middle education level, while this critical age for participants with high-level education is 70.","PeriodicalId":47483,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43528485","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":"An evaluation of the role of inductive confirmation in relation to the conjunction fallacy","authors":"J. Fisk, Dean A. Marshall, Paul Rogers, R. Stock","doi":"10.1080/20445911.2023.2182181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2023.2182181","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Inductive confirmation has been proposed as a mechanism giving rise to the conjunction fallacy. For each of five separate vignettes, probability estimates were obtained for a neutral event, for a second event: i.e. the “added conjunct”, and for their conjunction. The added conjunct was selected such that it was inductively confirmed, either by some background evidence provided in the vignette or by the other component event. So as to achieve sufficient statistical power, multilevel models were used to analyse the data. For the added conjunct, the level of confirmation and the posterior probability were significantly associated such that higher levels of confirmation were associated with larger probability estimates. However, there was no significant association between the level of confirmation on the one hand and the incidence of the fallacy and the conjunctive probability on the other.","PeriodicalId":47483,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45934556","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":"No easy fix for belief bias during syllogistic reasoning?","authors":"Esther Boissin, Serge Caparos, Wim De Neys","doi":"10.1080/20445911.2023.2181734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2023.2181734","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although erroneous intuitions often lead human thinking astray, recent studies suggest that single-shot interventions in which the underlying problem logic is clarified can easily remediate this bias. Because previous work typically focused on numerical problems, we tested here the generalizability to the infamous non-numerical belief bias during syllogistic reasoning. Unfortunately, results of 3 studies show that the effect is less clear. Although we succeeded in boosting performance for a minority of reasoners, reasoners who remained biased also tended to show a worse performance after training. We conclude that more work is needed to optimise the single-shot “easy fix” intervention approach to remediate belief bias during syllogistic reasoning.","PeriodicalId":47483,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42294386","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":"Reward-dependent dynamics and changes in risk taking in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task","authors":"V. Sebri, S. Triberti, G. Granic, G. Pravettoni","doi":"10.1080/20445911.2023.2181065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2023.2181065","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) assesses real-world decision-making processes in a laboratory setting and has been applied to both healthy and clinical populations. Whereas many previous studies established reliable links between behaviour in the BART and individual characteristics, such as gender, age, and educational level, little is known to date how dynamic, contextual features of the BART impact risk taking behaviour. The present paper fills this gap and reports the results of an online BART administered to a sample of 141 voluntary participants. Taking a novel, single-trial perspective, we document significant associations between experience and expectation related variables, in particular reward and punishment dynamics, and risk-taking behaviour in the BART. Having accrued more money increases risk-taking behaviour as does experiencing foregone profits through exploded balloons. Our findings are consistent with prominent theories of decision-making under risk which postulate intra-person changes in risk-appetite. Our results have important implications for future research as they stress that a more dynamic perspective on the BART can enrich our understanding of the factors that shape risk-taking behaviour.","PeriodicalId":47483,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41694031","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":"Does testing enhance mediation in paired-associate learning?","authors":"Deana Vitrano","doi":"10.1080/20445911.2022.2162058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2022.2162058","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The testing effect (TE) is the finding that testing on previously studied material leads to better long-term retention as compared to restudying that material. Pyc and Rawson (2010) proposed the Mediator Effectiveness Hypothesis (MEH) as an explanation for the TE in paired-associate learning. The MEH states that review testing on cue-target word pairs strengthens semantic/associative mediators, which help participants recall targets to their cues on a later test. Pyc and Rawson found support for the MEH with Swahili-English word pairs and explicit mediation instructions, using the most rigorous means of assessing the MEH (i.e. asking participants to recall both the mediator and target to each cue). Using these procedures with spontaneous mediation conditions and unrelated English word pairs, the results of Experiments 1 and 2 failed to support the MEH. When semantic/associative or phonological mediation was explicitly encouraged in Experiment 3, the MEH was supported only for phonological mediation.","PeriodicalId":47483,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43644882","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}
I. Graafsma, Serje Robidoux, L. Nickels, Matthew Roberts, V. Polito, Judy D. Zhu, E. Marinus
{"title":"The cognition of programming: logical reasoning, algebra and vocabulary skills predict programming performance following an introductory computing course","authors":"I. Graafsma, Serje Robidoux, L. Nickels, Matthew Roberts, V. Polito, Judy D. Zhu, E. Marinus","doi":"10.1080/20445911.2023.2166054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2023.2166054","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the current study we aimed to determine which cognitive skills play a role when learning to program. We examined five cognitive skills (pattern recognition, algebra, logical reasoning, grammar learning and vocabulary learning) as predictors of course-related programming performance and their generalised programming performance in 282 students in an undergraduate introductory programming course. Initial skills in algebra, logical reasoning, and vocabulary learning predicted performance for generalised programming skill, while only logical reasoning skills predicted course-related programming performance. Structural equation modelling showed support for a model where the cognitive skills were grouped into a language factor and an algorithmic/mathematics factor. Of these two factors, only the algorithmic/mathematics factor was found to predict generalised and course-related programming skills. Our results suggested that algorithmic/mathematical skills are most relevant when predicting generalised programming success, but also showed a role for memory-related language skills.","PeriodicalId":47483,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45009878","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":"Using the Frith-Happé animations to compare attributions of mental qualities in nonhuman agents","authors":"Briana M. Sobel, V. Sims","doi":"10.1080/20445911.2023.2166053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2023.2166053","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT To understand perceptions of technology, researchers can compare them to perceptions of other nonhumans. In this study, a Theory of Mind assessment (the Frith-Happé animations) was used to assess perceptions of videos of moving triangles. Participants rated the triangles’ lifelikeness, intelligence, intention, emotion, and cognition. The triangles were labelled as humans, robots, dogs, or shapes. Results replicated patterns commonly found when using these animations and showed differences between agent labels. Triangles with a “humans” label had higher attributions of mental qualities than those with a “shapes” label. The “humans” label also had higher attributions of lifelikeness and emotion than the “robots” and “dogs” but were not significantly different from these labels for intention and cognition. These results promote the reliability and validity of the Frith-Happé animations but emphasise the importance of considering how the task is described and labelled to participants. Additional implications for the human-technology relationship are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47483,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42808310","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":"A comment on arguments of mental model theory of causation","authors":"Pengfei Yin","doi":"10.1080/20445911.2022.2162057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2022.2162057","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Causation is a complex concept. No single monistic theory of causation is likely to account for it (Wolff, P. (2014). Causal pluralism and force dynamics. In B. Copley, F. Martin, & N. Duffield (Eds.), Forces in grammatical structures: Causation between linguistics and philosophy). Nonetheless, mental model theory (MMT) claims to provide a unified account of causal representation and inference. In MMT, a singular causal claim “A caused B” has a deterministic meaning referring to three temporally ordered possibilities: A and B, not-A and B, not-A and not-B. No internal components such as mechanisms, powers, or dependencies are part of the core meaning of causal claims. It is argued that MMT’s attempts to refute counterexamples to its proposals are manifestly inadequate. Theoretically, the all-encompassing ambition of MMT make it so flexible as to be trivial. Technically, the term “modulation” is an unanalyzed and self-inconsistent concept. Moreover, in many situations, mental models are redundant for causal representation and inference. MMT’s monistic-deterministic view cannot capture the full complexity of causation.","PeriodicalId":47483,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41599625","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}