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Coupling between statistical learning and interference suppression. 统计学习与干扰抑制的耦合。

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Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung Pub Date : 2026-09-04 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-026-02375-6

Kata Horváth, Dezso Nemeth, Karolina Janacsek, Andrea Kóbor

{"title":"Coupling between statistical learning and interference suppression.","authors":"Kata Horváth, Dezso Nemeth, Karolina Janacsek, Andrea Kóbor","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02375-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-026-02375-6","url":null,"abstract":"In an ever-changing environment, synchronizing automatic and controlled behaviors is essential for successful adaptation. Yet, the relationship between these behaviors is often debated, partly because of the diverse approaches used to investigate them. The present study examined how statistical learning of environmental regularities, a process that supports automatic behaviors, and interference suppression, which contributes to controlled responding in the presence of distraction, interact when both operate concurrently. Participants completed a visual four-choice reaction time paradigm that combined a statistical learning task with the Eriksen flanker task. In this novel paradigm, a central target stimulus, surrounded by flanker stimuli, was either predictable or unpredictable based on the statistical regularities induced by the sequence of target stimuli. Statistical learning was indexed by the performance difference between predictable and unpredictable trials, whereas interference suppression was reflected by the flanker congruency effect (i.e., the performance difference between congruent and incongruent trials). Reaction times revealed a significant interaction: the flanker congruency effect was reduced on predictable trials, and the behavioral expression of statistical knowledge was larger in the incongruent than in the congruent condition. Together, these findings provide a proof-of-concept demonstration of a behavioral interaction between statistical learning and interference suppression within the present paradigm. Although this experimental design does not establish the causal direction of the interaction, the observed pattern indicates that learned predictability is associated with a reduced cost of conflicting distractors.","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148892578","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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My name is, who? On being misnamed by a relative or a romantic partner. 我的名字是，谁？被亲戚或恋人叫错名字。

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Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung Pub Date : 2026-09-04 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-026-02376-5

Serge Brédart, Christel Devue, Valentine Vanootighem

{"title":"My name is, who? On being misnamed by a relative or a romantic partner.","authors":"Serge Brédart, Christel Devue, Valentine Vanootighem","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02376-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-026-02376-5","url":null,"abstract":"The present survey investigated how people felt (i.e., irritated, sad or amused) when a relative or a romantic partner called them by someone else's first name. It also explored links between these reactions, self-esteem, the own name's symbolic value and one's own propensity to misnaming others. Participants reported more misnaming incidents committed by a relative than by a partner. Moreover, they were significantly more irritated when a partner misnamed them than when a relative did so. Globally, naming incidents did not trigger very strong negative feelings but participants reported correcting their interlocutor in a majority of incidents. Correlation analyses could only be performed on misnaming incidents committed by a relative, as incidents with partners were too infrequent. The intensity of feelings associated with these incidents were not predicted by self-esteem or the own name's symbolic value. However, resulting irritation was less intense and amusement stronger in participants who reported being themselves more prone to misnaming others. The link between people's metacognitive beliefs about their own naming abilities and the intensity of their feelings when they are misnamed is discussed. Finally, participants considered that the own name was a weaker symbol of personal identity than the own face. The advantage for the own face was nevertheless numerically small.","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148892586","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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The role of simulator immersion on learning and transfer of decision-making skill in sport. 模拟器沉浸在运动决策技能学习与迁移中的作用。

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Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung Pub Date : 2026-09-03 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-026-02372-9

Zachariah G Hoyne, Khaya Morris-Binelli, Sean Müller, Benjamin Piggott, Paola Chivers, Evan Dekker

{"title":"The role of simulator immersion on learning and transfer of decision-making skill in sport.","authors":"Zachariah G Hoyne, Khaya Morris-Binelli, Sean Müller, Benjamin Piggott, Paola Chivers, Evan Dekker","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02372-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-026-02372-9","url":null,"abstract":"Virtual reality has become popular in sport and other domains because it can immerse the user within a sporting context and solve logistical problems for additional off-field training. There is limited evidence, however, of whether immersion is crucial for learning and transfer. This study compared training of decision-making skill between 360-degree video virtual reality (360VR) and two-dimensional video. Twenty-eight Australian Rules Football players were randomly assigned to one of three training groups: 360VR, two-dimensional video, and control. Across four weeks, participants in the training groups were exposed to decision-making scenarios consisting of visual, contextual and auditory cues. Performance was assessed pre- and post-training with virtual reality and field-based decision-making tests. Results indicated that the two-dimensional video training group showed significantly superior decision-making in the field-based transfer test compared to 360VR and control groups post intervention. There was also indication that two-dimensional video training was superior to the control post intervention in the virtual reality test. Findings indicate that immersion created in virtual reality is not an underpinning mechanism for learning and transfer, rather the use of perceptual information is crucial. 360VR may facilitate uptake through engagement, but two-dimensional video is adequate for learning and transfer of decision-making to the field.","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13541863/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148889113","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}

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Temporal redistribution of control reveals age-related differences in task switching at the level of preparation. 控制的时间再分配揭示了在准备水平上任务转换的年龄相关差异。

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Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung Pub Date : 2026-09-01 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-026-02374-7

Chung-An Cha, Shulan Hsieh

{"title":"Temporal redistribution of control reveals age-related differences in task switching at the level of preparation.","authors":"Chung-An Cha, Shulan Hsieh","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02374-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-026-02374-7","url":null,"abstract":"Task-switching studies often report minimal age-related differences in switch costs, leading to the conclusion that switching-related control processes are relatively preserved in aging. However, this conclusion is based on paradigms that confound preparatory and execution processes. This study examined whether age-related differences in semantic task-set reconfiguration may be underestimated due to this confound. In Experiment 1 (36 young and 30 older adults), participants performed an externally paced task-switching paradigm without control over preparation. In Experiment 2 (28 young and 28 older adults), a self-paced paradigm allowed participants to initiate stimulus onset, enabling measurement of preparation time. Across both experiments, reaction time (RT) and error rate (ER) showed reliable age effects but no interactions between age and condition, whereas switching-related condition effects varied across measures and experiments. The expression of switching-related costs differed across measures and task structures. Local switch costs were expressed in ER in Experiment 1 but in RT in Experiment 2. Global switch costs (all-switch vs. all-repeat) were observed in execution measures only in Experiment 1. In Experiment 2, preparation time showed reliable mixing, local, and global switching effects, with age-related amplification emerging specifically for global switching. These findings indicate that switching-related costs are redistributed across processing stages and behavioral measures. The results suggest that age-related modulation of semantic task-set reconfiguration may emerge more clearly during preparation than task execution, particularly under continuous switching demands. Preparation time is interpreted cautiously as reflecting participant-regulated preparatory processes rather than a pure measure of preparation efficiency.","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148876152","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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Sense of agency modulates contextual learning in visual search. 代理感调节视觉搜索中的情境学习。

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Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung Pub Date : 2026-08-29 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-026-02368-5

Siyi Chen, Nele Anna Wunner, Puyuan Liu, Simone Schütz-Bosbach

{"title":"Sense of agency modulates contextual learning in visual search.","authors":"Siyi Chen, Nele Anna Wunner, Puyuan Liu, Simone Schütz-Bosbach","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02368-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-026-02368-5","url":null,"abstract":"Sense of Agency (SoA) refers to the subjective experience of control over one's actions and their outcomes. Although agency-related action-outcome processes have been shown to influence attention, memory, and learning, it remains unclear whether the reliability of action-linked perceptual consequences shapes contextual learning. The present study examined whether contextual cueing-a form of learning in which repeated spatial layouts facilitate visual search-is modulated by two aspects of the action-outcome context. Experiment 1 compared a Free-Control condition, in which responses immediately terminated the search display, with a Constrained-Control condition, in which display offset was externally determined. Contextual cueing developed more strongly when responses reliably produced display offset. Experiment 2 tested whether configuration-specific contingencies between responses and subsequent visual outcomes modulate contextual learning. Contextual cueing was larger when old displays were more reliably followed by a response-triggered visual outcome, even though the overall frequency of such outcomes was held constant across sessions. Together, the findings provide preliminary evidence that contextual learning is sensitive to the reliability of action-linked perceptual consequences. Reliable response-effect relations and configuration-specific outcome contingencies may support the updating and stabilization of context-target associations across repeated encounters.","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13526094/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148857782","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}

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A multi-faceted approach to the study of the relationship between self-esteem and the self-prioritization effect. 自尊与自我优先效应关系的多角度研究。

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Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung Pub Date : 2026-08-25 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-026-02365-8

Lorenzo Atzeni, Luigi Castelli, Mario Dalmaso, Giovanni Galfano, Barbara Penolazzi

{"title":"A multi-faceted approach to the study of the relationship between self-esteem and the self-prioritization effect.","authors":"Lorenzo Atzeni, Luigi Castelli, Mario Dalmaso, Giovanni Galfano, Barbara Penolazzi","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02365-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-026-02365-8","url":null,"abstract":"A key aspect of self-referential processing is that self-related stimuli tend to receive preferential processing in several cognitive domains. The so-called matching task has been introduced to quantify this bias by means of arbitrary self-other associations, aimed to minimize potential confounds related to stimulus familiarity. In this paradigm, participants learn associations between neutral shapes and social labels (e.g., self vs. stranger) and then perform a perceptual matching task. The self-prioritization effect (SPE) refers to the observation that participants are faster and more accurate in self-matching trials compared to matching trials concerning the \"other\". Whether individual differences in implicit and explicit self-esteem can modulate the magnitude of the SPE is still a matter of debate. The present study aimed to address this question. Using a longitudinal design to assess the temporal stability of the effects, participants completed the Self-Esteem Implicit Association Test and the Name Letter Test as measures of implicit self-esteem, and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) as a measure of explicit self-esteem, alongside the matching task. The results confirmed the reliability of the SPE over time. Furthermore, unlike measures of implicit self-esteem, explicit self-esteem showed significant positive correlations with the SPE, with RSES scores being able to predict the magnitude of the SPE. Importantly, these associations were observed both within the same testing session and between sessions. These findings suggest that explicit self-evaluation is associated with the magnitude of self-prioritization. The possible implications of this pattern for theoretical accounts of self-referential processing are discussed.","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13506642/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148819686","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}

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Designing for memory: how pathway configuration shapes long-term navigational representations. 记忆设计：路径配置如何塑造长期导航表征。

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Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung Pub Date : 2026-08-25 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-026-02367-6

Maayan Merhav, Dafna Fisher-Gewirtzman

{"title":"Designing for memory: how pathway configuration shapes long-term navigational representations.","authors":"Maayan Merhav, Dafna Fisher-Gewirtzman","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02367-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-026-02367-6","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Spatial memories undergo systems consolidation, typically transforming from flexible, hippocampal-dependent representations of spatial relations, to rigid, extra-hippocampal route representations. This study investigated whether environmental design influences this consolidation process to enhance long-term wayfinding.Methods: We compared navigational performance in a virtual shopping centre featuring either a \"Grid\" configuration, which promotes flexible navigational representations, or a \"Star\" configuration, which encourages route-based sequence learning. In Experiment 1 (N = 66), participants were tested at 2 h and 2 weeks post-learning to assess repetition effects, while in Experiment 2 (N = 62), participants were tested only after 2 weeks to isolate time-dependent decay.Results: Results demonstrated that the Star design supported superior retention after the two-week delay compared to the Grid design, and that repeated retrieval selectively enhanced performance in the Star design.Conclusions: These findings suggest that architectural design fundamentally shapes the persistence of spatial memory by influencing the mechanisms engaged during learning and retrieval, offering a blueprint for environments that maximize long-term retention.","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148819667","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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'Substitute' knowledge of results provided through virtual reality enhances motor imagery-based learning. 通过虚拟现实提供的“替代”结果知识增强了基于运动图像的学习。

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Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung Pub Date : 2026-08-24 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-026-02359-6

Celine J Balay, Rishav Banerjee, Ghazaleh Shahin, Dingfu Lu, Pourang Irani, Cornelia Frank, Sarah N Kraeutner

{"title":"'Substitute' knowledge of results provided through virtual reality enhances motor imagery-based learning.","authors":"Celine J Balay, Rishav Banerjee, Ghazaleh Shahin, Dingfu Lu, Pourang Irani, Cornelia Frank, Sarah N Kraeutner","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02359-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-026-02359-6","url":null,"abstract":"Improvements in motor performance achieved through motor imagery, the mental rehearsal of movement, are typically smaller than an equivalent dose of physical practice. One reason for this difference may be lack of feedback during motor imagery, integral to refining the motor plan, including knowledge of results. Here, we tested whether visual feedback provided via virtual reality impacted learning of a complex novel skill using motor imagery. Healthy novice participants (N = 48) were randomly assigned to one of three groups and engaged in four sessions of motor imagery practice of a golf putting task in a virtual environment. Following each motor imagery trial, participants observed one of three types of visual feedback: perfect feedback (100% success), erroneous feedback (30% errors, 70% success), or no feedback (control). Performance, measured by percentage of holed putts (%Success), mean radial error, and bivariate variable error, was assessed during three physical test blocks: before (pre), after (post), and minimum 24h after imagery practice (retention). Linear mixed effects models and accompanying Cohen's d effect sizes conducted to quantify changes in performance revealed improvements in %Success by all groups at both the post-test (particularly the erroneous feedback group) and retention test with no effects related to mean radial error or bivariate variable error. Findings suggest that supplementing motor imagery with visual feedback may lead to greater task success. Future research should explore impacts on movement quality (e.g., arm, trunk kinematics) and trajectory-based learning. Overall, this work has implications related to the use of virtual reality to enhance the effectiveness of motor imagery.","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148814522","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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Self-ambivalence and affective symptoms: reciprocal associations and indirect effects via self-focused attention. 自我矛盾心理和情感症状：通过自我集中注意的相互关联和间接影响。

IF 2.1 3区心理学

Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung Pub Date : 2026-08-24 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-026-02366-7

Jiwen Li, Juan Yang

{"title":"Self-ambivalence and affective symptoms: reciprocal associations and indirect effects via self-focused attention.","authors":"Jiwen Li, Juan Yang","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02366-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-026-02366-7","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research has shown that individuals can simultaneously hold positive and negative self-evaluations, a phenomenon known as self-ambivalence (Bhar & Kyrios, 2007). Elevated self-ambivalence has been consistently associated with greater affective symptoms, including depressive symptoms and negative affect. However, the longitudinal associations between self-ambivalence and affective symptoms, as well as the role of self-focused attention in these associations, remain unclear. This two-wave longitudinal study examined reciprocal associations between three dimensions of self-ambivalence, namely self-worth, moral, and public self-ambivalence, and affective symptoms. We also conducted parallel half-longitudinal indirect-effect analyses to examine whether self-rumination and self-reflection showed indirect associations linking T1 self-ambivalence to T2 affective symptoms. A total of 451 participants completed the baseline assessment, and 338 provided valid data at the three-month follow-up. Cross-lagged panel models revealed bidirectional associations between self-ambivalence and affective symptoms: higher self-ambivalence predicted increased affective symptoms over time, and affective symptoms also predicted subsequent increases in self-ambivalence. Parallel half-longitudinal indirect-effect analyses further showed that self-rumination indirectly linked all three dimensions of self-ambivalence to higher affective symptoms. Self-reflection showed significant negative indirect associations for moral and public self-ambivalence, such that higher reflection was associated with fewer affective symptoms. Moreover, the indirect associations through self-rumination were consistently stronger than those through self-reflection. Overall, these findings suggest that self-ambivalence and affective symptoms are reciprocally related over time, with ruminative self-focus playing a particularly salient role in their association.","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148814436","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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The impact of sensory processing sensitivity on subtle dynamic facial expression recognition and metacognitive awareness. 感觉加工敏感性对细微动态面部表情识别和元认知意识的影响。

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Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung Pub Date : 2026-08-19 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-026-02364-9

Luchuan Xiao, Natacha Deroost, Ning Ma, Kris Baetens

{"title":"The impact of sensory processing sensitivity on subtle dynamic facial expression recognition and metacognitive awareness.","authors":"Luchuan Xiao, Natacha Deroost, Ning Ma, Kris Baetens","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02364-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-026-02364-9","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines subtle dynamic facial expression recognition and associated metacognitive awareness, and how these cognitive processes are modulated by Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS). Participants (n = 127) completed a dynamic subtle expression categorization task featuring stimuli that displayed only the initial phase of emotional unfolding of full-blown dynamic expressions. Four expressions were included: happy, fearful, angry, and neutral, and participants categorized them using a three-choice format comprising happy, fearful, and angry. Results showed that happiness was recognized most accurately, followed by fear and anger. Higher SPS, as measured by the Highly Sensitive Person Scale (HSPS), predicted greater accuracy in recognizing all three emotional categories, suggesting enhanced sensitivity to both positive (happy) and negative (fearful, angry) affective cues. Additionally, an overconfidence bias was observed selectively for fearful expressions. This bias was attenuated as SPS level increased, suggesting greater metacognitive awareness for fear among individuals with high SPS, whereas metacognitive awareness for happy and angry expressions was observed across all participants. These effects remained significant after controlling for Neuroticism, suggesting that refined emotional perception is a distinct feature of SPS. Together, these findings provide empirical support for both perceptual and metacognitive refinement in emotion recognition among highly sensitive individuals. Such heightened sensitivity to subtle emotional cues may underpin their greater empathy and prosocial behaviour, while also contributing to their susceptibility to social and emotional overload.","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148799765","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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